This feels like a self fulfilling thing. You get laid off, so you start following these rules and you are even more likely to get laid off. I can honestly say

This feels like a self fulfilling thing. You get laid off, so you start following these rules and you are even more likely to get laid off. I can honestly say I not only don’t follow these rules, I think I follow almost their direct opposite, and despite many around me being laid off I never have been even when voluntary redundancy was being offered and applying for it, I have more than enough money to walk away from a job if I want to. If you find every workplace so hateful that you must follow these rules have you considered that the problem might actually be you?