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Also bragging about stealing an intern from another company kinda reinforces that image. Stealing implies property. The point I made to Patrick was that human

• otakucode 14y ago
  You are quite right in that, and I've always thought that the abyssmal treatment of employees by employers over the past 40 years (things have gone astonishingly downhill, far more than most people realize... between 1950 and 1980 the average salary of the lower 90% of US workers rose by 75%... between 1980 and 2010, it rose by 1% even as worker productivity and corporate earnings skyrocketed thanks to computers and automation technology) really does not earn employers any kind of expectation of loyalty. They have specifically manufactured an environment to force employees to have to hop from company to company every few years just to keep pace with market rates. They've gotten rid of essentially all pensions, and divorced salaries entirely from the value employees actually generate. It blows my mind that employees would consider an employer worthy of any sort of loyalty except in extremely unusual circumstances. Loyalty goes both ways, or someone is being taken advantage of.
• pfisch 14y ago
  That was your title! Poaching - Illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or is under official protection.
  • argumentum 14y ago
    Poaching is the standard term used to refer to convincing another company's employee or future employee to leave for yours.