From Roots to Delusion: the Olive Tree People cycle.
Pros
When you join an allegedly famous European beauty company known only for its obsession with olives, you think you’ve landed a dream job. Instead, what you get instead is a one-way ticket into a sun-dried, olive-scented fever dream led by a man who claims olive trees talk to him (and he listens). The office runs on a strict doctrine: • Doubt is disease. • Silence is loyalty. • Thomas is never wrong.
Cons
Fear is the company culture. You don’t really work with the CEO; you orbit him like a terrified moon hoping not to cause a solar flare. Structure doesn’t exist, only visions delivered through Thomas’ dreams. People disappear without explanation. Projects change names mid-sentence. And if you’re ever caught using logic, you’ll be told you’re “not vibrating on the frequency of the olive”. You will cry. You will doubt yourself. And you will eventually Google “can a company legally be a cult?”
