Your discourse makes perfect sense, but thinking more about it... this works when you behave almost like a robot, de-couple emotions from work. Provide service

Your discourse makes perfect sense, but thinking more about it... this works when you behave almost like a robot, de-couple emotions from work. Provide service --> get paid. If that works for you and other employees, that's perfectly fine. From experience I know this does not work for me personally. A job has a feedback loop, from which fee or salary is part. For me that is only a small part. The biggest part of the feedback loop is satisfaction I get via social interaction, next to technical satisfaction -- making things that work. When one gets -- publicly or not -- humiliated or downplayed, bullied, this has a very big impact on one's feelings and hence job satisfaction. The biggest lesson I learned over the years: there are plenty of employers, each have a unique work culture and types of managers. If things go awry, switch jobs until you enter a culture that fits you well, and you will be happier. Don't dwell about it too much.