[gibbonsrcool]

It's the economic insecurity that does it for me. Everytime I see "we're a team not a family" or the like, I realize how dispensible I am. It's not the content of the message, it's the fact you have to say it. It's a gentle nudge that, hey, remember you don't mean shit to us, ok?

[bckr]

> we're a team not a family

I actually prefer to have boundaries at work. The whole "family" thing is often a way of saying "you'd better work you ass off to serve this business"

[gibbonsrcool]

The way this phrase is used, as popularized by Netflix, they mean to say they don’t hesitate to fire underperformers.