I have a difficult time making something my life, when I know it can and will be taken away at any time.
One business owner said to another "what if I hire someone, put all this time into training them and then they leave?"
The other replied "what happens if you don't train them and they stay?"
Well the company always has options to fire such people.
Turns out they’ve always been able to take it away at any time
9 times out of 10, the reason they do it will have nothing to do with you, your work, or your performance
Just do what you can when you have a job and remind yourself it’s just a job
Suspiciously, the only individuals impacted by the reorganization were director level, and were replaced by people the new president knew from prior employers.
I took it hard until the pattern emerged. That's when I realized:
Most times it's not about you. It's about someone else, you're just collateral damage.
If a company was smart they'll hold onto you for life because you will care and give it 110% because that loyalty used to be gaurentee good output.
Obviously none of this exists anymore and it's a damn shame.
Plenty of those civilians are lifers with a serious sense of purpose for their work.
You get the occasional dead weight, but it's far less common than you might expect.
Ladder climbing lifers don't phone it in.
Senior SWE lifers? Phoning it in pretty hard.
Other industries are probably different.