The Pursuit Of Profit

A corporation whose primary or sole purpose is to generate profit--the excess revenue remaining after employees are paid, among other things--will always take every chance to side with a paying client over an employee, strive to penalize (at a minimum psychologically) workers for uncontrollable human experiences like sickness, or expect as much effort as a person can muster even if they are being severely underpaid or otherwise taken advantage of.  No corporation has to be like this.  For many American workers, though, whatever they do to sincerely benefit their employer will be forgotten or met with disregard as soon as a health or relationship issue, for example, limits their workplace productivity.

Unless it adopts a new purpose or a more multifaceted one, this kind of corporation will trample on and toss aside any worker.  Motivated by the need to pay for ordinary access to food, water, housing, clothing, and so on, the typical worker needs a job to survive because of the way their society is structured (since culture is on its own a pure construct, it could of course have been set up differently than the exact version of capitalism found in America).  Motivated by the stupidity and selfishness of greed, an all-too common type of employer does not know or acknowledge the real nature of business as a whole and American capitalistic business in particular.

America is structured so that the disabled, the sick, and the general poor have little to nothing they can actually do to directly make it likely they can obtain a better financial life.  Oh yes, there are things that can minimize making a workplace situation worse, such as not harshly confronting idiotic people in the workplace or exposing the selfishness of many companies.  These only keep the status quo unchallenged where it is set up on false or assumed philosophical premises.  They will not rectify underpayment, micromanaging, or double standards.  Inaction leaves them firmly rooted in place.  As long as it is only inaction on the level of confronting irrationality, company leadership might be completely fine with this.

If someone is "inactive" (less productive) in their work due to something like a health condition, some employers will do everything they can to get away with discarding them or pressuring them to overexert themselves.  Productivity is overglorified even when it is needless (literally doing nothing but wasting time or adding gratuitous steps) or when it can only be achieved by treating people as if they are not human--I do not even mean this in the moral sense of human rights, but in the biological sense of having needs like eating and sleeping.  Without actually saying it this way, a kind of employer wants to be regarded as a pseudo-divine figure whom all of one's life should revolve around.

Never miss a day of work, complete work tasks despite personal trials distracting or weighing down on oneself, or devote a great deal of weekly/monthly time or seniority to a corporation, and none of that loyalty or effort is probably going to be repaid anywhere near adequately in the current state of the American workplace, not with genuinely proportionate compensation or with anything else.  The man or woman who gives their time and energy in order to be recognized and rewarded accordingly will far more likely than not never receive this outcome, or they will as other workers go ignored.  Laboring for other humans is seldom ever truly "worth it."