Always fun to see real relationship language buried in messages that clearly treat your relationship as entirely transactional. I always wonder if there's anyone left naive enough to justify corporate double speak.
The other way around could have true. You could have had an amazing time at a company, and be grateful for everything they did for you during your tenure at a company, but due to life circumstances that force you to move somewhere else, or something personal in your life, you have to quit, while also being grateful for the impact a company had in your life.
Agreed. So, why pretend it's not purely transactional, other than to be manipulative? All the "were a family", "we care about you", yada yada language just tries to create false social constructs to hide the fact your relationship is only a business transaction.
"I always wonder if there's anyone left naive enough to justify corporate double speak."
I found The Gervais Principle[1] to be an interesting read on the subject. According to its author:
"the Sociopaths use Powertalk as a coded language with which to simultaneously sustain the (necessary) delusions of the Clueless and communicate with each other"
Also relevant was the article's description of the so-called MacLeod Life Cycle of organizations, wherein:
"A Sociopath with an idea recruits just enough Losers to kick off the cycle. As it grows it requires a Clueless layer to turn it into a controlled reaction rather than a runaway explosion. Eventually, as value hits diminishing returns, both the Sociopaths and Losers make their exits, and the Clueless start to dominate. Finally, the hollow brittle shell collapses on itself and anything of value is recycled by the sociopaths according to meta-firm logic."