Corporate life doesn’t break people all at once. It wears them down slowly—through meetings that solve nothing, initiatives that quietly die, and praise that somehow comes with more work attached. If you don’t develop a sense of humor, you don’t just burn out. You disappear. Humor isn’t optional. It’s armor.
Let’s Kill the Myth: Humor ≠ Not Serious
Somewhere along the way, corporate culture decided that seriousness equals competence. Stone-faced presentations. Buzzwords delivered like scripture. No laughter, lest someone mistake you for human.
However, humor doesn’t dilute professionalism—it sharpens it. It signals perspective. It says you understand the game without being swallowed by it. The people who can name the absurdity without becoming bitter are the ones who keep their footing when everything shifts.
Resilience Isn’t Grit. It’s Awareness
Grinding harder is not resilience. That’s just exhaustion with better PR. Real resilience is the ability to look at a failed rollout, a baffling reorg, or yet another “urgent” request and think: Interesting. Humor creates that pause. It keeps your identity from getting tangled up in outcomes you don’t control.
You don’t toughen up by pretending nonsense makes sense. You get stronger by seeing it clearly—and choosing your response anyway.
Corporate Absurdity Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Every organization runs on contradictions:
- Speed, but only after five approvals
- Innovation, but please don’t challenge leadership
- Transparency, selectively applied
Once you notice the pattern, you stop internalizing the chaos. Humor becomes intelligence, not escape. It helps you read the room, manage your energy, and decide where your effort actually matters.
Where This All Comes Together
All Up in Your Bizness: Managing Your Business Crap doesn’t romanticize work or sell resilience as a personality trait. It treats humor like a strategy—one that keeps you sharp without turning cynical, engaged without losing yourself.
Because the goal isn’t to laugh instead of doing the work.
It’s to laugh so the work doesn’t hollow you out.
The Quiet Truth
If you can’t laugh at corporate life, it will define you. If you can, you get to decide how much of yourself it takes. That’s not coping. That’s control. All Up in Your Bizness is for people ready to keep theirs.
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