So how is it "busted"? You just admitted it was all true.
I will defend the company I work for from naysayers, work my ass off to make them more successful, promote their achievements without pause, but that doesn't mean I'll stay with them forever.
If a substantially better offer comes around that's more in line with my personal interests and values, of course I'll consider leaving my current company. Does that make me disloyal?
Now, don't get me wrong, I think the death of company loyalty is a good thing. And I can only hope all other tribal loyalties that were once pivotal for tribesmen to survive go away too, as that's increasingly creating division among ourselves than uniting us against "them".
Since not all companies are big companies, and the frequently the bosses are the corporation, there is plenty of company loyalty right there. Just not blindly to every instance of company?
Or are you also making the point that small companies aren't real companies?
The reality here is that companies aren't loyal to their employees. If a company isn't loyal to you, you can't be loyal to it. It's that simple.
How is this specific to any generation? Is the implication that there is a case where it is okay not to treat people with professional kindness and respect? I don't know who coined the phrase "people quit managers, not companies" but it has been around for quite some time.
Reality: Millenials have been lied to by virtually every authority figure for every single moment of their entire goddamn lives, and are slightly harder to bullshit than yesterday's suckers and rubes
I'm on the border of GenX and Millennial (depending on where you look), and I would definitely say I feel no corporate loyalty. I worked for a large Fortune 50 retailer during the era of their first layoff, and I felt the blade whiz by me, knowing full well I could easily have been let go. Likewise, being a tech worker, I was in a cost-center and not a income earning group, meaning I was always subject to cost cutting and belt tightening. I felt like a number (even my network logon was a random string and not my name - admittedly for security, I get that), and why would a number feel loyalty to a megacorp?
