"I heard 'we’re a family' for years from an employer who later fired me under sketchy circumstances, with no warning or improvement plan ; a few days after, I told my boss my husband and I were starting the process to adopt.
Now, I work at a place where some of my team members genuinely feel like family, but nobody feels the need to say it 20 times a day because a company that actually treats its employees well doesn’t need to resort to guilt trips in order to motivate you.""'Family' or 'culture' means you’re supposed to conform [and] never challenge the way things are done.
"'We expect flexibility with regard to schedules from our employees. In addition to your regular weekday hours, the need may arise for you to work evenings and occasionally on weekends. So, always be prepared to accommodate staffing demands.'""For some jobs, overtime is understood as a necessary evil at times: manufacturing, medical, law enforcement, etc.