• JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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    My mother thinks US workers still get pensions if they stay at a company long enough. She also thinks that staying at one employer for decades is the key to higher pay, better benefits, and promotions. This is a constant, exhaustingly repetitive conversation with her every time I get recruited and poached by a company.

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      She also thinks that staying at one employer for decades is the key to higher pay, better benefits, and promotions.

      I have read terrifyingly depressing stories of people being underpaid, evsn for highly challenging work like civil engineering, when they do this. I mean it’s more of an employer issue, but part of the benefit of ‘job hopping’ is that anp non-asshole boss will try and match your new offer in order to keep you.

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      My boss thinks that the specific job title we hold is the reason we are “at will” employees and makes a big deal of telling new hires that they can be let go for any reason with no notice because if this. This is the case for every job in every US state except Montana, unless a contract says otherwise and I tell her every time.

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        makes a big deal of telling new hires that they can be let go for any reason with no notice because if this

        Purely out of curiosity, does he still expect people to give 2 weeks notice (or any notice) when they quit?