Tomorrow marks the last day at a job I began just back in March…I am actually a little melancholy about it. It’s a good company and the people are good people, but family life dictates where and what I do more than anything else. I have always been one to review my family’s financial situation, needs and such when and opportunity comes up and the job I start on Tuesday is one I really couldn’t pass up. That being said, I like the job I was at and the freedom and flexibility it gave to me.
I guess, I started thinking about loyalty when it comes to an employer. It seems that the loyalty from my grandfather’s day is long gone. Not just from an employee perspective but also from an employer perspective. Not that it is my current situation.
In the past people would take a job and stay there until retirement. Partially because of retirement. But that word is almost irrelevant in today’s economy. So many people have lost that twenty plus years of investing that retiring simply means move to another job and cash out the old one’s 401k. But I think the same economy that compels employees to always look for the better opportunity, causes employers to make less of an effort to keep someone. This is because, there seems to be quite a line of unemployment that is willing to fill a vacancy someone else creates.
I can actually recall a LONG FORMER, employer making the comment that he didn’t care about turn over because the job was brainless and any “monkey” could fill it. This same analogy was applied during any loss of moral. He would throw out some sort of competition and make the employees compete for who got a reward, his throwing a banana in the cage routine. This distracted people from being upset at him and forced them against each other.
In reality, the world is constantly evolving, technology and discoveries and off-shoring, make jobs irrelevant on a daily basis. So, how could you not keep trying to ride the wave as long as possible.
Anyway, next week, new opportunity, new challenge, same goals.
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