But there plenty of people who actually love the place they work and the people they work with and do it with healthy work/life balance without the stupid company shirts. Hard to imagine for you, just like it's hard to me to imagine caring about my local community.
You don't have to drink the Koolaid and all that, but if you can feel a sense of team and belonging from your job there is only positive effects, provided that you don't confuse that with blind loyalty.
At one point I've had 5 jobs in 7 years. But I still thoroughly enjoyed my time at those 5 companies and I made friends from all of them, many of whom I talk to until today. You would call me "pathological" but honestly I would absolutely hate to work anywhere with a bunch of people like you.
Just like a job isn't your whole life, but people also shouldn't be so vehemently against actually liking their job and their coworkers.
e: and the parent of this chain is a CEO. Three guesses as to why he finds it a negative that an employee doesn’t really care who they work for.
I think feeling “identified with your company” is kind of pathological. If remote work gets more people to realise it’s just a job, it’s not their company, and they shouldn’t work themselves to death over it, good.