Originally Posted by SaltyDog

I think that this goes beyond military vs. corporate mentality. I'm certainly not advocating blind loyalty to any person or organization. However, I'm just advocating "doing the right thing." Companies can and do sacrifice their employees for short-term profits, and there are selfish/self-centered people out there who do not care about anyone else except themselves. This is all fine and dandy in the short-term, but in the long-term it WILL come back to bite you. For example, APC has numerous threads about the merits of working for a good company like "ABC" because they treat their people well and the pitfalls of working for "bottom-feeder" airlines like "XYZ" because they do the opposite. By the same token, if you're one of these "me-first, hell with the rest of the world" types, then people will eventually pick up on that and they won't go out of their way to help you, and doors of opportunity will be closed to you. As far as this incident with SKW is concerned, I don't think that any one individual or faction should be blamed. Rather, the summation of all of the previously mentioned sins equals an organizational mentality that raises a big red flag in my mind.