One phrase that immediately makes me question a job during an interview is a manager saying everyone is like family. I'm old enough to know that can only mean you're expected to put work ahead of your own life. And again, I'm too old for that cr-p. That's what's making the job search even harder.
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More like an Incestuous family since it fooks over all its employees.
I’ve always imagined it as something more akin to ancient Egypt: the pharaohs, the ruling elite, and their favored few receive all the privileges, resources, and opportunities, while everyone else is relegated to the role of the laborers and slaves, toiling away to build the pyramids that benefit those at the top.
It is like family.
divorce, layoff
affair,..
nobody said happy family.
family only
I suppose it depends on your family. Manson? Addams?
@OP any manager who says that the fellow employees are like family doesn't know what he is talking about. You get a lot of slackers and tattletales at IBM who are the boss' favorites and who carry tales from the workplace to him/her to get rewarded.
Just ask the Matt Loathsome how he got ahead.