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A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

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1041 points mertbio | 4 comments | 27 Jan 25 08:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.267s | source
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lm28469 ◴[27 Jan 25 09:30 UTC] No.42839108[source]▶
That's what happened during my first job almost 10 years ago. "we're different than other companies, we're family", "business is always personal", yadda yadda

Then one day out of nowhere "hey btw we're not going to renew your contract, we're nice so we give you an extra 10 days of vacation don't bother coming back tomorrow, oh and all your accesses have been revoked". At least I got the reality check right away, some people get that way down the line when their whole persona has already been built around their job

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0xEF ◴[27 Jan 25 09:42 UTC] No.42839186[source]▶
I think one has some deeper issues to tackle if one is basing their whole persona around their job. This is not a healthy thing to do, regardless of layoffs.
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aredox ◴[27 Jan 25 12:34 UTC] No.42840474[source]▶
You can't be aware of the toxicity when your parents, your teachers, your mentors, your bosses and your friends have all the same ethos (and actively put down any other opinion under slurs such as "socialism", "communism", "sloth", "failure of a human being", etc.)
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1. wizzwizz4 ◴[27 Jan 25 12:55 UTC] No.42840632[source]▶
You can: that's (part of) what fiction books are for.
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2. aredox ◴[27 Jan 25 13:24 UTC] No.42840863[source]▶
Like The Fountainhead?
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3. wizzwizz4 ◴[27 Jan 25 17:49 UTC] No.42843695[source]▶
The Fountainhead has value in that it helps teach you that there are people who think like Ayn Rand. I wouldn't say it's particularly realistic, though: there are better books to learn about the world through. (But if you read more than two or three books, you'll quickly learn the problems with Ayn Rand's worldview.)

Books aren't mutable in the same way that arguments are: you can actually sit and dissect a book, in a way that you can't dissect a politician's rhetoric or a parent's scorn. So… kinda, yes: even The Fountainhead is worth reading, to some people (not that I'd recommend it).

4. dennis_jeeves2 ◴[28 Jan 25 12:39 UTC] No.42851648[source]▶
Can add Atlas Shrugged and Nineteen Eighty-Four to the list.