Too many of them think they are doing us a favor by allowing us to work for them at glorious random company rather than realizing that glorious random company has no value outside of its employees.
It's amazing the reactions I get from people when I tell them the simple truth that nobody is doing you a favor by hiring you. It's a business deal, nothing more and nothing less, and if you aren't thinking of it in that way, you're going to be taken advantage of.
