There is a lot of truth about what tradosaurus said about a sense of "family" in business companies back in those bygone days. Most people could and would work in the same company till they retired. Something happened to morality, and human values evaporated with the hippie generation. Things went progressively downwards since then. It's dog eat dog now.
Different generation, different times. Those seen as job hoppers were frowned upon at hiring time.
I was not putting the blame on the hippies themselves. It was the onset of the deterioration of American traditional values.
Which times are those? Philip Bailey called it photogenic memory. Looking back on the past as if it were better than it actually was.
Exactly. If you think businesses and people had more values and were more moral "back in the day", or that crime wasn't as bad, or a lot of things, history would disagree with you. We used to enslave other humans for profit and call it righteous, we'd straight up murder fellow Americans who dared to protest deadly working conditions, we would invade other countries and install homicidal dictators just because we didn't like who they freely elected as their leader, or because it meant cheaper stuff for us back home. That's just recent history too, the further back you go the more heinous, vicious, and horrifying it gets.
"They" probably didn't feel the same way. It's a fallacy. Companies do not have feelings. The people who work there do.
Maybe you do but he probably just misses a good job he had which he had trouble duplicating in the new job hunting world he was thrust into with the breakup of the old company. He may have lost some bennies, suffered a job change, reduction in pay, management may have changed and the new manager was no longer as appreciative of his effort, etc, etc.
Not all get two weeks paid vacay.
What is your point? If you don't get paid vacation, you work 52 weeks. You also look for a different job. Others get 4-6 weeks paid vacations. Lots of jobs don't pay by the hour either. People frequently confuse self employment with lack of benefits. In a free society, workers with unsatisfactory benefits have choices. Paid vacation is not a legal requirement, but most companies provide it. Why? The company either recognizes that people burn out or they just want to be competitive as an employer. Either way, most people who work full-time as an employee get paid time off.
