Any job would replace you if it could save literally any amount of money in that time period. Be as loyal to them as they are to you, which is not at all.
Yeah. I’m not really sure how you make employee of the month in that job. I don’t imagine it being a rewarding career. The interview is real easy though. When they ask about your 5 year plan and goals you just have to say “be blown up..” hired.
It’s a two way street- loyalty. In any relationship. Employers are going to justify their tactics because employees are disloyal. Pay for training or classes to improve their skills and they take a job somewhere else. Give them a good title and they use it for leverage somewhere else. The current advice to employees is to get promotions by jumping companies. Want to be a manager? Gain experience and good stars for your resume and then go apply as a manager somewhere else it’s easier to get hired as one. Get the title, stay a year or so, then start applying for manager at a more prestigious company. Get a prestigious company on your resume, use that to get a job in a smaller pond where your credentials will make you a big fish. Get promoted again.
Employees will say they do those things because companies force them. Companies don’t value them, don’t reward and promote them. Abuse the system and make them work long hours unpaid, do tasks outside their job and not pay etc. it’s chicken and egg. Some companies are worse than others to employees. Some employees are worse than others- the bad eggs ruin it for the good ones and a cycle is created. In the end- work is about money. Everyone is there to get paid. Best case scenario everyone is working together to get paid something they can be happy with. Next best case scenario is that you only control you- not them.
So be a professional. Being indoctrinated and buying all the BS of a corporate image probably isn’t good for you most of the time. But you can still be a courteous professional. You can do your job to satisfaction until the day you quit without shirking, stealing time or anything else, sabotaging the business etc. You can be open and professionally courteous in ways that don’t risk your position, give proper notice, do good faith in training a replacement, etc. and just because you or even “everyone” you talk to thinks the job or company is crap doesn’t mean every person who works there hates it. There’s no need to punish coworkers by leaving them in a position where they are disadvantaged because of you. If you want out, get out- but do it with professionalism and class. If you feel you deserve better then show that you do by being better.
In the end everyone is expendable. Ford or Coca Cola have outlived every employee they have had and probably will all the ones there now. Apple kept going after jobs and Wozniak and Microsoft will likely outlive even Bill Gates. But don’t confuse expendable with disposable. Most companies in most positions considered skilled positions values good people. They may put a market coat on that value- but few companies would readily dismiss even a low level employee with good performance with haste. When something like that happens it’s often the POSITION and not the employee that is analyzed and a large savings can be seen when multiplied by the number of employees included in a decision.
Having been privy to many such decisions in my career- I can tell you that most executives DO consider human value. Most will try to find some compromise that isn’t as financially beneficial to the company but at least has some humanity. They know people have mortgages and kids and the like and will usually at least try to give whatever chance they can to retain good people and do them some small Justice- but in the end executives answer to share holders and have a legal responsibility to justify any decision in terms of tangible profits to share holders. They can’t justify things like wages out of line with an industry in positions that are non competitive and do not directly show a correlated increase in net profit. They can’t justify practices which aren’t common in the industry and cause losses to profits.
The “industry standard” is set generally by the profit leaders of an industry. It so happens- the profit leaders are usually those who are the “worst” companies. So the “standard” tends to become the lowest common denominator. Who’s to blame? Well... technically we are. Walmart is inhuman. Amazon is a company known to be pretty brutal. Apple and google are both known as high paying companies with lots of benefits that are also meat grinders. But we keep doing business with them. We’ve made them giants. Anyone who wants to compete in their spheres doesn’t have much chance unless they adopt similar practices. Other businesses use their success as a sign they are doing things right. The methods and strategies of these companies are adopted by all kinds of industries- anyone looking for an edge- and it gets to where a company doesn’t need to adopt these things to be competitive- but just to stay in business.
So it’s a tad complex and we can more easily change it through our habits than anything else. I don’t see that happening though. It’s as if they’re cutting pieces off our legs and feeding it to us, so we keep complaining about leg pain as we take another bite because we like the taste of the meat they serve. Without turning the job market into Lord of the Flies we can look out for ourselves- but don’t be a part of the problem while doing it. Don’t buy in to a world without loyalty. There IS loyalty- it’s just for sales. Yours is isn’t it? You wouldn’t likely be unending loyal to a company that paid minimum wage even if they promised and signed documents saying they would never let you go as long as you showed up and worked would you? You’re a mercenary. Your choice if you want to be a mercenary with honor or not.
unless it's suicidal bomber then you obviously sign up for it.