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As an expat currently in the UK - my electric tariff is about to go from .18p per kWh to .36p. Gas is doubling as well. Most homes here have awful insulation, so I’ll be looking at 230gbp a month for my little two bedroom apartment. It’s crazy out here.
Traitor? To a company? What a concept. Corps will happily throw people on the street.. I don't understand that guilt that seems interwoven in your post. I changed jobs recently and got much better pay and WLB. Not doing so would have been betraying myself.
An account called "buttocks", with corresponding smiley in description... the potential for being trollish in nature is relatively high.
Having entered adulthood in the US during the Great Recession and being laid off the second it benefited the company (despite easily turning a profit), I cannot understand your position. My grandparents had hefty pensions and their careers grew _with_ their companies. Modern management practices dictate short-term margin as a priority meaning high-salaried employees are considered risks before boons. That, coupled wi…
Even though it has been challenging at times, I have never been happier with this decision.
If you were financially independent before changing jobs, then there may be an element of greed to it. But even a financially independent person may change jobs for a vast number of reasons that don't involve accumulating wealth for the sake of it.
If you are not financially independent (i.e. you fall somewhere between a wage slave and a nearly financially independent person), there is no way you changed jobs out of greed. Inflation is high enough that ordinary people will either get a raise or become noticeably poorer in the next couple of years.
I don't blame either of them leaving though the one who is leaving again has certainly burned some bridges and lost any good will he had from the coworkers they repeatedly leave in the breach.
A lot of the comments are anti-company, and I get that though I don't they they are always deserved or relevant. In our case it's the people who didn't leave who have to deal with the extra workload while the company tries to fill positions where you can't just pluck some yahoo off the street.
In the end if you made the move because it was best for you and not out of malice then I wouldn't feel any regret.
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