The theme of this advice is good and I agree if you don’t trust someone generally you shouldn’t be together! However, there’s a lot of grey area here and this may be based around 1 specific incident. Also in reality it can often be a lot easier for someone to face reality and up and leave when they have evidence and really see the truth.

You can literally do both. What’s good for the goose is often good for the gander. Pushing to get better working practices, incentives and benefits also benefits you as someone in HR as well as helping your company improve retention.

Literally I’m not sure what people are thinking…

You are definitely American

It will always vary. I guess to qualify I work in tech which I know is its own bubble really on how ahead of the curve it is in its practices and focus on employee engagement and retention.

I’m in the UK and can second that usually our HR is awesome and fighting for the employees.

This is basically all based on America with its dogshit employee protections and practises. In other countries your mileage will vary.

Also "Rope it" fuck off.