Lianna Smeltzer; Jordan Ashleigh
- On TikTok, corporate girlies document their 9 to 5 grinds, from outfits to work set-ups.
- But recent high-profile layoffs have some rethinking the value of romanticizing corporate life.
- That's led corporate girlies to rethink how they define themselves by work, and who they are as workers.
Lianna Smeltzer grew up thinking becoming a "corporate girlie" was the path to success.
Over the last few years, however, the 26-year-old has soured on Corporate America, and it's thrown her whole understanding of success into a tailspin. Most recently, the wave of layoffs sweeping through tech revealed a hard truth about how companies treat their employees, she said.