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I don't know what is with companies who pretend that the work environment should be more than an exchange of skills for compensation. Even ignoring these kinds of egregious examples, I find the rah-rah-rah of companies where people are excited to hear the CEO speak to be creepy and weird.

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> pretend that the work environment should be more than an exchange of skills for compensation.

> rah-rah-rah of companies where people are excited to hear the CEO speak to be creepy and weird.

I think these two examples are actually pretty different. You could think highly of the mission and attach a high amount of value to your work without the CEO being a cult figure. I've been in an environment where I had the former but not the latter.

Hm, I guess I wasn't specific enough - you're right that you could just be excited by the mission of the company and that seems healthy and cool. It's the borderline worship and the cheering (to be fair I think this might be an American cultural thing) that seems off.

Or maybe it's my gut feeling that many of the people involved in aforementioned rah-rah-rah behavior are just putting on their "work persona" face a little bit too enthusiastically, which itself feels a bit sus to me.

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