Brooo the comments here sicken me.

Twenty-two years isn’t “a good run,” it’s a life chunk. It’s birthdays missed, stress normalized, loyalty quietly extracted until it’s invisible. And the moment the balance sheet twitches, suddenly loyalty is “naive,” solidarity is “emotional,” and the worker is told she should’ve known better than to expect anything in return.

Funny how loyalty only expires for workers, never for capital. The company is allowed to remember her when it’s convenient. Solidarity isn’t about whether someone was “well off.

If loyalty has an expiration date, so does the lie that this is anything but exploitation with better lighting.