Your job is not a family.
Your boss is not your friend. Your company will never be loyal to you.
Remember a job is just a job.
Be loyal to you, not a corporation.
You will always be replaceable to them.
- Linda Le
I *hate* when jobs expect me to socialize with my co-workers and my boss. It's a way for them to try and make employees feel like they owe the company something more than what they're paid for.
@tyghebright God yes. I haven't worked outside of my home since 2007 or so ... maybe earlier but I don't miss the corporate grooming and forced participation at all. The madness and the backstabbing and the nonsense just never sat well with me.
It's almost like those environments are designed to make people think they have to fight over scraps.
Exactly.
And most people internalize the dynamic so much they're not conscious of it.
@tyghebright @thewebrecluse It is very surreal to be a person with no sense of peer pressure when it happens. You look around, and it's like everyone around you has been hypnotized.