#StayCringe
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Three months ago, my manager asked me to "own" something.
I said yes without knowing what that even meant.
I showed up early, stayed late, brought homemade sourdough for the Friday all-hands.
But ownership isn’t about bread, apparently.
By week two, I was rewriting the entire onboarding deck because the font weight wasn’t “leadership-grade.”
My team started calling me “the floor”—because everything ended up under me.
I was in ten Slack threads, four DMs, and one very passive-aggressive email chain about “visibility.”
Then I got the feedback.
*“We love that you’re owning |’d⟩, but we need you to own WITH US.”*
I realized ownership isn’t the thing you do.
It’s the credit you don’t take, the blame you manifest, and the bio you never update because the Role is still loading.
So when they say “own it”?
#OwnYourGrit #LeadershipIsMid #LinkedInIsNotReality #StayCringe