[jdlshore]

It sounds like you haven't been part of a healthy workplace environment, and have so much anger about employer/employee relationships that you're straw-manning my hypothetical. That's too bad. But healthy workplaces do exist, and they involve mutual trust. (Up to a point. I'm not advocating blind trust and obedience.) Workplaces where everyone thinks everyone else is out to get them are hell. Don't contribute to it... just get out and find an employer you can trust, if you can.

[Apocryphon]

This entire industry is in a hiring frenzy, and even before it, job-hopping for wealth and experience was very common in places like Silicon Valley. In such an environment where employees and employers both treat each other as fungible, it's easy for everything to be highly transactional, low-trust.