[grudg3]

You're taking "Human resources" a bit too literally.

[scarface_74]

We are resources. The one Big Tech company I have worked for has 1.556 million employees. What else was I besides a “resource”?

[int_19h]

It's not a binary between "we are family" and "we are resources", it's a spectrum.

In your case, yes, you were absolutely a resource. This is exactly why companies of that size simply shouldn't exist - because they cannot not treat their employees as resources, with all the inhumanity this implies.