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  “There is no loyalty in business, Ashley.
  You’re a single mom. You have a family and you owe it to them to see this Microsoft interview through.”

A truth that is not repeated nearly often enough by employees.

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A company has no loyalty, but people you work with do.

And that's often one of the biggest considerations you should make when switching jobs. Your current coworkers will be by far your best job connections in he future, so do them well by leaving gracefully.

Fully agree, that has been my motto since I went through a few companies that decided to fire people at random.

The loyat is to the fellow team mates, those are the friends that may even work with us across several companies.

Now the company itself, it is good if we can say that we feel proud to work at company X, but that is about it.

Indeed. Don't love your job because it isn't going to love you back.

I don't like this comment because individuals can "love working with you" and make sure that there is always a necessary flow of capital(if possible).

Feel free to not care for my comment. It comes from 15 years of work experience. I find that it holds true. Your mileage may vary. A job is a transaction; no more, no less. Treat it as such.

Or self-fulfilling prophecy ? Sarcasm apart, mileage really does vary a lot and it depends on personality, colleagues, the industry, the company or the clients and other factors I can't think of. But these have to be considered nonetheless to sail the seas of work.

I like your phrasing: "it's not going to love you back".

I have loved working with certain people, that didn't protect them from being laid off by higher ups.

What you're both saying isn't mutually exclusive. Your job isn't going to love you back - if a bunch of people get laid off and you're in that bunch, tough luck.

But on the other hand, yes, you should do your best to be the kind of person your colleagues are excited to interact with.

Or just comfortable to interact with.

I have never worked at a place that acted like it didn't care about me as an individual. Of course, I've always worked at smaller orgs too. I've never worked somewhere over 200 people or so.

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