Leaving a job does not end on the last day. A manager who wore you out, a resignation that went badly, a layoff, a startup that shut down overnight: you think about it for months, often at hours when you would rather not. Symbolically burying your old job is a way of saying once and for all that this chapter is closed.
The Business District is made of dark glass towers and offices left lit for nobody. You bury the permanent contract you do not miss, the company that sank with your stock options, the colleague you will never see again, or the crypto that evaporated on a Tuesday morning. The epitaph can be tender, sarcastic, or read like the goodbye email you never dared to send.
Who rests in the Business District
Two categories have their graves here: "Companies & jobs" and "Money & crypto". Open spaces, cut-short probation periods, layoffs, late salaries, investments that were supposed to "triple", emptied trading accounts. Each grave keeps the trace of a working era you left behind.
Categories buried here : Companies & jobs Money & crypto
Worth a visit in this district
R.I.P. Inc.
Josiane, the long-time assistant at R.I.P. Inc., organizes your farewell party: a four-part speech, ghost colleagues, dry pound cake, a €3.20 collection. You leave with a signed farewell card.
A few graves from this district
🕯️Les Chroniques de Sainte-Marguerite
« 🕯️Les Chroniques de Sainte-Marguerite 🕯️ »
Mon stage de fin d’études
« Beaucoup de photocopies, peu de reconnaissance, une attestation et c’est tout. »
My NFT collection
« Right-click saved my dignity. The jpeg is in a better place. So is my $4,000. »
Mon plan épargne logement
« A financé un week-end à Barcelone au lieu d’un appart. Aucun regret. Si, un peu. »
Mes 2 ETH
« Achetés au sommet, vendus dans la panique. « C’est un investissement long terme » qu’ils disaient. »
The 9-to-5
« It was a 7-to-8. Cause of death: a Slack message at 23:47 that said “quick one.” »
Epitaph ideas
Here lies my permanent contract. It gave me an ulcer and a houseplant.
Startup died on a Friday. The foosball table survived.
Here rests my probation period. It lasted eleven days, and that was already too many.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move on after a toxic job?
Start by naming what happened, without justifying yourself. Many people feel guilty for staying too long or for leaving. Writing an epitaph for that job helps turn the rumination into a sentence you can reread, then put away.
Can I name my former company?
You can name a company, but stay factual: no accusations, no names of people, nothing defamatory. Graves are reviewed before publication, and those aimed at individuals are refused.
Can you bury lost money or a crypto?
Yes, it is even a category of its own, "Money & crypto". A failed investment, an emptied account or a scam you are ashamed of: all of it has a place in the Business District, with a bit of humor to digest it.
Bury my job
Jobs, companies and vanished money.
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