>A more prominent and successful company would have jettisoned him as soon as it found a qualified and, in all probability, more loyal applicant. Notice the im

>A more prominent and successful company would have jettisoned him as soon as it found a qualified and, in all probability, more loyal applicant. Notice the implicit assumption that employees should be loyal to companies, but companies are free to "jettison" an employee aggressively negotiating because that's not "loyal"? The only reason engineers are not getting respect as an industry (and I've seen this get worse over the past 30 years) is because we sell ourselves short.