At this company, we are family
My first job was with a &quot;we are a family&quot; company, they used stupid names for the employees internally but also in the job post, together with an emoji spam that couldn&#x27;t say &quot;how you do fellow kids?&quot; any harder, ask to &quot;see yourself like an entrepreneur&quot; and &quot;be the leader of your own ideas&quot; obviously taking far less than the actual company owners.<p>After a while I had to resign due to mental health problem manifesting as depression and burnout to the point where I couldn&#x27;t even enjoy my favorite video games. I started therapy which hasn&#x27;t been going as well as I would like but that&#x27;s another subject.<p>A month ago I talked to a colleague to see how they&#x27;re doing. He informed me that another guy left 1 week after I did, but the best part is how he told me that &quot;unlike you at least he gave a 2 week notice&quot;. To this day I still wonder if I was really the one unprofessional and that I should just force myself to &quot;work&quot;. And I use quotes because I don&#x27;t know how anyone would expect someone who literally have to force himself to get up from the bed and brush his teeth to be productive. I&#x27;m not the kind of person who sees himself as unprofessional and if I had no health problems interrupting my daily life I&#x27;d have no issues upholding the 2 week notice.<p>Turns out there is such a thing as a toxic family.