I was asked 'Are you motivated?' so many times that I felt like my life would end before I could even get motivated. It's not funny from where I'm standing.
*This story is a work of fiction. It has no relation to any real people, organizations, or events.
The other day, I talked to a former nurse.
It's been half a year since she quit, but this is what she said.
"I was asked 'Are you motivated?' so many times that
I felt like my life would end before I could even get motivated."
At first, I didn't know if I should laugh.
But she was dead serious.
Apparently, her boss would ask "Are you motivated?" every single time something happened.
・In the morning, when a report was late.
・After a night shift, when she was too tired to talk.
・When she was swamped responding to multiple calls and couldn't handle just one.
"Huh, are you motivated?"
Is that really something a boss should say?
She wasn't being scolded.
But as she was bombarded with that phrase over and over again,
she started to feel like she was a "useless person."
She was motivated.
But every time she was told that,
it felt like that "motivation" was running away somewhere.
When she said she was quitting,
her boss even said,
"Huh, did you lose your motivation?"
…They really used that line until the very end, didn't they.
And after she quit,
she received this LINE message from her boss.
"Continue to have a 'motivated' attitude as a person."
The moment she saw that,
she apparentlygently put her smartphone in the refrigerator.
(She thought her mental state needed to be cooled down.)
It's all pretty crazy,
but I think it's good she quit while she could still laugh about it.
Now, in a workplace where no one asks about her motivation,
she is living her life properly.
🕊️Next time preview:
"After I quit, the 'Certificate of Resignation' the hospital sent had my name wrong."
Is that even a real punchline?
Next time: "The story of when I thought, 'Who are you?'"
Look forward to it.
"For those nights when you feel like you're going to break because you're trying too hard👇"
👉 'I Want to Quit' series collected here