Have you ever done everything they asked you to do and still ended up outside the room you helped build? I know that feeling.Twelve years at the same place. The one who trained the new hires, the one who came in on the Saturday nobody else would. Then a phone call on a Tuesday, fifteen minutes long, and a folder in front of them with a number on it.In this episode I name three workplace patterns, and none of them are about you: staffing levels set at the minimum that will still produce output, loyalty paid in loyalty instead of money, and performance reviews that quietly turn into a paper trail. Underneath all three is one plain fact — in most of this country, employment is at will, and either side can end it any day for almost any reason, or no reason at all.That's not a company being cruel. That's the room you've been standing in the whole time. If this sounds like your version of it and you want to tell me how it went down for you, reach out to me on my website's about contact page, I just want to hear your experience.