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I can’t comprehend why someone would submit themselves so hard to the American corporate rhetoric. A workplace is neither a family, nor a fellowship. It should
by 9dev 5y ago
I can’t comprehend why someone would submit themselves so hard to the American corporate rhetoric.
A workplace is neither a family, nor a fellowship. It should not be the center of your life, and certainly not something to fully submit yourself to.
In that sense, I like the mercenary analogy very much.
- spyckie2 5y agoLifestyle business is where you want to be to have band of brothers or fellowship ideology and rhetoric. DHH has always been a proponent of lifestyle business. In the corporate world fellowship is rarely discussed and for good reason. I don’t believe most people are blinded by corporate rhetoric; some genuinely want to participate in missions and want to find others who think similarly.
- StavrosK 5y agoCertainly, but in the vast majority of cases where the company tells you you've joined a fellowship, that fellowship is very one-sided, and the company wants your loyalty while giving you none in return. That's what the GP is cautioning against, and that's overwhelmingly the rule today. If you do find a company that treats its employees like a family and cares about them enough to keep them employed during (the employee's) hardship, that's a valuable thing indeed.
- pavel_lishin 5y ago> some genuinely want to participate in missions and want to find others who think similarly. And some are lucky enough to be in a position to decree that their employees think similarly, or at least shut up about it.