This week we're asking the question every person with a job has wondered: how much bullshit is actually normal? Not venting - drawing the real lines. When does paying your dues turn into just being used? Which bad bosses are worth riding out, and which mean you should already be planning your exit? Is office politics selling out, or just knowing how people work? And how do you tell quitting too soon from staying so long the job stopped being worth it. Plus: the lunch that kicked this whole thing off - and the fact that Pete’s apparently old enough to be someone’s mentor.

• (00:00:00) - Introduction: The colleague's bullshit question
• (00:02:40) - Word of the week: Asseverate
• (00:04:11) - History of workplace bullshit rebranding
• (00:05:31) - Paying your dues and generational divides
• (00:08:37) - Three criteria for spotting bullshit work
• (00:11:34) - Finding your value: would the work go anywhere?
• (00:13:56) - Bad bosses and being pigeonholed
• (00:15:46) - Types of bad bosses and timelines to leave
• (00:19:29) - Office politics: manipulation vs relationship management
• (00:23:16) - Testing whether it's worth staying: cheat codes
• (00:25:55) - Building runway and parallel paths before leaving
• (00:28:33) - Fun facts: quiet quitting, dues, cubicles, two weeks notice
• (00:31:46) - Closing thoughts and takeaways