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How do employees air out their appraisal frustrations? Through reels on Instagram

During appraisal month, tensions run especially high, resignations abound, and the one place it all airs out is on Instagram.

Memes about ‘#corporatelife’ were among the first ones to be rolled out in the early 2000s. Fast forward two decades, and what does it look like when workplace happenings of 2026 get distilled onto social media? In a word, depressing.

In the Viral Spiral that is corporate reels, it’s the employees who are caught in an eternal spiral. The best you can do is jump from one frying pan to the next. Everyone is a ‘corporate mazdoor’, there is no end in sight, and the currency of hope runs weaker than the rupee. Now that it is appraisal month, tensions run especially high, resignations abound, and the one place it all airs out is on Instagram.

‘Chillar’ is the word Indians are using to describe their paltry pay hikes. Content creator Shalini........

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