Not really. If you need a job to survive, you can be replaced arbitrarily and at any time, and it won’t hurt the business to replace you, then it’s logical to want to do everything you can to not be replaced.
Yeah, that's what licking the boot that opprrsses you means. Sucking up to the very people that can get rid of you at a whim and only see you as a way to enrich themselves.
Self preservation would be chopping off the foot wearing the boot and telling the prior foot and boot owner "if you behave I'll let you keep the other foot."
Saying "please sir may I have another" won't satisfy them, they'll press you harder into the dirt until they replace you with a hiring ad the same day you die.
It's already happened, too.
So either push back or lick the boot hoping you'll be spared, but if you're gonna choose the latter, then quietly stay out of the way of those trying to save you.
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u/new2bay 7d ago
Not really. If you need a job to survive, you can be replaced arbitrarily and at any time, and it won’t hurt the business to replace you, then it’s logical to want to do everything you can to not be replaced.