In one generation it's really changed from being a place where workers were valued and trained or developed. Now we are all ( and even many specialized jobs ),in a society where you are an undervalued disposable cog in the big wheel. Employers no longer care if you vanish. I've seen so many examples where they hire in someone new to replace the guru who quit that was utterly done with management and policy. The new person tries but has sparse training and unless they are a go getter they spew errors into the system rampantly. This is ignored by management while on time delivery slips past the goal posts. There's no documentation - this step gets skipped. I'm currently in a fortune 500 company and mostly just bitching about my gripes but how we run a business using the "everyone is disposable" mentality is costing companies billions. Senior management does not care.