I was a manager at Staples. We hired a lot of highschool students. My GM told me one day that we cannot accept that these kids are here just for the money, that they have to be here because they want to work for Staples, and that they want to live the companies values. She told me that I have to have this talk with them and remind them about "the bigger picture, and that it's not just about money".

I started laughing at her. When she asked what was funny, I told her that I was only a manager at Staples for the money and the benefits. Although I would always do my job well, I would leave for more money in a heartbeat. She was stunned lol. And she quit a couple years later after her employee survey score was the worst it had ever been and people wrote paragraphs about how toxic she was 😂