Not just "on the flip side", that's exactly the side by which the idea of "company as family" is used for.
No employee was spared if he was messing, not performing etc. because he invoked "but we said that this company is a family, so they must protect me unconditionally".
It was always the other way around: the company saying they're like family when asking to exploit employees more.
So the problem with the family analogy is exactly the inverse of what the parent says (and is precisely what TFA says).
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Not just "on the flip side", that's exactly the side by which the idea of "company as family" is used for.
No employee was spared if he was messing, not performing etc. because he invoked "but we said that this company is a family, so they must protect me unconditionally".
It was always the other way around: the company saying they're like family when asking to exploit employees more.
So the problem with the family analogy is exactly the inverse of what the parent says (and is precisely what TFA says).