The boss may have no choice… They may have a mandate from senior leadership. Really the system as it is is optimized to extract value from people from whatever

The boss may have no choice… They may have a mandate from senior leadership. Really the system as it is is optimized to extract value from people from whatever level they’re at, with zero regard for their happiness, unless it can marginally impact profitability. That’s why it’s important to just do you. Maybe one day you’ll be a boss, and you’ll make a bad decision, or be forced to make your direct reports do something you disagree with. If that day comes, just know that this is just a job, if you really care, try to make you’re direct reports lives as painless as you can. Your passion can be empathy, the well being of others, in trying to make your corner of the world better, but again, don’t put it into the company. The company isn’t a real person, it doesn’t care about you, it’s a legal structure designed to maximize value extraction.