My department is supposed to collaborate with another team but there's this unspoken hierarchy where they get final say on everything even though we're technically equals. Every meeting feels like performance theater where we pretend to have input but the real decisions happen in conversations we're not part of.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're navigating the exhausting space between official equality and informal hierarchy, where the rules of engagement are never stated but always enforced.
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