You have it right, Jase.

I think we have an innate default to trust people and often make the mistake of extending that trust to companies — thinking that they actually care for us, will look after us, and when we’re hurting they’ll come to our rescue.

But, they’re not people, they’re some bizarre gestalt collection of management and monetisation that fundamentally seeks to maximise profit.

All those words in the company manual, the HR wellbeing PowerPoints, and on the motivational ‘art’ are just ink on paper, electrons in motion, gesture management, the nadir of corporateGPT, and would be worth more being burnt in a fire to keep warm than anything else.

I wouldn’t trust a company as far as I could successfully throw an agile evangelist!