Dear Ms. Manciagli:

Greetings!  This is Samar Misra who is a young professional with high career ambitions and always loves reading career articles on Yahoo, MSN, WSJ, etc and always feel that any well-intentioned professional at any stage must succeed with effort.  I wanted to let you know that I really like your profile and services.  I had a concern regarding something you mentioned in the career article below on switching jobs or job hopping accordingly with what was mentioned is in quotes under the link:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/job-hopping-could-be-the-new-norm-for-workers-in-many-fields/ar-BBhrT8t

"If you hate your current job or boss, it is important to stay there for at least two years," said Dana Manciagli, a Bellevue, Wash. career coach.

“Only change a job when you are completely miserable,” she said. “The first option should be to search for another position within the same company.”

The reason it concerned me is with the unfortunate patterns of the worst injustice of workplace bullying, harassment, discrimination and unfair termination as totally one-sided and clear fault of the employer at times (which I feel should be obvious to anybody to anybody these days)  and how despite the employee or victim trying to work through at one company, sadly the bullying or hostile work environment won't stop even after one week and only option for well-being is to quit bc of total misery and no progress when the bullying boss won't be taken care of, it not possible to transfer, there being no different departments or sadly there not a humane, professional boss in another department or people at the top are too unethical or corrupt to function.  Sadly, there are situations when we cannot change or control others when we can only control ourselves despite trying to make the best of.  

Also, besides above, I feel there are obvious legitimate reasons this day in age of layoffs, restructuring or mergers leading to no choice but quitting or even unfair termination when an employer terminates someone on the spot for no valid reason and no prior warning as I have noticed.  

1. I mainly wonder how or what is the reason behind you emphasizing staying at least two years at a company when any of the worst situations above happen in even less than a year or even less than few months at different companies with bad luck?  

2. What is the best thing you advise for a truly well-intentioned, ambitious employee who works hard and tries his/her best inevitably has several jobs over 5 years and some are due to a uncontrollable bullying, discriminatory or hostile boss which can't be taken care of by upper management despite addressing or at worst when this boss is a CEO or Company Owner along with few other instances where the innocent, hard-working employee got terminated on the spot with no prior warning with all seeming well, company with discovery of no integrity which can't be changed, layoff, restructure or merger leading to leaving less than 2 years or even less than 5 months?  

3. How come the victims or targets have to unfairly suffer in eyes of other employers from any of the reasons stated above when in fact the higher up perpetrators are responsible in some cases?  Surely, you wouldn't want anybody else looking at you negatively unfairly with something outside your control or when a person or group clearly is the one that has wronged and you have your good heart and dignity with being proactive.

4. Would you say the government sector has best job security compared to others where one doesn't need to worry much about job hopping, not being able to transfer via departments or regarding losing a job unexpectedly?  

It is always said that people leave managers, not companies and worst is when the managers are the CEOs or Owners of the companies.  I wonder how a typical person can always be totally autonomous and in control?  Thanks so much for your time.

Best,

Samar

