The Devil Emails at Midnight, featuring Mita Mallick

I think the biggest seismic shift I'm seeing is that the thing that we're not talking about, which is loyalty is dead in the workplace.

And so this idea of the social contract, like I remember my uncle worked at AT&T for 30 years and got a gold Rolex.

Like those days are over.

This idea that I work for you, you're going to give me a pension, benefits.

I will be taken care of.

And in exchange, I give you my loyalty.

And we're watching the marketplace right now.

I'm sure someone else has just lost their job today.

Someone else is trying to figure out how to pivot.

Someone else is trying to figure out how to reenter the workforce.

And it's just really, gosh, feeling so low applying for so many jobs.

I know so many people looking.

And that's the conversation we're having is what does loyalty look like in today's marketplace? And too many leaders who just think that loyalty is granted because you're giving me a paycheck every two weeks.

It's earned.

It has to be earned continuously.

That's the biggest thing that's on my mind that I think the AT&T CEO recently brought it up.

And that was the first, you know, sort of big CEO was like, wow, good for you for calling this out, but not enough of us talking about it.

I agree, Mita.

That's the first time that I have heard, because you can imagine I ask that question a lot.

Sure, yeah.

What are the seismic shifts, man? And most people are saying AI and automation and what do we do with Gen Z and the hybrid and the workplace.

And this is the first time that I heard loyalty and that loyalty is dead.

It's so interesting also you said that because I just ran from giving a guest lecture at Loyola's Law School.

Mm-hmm.

and talking to a big class of students.