My last company, which is used to having lifers working for them, operated under the assumption that if they kept an employee for the first five years out of co

My last company, which is used to having lifers working for them, operated under the assumption that if they kept an employee for the first five years out of college, they usually had them permanently. They assumed people like me[0] were rare. This attitude persists in spite of their issues with college hire retention over the past decade. Its possible the management at your first company had a similar attitude. [0] I left 5 months shy of my 10th service anniversary