[SoftTalker]

> You give your 4-5 years to a company and the company dumps you at the first sight of hardship.

You got paid every month for those 4-5 years right? That's the settlement of what the company owes you for the time you gave them.

I've had this point of view for a long time. Every payday, you and your employer are even. If you feel that you are giving your employer more than they are giving you, you need to negotiate a raise, or start looking elsewhere for a better deal.

[lmm]

Does that mean you quit without notice and feel zero guilt about it, or are you a one-sided corporate simp?

To me the world is a better place when an employment relationship is not purely contractual, on both sides, and I'm glad I live in a country that supports that.

[joannanewsom]

Its okay to quit without notice... It's polite to give 2 weeks, but I wouldn't consider anyone a bad person for not doing so.

> To me the world is a better place when an employment relationship is not purely contractual, on both sides...

Do you think that should not be the case? And people should be obligated to stay after putting in their resignation?

[lmm]

I think we should recognise that while these ways of acting (in both directions) are legal, they can still be antisocial and rude (which of course doesn't mean they're not occasionally warranted). While a company's only legal obligation may be to pay their employees, that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't socially call them out if they're too sharp-elbowed.

[system2]

People tend to get emotionally attached to their workplaces and changing it is difficult sometimes. We know business is business. If companies act this way, they should also expect zero employee loyalty.

[taormina]

What you mean to say is "this is why there is zero employee loyalty". Employee loyalty is a concept from an era where it was commonplace, but it always had to be earned. So, here we are.

[therealcamino]

Except none of us are robots, or interchangeable parts of a machine. Being human is not a weakness.