There's that section about how Meta executives got drunk on an airplane. And the only thing that happens is they sing karaoke. There's nothing inappropriate. They're a bunch of boring nerds.

Yeah that was essentially my takeaway as well.

The author thought the people she was working for were Really Special People and that by extension she was a Really Special Person. She gets very upset when she sees that are just Ordinary People and that by extension she is just an Ordinary Person as well.

And how could she be just an Ordinary Person and so sad/stressed at the same time?