Job Loyalty ?

[peterd]

I am soon looking for a new job (due to redundancy) & have been with my current employer for 9yrs. I speak to a lot of people around the country and they are amazed that I've been with the same company this long. Some people have been here 25yrs plus which astounds them even more. General idea seems to be stay nowhere longer than 5yrs. Does anyone else follow this way of thinking regarding their job?

[mkt]

i think that many people change jobs so frequently due to better pay etc. A friend of mine seems to play a couple of companies off against each other and they dont seem to care. She's very good at her job but shows no loyalty at all. Her view is that she doesnt care what colour her uniform is as long as her pay is the best. Basically she left one company for a competitor, the original offered her loads to come back, then the other company did the same and this keeps happening. Its ridiculous. She is however now one of the best paid people i know and doing a far less taxing job than many other friends! Mind you where she'll be next week i don't know!

another reason is that there aren't many employers that can offer the long term security they used to...don't think theres any such thing as a job for life anymore.

[Postdog]

If you are lucky enough to have a job you like, and you are quite happy, why not stay?

As you have found out though, other events can call the shots, and these days - as opposed to say 30 years or more ago - that happens a lot.

[undercovers]

the majority of employers have no loyalty to their staff so why should the staff show any loyalty in return ... yes it is a bit strange to stay in a job for the best part of a decade but if you are happy then maybe you should stay... though as you are being made redundant maybe you should have jumped ship before (though i don't know what redundancy payment you are getting)... good luck job hunting

[Fish the Mod]

Like footballers, there are no one man clubs anymore. I found an interesting website that may show you what one Plastics company did to its employer. This website was featured in trade mag...very sad

www.specialistneonsupplies.co.uk

[Hermia]

In my profession if you stayed in the same company for years your pay would never increase. I am 30 and almost at the top of my pay scale (which is below average wage BTW), but if I leave I could start on a higher pay scale in a different company. I love my job, but would never be able to get on the property ladder if I stayed. I have colleagues who have been in their jobs for years, but they all have spouses who are earning more than them except one who got a big inheritance from his parents.

I also find that you get taken for granted and not seen as an achiever if you stay somewhere for years. I've noticed that the managers seem to treat my long-serving colleagues as part of the furniture and they never get offered the chance to go on courses etc.

The other reason I wouldn't stay with the same company for the rest of my life is that I want different challenges to keep my brain going! I haven't seen many companies where someone could truly work there way up all the way to the top.

[len_1]

in the company i work for... i'm quite junior in terms of length of service. I've been here 10 years.

Previously i worked in offices and retail and wouldn't stay in a job more then 2 years max.