Loyalty is the Worst Policy

Most companies request for loyalty from their employees. That makes sense. High turnover rates should be the bane of companies where knowledge and information are important...and practically all engineering, technical related companies where R&D or product development are involved need to keep employees as long as possible to minimise loss of knowledge during transfer.

HR and commonsense tells you that long serving employees should be treated just as well or better than newer fresher employees right? Haha! In the O3 environment, only bad treatment is the same to everyone regardless of number of years of service.

Usually when staff resign here, you'll end up working harder and longer hours during your notice period. Most of the time, when the biggest boss is unable to find a replacement in time, he will ask you to stay longer out of the goodness of your heart. Leaving will remain uneventful, hopefully. On the other hand, should the biggest boss have a bad day (which is about 90% of the time) he will then ask you to leave immediately if you want to, and trust me under those unpleasant circumstances most just say yes. To futher exacerbate the resignee's embarrasement, he will call 2 of your fellow collegues to follow him to his cubicle to watch him pack up and ensure that he does not steal anything, then escort him out the building.

This latter scenario I have personally witnessed at least 5 times in the past year. So there you have it. It happens. And because of that, some of the long serving staff leave by going AWOL or simply destroy their work just before leaving out of spite. The O3 environment cultivates a den of wolves...either bite back or get bitten.