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Reminds me a bit about how, in my first full-time job, we had some kind of introspection activity and were meant to enumerate our reasons for working at the company. I just went for honesty, "Because my friends work here and also it pays.", and the manager present practically jumped down my throat about how "you can earn money anywhere else, that's no reason to work here!". Some people either are true believers or consider it inacceptable to break the kayfabe.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
When I first read that bit it was scary how accurately it mapped to my actual working environment. Like forget about the lower stakes squaring off between the various Queen Bees and their various departments leading to a hilarious plea from the then CEO for staff not to get into public spats on Facebook and mass unfriend work colleagues based on office battle lines. That was amusing, sure, but we actually had a full blown sociopathic power couple in the C-suite doing most of the Deciding for the better part of a decade, then hired another one to replace our outgoing CEO!
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