I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too
Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.
My father, a union organiser: “You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back.”
Stood me in good stead down the years.
You’ve got to go through a round of redundancies/layoffs to learn this. No amount of telling some freebie-munching programmer will teach them. Source: I was a freebie-munching programmer.
And the acceptance beyond that is “… and that’s ok, it’s not the company’s job to love you, but don’t for a second be fooled into loyalty”.
Somwhat related quote from my father in law about being a good worker:
“First year, they like you. Second year, they love you. Third year, they just start using you”
That’s only partially true, especially if you think about the definition of ‘company.’
It is completely possible to be in a company that cares about you. Odds are it won’t be a publicly-traded one, though.
Nothing at work is personal, it’s all business. If you believe it’s personal you will get taken advantage by the company.
That’s not too say that there won’t be personal issues at work, just that the company doesn’t care about anything except the business.
In addition, HR isn’t there too protect the employees, they are there to protect the company.