I got this advice from a guy who worked many decades at a single company and was about to retire in 2009 - "never burn the bridges" ., keep up the enthusiasm. You never know, they might hire you back down the road...

There is that cliche - "under promise, over deliver" , not sure if that applies to your situation...

Totally agree with the "never burn bridges" sentiment.

Bad reputation travels further and faster than the good. Always acting professionally, even in difficult circumstances, is a good characterization to have.

Thanks for the advice

Thanks for sharing! I wish they teach this right in high school, so they can focus on healthier life choices (instead of intoxicants).

Well said! Unless the personal life is happy (stable dependable lovable relationship like spouse/significant other), it's hard to succeed in professional life.

Just to provide a contrarian viewpoint, myself and some of my closest friends are experiencing the exact opposite.

Somehow and don't when this happened and still happening - The negative reviews are not getting approved (google, amz, etc.), the number of dislikes on youtube videos stopped showing, and even now if you dislike a video, it won't show (might be there is a bot or a algorithm that's checking some negative words, connotations and then its blocking the review altogether). It might be during the covid some time in 2020/2021 is when this started happening (or during Trump reign).

In fact last year I posted #google - complaining how google blocks genuine negative reviews with proofs, on FB. Result was my FB account (avid FB user since 2009) and my email that I use to login to FB were hacked (lost access to FB and my gmail accounts).

Makes one wonder what the security teams at these Big Tech do for work - hack genuine online users and scrape the internet blocking all genuine activity in favor of their own products.