"Nope." is cute and shows you're cocksure about that. However, the reality is that this happens all the time and is never punished by culture as "unprofessional" for a corporation to do. Who would punish them? The customers?

>Who would punish them? The customers?

Future potential employees. If I go on glassdoor and read about this happening I'm either going to

A: raise my rates as I need to keep a larger emergency fund to deal with these guys

B: decline to work there at all

They end up only ever getting entry level kids to work for them. The system sort of works in that regard if you come from a non-traditional background you can work for a year or two at a job like that, skill up and move on.

There have been many threads on HN where the debate is "Do employees have enough power to [punish companies] if they need" but none of them have really every made a coherent case one way or the other, but they seem to lean "no" Disclaim: My personal Anecdote^

If someone steals my car, and I don't have a means to punish them, is it also okay for them to steal my car? I don't really get your reasoning here.

Saying it's okay, that's up to you. Do they get away with it? YES!

> However, the reality is that this happens all the time

Murder also happens all the time and it is not okay. Something happening does not mean it is okay.

Saying it's okay, that's up to you. Do they get away with it? YES!

> It's considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day.

So where does the sentiment that it is completely okay come from?

The company's self-bias https://actualized.org/insights/aliens-confirmed