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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It's a shame that Virgin Media don't command at least a little respect from you for feeding you and keeping a roof over your head for years.
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My, such sanctimony.
Virgin Media has, of course, done no such thing. It has entered into a simple contract in which it has paid an agreed hourly or annual rate in exchange for Peter's labour. That contract is governed and restricted by various pieces of employment law. Most of what passes for "caring" on VM's part (or any other large employer, particularly publicly traded ones) is a consequence of legal obligation. A PLC's duty is to its shareholders, not its staff, and laws which force them to "care" for their staff are there precisely because in the absence of such laws, many, if not most, of them do not.