>work situations ... Don't you Americans value written contracts? No, certainly not for employment. Employment in the US is, by in large, "at will." This mean

>work situations ... Don't you Americans value written contracts? No, certainly not for employment. Employment in the US is, by in large, "at will." This means either the employer or the employee can terminate the relationship for any [non-illegal] reason or no reason at all. Literally at any time. In practice this means the employee just has to deal with the whims of the employer.