Bottom line is this is just business. There is no company loyalty. There are no true friends at any company--everyone is always competing with each other to just have a job or get ahead. There is no such thing as long-term commitments, long-term employment, etc.
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Somebody mounted quite an effort to bury this and other posts.
Very well stated, sad but true.
There was a time when people hired into a company and stayed there until they retired, barring any sort of behavior that might bring dismissal, or some other inability to perform the work. There still are companies like that, but they are becoming more rare every day, as the locusts in suits, with their MBAs and network of associates descend upon companies one by one, and run them into the ground with their greed.
It's not "just business" - not when it involves cutting corners, cutting quality, and undermining your own customers by providing substandard service with understaffed or improperly staffed services and goods. It's not "Just Business" when the only way a CEO can think to deal with declining revenues is cut costs (except, conveniently enough, the cost of themselves and the other overpaid executives in the company) instead of transforming business to meet the new realities that technology and social changes bring.
"Just business" is the justification of a sociopath.