In The Apprentice, Donald Trump always praises the contestants for their loyalty, even to their friends/partners who didn’t perform.
To the Japanese, you work for 1 company for your whole life. Yet this is changing as young generation want to experiment and get better quality out of life.
1 thing that employers always ask in an interview is, “How long do you plan to stay here?”
Loyalty is certainly a virtue. As long as you are sided with the right group or cause. Imagine working for a company for 40 years. If that company treats you real good, that’s great. If not, why are you staying there? Just for blind loyalty?
Some managers deliberately control their staffs so that they couldn’t go for better job functions even within own company. If a company retains bad employees, the company will go down.
It’s like abused women sticking with their men through beatings and slaps. Some of them even defended their abusive husbands, “He has a lot of stress and responsibilities”, “Men are like that”. Soon, they will deny it, “No, I fell down”, “He didn’t hurt me, he treats me real good”.
What good is loyalty from a staff who does not perform well? Do companies like to keep terrible staffs just to have a low turnover?
Some of us fear change, the unknown. If we leave X, we have to start all over again at Y.
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