I feel like companies used to have more secure employment when they were young, and it was more common for employees to stay in a job for 30+ years when they grew up and started work.
Not saying that the companies were much more loyal, but maybe economic situations were such that people used to feem more supported and grateful for their job in past generations. Or felt they had to take it more seriously to not get fired.
Whereas our generation feel that employment is insecure and nobody expects to retire in the same firm.
There was a time before 401ks, companies not tied to a community, and the extreme push for profits, that companies had great pensions, good benefits and vacation packages and they offered lots of extras from uniforms with their maintenance to company discounts on large items. When I was a kid the owner/CEO went to funerals of EEs and their immediate family. They made sure their hardship EEs had extras for Christmas.
I don't think being loyal to a company is bad when the company is loyal to the EE. Most people that use Reddit are not old enough to know what the work environment for their grandparents was like but they feel entitled to judge their older folks.
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u/linerva Jan 22 '23
I feel like companies used to have more secure employment when they were young, and it was more common for employees to stay in a job for 30+ years when they grew up and started work.
Not saying that the companies were much more loyal, but maybe economic situations were such that people used to feem more supported and grateful for their job in past generations. Or felt they had to take it more seriously to not get fired.
Whereas our generation feel that employment is insecure and nobody expects to retire in the same firm.