Because your company is a cult

Sometimes your company feels more like a cult than a company. It has its own language, its own incantations, its own rituals, immediately recognizable to the cult members, incomprehensible to outsiders.

Sometimes your company meetings feel more like religious revivals than company meetings. Cult members are invited to the stage, where they confess their sins, where they break down in tears, where they throw themselves on the mercy of the congregation.

Sometimes your CEO seems more like a cult leader than a CEO. His intonations are those of a preacher, his pronouncements are those of a prophet, his powers to annoint and cast out cult members are those of a messiah.

You thought you’d taken a job, but it turns out you’ve joined a cult.