"What a load of crap. I have worked for the same company for 12 years and have provided more value every year." It's not crap, you're the one who's fortunate.

"What a load of crap. I have worked for the same company for 12 years and have provided more value every year." It's not crap, you're the one who's fortunate. I can say with complete certainty that I've added next to no value to most of the companies that I've worked for that some random bozo hired off the street couldn't -- because most of them resist anything like good engineering. They just don't understand it, and they complain about (and penalize) programmers who aren't writing code when those programmers are asking "What's this thing INTENDED to do?" No programmer, no matter how skilled, can add any value to such an organization. They're ass-in-seat jobs even though the hiring staff pretends that they're programming jobs.