Brutally Honest Translation
You will be expected to sacrifice the way you would for family, but with none of the unconditional acceptance.
Culture & values
“We're like a family here”
Boundaries will be treated as disloyalty, and you are expected to accept family-level inconvenience with employee-level pay.
How it gets used
A red flag in interviews and a rhetorical device in bad news announcements. Families do not have performance reviews.
Three ways to answer “We're like a family here”
Supreme Court Polite
We place considerable value on a supportive, close-knit working culture where people look out for one another.
Passive-Aggressive Retaliation
I love that! Families have boundaries too, so I'll be offline after six like a well-adjusted one.
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