I want to start a discussion about loyalty and how it's used by companies to extract value out of employees.
At Yahoo we are going through a difficult time and I hear a lot of anger about how long time employees are treated the same as new hires.
So I wanted to say this, "Your company is not loyal to you. Your company does not think of you as family. These are traits that may or may not exists in your manager and those that personally know you, but a company doesn't have these feelings. Your company would like you to think it has those traits and wants you to feel way."
Your company wants to ad value to it's investors, period. Everything else is just a facade. To all the younger people out there, learn this early.
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The loyalty between yourself and those you work with can and often will be overridden by someone else in the company.
Loyalty to a company? Sure, that is nonexistant.
But reciprocated loyalty with peers and other individuals? That's something that will be a two way street of help that will last well into your careers.
Just wanted to add the nuance that just because you can't get loyalty from a company doesn't mean you shouldn't find loyal people to network and build relationships with.
Don't ever think that it's just business when crap happens -- someone decided that you didn't matter enough to offset whatever.
Someone decides on a number. Someone else decides on a process. Someone else picks the people.
It takes about 3-6 months for someone to come up to speed, and hiring takes a lot of developer time, and there is an opportunity cost from not having people around to do whatever the employers want to do next. Reducing turnover saves a lot of money.