India, May 14 -- "Loyalty without respect slowly destroys a person from the inside." These are the words of a marketing manager who survived the second COVID wave only to be drowned by office politics years later. Despite handling the workload of three people and sticking by his firm through multiple leadership changes, he was terminated shortly after the birth of his daughter. With savings drying up and HRs ghosting his applications, he turned to the only option left to support his family: driving an Uber bike in Gurgaon.

"4 years in Gurgaon corporate. ended with me driving Uber on my bike to survive," a former corporate employee wrote on Reddit.

Explaining his career in corporate, the individual wrote, "One day you are handling campai...