People are starting to realize their true worth. A friend of mine works in the restaurant industry and the staff met with the owners recently demanding a fair wage - not this $2.13/hour plus tips nonsense - and health benefits. The owners said no, so the entire staff walked out. That restaurant is now shut down and who knows when or even if it will ever reopen. The labor market will likely remain favorable to workers for the next few years at least. Businesses which don’t do right by their employees will not survive.
Yup. But businesses have been spoiled. And now they’re cutting off their noses to spite their face. 2 employers just this week alone, can’t find workers but they STILL think they can screw with you. They need to reinstate UI and start publishing how many applicants they reject, and their turnover rate.
@ Very true. The low wage, no benefit sweatshops most loudly griping about a supposed “labour shortage” - which is laughable; there’s no “labour shortage,” there’s a wage shortage, a benefit shortage and a reliable work schedule shortage - are also notorious for horrible workplace environments, pencil-dick management that treats staff like children, wage theft and other unethical and/or illegal practices, rampant sexual harassment and casual racism, and on and on. If every one of these scofflaw businesses is forced to close down permanently, it will be no great loss.
I left my job about 2 weeks before this podcast came out. And I just boomeranged back to my old employer... agreed on fewer hours and a bump in pay. We'll see how it goes!
20 years with company, I been loyal, seen it all, heard it all stayed loyal. I ask for flexibility so I can help my daughter picking up grandson Nope denied!!! So using my vacation time everyday I leave an hour early! My daughter always come first!!!
@@Mockduck2020 Yea because as traffic volume increases, so does damage to the road. construction companies are also cutting corners so that doesn't help. Basically. yes, it will always be non-stop/
The most I’ll give to my employer is a two-week notice. I’m already planning how I’m going to leave corporate jobs completely. I’d rather take a chance and become self-employed.
@@alanparedes2034 it’s about maintaining relationships. Don’t be so focused on getting “revenge” that you leave a bad taste in peoples mouths. These new jobs are going to want references and who do you think they will call?? Some of the best new job opportunities come from this network. 🤷🏽♀️
@@blackstratmx exactly. And let’s be honest, when we leave these jobs, especially in a rage, they are only inconvenienced, the managers/CEOs are STILL getting paid! If we quit without emergency funds or another job lined up it’s us who will truly be stressing, not them.
This companies insist on 40 hours a week when that was a hard won achievement over a 100 years ago. With all the productivity it was said we would be working 10 hours instead. People would gladly take jobs with 30 hours as long as the have insurance for lower pay. These companies are privileged and entitled thinking they own these workers and they should not quit.
The pandemic did give people time to reassess their career. What's surprising to me is that it's not just low wage jobs folks are leaving, it's all income levels. The lockdown must have caused a "reset" in a way that even the folks who a changing jobs don't fully understand. They just know they want to do something different. I expect that the next wave will be folks that have really enjoyed working from home and if forced to return to the office will decide it's not worth it. I think many didn't understand the total cost in dollars and time going to the office until they were able to work from home for a year. For same the savings was huge and will cause them to reassess how much it really costs to work in the office. They may have even sold that second car they thought the family would always need.
You wrote this 3 months ago. I'd say a new issue in the professional class e.g. 'we who sit home and work remotely, order stuff online' is that we are starting to stack money - yet issues in supply chains means there is less stuff to buy, plus how much do you want/need to upgrade your gear at home? New TV? New Sofa? I bought a new car, fixed floors and walls but what else? We still cannot party/drink that money and forget about traveling. We are soon entering a stage where there is no other goal other than 'making money for money' and that is a no-no in a amoral consumer world where we are alone, separated from our family & tribal roots. it is a genuine 'why am i doing this?' -question. THAT is the true moment when the saying 'people doesn't just live from bread' comes into the picture and in a skewed way few saw before covid.
Because you most likely don't have a mortgage - yet, or kids etc... also technology has a lot to do with it. Plus, workers long before you were born used to be paid a living wage with benefits. In the last 40 or so years things have slowly gone to shit for employees. The pandemic + tech has pushed this steadily declining situation to the edge. Just my opinion... btw, I'm glad it's happening too.
