[uxns]

Key lesson learnt here - lesson that most of us either already learnt or will learn pretty soon: detach emotionally yourself from company you work for. Usually easier said than done, but saves a lot of headache in situations like this. Invest your emotions into your family, beloved ones. Treat company as business partner - with respect and limited trust. It goes contrary to popular (particularly in western culture) trends to treat your employer as a second family, sharing your emotions almost publicly and expecting everyone to understand and support you. Sad truth is that at the end nobody really cares about your emotions or bad feeling, no matter what happiness-managers try to prove, business is business. Your family, your spouse are ones who should care.

As mentioned before - don't burn bridges. People who you were working with might become your business partners one way or the other in the future. Embrace this situation as a lesson learnt. It will make you more aware and stronger. Take care.

[kbrannigan]

Think of Every corporate job as a glorified McDonald job.

[Silverback_VII]

Everybody who has done such work knows that it is impossible to simply leave your heart and soul at home.

[throwaway675309]

Quite a blanketing statement considering that you can't get in the head of every other person in the universe.

Work has always been a means to support my own personal projects, and I've never felt any kind of investment in the work, the company, or colleagues. Additionally the only things to me that are tangible takeaways, you get to keep even if you are no longer at the company:

- domain knowledge such as tech stacks

- meaningful friendships

[oumua_don17]

>> and I've never felt any kind of investment in the work, the company, or colleagues

how can that lead to meaningful friendships?