Your Company is Not Your Family

Jake Wilder
3 min readFeb 9, 2022

Don’t Let Them Convince You Otherwise

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Managers love to say that their team is “like a family.” They’ll welcome people to the company family or say that we’re all one big happy family here.

Their intentions aren’t all bad. They’re trying to foster a culture of empathy, loyalty, and trust. They want to instill a sense of belonging with their people.

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Jake Wilder

I don’t know where I’m going. But at least I know how to get there.