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The labor shortage - Great Resignation - do you know people who have quit?
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:13 am
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:13 am
No one in my circle of friends or at my employer (125 people in 10 states) have resigned their employment.
Is it all just hospitality, restaurant, and lower paying jobs? It's obvious when you go out to a restaurant and they tell you it's a 45 min wait, but there are multiple tables open, that they have staffing issues.
Don't people have monthly bills for basic necessities? What are they doing for money? Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
Is it all just hospitality, restaurant, and lower paying jobs? It's obvious when you go out to a restaurant and they tell you it's a 45 min wait, but there are multiple tables open, that they have staffing issues.
Don't people have monthly bills for basic necessities? What are they doing for money? Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
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Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:16 am to Count deMonet
Quit? Not necessarily.
Forced out due to a combination of return to office, vaccine mandate, mask mandate, and test mandate? Yes, quite a few.
The fiction that people are quitting en masse to sit home and collect a government check is...well, fiction.
Forced out due to a combination of return to office, vaccine mandate, mask mandate, and test mandate? Yes, quite a few.
The fiction that people are quitting en masse to sit home and collect a government check is...well, fiction.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:18 am to Count deMonet
I'll be quitting* at some point this week, as soon as my next job is official and not just a verbal offer.
*Putting in a notice.
*Putting in a notice.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:18 am to Count deMonet
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Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
It certainly was enough for the bottom feeders for a lot of last year. Add in early payments of child tax credits, normal public "assistance", rent/mortgage payments being allowed to stop, etc.
It still blows my mind though how many people in this country can get by sitting on their asses now though.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:19 am to Count deMonet
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Is it all just hospitality, restaurant, and lower paying jobs?
Pretty much, yes.
That and credentialed jobs (nurse, CDL, STEM teacher) that are always in short supply.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:19 am to Count deMonet
i quit in early 2020 after getting a <2% raise. i had another job lined up though.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:20 am to Count deMonet
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Don't people have monthly bills for basic necessities? What are they doing for money? Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
No, they aren't nearly enough. And as much as this board wants you to believe that the majority of people who have quit have done so because they can collect unemployment, it's simply untrue.
Nobody on this board will be able to tell you for sure, and that is if this entire "great resignation" narrative isn't some push by certain interests.
I'm about ready to check out of this world. Not suicide, but just go away from all of this. The metaverse is coming, and I want no part of that shite anywhere near my home. Perhaps I'm the new iteration of what people said about the internet, but I'm about done with this as well honestly.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:21 am to Count deMonet
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do you know people who have quit?
I did but I work in tech. The salaries are skyrocketing because there aren't enough people. I was comfortable (work and pay) in my last job but I was offered a pay raise that essentially gives me bay area tech pay but I still live in the Denver area. I know a lot of people doing the same thing so it's not just hospitality, they just might be a big percentage of it.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:21 am to Count deMonet
Joe and his hoes.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:21 am to Count deMonet
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Don't people have monthly bills for basic necessities? What are they doing for money? Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
Go fund me and odd jobs.
Sex work, onyfans, fansly cam girl etc...
Buy drugs with stimulus money and resell it. Buy playstations with stimulus money and resell it. Do this over and over and over again making a profit.
shite you can even buy a brand new car rt now and resell it higher than what you paid for because of the market and empty delearships.
This post was edited on 1/12/22 at 10:23 am
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:22 am to Count deMonet
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Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
my niece's husband told me point blank
" i'll just sit on the couch and collect the checks even though i could make triple by going to work"
"i aint even ashamed to admit it"
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:23 am to Count deMonet
I’m in a line of work that’s considered to be a “frontline worker “.. I’ve seen people leave for other jobs due to two things.
1. Our employer thinks things should look as if we are not in the middle of a pandemic. Upper management has no idea of what’s really going on!
2. Customers/ people as a whole are turning into assholes. People have lost the concept of situational awareness, and being told no is not in their vocabulary!
I’ve got 25 years with this current company, great benefits, 401k and I’m currently looking elsewhere for a job!
1. Our employer thinks things should look as if we are not in the middle of a pandemic. Upper management has no idea of what’s really going on!
2. Customers/ people as a whole are turning into assholes. People have lost the concept of situational awareness, and being told no is not in their vocabulary!
I’ve got 25 years with this current company, great benefits, 401k and I’m currently looking elsewhere for a job!
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:28 am to notiger1997
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It certainly was enough for the bottom feeders for a lot of last year. Add in early payments of child tax credits, normal public "assistance", rent/mortgage payments being allowed to stop, etc.
There was already rampant abuse of public assistance, and Covid has made it worse. Just observe people using food stamps. If a woman has a full set of manicured nails, you're watching your tax dollars in action.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:29 am to Count deMonet
My inbox is a steady flow of recruiters looking to fill lateral positions for much higher pay and fully remote. I have a large number of colleagues who have taken similar offers. About half of my close friend group have changed jobs in the last 12 months. Not to sit at home but for what they considered a step up.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:29 am to Count deMonet
They should call it the new Great Migration. It isn't just that people are quitting. People are completely re-prioritizing their lives.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:29 am to Count deMonet
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Don't people have monthly bills for basic necessities? What are they doing for money? Certainly stimulus payments aren't enough to sustain any kind of life above the poverty level.
Obviously stimulus payments are keeping them afloat.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:29 am to notiger1997
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It still blows my mind though how many people in this country can get by sitting on their asses now though.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
? Alexis de Tocqueville
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:30 am to Count deMonet
teachers around here are dropping like flies. husbands telling them it aint worth it.
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:30 am to tigerbutt
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Obviously stimulus payments are keeping them afloat.
How?
Posted on 1/12/22 at 10:31 am to Count deMonet
Known a couple that decided their happiness was worth more than what they were getting paid. Shifted to jobs they liked better or just settled to downscale their lives for more time at home.
Trying to move to work from home myself after seeing the extreme quality of life improvement.
Trying to move to work from home myself after seeing the extreme quality of life improvement.
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