This reads like a grieving spouse blaming themselves for their partner's cheating behavior. "Maybe if I looked younger, they'd have stuck with me. Maybe if I wa

This reads like a grieving spouse blaming themselves for their partner's cheating behavior. "Maybe if I looked younger, they'd have stuck with me. Maybe if I was more fun, they'd want to be around me. Maybe if I changed, they'd still be here. Maybe if I was different, they would've kept me." OR (and I say that in the angriest way I can manage via text) the business is completely looking out for itself in the short term without consideration of its needs beyond a quarter. When a department has served its useful purpose to the very specific goals of the business then the department gets discarded. When a company needs a design for a website, it pays for a UX designer. When the designs are finished, they fire the designer. Does that mean the business never needed a designer? No, instead, they believe that they _no longer_ need a designer, and continue to profit off of the work that the designer did for them. The designer then gets to leave and write blog posts blaming themselves for the pitfalls of capitalism and the absence of design unions. There is no way to stay around a hungry tiger and survive for long, no matter how one ingratiates themselves to the tiger. Designers, don't write blog posts claiming that getting fired is 100% your fault. You're not Jack Welch, you're the body he spent no time thinking about leaving behind.