“Never fall in love with a company, because it can never love you back.”

Yes, employers suck and workers should enter into the employment relationship with the understanding that the employer is lying often and wants your labor for as cheap as possible.

There are decent managers out there, but even so, if you put your own livelihood up against theirs and they have to choose between the two, they’ll always choose their own.

Negotiate every year and job hop as often as you can to get pay raises. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4894.Who_Moved_My_Cheese_

I’m retired now. My experiences during 50 years of employment across a couple of dozen employers in several different fields is that employers, as a group, are heartless.

There are exceptions:

One of my first jobs was with an employer who taught me what he thought I needed to know, encouraged me to find my own ways to get the job done and didn’t reduce my pay or throw extra work at me when it turned out that I found ways to get the work done with less time and effort than he expected. This employer also hired a couple of young vandals to clean up the damage they caused, then kept them on as full time employees.

One of my last jobs was with an ambulance manufacturing company (Crestline Coach). The founders were making enough money to do things like fund the restoration of emergency vehicles with personal money and they shared the wealth with their employees. Every employee got the same financial reports as the owners. If an employee wanted to further their education, the owners helped with tuition and work schedules. At least twice that I know of, the owners helped employees start their own businesses. I don’t know what the place is like now, because the founders retired and the new owners drove me (and others) out.