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It's not that simple. Loyalty, if defined as 'being with the company a long time', can result in complacency and degrading productivity in line with the amount of critical knowledge this loyal person is storing in their head.

Also, loyalty is one of those double-edged swords that is just great... until it isn't. And when it suddenly isn't, it's a divorce-level event. I saw my employer walk a 20-year employee out of the company with essentially no notice. Seeing that, as a fellow employee, murdered any sense of what I thought loyalty meant to this company.

One bad example can destroy the entire mystique around 'loyalty'.

Get paid for the job you do. If you're aiming to move up the ladder, do a better job than what you're paid to do and let them know your interests and intentions, even to the point that you give them a timeline. But don't expect any more than they promise, and be prepared to burn them if and when they break their promise.

Loyalty is rusty guardrail.