Never Expect Loyalty
It’s a one way street, and the corporate cars are always going the other way from you, trying to run you down.
Loyalty to a company used to be a thing in the old days. A bit like in “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning¹” for example, when loyalty to the various bosses up the food chain would get you off the factory floor and into an office, from blue collar to white collar, and eventually allow you the financial capability to get married, buy that house, and climb the societal ladder.
That probably sounds pretty dated to you, right?
This is most likely because house buying nowadays is often a pipe dream, open offices dominate the corporate world for various reasons², and you know all too well that loyalty in the modern Grand Game isn’t worth the PowerPoint slide it’s mentioned in.
For who is the first to be let go when the notional planners on the upper floors or those hidden well within the expensively furnished mirrored skyscrapers decide to trim down the business?
The rank and file developers of course, those that actually keep the company in business³.
The middle-managers, though, hey fair enough.
The minuscule, often worthless, planning skills of out-of-touch management buy up talent one year, usually to prevent competitors from taking it, and cast it…
