The first paragraph is what GenX knows. The narcissism and fuck everyone else attitude of the second paragraph is exactly what you would expect from children of Boomers.

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ebiester 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

You and I read that completely differently. Standing up for other employees is the explicitly "not narcissist" part of that statement. The statement is "Value people. Do not value soulless entities. They are trying to extract maximum value out of you and you should do likewise."

	▲	atoav 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks, this is how it was meant. It is important to not confuse the corporation with the people that make it up. The problem is however that what you rightly called soulless entites tries to even abuse that empathy for your co-workers. So if you don't come in to cover the missing worker they have a shift from hell — "thanks to you". The fact that they could have easily covered that shift if they just hired the adequate amount of personell shouldn't be mentioned tho. These days a good manager isn't someone that runs things smoothly, but one that squeezes out as much as possible from their workers, even if it leads to constant frictions and inefficiencies in the system.

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atoav 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What did you read there? How is it narcissistic to stand up for your Co-workers?