The disconnect is insane

I earn a decent living ~38LPA as a Product Manager at a quick commerce unicorn. I really enjoy the fast pace and it is always a joy working with smart people around you.

I sometimes wonder if the leaders at my org even live in the same reality as us. At work, I come up with realistic delivery estimates and dark store insights which my peers appreciate and support, but there hasn't been one thing that they took seriously and moved ahead with.

The higher-ups constantly push these hilariously out-of-touch metrics, some completely absurd expectations about warehouse packing times, even though the ground staff is already stretched to their absolute limits and more.

The tone deaf suggestions and sarcastic replies in front of other people in my company when we present actual logistical constraints makes me sad beyond belief. It is almost like I give so much of time to this company and although everyone cares about the 10-minute promise but no one cares about the humans doing it.

My leaders constantly try to one-up themselves by promising investors impossible ETAs and laughing in their glass-walled conference walls. Just yesterday they seriously asked why we can't simply deploy drones to bypass Bangalore traffic on a Sunday evening to shave off sixty seconds.

Incidents like these make me want to give up on work. I think the mix of giving all of myself at work(constant weekend war rooms and long hours), endless pressure on my team and the time I spend away from my family and "real" life(not this fake hyper-growth bubble) makes me depressed as fuck.

I am now understanding that you can never be happy in life because you can never have all that you want. You will give up something for the other. You think working at a unicorn will make you feel successful but you will just end up losing your sanity.