Yeah sure, it might affect how much people like you. Unfortunately, when you have to sit around a table and decide who has to be laid off, I am sorry to say I h

Yeah sure, it might affect how much people like you. Unfortunately, when you have to sit around a table and decide who has to be laid off, I am sorry to say I have never known likeability to be a consideration. If someone is nice you will feel worse about having to let them go, but you are never going to get rid of your grumpy hero programmer to keep the slow-coding nice guy. I can say this from experience. The OP was about being indispensable; and as I said, the person who is indispensable is the one the business can least afford to lose. There are occasionally other considerations, but they are all done without reference to most of the items on that list, at least from what I have seen.