re: Honk: People are quitting their jobs at record rates. That's a good thing for the economy.

I work in IT. I quit my company in the Mississippi Delta 2 months ago because they didn't want to give me the "Guaranteed" raise in my original original job offer....after I got them through multiple Covid lockdowns/quarantines, vastly improved their IT environment, and made them compliant with the NIST compliance required for their federal contracts. They profited millions of dollars off of those contracts....that they wouldn't have been eligible for without my hard work.

I started looking for a new job after my review and it took me 2 weeks to find a new job in Memphis. I'm now working at home and making over 6 digits while my old company in Mississippi is scrambling to get CMMC compliant for the DoD.

Quitting my job worked out for me. I couldn't let greedy Mississippi Delta blue bloods take advantage of me anymore. They refused the raise not because they didn't have the money....it was more about them trying to keep me "In my place". My former boss had that MS delta slave mentality and I was just a peon to them. Now they aren't able to get awarded new contracts because they aren't CMMC compliant and they live in an "IT desert" where there are zero IT professionals. They still haven't found a replacement.

Also I started a domino effect. I was the first to have the balls to stand up to them. Now the entire HR dept and half the accting dept has quit