Many people who were fired, many of them, committed large chunks of their careers to affirm that they thought represented comfortability, predictability and security. As these people's tenure went up, as they spent more years in their career, their stability actually went down. The irony here is that their specialized skill sets necessarily turned into a liability for them. And it's because if you subscribe to this idea that many large corporations are less so meritocracies than they are organizations defined by hierarchy and politicking,.

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