There's a great line from Jack Welch to the effect of "You work for a week, collect your paycheck on Friday, and then you and the company are even." Corporate America has embraced it with a vengeance.
I'm too young to remember an America where "company loyalty" wasn't a punch line.
Generous Electric, Generous Motors, and several other companies that performed the same type of goods and services... How are they all doing now?? Anybody calling them Generous?? It wasn't a snide sarcastic remark when it was first used in regards to GE or GM. It truly meant what it means and was a badge of honor that everyone at GE proudly wore from the top CEO all the way down to the broom pusher. Now it is a joke, a punchline, an insult when it is used in regards to GE. Maybe they we're too generous back then for all those years. Either way, things can't and they won't ever happen like that again. There is too much entitlement and being generous is a foreign concept. Generosity and loyalty go hand in hand, generosity and entitlement go together like ware and oil.
"Generous Eclectic" has long since said good bye to any loyalty to the ones that put in the blood, sweat & tears that built what used to be a great corporation in which to be employed.
Here's a new mantra to pass along to the smart ones before it's too late to recoup any loses from this sinking ship,,,& take it from experience.
Get Out While The Gettins' Good !
Company loyalty exists with new companies, not with ones that have been around for what seems like 'forever" as GE has. By that time there is a pattern of "Give and Take" that is historically documented. Nobody working for GE today believes it can ever go "broke" so why is it taking things away from us? It must be stealing from us so they can keep more for themselves. That's the common thought process. The old company loyalty thinking came from the people who experienced the Great Depression and knew what it was really like to be in thought times. Not this made up struggle we've made ourselves believe is the toughest it's ever been and burden ourselves with today. If you want the brand loyalty experience, you're in the wrong business. Go work for Google, Apple, Tesla, Facebook, or any of those still expanding technology companies.