There is a post in this subreddit where a guy who had been working for 26 years at a hospital was fired.
This happened just a year after a new CEO came in and said that it “didnt work”.
Thats because it doesnt matter how good you are – how intelligent – how skilled – how hard working – how dilligent – how reliable – the only thing that matters is how much the boss – how much the person that descides – likes you. Thats all.
When the store closed my GF got laid off after 5 years despite being a good worker and never being sick. Out of the 7 people working there the boss transfered the 3 people he liked the most to another store and fired the 4 he didnt like.
I worked at a company for 7 years – and was fired and replaced with another hire that had been there for just a year – because he liked this new hire more than me and more than the 10 other people that had been working for the company longer – and would have been more deserving of my position.
Since then when starting at a new job I always make it my priority to be on the good side of the people in power – the bosses that descide. Its sick – its sad – but thats how it is