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Many members on this board seem to have the "Old Sckool" approach to work.  Stay with a company, build up your experience then negotiate.

Those days are gone.

Companies nowday change so rapidly, contracts are won or loss, business change hands, workers are sacked, then re-hired etc

I come from a generation of job hoppers, we move on from company to company.  My brother and sister are the same and many of their friends do exactly that too.

I  don't think I have ever given a toss about any of the companies I have worked for, I go to work earn my wage end of story. 

Here is an example.  About 3 years ago, 24 employees, myself included were hired with this company to do contract work for a certain private hospital.  Went along to the induction day, got the uniform and were hired.  The next day got a phone call saying that all 24 workers were sacked.  Another company had under-cut the contract and been awarded it.  What about us?  Sounds like the company couldn't give a stuff.

This is the kinda scenario that face generations of workers nowdays.  There was no way of negotiating anything, no matter how much experience you had, wouldn't make any difference.  The negotiations had been completed by management and all the workers suffered.