Although online entrepreneurship is great its not for everyone. I think that 90% of people see online entrepreneurs and thinks its ABC easy but there is a huge learning curve and expense to creating an online business and I think people will be shocked at how difficult it will be.
@@actorsinsider9967 yes, and more people will be willing to try building the business of their dreams 🤩 start up expenses don't have to be big, and you build business step by step on the learning curve
This perfectly summed up my feelings, and it helped to show others felt the same way. Articles with the same topic often had examples in other fields or job types, and I felt guilty since I had a good job with amazing benefits, but last week I finished out six years at an incredible company. Like one guest said, ~"It was time..." I don't think I would've been able to get help from HR on figuring out another position with the amount of internal and external competition for every role, but I'm a firm believer in meant-to-be/not meant-to-be, and I also have confidence I'll figure it out; the long break is overdue, and that space will provide clarity what it is that I want and need to do next. I'm so grateful for the company's success that I can afford to take a career break, so agree, there is that privilege I do recognize. It'll be a reminder that whatever I do next, I will be sure to help others to find some peace and encouragement in their goals.
I’m quoting / early retirement. Enough of having to do stupid shit for a co that really doesn’t care and I know I will be replaced. Health care is crazy. Not nurse just office. Check your statements and call your insurance co. I’ll give no notice. They would not give me notice if they wanting to fire me. Best of luck to you guys
I’ll be staying with the organization I work for, because they meet my needs. I’m in my fifties, still trying to recover from the recession, have no family and am waiting to be vested, in about 1 year. I’ve also had far worse commutes, worked for some pretty screwed up people, in the past and, although this organization is FAR from perfect, it may be the best I can do, at least for now. Their biggest detraction, however, is a 100% return to the workplace. I am an introvert and immediately went into depression, when I got notice. I would be OK with 3/2 in/out of office per week. I know it’s still a business and I’m an employee. But, the fact that there’s been no talk of anything but a 100% return is not only GREATLY disappointing, but makes me look at this organization as archaic. It is hard enough to know that it’s always been so that extroversion has always ruled. There are employees who drink the Koolaid and feel that, because they want to be there all the time, that in order for that to happen, so must you and this absolutely silences introverts, who are afraid to express their opinion, lest it offend management and we endure consequences. So, as it has been in decades past, we pretty much suffer in silence, on the daily, trying to look like there’s no place we’d rather be 5 days per week, for the bulk of our lives. People who have relatives they care for and children they’d like to see grow. Heck, I’ve left a few sick pets dying at home, because I knew they didn’t matter in the corporate scheme of things, no matter how much I loved them and see them, as my children. I have pets now and, with the return to the office, I already know that I while have absolutely zero empathy for the office, despite being forced to be there, when my pets’ time comes, we’re screwed again, by these idiots in charge.
Add to this situation that, I’ve just found out that one of my coworkers has C19. Fortunately, she hadn’t returned to the office yet, because she had other issues. But, had it not been for those other issues, she’d have possibly been there and spreading it. She was also already vaxxed, but the return had begun even before I was fully vaxxed, because the 2 weeks subsequent to vax hadn’t passed. But, they don’t care about that. Just be here, when we tell you. We don’t care that people’s children won’t be vaxxed until a couple of months from now either so, bring home the virus to them, too. Serves this business, the government and even the CDC right, that employees are quitting, left and right.
People are just done..and I believe it will get much worse on employers but to be honest ..after decades of low pay, high work load, temp status, little benefits, poor and toxic management..ect..I don't feel about sorry for them..I pray for many years to come it's an employee dominant marketplace..
People already work too much as it is and your telling people to work more? It’s a waste of time. We need to learn to downsize and minimalize, Americans are all about excess and bigger is better. We need to re-examine what it means to live a happy life. People are different, so this will have many variations, but ultimately, it always comes back to “do I really need this in my life”. We as humans are not meant to work this way. We are exhausted and stressed out, this alone causes other major mental and physical/medical issues. Life is meant to be enjoyed, lived, and experienced, not work the majority of you life to finally realize what in life really matters.
