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Re:Mark Hurd Has Died by hinkley on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:10PM (#21294695)
You know the romantic arc in some comedies and many action movies? The people in a stressful situation form a bond. At the beginning they hated each other. At the end they were living happily ever after.

It's not just a movie trope, it's a human cliche. Pour enough oxytocin onto a human brain and you'll believe anybody is your bestie. Survival creates a bond.

These guys create emergencies and then become emotionally invested in the heroes who show up and fix the problem. If they do that repeatedly, the bond is stronger. Infuriatingly, that often holds for people fixing the same problem over and over. They want to keep these 'friends' around and ignore everyone else.

They have no emotional bond for most of the people who would let them go home after 40 or 50 hours.

Re:Mark Hurd Has Died by sharadov on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:59AM (#21309459)
I've definitely seen that, it morphs into a bro-code of sorts. Interestingly, most of corporate America borrows its parlance from the military ( pick your battles, rally the troops..) Someone, thought up this psycho-babble to make corporate jobs sound and mean as important as being at war.
Re:Mark Hurd Has Died by agumonkey on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:56PM (#21295712)
In war you're brother or enemy