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I don't have a personal beef with "at will" employment. Someone hires you to perform a service at their expense - be it company or individual - based on your merits,experience, qualifications and maybe personality fit. Every company where I have worked, east and west coast, had a trial period of some sort where one is excluded from company benefits. It doesn't really benefit a company to fire you without cause after they invest time and money into you, nor does it benefit an individual to quit and walk out in anger someday over something small. I am fortunate to work for a company that has mostly terminated with advance notice, or at least let them go that day with 2 weeks severance out of care and politeness.
I know someone who lost her job to a woman with whom the boss was having an affair. So "at will" isn't perfect. I do worry about employees fired during times of illness, which happens. But I rather like that I am free to leave today if I wanted or needed to, and feel my employer has the right to let me go if I'm no longer wanted or needed, whatever the reason.
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