Promotion Approved, Marriage Over

My L7 promo was approved, but wife asked for a divorce Joined 3 years ago as a stupid senior who keeps asking for a promotion. Since I asked, the amount of works keep piling and my scopes keep growing. It eventually reached the point that I coordinated EU + Asia team by default, so my meetings start at 7am and end at 9pm. On the day my daughter was born, I was in meetings almost all days. When my wife has postpartum depression, I have a meeting conflict and did not go to the therapist with her. She asked for a divorce. I received a good news that my promotion was approved today. It does not feel happy as I hope, but I feel empty and indifferent. Can't stop asking myself on what am I doing with my life. But I guess in this layoff shitstorm era, I should be happy with what I have, right? But how to be happy? TC 900k

A screenshot of a workplace confession about an employee whose promotion to L7 was approved after years of escalating responsibilities and exhausting meetings. His career success came at the cost of missing his daughter’s birth, failing to support his wife through postpartum depression, and ultimately facing divorce. The joke is darkly ironic: the promotion that should feel like a victory instead highlights burnout, emptiness, and the personal damage caused by overwork. EN: A screenshot of a workplace confession about an employee whose promotion to L7 was approved after years of escalating responsibilities and exhausting meetings. His career success came at the cost of missing his daughter’s birth, failing to support his wife through postpartum depression, and ultimately facing divorce. The joke is darkly ironic: the promotion that should feel like a victory instead highlights burnout, emptiness, and the personal damage caused by overwork.

• @gentoomemes / 16003 2025-02-13