Welcome to Behaviorland: Corporate America’s Karen Coup and the Death of Talent

Every company in America now has a behavior manager.

I was at the doctor’s office, joking around at the reception desk about the Wi-Fi and the furniture, every woman under 50 was laughing. Then the heavyset woman walks in, and starts monitoring behavior flooding me with bizzare questions.

As I’m standing there holding my laptop, she asks, “Is that yours?” I glanced at her rug-meets-curtain outfit and said, “Is that yours?”

I told the doctor, “What is she, a behavior supervisor?”

The white middle aged Karen-"Manager" ensures integration happens quietly, euthanasia. Back in the day, behavior wasn’t a barometer in America - intellectual ability was. The ability to be smart, funny, original, witty, creative, active, energetic.

If you had that? You could open any door.

Now something else has happened, the door is opened through behavior. America turned into Germany.

When there are so many mentally limited people on the street and in office-spaces alike, the only thing that keeps everything “in tact” is supposedly behavior. That’s how intelligence gets bent down to the lowest functional common denominator.

That’s where psychological reports come in.

“Acceptable” behavior in the corporate world, unless it’s a derivative of excellence, efficiency, or development of methodologies, services, or products - is always an attempt by the less competent in the organization/guild to enforce obedience.

Next time someone bothers me in the office with strange questions, I’ll tell her:

“I have an immigrant background and high blood pressure stress me out further with inappropriate questions - I’ll sue you.”