Yeah, I was just musing on some companies trying to make "dear John" talks when laying people off. I prefer to work where I might be dehumanized, but with every

Yeah, I was just musing on some companies trying to make "dear John" talks when laying people off. I prefer to work where I might be dehumanized, but with everybody being honest about it. > The alternative to having the 2-sided at-will employment system would need to be a two-way commitment, which seems far worse. You probably just haven't tried it, or have little knowledge of how it works in practice, because your example is way radical. Learn about the actual conditions under which it works over here in Europe (you don't get locked in to a duration of employment, the notice period in Poland, for example, may be up to 3 months if you worked at one place for three years or more — to give time for knowledge transfer).