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> I’m sorry, but I am special: there is only one of me on this planet. There may be only one person exactly like you, although with 9 billion people it remains
by bambax 4y ago
> I’m sorry, but I am special: there is only one of me on this planet.
There may be only one person exactly like you, although with 9 billion people it remains to be proven. But you sure are replaceable by many others with approximately the same set of skills.
- bjornsing 4y agoSure. And my general attitude is that if my employer can replace me then they should, so I can do something more productive (where I will be harder to replace). And to state the obvious: when you run your work life like this for 20 years you get pretty hard to replace.
- analognoise 4y agoThe graveyard is full of the previously irreplaceable. "...20 years" Ohh sorry, we can't hire you. It's a "culture fit" issue. (We aren't allowed to say it's an age filter! It's "culture"- we aren't ageist!)
- bjornsing 4y agoThe grave yards are full of irreplaceable people. Look: It’s not that we disagree about how the world works, it’s that we give it a different emotional coloring. Yours sounds bitter and resentful to me.