It does mean something to them, but not in a way that will stop you from getting laid off; what it means is that after laying you off, they'll quickly come to regret it and scramble to try to fill the knowledge gap they now have. I know a few people who were called up by the company basically begging them to help. A couple of people I know were able to leverage this to get a short term position contracting (at exorbitantly higher rates than their salary way), and a few others instead just cackled in schadenfreude.

[–] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 20 points 4 days ago

Haha, that's the former head of my department. They asked for a good raise (after building the infrastructure from ground up), the company said nah, so they left for a better position and much more money than what the current dept. head is making. The company now pays for their consulting, and the management still hasn't learned their lesson, because they're still stingy with the raises.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

You must tackle that with being underpaid!