I get what you are saying. I have found the opposite though, but not on new hires. On new hirers the employee is looking at money, and reputation. I have see

I get what you are saying. I have found the opposite though, but not on new hires. On new hirers the employee is looking at money, and reputation. I have seen guys stay in mediocre companies for years because they like the owners, and the managers. A place can have a lot of perks, but if the employee doesn't feel like they are family/team; you will have an employee that does the bare minimum, or tries to sabotage at worse. Those middle managers whom are terrible with people are poison to the company. I used to work for a restaurant consultant firm. I basically got the job because I spent way to much time hiding out in school, and was a cook in high school. Our job was to go in as customers and find out why the business was mediocre. We also looked at the accounting. (This was before cameras were everywhere.) I did feel like a weasel, but told my boss employee theft is not part of my job. I will not go to court, or even turn in tap tillers (guys basically stealing). The restaurant industry is rife with theft. My boss's attitude was basically try to turn over help every six months. It's cruel, but effective. I noticed a trend. On pretty much every fledgling site I went to, there was one, or two, people who made the staff angry. The employees seemed to take it out on the restaurant. They were all middle manager types. I once went into this bar in SF that used to be profitable. I went there a few times. There was this one bartender/manager who was nice initially, but had a very bad side to her. She literally alienated 90% of the staff. Even customers did not want to deal with her. She was a friend of the owner. She was the queen of Mixology (Her title), and mean. She had something nasty to say all the time, but was cagey. When someone was watching her, she was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. I told my boss the problem, but the owner never fired her. I left the job after a few months. Most of the restrants failed because they were in the wrong location, or food wasen't right, but there were places that went down to one, or two, toxic people.