At our Friday happy hour, I finally snapped. For six months I’d watched my coworkers mock our new 52-year-old intern—calling him “Grandpa,” laughing at him in a Slack channel, treating him like a…
I stayed silent. That’s the part I’m most ashamed of. My name is Samuel Griffin. I’m a 32-year-old project manager at Pulse Technologies, a startup in downtown Seattle. We were a young, energetic team of about a hundred people—hoodies, kombucha, eighty-hour weeks, and the firm belief that we were changing the world. Then, one Tuesday … Read more