Fear does this to people. As a police officer, we learned a bunch of different tactics to gain compliance. This is that. How the power structures maintain compliance over people.
This is an interesting point that I hadn't considered. It's a strange form of gaslighting when employees worry about burning the bridge, while the company is the one standing there with the match. By the time most people are even thinking about speaking up, the company has already made the relationship untenable.
I think it’s mostly that laid off people are scared and worried about finding the next job so they’re trying to show they’re still able to perform the corporate rituals. It takes a while before you’re ready to consider trying something else.
Oh, I fully get it. And even if you start something on the side, you may still have to bend the knee to the corporate overlords. I don't have any judgment for people who do that, myself included. But what I suggest is exploring other options, whether employed or not, to serve as a protective measure for WHEN things go sideways. We can't control when a layoff happens, when a new technology dominates the landscape, or when something else out of our control impacts our employment. But we can control a response to that. Makes me think of the saying, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." Plant the tree.
Great article on LarpedIn. Ugh! It does sound weird that leavers thank their bosses for giving them the boot. If I ever have to use it, I'll have to try and find a workaround (new profile, different URL maybe). There really should be a "block" button like X, so I don't have to interact with anyone you've left behind. At least one can hide that you're actively looking elsewhere from the employer you're escaping from (but a friend of someone who's working there still might "find" you).
The spineless submissiveness, the total lack of any sense of self, I don't know if corporate America selects people for this or does this to them...
Fear does this to people. As a police officer, we learned a bunch of different tactics to gain compliance. This is that. How the power structures maintain compliance over people.
People worry about not burning bridges, when the company has already poured petrol on it and thrown the match
This is an interesting point that I hadn't considered. It's a strange form of gaslighting when employees worry about burning the bridge, while the company is the one standing there with the match. By the time most people are even thinking about speaking up, the company has already made the relationship untenable.
I think it’s mostly that laid off people are scared and worried about finding the next job so they’re trying to show they’re still able to perform the corporate rituals. It takes a while before you’re ready to consider trying something else.
Oh, I fully get it. And even if you start something on the side, you may still have to bend the knee to the corporate overlords. I don't have any judgment for people who do that, myself included. But what I suggest is exploring other options, whether employed or not, to serve as a protective measure for WHEN things go sideways. We can't control when a layoff happens, when a new technology dominates the landscape, or when something else out of our control impacts our employment. But we can control a response to that. Makes me think of the saying, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." Plant the tree.
Great article on LarpedIn. Ugh! It does sound weird that leavers thank their bosses for giving them the boot. If I ever have to use it, I'll have to try and find a workaround (new profile, different URL maybe). There really should be a "block" button like X, so I don't have to interact with anyone you've left behind. At least one can hide that you're actively looking elsewhere from the employer you're escaping from (but a friend of someone who's working there still might "find" you).