Based on the comments, there are obviously many people who have had bad experiences of this. I agree with the general sentiment, I think this is a common behav

Based on the comments, there are obviously many people who have had bad experiences of this. I agree with the general sentiment, I think this is a common behavior in many organisations. But at least anecdotally, I'd just like to mention it's not always true. For example, a friend who had loyally had worked at the same company for several years. He was going through some tough times personally (family) and was basically not doing anything useful for half a year or more. Since he had been there for a while, they knew him well and didn't try to force him to get more things done, or anything else. They were basically fine with him doing nothing for many months. About half a year later, things were looking better for him on the personal front, and he would be back to speed (mostly). If he hadn't worked there for several years [been loyal], I doubt they would have treated it the same.