Loyalty to a company. Do you have any?

Brie

It's the customers and the colleagues who make the loyalty happen, not the company itself.  Business is just all hot air adding up to nothing.  when you reach the point when the customers and colleagues don't make you happy it's time to move along.

robatwork

Brie said:

Business is just all hot air adding up to nothing.  

Damn now I know why Rob's Balloon Trips never got off the ground.

amandacat

I recently left a company that I worked at for nearly a decade and was one of the longest serving members of staff. The last 5 years of me working there got gradually worse with an appalling management culture. 

I constantly worked above and beyond and it was my sense of loyalty that kept me there despite the way staff were treated. 

I finally bit the bullet and left this year. 

I worked very closely with the directors and owners and was instrumental in securing some massive contracts for them. I working from home during covid and when I left I didn’t receive a single thank you call, email or even a good luck message. I just finished my work that day as normal and ended a 10 year stint. 

The moral of the story is never show loyalty to an employer, think about yourself because if they needed to, they’d get rid of any employee in a heartbeat. 

prowla

Brie said:

It's the customers and the colleagues who make the loyalty happen, not the company itself.  Business is just all hot air adding up to nothing.  when you reach the point when the customers and colleagues don't make you happy it's time to move along.

The people who work there are the company; the management and decision-makers are people; if they behave unfairly, are disloyal, or disrespectful, then they've broken the bond and there is no loyalty owed back.

YBR

Many in my industry will openly admit they are more loyal to the railway than to the individual company they are now working for. As for the company - as loyal as they are to us, apart from those fortunate enough to have Final Salary Pension Schemes!

Partly that follows the breaking up of BR, and the fact that many of the older staff have worked for BR and multiple successors since they were 15/16 and were put through college under BR schemes. Partly it reflects the multiple successors - I've not been in the industry long and have TUPE'd between 4 companies. Partly we know that the ultimate customer is passengers, and not the immediate client. And then of course it's a small industry and many have friends in the other major companies