A University with tenured professors is the closest real-life example I can think of. It would seem to me that if nobody was ever fired, just allowed to leave when they were ready that there would be such high barriers to entry into any company that on the whole we would be worse off. I do think we could do without all the corporate rah rah crap that companies put down their employees throats. As you say, it make the sting of firings that much worse when they are so obviously two-faced.