Originally Posted by eggchen:
“Well it kind of does if you appreciate that Love Productions had been in negotiation with the BBC over a new deal for a year, so the BBC would have known the figure being touted, and that they were likely to lose the show because they weren't going to stump up. It isn't a betrayal in any sense of the word, it was simply a commercial decision to go elsewhere. I didn't "betray" my last long term employer when I took a new job at the end of my last contract, that's life.”
“Well it kind of does if you appreciate that Love Productions had been in negotiation with the BBC over a new deal for a year, so the BBC would have known the figure being touted, and that they were likely to lose the show because they weren't going to stump up. It isn't a betrayal in any sense of the word, it was simply a commercial decision to go elsewhere. I didn't "betray" my last long term employer when I took a new job at the end of my last contract, that's life.”
If your employer was the only person to offer you a job when everyone else turned you down - then he cared for you, nurtured you, trained you and helped to make you a great success, then yes, he might feel betrayed if you then demanded a 400% pay rise or else you'll go and work for his rival.



