>The only thing that concerns me is the practice of immediately firing anyone applying for other jobs. Do you expect your employees to not want advancement or greater responsibilities or new training opportunties, etc? Shouldn't everyone be constantly looking to better themselves? If you left a job that you had worked for 5 years and worked long and hard at, wouldn't you expect a good recommendation when you left and not immediate firing? I ask because the company I work for does the same thing. The last individual to leave came in and gave a 4 week notice in writing and was told immediately to leave they were fired. Our company does not give out recommendations in any way for any reason for anyone. Of course I did not know this when I accepted the position! There sometimes are alot of things you don't learn until months after you've been in a job and you've committed yourself.
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If they emigrate in US or Canada I make celebration. Recommendations and negotiation with my US partners for a job are part of the leaving package.
But if he/she move to other company in BG for 5 more bucks using our name of top software development company this behaviour is not welcome.
I invest a lot of money in this programmers and it is very cheap for some other to take ready for work coder avoiding 2-3 years trainings, etc.

How you will feel, if you invest in a house. Improve it a lot, but because of relocation you have to sale it and realtors knowing this fact blackmail you with low prices. In same way I feel when someone try to steal my programmer.