Even if your work, knowledge, and contributions make you irreplaceable in your organization, your employer is never going to admit it. For one thing, they probably aren't even going to be aware of it until long after you're gone. They probably think that there are dozens of people out there who can do exactly what you do. For another, if they did admit how valuable you were, they know that you'd likely want to be paid fairly for that fact—and that's just never going to happen. No, it's better to keep you constantly looking over your shoulder and thinking you can be replaced at any moment.
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Of course, when an employer underestimates a worker and decides to assert their supposed authority by punishing or firing that worker—well, you end up with stories like this, where the employer pays the price of their hubris by having their business fall out from beneath them… Just like this restaurant did when they fired their apprentice chef who, just out of school, owned the book of recipes the restaurant came to rely on.
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