Corporate Disobedience

Abstract

This personal narrative explores organizational disobedience as implemented by a former employee of the marketing department of a major hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. The essay captures authoritarianism and illiberalism that the author witnessed within management, as well as the tension and erosion of the self that accompanies working for a corporation that values obedience above all else. To protect identities, pseudonyms are used in place of real names, and identifying details are avoided.