@@Jerry-cp2uj Of course it's my advice. What else will replace work during our time? Even a biz owner is still working. The goal is financial independence, doing what you've mastered and find delightful, and being compensated accordingly for professional work. There is no such utopian society you speak of on earth that is static. The system revolves around capital. I dislike this design personally. It is as you stated "a waste of time." Our energy is not meant to be co-opted and corrupted by large corporations. But I only suggest a personal goal, which is not meant for weary people, just the more intuitive minded individual.
@@natkangol very thoughtful point: “Even a biz owner is still working”. In fact if i love what you do, I don’t mind how many jobs or titles I have. I own a business, in the meantime, I work as an engineering consultant to two firms which have nothing to do with my own business. I don’t fill overworked or burnout. In terms of loving what you do, I have seen so many happy waitresses or bartenders.
I see a lot of ppl who quitted their job begging their old employers to take them back, this is a tiktok trend! This is like the “Macarena” or anti vaxxers 😂
I am at a crossroad. My management may not use the flexibility option that our company is allowing requiring our team to come to the office full time. Me being the farthest from the location having to commute up to 3 hours a day may be taxing. My greater concern is the mandatory vaccination the company is considering. I am hoping for the few that refuse that they will lay off with a severance package. That may not happen given the event recently in Houston.
Ironic that the real consideration is that a person needs to work until age 65 in order to have a chance at saving enough money to nest egg sufficient retirement funds. Old people don't do well with being destitute. After the Clinton-Obama 2008 Recession, we found that people who stayed unemployed for 3 consecutive years [because the WH kept extending the unemployment benefits] were unemployable for the remainder of their lives. They forgot how to work. They interviewed poorly. They were not current on best practices & technologies. The goal should be to never let a prospective employer see voids in your work history. Sitting around being unproductive spells doom in your 70s. Even if you take a poorly paying job just to keep the income stream coming, you are more likely to be ready to hear of & able to take advantage of employment opportunities as they arise. The winners of this game are the ones that control their cost of living structure. Follow Dave Ramsey's teachings to set you & your family up for life. The Brookings Institute explains that a person & their family has a 75% chance of being in the middle class if they do 3 things: graduate from high school, stay employed & never have a child out of wedlock.
The future is automation folk's...think about the repetitive work you all do at the computer here...what makes you think that just 1 super smart computer can do your job's 1000 times faster then you can? time to buy a tent to live in...
I know several gentlemen who are leaving their high-stress jobs because their wives have good income in fields like health care. Everyone who is sick of the stress and workplace abuse is looking at potential exit plans. These men work in office environments like engineering, which is very easy to go freelance these days. Nurses are a bit more location dependent, so it just makes sense for them. One of my male co-workers at my retail job started his own fly fishing website during the pandemic. His wife's job along with his website was plenty to support them. A neighbor started his own conceal carry school online, and was able to leave his delivery driver position as his wife's administrative job covered their expenses. Being married definitely has it's advantages for both partners.
People are starting to realize their true worth. A friend of mine works in the restaurant industry and the staff met with the owners recently demanding a fair wage - not this $2.13/hour plus tips nonsense - and health benefits. The owners said no, so the entire staff walked out. That restaurant is now shut down and who knows when or even if it will ever reopen. The labor market will likely remain favorable to workers for the next few years at least. Businesses which don’t do right by their employees will not survive.
Yup. But businesses have been spoiled. And now they’re cutting off their noses to spite their face. 2 employers just this week alone, can’t find workers but they STILL think they can screw with you. They need to reinstate UI and start publishing how many applicants they reject, and their turnover rate.
Environment also
@ Very true. The low wage, no benefit sweatshops most loudly griping about a supposed “labour shortage” - which is laughable; there’s no “labour shortage,” there’s a wage shortage, a benefit shortage and a reliable work schedule shortage - are also notorious for horrible workplace environments, pencil-dick management that treats staff like children, wage theft and other unethical and/or illegal practices, rampant sexual harassment and casual racism, and on and on. If every one of these scofflaw businesses is forced to close down permanently, it will be no great loss.
