2. If you're spending your own time + resources helping your employer, you're not an employee; you're an investor.
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3. Founders: please quit describing your company as "a family." It inspires the notion that you'll take care of people "no matter what."
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it's not just startups. They all define "family" kind of like the mob does.
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4. Employees: your boss is not a benevolent parent. All you owe them is the work they hired you to do in the hours you have to do it.
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5. Corporations are carnivorous by nature. They will gobble up any resource presented to them. Even well-intentioned institutions do this!
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"the business" always has insatiable needs
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6. When an employee does a bunch of extra work on the weekend, they *think* they're doing something for the common good. For the "family."
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This argument only applies if your compensation has no equity component.
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7. Sacrificing your time for the company is just giving the founders and investors a free resource. AND they can still fire you tomorrow.
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