your job is not your family - it is a transaction. - post regarding Edward Jones layoffs

your job is not your family - it is a transaction.

companies might smile, send emails, and say they care, but the second you cost them money, raise a pr concern, or even trip over some tiny clause in your endless contract, they’ll cut ties without blinking. it doesn’t take a mistake - if business turns bad, you and your coworkers can disappear overnight. that whole “we’re all family here” line? it’s marketing, not reality.

work already takes more of your time than the people you truly care about. it weighs heavier on your mental health than most parts of life. and in the end, if they need to, they will replace you.

so remember: employers are not friends, not family. they exchange money for your time and effort, nothing more. your part is to do the work, not sacrifice yourself.

here is our mantra:

protect your time with family and friends
protect your mental health from being drained by a job
stand by your own values instead of bending to fit in
don’t fall for hustle culture - it demands more than it gives

#Advice #Rant

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For sure! I've also found ways to make each task a little less efficient, a little more time-consuming, a little less repeatable, and a little less quality. Just ever so slightly. For now.

I'll incrementally ratchet up on these and we will see how much utter waste I can propagate before I'm addressed.

This is a spot on post and comments. My spouse and I were talking last night about seriously making some life financial changes such as not building a home in the near future and fixing up our current home and staying there and doing this so we have more financial freedom and dont have to rely so heavily on a company that could get rid of you at the drop of a hat.

@OP Totally agree. I learned long ago a job is just that, a job. No one is your family. No one has your back but you in the end. Stay nice & cordial, but always have your guard up. I’m one of the few who never drank the EDJ kool-aid, but I fake it well so I made it through Cascade 2. I laugh under my breath every day at how deeply people are su-ked into the hogwash of Edward Jones.

Reiterations to OP & Additions:
Your coworkers aren’t your friends.
Transparency will be used against you.
Your job is transactional.
Take ALLLL your PTO.
Let the firm figure out your work while you’re off & don’t check your emails or reply to hen you’re out.
Don’t worry what others are doing & stay in your lane.
Protect your mental health & peace!
Family first, always.

If Enterprise Reimagined didn’t prove to you Edward Jones doesn’t actually care about its employees, you’re too far gone on the kool-aid.

May the odds be ever in your favor…

We're all just a number...... you are correct in saying jobs are not our family. The relationships ones built with others are "family."

Corporate greed is all over the world. We're going through this for the first time. Some will be going through this for their last time in life by being let go and not entering into the WF again.

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