Re:Keep your job for five years, get $50,000
by libria on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @11:38PM
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Employee-company relationships are strictly business: service for compensation (usually $). Loyalty here is artificial because at any point the contract is breached (service declines, compensation is inadequate) the relationship is terminated. A business cannot choose to remain loyal to an employee if it means bankruptcy.
Relationships between people rely on more flexible rules: networking, camaraderie, common ground. A psychologist would say that these are a trade of "services" of a sort, but since nothing is inked, loyalty plays a stronger role. Unlike a business, it is not unheard of that a person sacrifice their welfare/life for their spouse/offspring.
It is misguided to expect the type of loyalty in the latter in the context of the former.
But then why is that loyalty misguided?
How does it particularly different from loyalty to people (which you seem to think isn't misguided)?