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People who give a shit always get burned. Being too emotionally invested with your employer, as an ordinary salaried employee with a bounded upside, is basically a modern day mental illness.

I once worked for a guy who who literally destroyed his company because his wife wanted a bigger house. He put the companies finances in a precarious position by sucking out capital at the wrong time and 8 people (the entire company) lost their jobs.

I've worked at a company where the team wasn't hiring (no budget), but suddenly one of the department heads old mates gets hired. A month later someone else on the team gets laid off for no apparent reason. Dead mans boots.

I've worked at companies where non-compete clause's were weaponised. They'd be enforced for long enough to torpedo any competing offers (which you're required to disclose on resigning) and then released, leaving you unemployed without support.



No-one is saying many companies don’t suck. Obviously they do.

But to go into the world with a mindset of ‘everyone is an asshole’ is just sad.

Maybe in tech or wherever your experience is it’s like this. But many people in the world go about their business with a heart and soul.

Not everyone - but by assuming it’s everyone you are making it worse.




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