Your current company has shown their stripes. They are in an outsourcing mood, driven by greed. I have never seen an outsourcing drive that resulted in happier customers. Usually quite the opposite. If loyalty was any factor in their planning, they wouldn't have been outsourcing. That, combined with your almost-left, means you can probably count on somewhat less than zero there. Almost all companies basically have zero loyalty baked into them, it's virtually guaranteed by the accountant-in-charge mentality that rules these days. Family companies could value loyalty. I work for one, they do, and it's excellent. But, one shake-up in the family and that could change. It was almost sold last year, and overnight would have been part of a corporate umbrella, but owner found he just couldn't do it. So, reprieved.
My last company they talked about loyalty and how valuable our small office was. (Since we'd invented a major part of their product portfolio.) But, there were continuing small signs that made us nervous. Yes, we were 'valuable'... up until the day they announced they were closing our office entirely, buh-bye. We were, arguably, their best people. We were, arguably, their least-expensive domestic resources, due to location in flyover territory. We were, not arguably, their office with the lowest turnover, and thus the greatest knowledge retention. But none of that mattered once corporate politics and musical chairs got started. They split up our stuff between India, who couldn't retain anybody long enough to even complete the training, and a bunch of silicon valley newbies whose questions in meetings beforehand made me wonder about their basic competency. (Bunch of 'did you try turning it off and then back on again' script kiddies trying to take over network backbone gear with five-nines SLAs on redundant hardware? It is to laugh.) I and a few others were offered work-from-home deals. I also had a lateral move on the table, working for the theme park doing _very_ different things. Also work-from-home. Hmm, same pay same conditions. One for the same clueless lying assholes, and one for a local family-owned company with an excellent reputation. Wasn't even a contest, I didn't even look at the secondary benefits, and never looked back. So, which people do you trust more? Money is only one of the factors in having a good life. If I were offered 2x my current salary, but would have to travel 3 weeks out of the month, I would not take it. Wouldn't even consider it. Just sayin'. I know what's important to me. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
