Fake dream jobs. Real consequences. How my old company tested loyalty.

At my first corporate job, leadership worked with another company to set up fake job listings designed specifically to target our own employees

dream job titles, fat salaries, all too good to be true. If anyone applied, HR quietly found out and those employees are given no more high-profile projects, promotions vanished, and some were laid off during reorgs internally they called it "risk management" but it was a loyalty trap. This stuff really happens. I watched it happen. Stay sharp.