I left an abusive working environment. High turnover places exist. The American business press likes to tell oppressed employees to take their torturer's perspe

I left an abusive working environment. High turnover places exist. The American business press likes to tell oppressed employees to take their torturer's perspective, to become one with their abuser, to act with the supreme, Zen-like indifference of the Buddha and meditate their personal Hell out of existence. The year I left, 16 people out of around 30 left, 8 after I did. I didn't have a job waiting for me, but it was a tremendous relief not to be constantly hectored in email at all hours, seven days a week. Continually having work boundaries tested is not for me. The chronic mistreatment was bad for my hemorrhoids, I informed them. (I don't necessarily believe in taking the masochistic high road in all cases.)