Good article, but I thought that the linked "shields down" article about what triggers an employee to leave a company was equally insightful: https://randsinre

Good article, but I thought that the linked "shields down" article about what triggers an employee to leave a company was equally insightful: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/ https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/ In my experience, that's happened at most jobs that I've held, and with most people who left. I find it kind of sad that with all of the work that goes into building a company, and all of the resources and expertise available at their disposal, that managers and employees can't really talk about what's really going on. Most interactions at a company are a delicate dance to preserve the thin veil of hope that makes capitalism possible. In the end, it really truly is just business. So I've found it helpful to treat it as such, and not get too wrapped up in the emotion of it. Something that really helped me was watching the entire Mad Men series, to get an idea of how this all works. I know that's old news today, but that show arguably had as much effect on my career as stuff like The Secret, manifesting things, The Pick Up Guide about neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) that circulated in the late 90s, and moving furniture (which taught me that all manual labor is exploitive because the lion's share of profit always goes to the people held in high esteem not the people who do the most work). That said, I'm a highly emotional person who wears my heart on my sleeve. YMMV.