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 astonishingl

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.