During and after college, Ash worked at a mom-and-pop pharmacy that to her had felt like a family. But a leadership shakeup had changed her supervisors’ attitudes; she watched as loyal, longtime staff got pressured to quit. “Our society is turning to that a lot,” she said. “They don’t want long-term employees, because then you do have pensions, then you do have to keep giving them cost-of-living increases and, if they’ve been working for the company a long time, they’re going to want a merit-based raise.” The new management, she said, “literally wanted disposable people. And to make disposable
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