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What is this implicit contract you speak of?

• colordrops 3y ago
  There used to be this idea of loyalty between companies and employees, with people staying one company for years, and sometimes their entire lives, and pensions given for retirement, and extreme circumstances needed to be fired. This has been gone for decades, but corporations have held on to the illusion as long as they could to coerce employees to work against their own interests. Most smart people now act as hired guns now and recognize that it's all business and contractual obligations, and only act in their own interest.
  • StressedDev 3y ago
    This has not been true since the 1980s. Note that even before that, it was a fairy tale because no one can foresee the future, and when things get bad, even loyal employees have to go because there is no money to pay them (if companies kept them, they would run out of money and go bankrupt).
    • roflyear 3y ago
      This is still the thing today for many people in trades. I know at least a handful of people who have been at their company for 10+ years, including my father, who works in the trades. Not an unheard of thing - tech is just immature, I think, and they have a lot of immature leadership, unfortunately.