I do my job very well, mostly because there is satisfaction in doing something competently. I don’t imagine that corporate wouldn’t fire me if it made them 50 cents though.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. They'll either let you go or give you a raise and promotion to retain you according to whichever serves their interests at a given time. It cost them time and money to hire you so it's not efficient for them to let you go casually. Layoffs happen in bulk because the steady state tendency is to keep people around longer than needed, until the company reaches a certain threshold of oversized relative to need or viability.
It's just business on both sides. You'd also leave if it served your interests. Nor were they your family, committing to keep you forever. There's no reason to frame the relationship as adversarial or inherently toxic, even if it is impersonal and transactional. A transaction can benefit both parties.
There's no reason to frame the relationship as adversarial
It is, by definition, adversarial because their interests and mine are in direct conflict - I want the largest salary I can get; they want to pay me the lowest salary they can. There are more ways that their interests and my interests are in conflict - this is just the most obvious.
That said, just because something is adversarial that doesn't mean it needs to be acrimonious.
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I do my job very well, mostly because there is satisfaction in doing something competently. I don’t imagine that corporate wouldn’t fire me if it made them 50 cents though.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. They'll either let you go or give you a raise and promotion to retain you according to whichever serves their interests at a given time. It cost them time and money to hire you so it's not efficient for them to let you go casually. Layoffs happen in bulk because the steady state tendency is to keep people around longer than needed, until the company reaches a certain threshold of oversized relative to need or viability.
It's just business on both sides. You'd also leave if it served your interests. Nor were they your family, committing to keep you forever. There's no reason to frame the relationship as adversarial or inherently toxic, even if it is impersonal and transactional. A transaction can benefit both parties.
It is, by definition, adversarial because their interests and mine are in direct conflict - I want the largest salary I can get; they want to pay me the lowest salary they can. There are more ways that their interests and my interests are in conflict - this is just the most obvious.
That said, just because something is adversarial that doesn't mean it needs to be acrimonious.