Stickandrudderman wrote:
Some of us still value loyalty.
Loyalty doesn’t pay bills.
With very, very few exceptions an employer will let an employee go without a second thought if it’s in their interest to do so.
If loyalty were to mean anything I would expect it to cut both ways. I am under no illusions that my employer of some ten years (a large multinational) holds any loyalty to me and accordingly I hold no loyalty to it. The arrangement is a mercenary one, and for me to pretend otherwise would be foolish and naiive.
Stickandrudderman wrote:
Some of us still value loyalty.
Get a dog 
Graham wrote:
aerofurb wrote:
I felt (and still feel) very guilty about leaving but sometimes in life you are left with little choice.
You should not feel at all guilty. We all have to make a living and should have no qualms about taking the offer that best suits us. After all, no employer would hesitate for a moment to hire the staff that best suited them.
Some of us still value loyalty.
(not a dig at Aerofurb, I know exactly where he’s coming from).
aerofurb wrote:
I felt (and still feel) very guilty about leaving but sometimes in life you are left with little choice.
You should not feel at all guilty. We all have to make a living and should have no qualms about taking the offer that best suits us. After all, no employer would hesitate for a moment to hire the staff that best suited them.
there was a merger between two companies as one owed the other a substantial amount of money.
I like the word “merger” 
Suffice to say, there was a merger between two companies as one owed the other a substantial amount of money. That merger included a management change and eventually it became apparent that things were not going a good way and I was offered a job elsewhere. It’s a great shame as up until then we enjoyed work and had a great set of third party customers and fantastic staff.
I felt (and still feel) very guilty about leaving but sometimes in life you are left with little choice. The only good news is that as of recently, I understand the ‘company’ engineering (as opposed to an excellent independent maintenance organisation) is now under a new chief engineer (promoted from deputy) and he should be able to make it work. Unfortunately the latest ‘management team’ (above the engineering hangar) might not heading in the right direction to make any of it work.
aerofurb wrote:
I left end of April 2013…
Without wanting to put too fine a point on it, the issues stemmed from personnel problems/changes.
What turned me against the management was the way that these internal company problems were made my problem as a customer.
We have no idea who you are, aerofurb, so this is a mystery to the rest of us
I left end of April 2013…
