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The company you work for is not your family, you are just an NPC to them, they will get rid of you in a heartbeat as soon as it suits their interest, because th
by voidr 4y ago
The company you work for is not your family, you are just an NPC to them, they will get rid of you in a heartbeat as soon as it suits their interest, because the single purpose of a company is to make money, everything else is bullshit, you work for the company to make money as well, as soon as they would stop paying you, you would stop working.
You should build your life outside of any company:
- mixing friendship with work rarely ends well, you might end up competing with your best friend for the same promotion, he might not even be your best friend, just making you think that he is
- dating in the workplace is a minefield, you can easily get into trouble
Don't be attached to a company, you can find another role in seconds.
You don't need to keep up with everything in the company, you just need to be good at what you are doing.
You don't need to be promoted at the company, you just need to improve your skills, it might be easier to leave and join another company, or even rejoin the same one in a more senior role than to go through the promotion process.
- magicroot75 4y agoI see this sentiment often on HN, but I think it's too reductive. For better or worse, we don't just work for a "company". We work with a group of other real whole humans. And if I'm going to spend 8hrs a day with these folks, I expect our relationships to be on a deeper level than "NPC." I don't think we should be "family." But NPC is way too impersonal for me.
- notfromhere 4y agoThe company is an abstraction layer that allows for very convenience-based relationships. The point is that at a company you are a line item in the budget and you will be forced out the moment it’s not financially beneficial to keep you around.
- Aeolun 4y agoEveryone else is an NPC by definition.
- ytpete 4y ago> mixing friendship with work rarely ends well That generalization definitely doesn't hold for everyone. I've made so many great and lasting friendships from work over the years - even picked up some new hobbies and gone on trips together. If I'd come in with the attitude that it's a bad idea to make friends or socialize with coworkers, I would have missed out on a whole lot of life-enriching experiences.
- tomduncalf 4y ago> mixing friendship with work rarely ends well This sentiment confuses me. Maybe it depends on the kind of company you work at, or maybe it's a cultural thing (I'm in the UK), but I've met many of my best friends through work, as have most people I know. It seems like one of the main ways to make new friends as an adult, and to be honest I've never experienced any downsides to it.