The company was owned by old showbiz people. They ran the place like the family they were, and we responded like family. We had each other’s backs. Our loyalty was fanatical. Once, I worked 60 days in a row, got a day off, and worked 30 more straight. My wife was pregnant at the time, but we thought it was worth it. I was building something that would carry us to retirement, with a pension and a body of work behind me that we could be proud of. I got promoted, early and often. The family trusted me, and I trusted them right back. For 13 more years, I was happy as a clam.
Then the management changed.
We were always profitable, but the new guys wanted more. They got it by cutting costs to the bone. I was a cost. I got cut.
—"My Good Life After Being Fired," Lee Child (author of the Jack Reacher novels)
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