I would go so far as to say any place that says 'we are family here' is actively trying to screw you. Every place I've heard this was a place with no wriggle r

I would go so far as to say any place that says 'we are family here' is actively trying to screw you. Every place I've heard this was a place with no wriggle room on anything- late 3x? Fired. Kid hurt and you need to duck out your shift? Fired. Need that weekend off for a funeral? Better have a death certificate or fired. They claim they are a family when it suits them only. I've had places spew that rhetoric all through training and once you hit the floor its surprised pikachu. I actually bought into it when I worked with HEB in South Texas as a night stocker. Until the lies started to show (no, your scheduled hours don't matter, you are off when the last pallet is stocked, no you are part-time now even though you were hired full-time since you're a hard worker and we need you to cover the shifts of the kids who call out every Friday/Saturday, no you can't change departments we need you, no you won't have to work frozen- except you will, without the pay bonus etc ad infinitum). The only way in which these places are like families is in that they are destructive, lying, backstabbing, political cesspools. I assume there are some families like that. Not what I imagine a family to be like however.