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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Loyalty.
It's a nice concept. An admirable one, even. A lofty concept.
I, however, see less and less of it these days, despite what I see I see written on these boards.
I'm not just talking about employee loyalty, either. As little employee loyalty as I see, I also see an extremely short supply of employer loyalty.
Outsourced jobs. massive layoffs, reduced benefits, payraises that aren't keeping up with the COL, and so on and so forth.
It's increasingly more difficult to expect employee loyalty, when the companies that they work for treats them as little more than an entry in a spreadsheet.
My guess is that what we have here is a severely disafected employee. (Duh) And while I do not in any fashion endorse the actions that they took...I can to some degree, understand why they did it. There are some executives at Coca-Cola that should probably be glad that selling proprietary information is all that this employee attempted.
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If you ever want to see an example of loyalty in action, let me know when you'll be in Chicago and I'll walk you around my office. All 3 of my assistants laugh openly about some of the job offers they've received, several of which would pay them more on the front end but require that they lose most (if not all) of the freedom they enjoy on my team. One of my competitors tried to hire all 3 of them as a group as support for a new broker while I was on my honeymoon a couple of years ago, and they told my boss about it. Suffice it to say, it's been my personal mission to put that particular broker out of business for 2 years, and I can happily report that she's currently got her name in with 2 headhunters that I know of to go back to the underwriting side of the business.
As for me, if my boss came in the office right now and told me to write a letter of resignation because we were defecting en masse to a competitor, I'd only ask him if he wanted it faxed, mailed or emailed. I'll follow that guy to the Gates of Hell if he asks.
These disaffected employees weren't very smart. Why would Pepsi want Coke's formula? They've worked very hard creating a taste and identity very different from Coke's. People tend to feel strongly about their drinks and switching can be difficult.