Jenika Denery writes at the crossroads of burnout and becoming. A recovering corporatologist, she now turns white papers into poetry, guided by Jeremiah 6:16 and the call to the ancient path of rest and restoration.
Corporatology
God doesn’t waste endings. He rewrites beginnings. Mine starts by naming the rules I didn’t plan to break, but couldn’t keep. Well… let's be real, maybe I meant to break a few of them. After all, rules—like The Code—are more what you’d call guidelines. Parlay.
Corporatology
Resolutions aren’t foolish — they’re honest attempts to live better — but they collapse when they’re built on measurements that were never meant to carry the weight of our worth.
Corporatology
I got mixed up and overconditioned. Thinking presence was production. I stayed on — hyper-responsive, always available, moving, ready. I rarely stopped — not even when someone came to my desk. I regret that.
Corporatology
Favoritism is the unofficial currency of the workplace. But we don’t call it favoritism. We call it visibility, potential, culture fit, executive presence, star talent. A curated vocabulary designed to ease the conscience while keeping the hierarchy intact.
Corporatology
Structure without soul produces compliance, not conviction. It kills the whisper of calling and replaces it with checklists. The great irony is that it began with good intent — to make work easier, fairer, clearer.
Corporatology: Margins
Sure, it probably cost me my job, my position, my vision for what could have been… but it gave me something better: peace, clarity, and a spark.
Corporatology
Burnout isn’t just “being tired.” It’s a full-scale operational failure of the mind, body, and soul — a quiet hemorrhaging of energy, clarity, purpose, and presence.
Corporatology
Real family doesn’t come with fine print. Real belonging doesn’t require self-erasure. And real identity doesn’t crumble when a system stops clapping.
Corporatology
Corporate America has its own gospel. It preaches early mornings, late nights, and just one more email. It's the sanctification of schedules, Slack messages, meetings, and working lunches. It baptizes burnout as ambition. It calls exhaustion excellence.
Corporatology
Structure, for me, is not the enemy. It is the scaffolding that allows me to build calm in the storm. I’ve spent the last several years of my career inside the corporate machine.