> If your mentality is "just show up for work, do what they ask and go home" then it should be no surprise you're at the top of the list to get laid off.
Conversely, if you think that devoting yourself to work will put you at the bottom of the list to get laid off, you are in for a big surprise eventually.
But more likely people who do bare minimum at work and always wait for someone else to ask else they just leave for home are first one to go. And it is happening to "minimal interest in work" folks in my team as I type this.
It is not even about having them do work beyond normal hours. But just checking in normal hours if something need be done while they have spare cycle.
I guess it is all fine, employee made their choice and management theirs.
Consider that your point and the parent are opposite ends of a continuum and that healthy relationships lie somewhere in the middle.
Any transaction becomes increasingly zero-sum as you get to either end of the value proposition difference between the two parties. The non-zero area is in the middle.
Conversely, if you think that devoting yourself to work will put you at the bottom of the list to get laid off, you are in for a big surprise eventually.