Yes, company loyalty should be a two way street, however, that seems to have gone out the window long ago. Revenge is a dish best served cold: I knew of a corporate financial manager who was let go just before he turned 60 at which point he would have qualified for the company pension. It was a closely held company, two principals of which he was neither. But he knew where the bodies were buried. He turned them in for the tax reward on about 10 million of diverted revenues. He got his share they got a cell plus a huge tax penalty.