Boeing

Ability to move around without relocation (getting harder every year).

Decent pay/benefits (but constantly eroding).

I've been at Boeing nearly 25 years and have held a variety of positions, all in the Seattle area. They paid for two of my degrees, and my performance reviews and salary growth have been good.

But this is no longer the same Boeing I hired into. After earning my MS degree, I was served a layoff notice six months later, while at the same time being told I exceeded expectations on my performance review. There were new hires in my group that were not being laid off, even though they had no experience.

I managed to find another job within Boeing, but now, a year later, I'm told that I'm at risk of layoff again (along with 1,000 others). The company is moving work out of the Seattle area by the truckload.

They're also protecting all new hires from layoff and instead going after the senior and experienced (more expensive) employees, regardless of their performance. New hires no longer get a defined pension, which explains a lot. And I can guarantee they will not progress up in levels and salary like the rest of us did.

The company is essentially resetting the pay and benefits for new hires and letting go of experienced employees, all in an effort to cut costs (yet the execs still rake in double-digit salary growth percentages year after year).

This is a huge company that plays nasty games with its employees. There is no job security, and growth has been stunted. If you want to be treated as a valued employee and have some job security, look elsewhere.

Good luck keeping this company afloat after you've let go of all the talent and experience. You learned nothing with what you did on the disastrous 787 program. Of course, most of you will be retired with your huge multimillion dollar severance packages by then, so who cares, right? Keep up the raping and pillaging.