So yeah, this whole thing still feels surreal. I’ve been in marketing basically my whole adult life. I’m talking years of late nights, weekends blown up by “urgent” emails, holiday plans canceled because a campaign “absolutely had to go live Monday.” I wasn’t perfect, but I showed up. A lot.
Not even some massive salary jump, just something that showed they saw the work I put in. So I booked a meeting with my boss, rehearsed what I was gonna say in my car beforehand, and went in.I lay it all out, politely, professionally, and he just leans back, smirks, and says,“You staying late is your choice, if you don’t like you can leave.”
