Totally agree. These articles are so hyperbolic and ridiculous. One of the quotes from a worker near the beginning of it is: > “This just drives home that work

Totally agree. These articles are so hyperbolic and ridiculous. One of the quotes from a worker near the beginning of it is: > “This just drives home that work is not your life, and employers—especially big, faceless ones like Google—see you as 100% disposable” It’s unfortunate and rather sad that it takes a firing to cause someone to realize that work is not their life. Work is a transaction. You do work and you get paid. If you want to find meaning in your life, there are better places to look than in some corporation. In terms of being “disposable”, again, it’s not that you’re disposable. It’s transactional. For years the standard advice to tech workers has been to switch jobs frequently to gain pay raises. That was viewed as sensible economics, not a betrayal of one’s employer.