Reminds me of https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3454

Looking at it, that‘s probably where I got it from, thanks for finding!

All the while thinking about how you can figure out a way to make enough to sustain your family's life style while doing something that doesn't involve employee engagement surveys...

I take it there's a bit of tongue in cheek there. Heh.

People should, ideally, have a level of passion for what they do. Employers looking for employees with passion can swing too far the other way. We shouldn't kid ourselves that money is almost always almost everything, and many of us would have entirely different occupations without financial dependence.

"Passion" tends to be a one-way street, and in many ways is the opposite of the more important attribute of professionalism. I am passionate about my work, my craft, etc. Companies tend to have exactly zero loyalty or "passion" towards/for people, by design and by necessity.

If you are led to believe it is different, you are most likely being misled, for example in order to pay you less (as you pointed out before).

I actually find this sort of "company culture" that demands your whole being to be creepy bordering on totalitarian.

This.

It’s not enough that you’re damn good at your job, you have to be “passionate”!

Dear employers, most of your stuff is mundane and boring. But that’s perfectly fine! If you pay us we will do our jobs very well. However, if you want us to be passionate about integrating the n+1-th tracking library into a website, or writing that ETL script, then be prepared to be lied to.