Loyalty to your employer will literally cost you

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Here is yet another example that the employment world is becoming ever more harder for us. The odds are you will get a lower salary if you stay with your employer more then a few years. Following your natural disposition towered loyalty and stability will cost you money.
http://news.monster.com/a/business/can- ... eer-92f66e

While we are the most effected, this is hurting everybody. We are headed towered a world where most jobs will be done by newbies already thinking about there next job(s)

This has been the trend for decades.

I thought "job hopping" was bad, but so many have been doing it for so long.

You shop for a better job, get an offer, if it's really better than where you're at, you might give your current employer a chance to match/beat it, but if not, you move on. Two years or so later...repeat.

Some people really climbed the pay scale ladder doing this...finding someone willing to pay them a lot better for doing essentially the same job they already have.

Needless to say, I'm sure their reason for "moving on" is never sold to the prospective employer as "I'm not paid enough" or "I'm not being promoted fast enough." The system benefits those good with selling themselves and spinning the reasons for their regular transitions.

And it gets even harder.

Pretty soon there will be more welfare people and more disabled people because of these ridiculousness in getting a job.

I can believe that. Even while people are young or are in college, they should be switching jobs to get a variety of experience which will ultimately lead to getting a better paying job each time. I learned this lesson while I was in high school and college where I chose to stay to work at the same supermarket for seven years. I literally got about $1.50 in raises during my entire duration there so I was making next to nothing which was my stupid fault. At the time I got too comfortable at the job because it was easy and stress free and I was afraid of change so I was there way longer than I should of been. Most employers (especially in retail) give little to no raises at all so people have no choice but to switch jobs if they want to make decent money. You honestly cannot count on raises anymore so once you get the experience for a better paying job, you'd be making more money by making the switch instead of staying at your current position that pays less with very little raise increases. The days of people collecting a pension by working at the same place for over 30 years is over. Unions are falling and unionizing was what kept people at the same companies because union contracts would dictate raise increases but today most places without unions can feel free to give as much or as little raises as they see fit.