People make the mistake of believing they as an individual are important to Sam's. The management is trained to steer you toward believing in Sam's as if it were a worthy cause like saving whales. When a person wakes up , like Neo Waking up in his pod, they get flushed like Neo. Once you begin to operate in the full knowledge that all the Walmart culture c-ap is just that , c-ap , and take a stand for yourself the management acts as though you are becoming a traitor even though it is they who have been traitorous to you as a person all along. They genuinely want you to feel as though you should make a sacrifice for the sake of Sam's to their god Walmart. When you take that severance you mark yourself as a disgraced disciple to be shunned and whose nale is never to be spoken again....
Great post @WdS6tQ2-enr . You nailed it.