Loyalty is a two-way street or it's not loyalty, it's an abusive relationship.
It is not rational to treat a company like a human no matter what their policies and behaviors are, even when they are great, but especially when they don't treat you like a human.
Remember that basic thing any time anyone tries to make any other kind of argument.
If the company doesn't treat you the same way you would treat say your sister or a friend etc, complete with lending you emergency money and driving you to the airport and helping paint your deck... then they are not your friend.
Which is fine. The purpose of a company is not necessarily to be anyone's friend. A company is an artificial construct, a tool to perform a job just like a lawnmower. You don't feel guilty about replacing a lawnmower no matter how well it's served you.
People inhabit a company, but the company itself is not a person, it's a legal document and a structure of organization.
It has certain properties that make it somewhat of an entity, but so does a yeast cell.
It's not a person and it is wrong to allow it to convince you into granting it personhood considerations, especially when it does not grant them to you, ut really no matter what, even if it's been great to you.
All that means is that if they are fair and professional with you, then it's right to be fair and professional with them. You do honest work and don't seek to harm them for no reason etc.
But at it's best it's still only ever a purely business relationship. They don't owe you anything but the terms of the contract, which remember btw, they wrote, not you, and so you only owe them exactly that same thing. Not just legally but morally and ethically too.
You shopping for a better deal is not merely a technicality or legal loophole that lets you get away with behaving badly, it's simply not behaving badly in the first place.
It's not a mark against your integrity to insist on this basic respect and dignity. If anything it's a mark towards it because everyone who insists on being treated like a human are the ones helping to raise the standard that makes everyone else's lives less miserable. Too many people are too easily abused and exploited, and so the few that stand up for themselves are actually critical for us all.
It is not rational to treat a company like a human no matter what their policies and behaviors are, even when they are great, but especially when they don't treat you like a human.
Remember that basic thing any time anyone tries to make any other kind of argument.
If the company doesn't treat you the same way you would treat say your sister or a friend etc, complete with lending you emergency money and driving you to the airport and helping paint your deck... then they are not your friend.
Which is fine. The purpose of a company is not necessarily to be anyone's friend. A company is an artificial construct, a tool to perform a job just like a lawnmower. You don't feel guilty about replacing a lawnmower no matter how well it's served you.
People inhabit a company, but the company itself is not a person, it's a legal document and a structure of organization.
It has certain properties that make it somewhat of an entity, but so does a yeast cell.
It's not a person and it is wrong to allow it to convince you into granting it personhood considerations, especially when it does not grant them to you, ut really no matter what, even if it's been great to you.
All that means is that if they are fair and professional with you, then it's right to be fair and professional with them. You do honest work and don't seek to harm them for no reason etc.
But at it's best it's still only ever a purely business relationship. They don't owe you anything but the terms of the contract, which remember btw, they wrote, not you, and so you only owe them exactly that same thing. Not just legally but morally and ethically too.
You shopping for a better deal is not merely a technicality or legal loophole that lets you get away with behaving badly, it's simply not behaving badly in the first place.
It's not a mark against your integrity to insist on this basic respect and dignity. If anything it's a mark towards it because everyone who insists on being treated like a human are the ones helping to raise the standard that makes everyone else's lives less miserable. Too many people are too easily abused and exploited, and so the few that stand up for themselves are actually critical for us all.