Companies are people, many people have positive feelings towards co-workers and people like them

True but not the ones who will be firing you. At least not in big corp, it would be some HR worker who doesn't know you from Adam and couldn't care less about you.

They always have the manager, and the director and possibly VP will be in the loop and know what going on.

The immediate manager will be informed, but they can do nothing about it or in any way change the process or the result.