Yeah. Until it says in an email that you need to get let go. Fuck em.

Some CS rep said to me the other day when I was asking about a bogus charge on my account, “thank you for being part of our family”

I said “family doesn’t usually charge money, but go on”

I got a partial refund.

There is a for-profit medical clinic near me where they told the workers that " we’re all just really cool and we love our jobs so we don’t take breaks" - they didn’t allow workers to take breaks as required by law so I created pamphlets about how to report and get compensation for wage theft and I passed them out on all the cars outside the clinic.

Fun fact: Abusers are more likely to be family members than strangers.

Maybe that’s what they’re trying to say?

I once thought this was a good thing that meant I was safe and well taken care of while being treated as family. Then I realized this also applied to all of the people who were genuinely terrible at their jobs, making horrible decisions for the company, affecting not just my ability to do good work, but the company’s ability to provide. Nobody ever got fired and bad managers got promoted because nobody was ever critical of them. The rot spread and the company never reached the heights of their earliest success.

I would involuntarily laugh at this.

“Clearly you don’t know my family, we’re like wolves. Yes, we’ll back you up, but we’ll also pounce on the weak so they either toughen up or die. Is that really what you want?”

But, they smile and try to make jokes. They put up signs, like, “Teamwork makes the dream work.” They seem friendly, and seem to care, and sometimes even buy pizza.

One mention of unionizing brings that illusion crashing down, though. They show their true face, then.

Just leave it, you dont need to work in toxic space

RED FLAG! RUN!

Usually means we expect to grift you into doing things for free

Criminal childhood indoctrination organizations like child armies and cults use the same tactics, I wonder how happy they’ll be to learn what great company they keep by acting like David koresh, Charlie manson, or Jim Jones while also insinuating you’re a child and are dumb enough to be manipulated by such bullshit.

gives that teacher who says “okay, friends!” and “And the most important rule is: have fun!” vibes

When I was first started working as a lawyer. I was working for a big law office. They would tell us how we will be the part of the family and they would take care of us and some other shit. They would give us (the rookies) certain amount of court files depending our specialization daily, that we needed to work on, write up the paperwork and put into the out going folders in the appropriate category. I would go early and be done by the lunch break. And I would ask if they anything extra for me they would say no and I’ll start playing games on my personal laptop. This would irk the shit out of my manager there. He would complain and talk shit about it to my face and I would ask him if he had anything new for me to work on and fucker couldn’t come up with anything because the daily work would be divided by the higher ups and not him. After 6 months of working there one day he was talking shit to me about how I’m not a serious worker, slacker etc… I got up gathered my things and told him I quit and he can fuck right off. Next day they called me back in to talk to me about why I quit. I told them to ask that fuck face and hang up.

It’s performance review season. Boy am I hearing this a lot

Aeon Flux?