I feel like many workplaces push you to do this, regardless of the prospects. I've worked dead-end admin positions where I was expected to give inordinate amoun

I feel like many workplaces push you to do this, regardless of the prospects. I've worked dead-end admin positions where I was expected to give inordinate amount of myself - my time, my energy, my focus - to work that was, as per the dead end-edness, not going to lead to positive renumeration vis á vis the investment. There was no awareness of where the job, the business, the industry really was, a predictable but unfortunate result of the decision-makers being either people in one of the few positions or people gunning (with realistic prospects of achieving) one. Just a sort of blind adherence to corporate dogma. Meanwhile, the HN et al. line is, "Those are only transitory jobs, it's okay that they don't pay a living wage or treat you with any dignity, you're supposed to move on from them." Not within the organization, apparently. So we're to betray the people who gave us the opportunity which we're supposed to be so appreciative of? Doesn't that go directly against that corporate dogma we're around every day? The unspoken and contradictory of etiquette of the American workplace is frustrating and demoralizing.