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Pickles Saved My Office Sanity

Corporate burnout? Cured by pickles. It started with my coworker casually plopping a jar of pickles on her desk like it was a candle. “Emotional support pickles,” she said. Ate one every time a passive-aggressive email landed. Next day, someone brought garlic dills. Day after? Spicy pickles. Now we’ve got a communal jar in the break room labeled “For morale purposes only,” and HR hasn’t shut it down—because they’re in on it. I watched our supervisor crunch a pickle mid-budget crisis like it was her coping mechanism. Some dude’s making pickle review TikToks. I even caught myself Googling “artisan brine subscriptions” at lunch. I used to count the hours till 5. Now I’m counting pickle varieties. We’re not okay. But we’re crunchy, salty, slightly fermented… and kind of thriving. Never thought pickles would fix my job-induced existential dread. And yet, here we are. #WorkWeird #EmotionalSupportSnacks #OfficeCulture #StressPickles #PickleTok #BrineAndShine