Good for them 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾standing up for themselves
I left my job about 2 weeks before this podcast came out. And I just boomeranged back to my old employer... agreed on fewer hours and a bump in pay. We'll see how it goes!
Maybe people started realizing they want their own life for themselves instead of selling their lives to the parasite class 8 or more hours at a time.
exactly
Plus drive time.
Anyone else think there is no longer a finish time on road construction anymore?
20 years with company, I been loyal, seen it all, heard it all stayed loyal. I ask for flexibility so I can help my daughter picking up grandson Nope denied!!! So using my vacation time everyday I leave an hour early! My daughter always come first!!!
@@Mockduck2020 Yea because as traffic volume increases, so does damage to the road. construction companies are also cutting corners so that doesn't help. Basically. yes, it will always be non-stop/
The most I’ll give to my employer is a two-week notice. I’m already planning how I’m going to leave corporate jobs completely. I’d rather take a chance and become self-employed.
Why give them anything? They don't deserve it.
@@alanparedes2034 it’s about maintaining relationships. Don’t be so focused on getting “revenge” that you leave a bad taste in peoples mouths. These new jobs are going to want references and who do you think they will call?? Some of the best new job opportunities come from this network. 🤷🏽♀️
@@cp3onmtv963 You are right, I always think, leave doors open, don't close them, rage will pass.
@@blackstratmx exactly. And let’s be honest, when we leave these jobs, especially in a rage, they are only inconvenienced, the managers/CEOs are STILL getting paid! If we quit without emergency funds or another job lined up it’s us who will truly be stressing, not them.
This companies insist on 40 hours a week when that was a hard won achievement over a 100 years ago. With all the productivity it was said we would be working 10 hours instead. People would gladly take jobs with 30 hours as long as the have insurance for lower pay. These companies are privileged and entitled thinking they own these workers and they should not quit.
The pandemic did give people time to reassess their career. What's surprising to me is that it's not just low wage jobs folks are leaving, it's all income levels. The lockdown must have caused a "reset" in a way that even the folks who a changing jobs don't fully understand. They just know they want to do something different. I expect that the next wave will be folks that have really enjoyed working from home and if forced to return to the office will decide it's not worth it. I think many didn't understand the total cost in dollars and time going to the office until they were able to work from home for a year. For same the savings was huge and will cause them to reassess how much it really costs to work in the office. They may have even sold that second car they thought the family would always need.
I think this is good! should lead to more people leading the healthy, fulfilling life of their dreams
Agreed, sometimes its not all about the money.
$5 latte x 260 weekdays a year = $1,300 on 1 cup of coffee a work day. Easy re-evaluation
Exactly!!
You wrote this 3 months ago. I'd say a new issue in the professional class e.g. 'we who sit home and work remotely, order stuff online' is that we are starting to stack money - yet issues in supply chains means there is less stuff to buy, plus how much do you want/need to upgrade your gear at home? New TV? New Sofa? I bought a new car, fixed floors and walls but what else? We still cannot party/drink that money and forget about traveling. We are soon entering a stage where there is no other goal other than 'making money for money' and that is a no-no in a amoral consumer world where we are alone, separated from our family & tribal roots. it is a genuine 'why am i doing this?' -question.
THAT is the true moment when the saying 'people doesn't just live from bread' comes into the picture and in a skewed way few saw before covid.
Im 20, but this has been obvious to me my whole life. Why is this shift only happening now, Idk. But I’m glad It’s happening
Because you most likely don't have a mortgage - yet, or kids etc... also technology has a lot to do with it. Plus, workers long before you were born used to be paid a living wage with benefits. In the last 40 or so years things have slowly gone to shit for employees. The pandemic + tech has pushed this steadily declining situation to the edge. Just my opinion... btw, I'm glad it's happening too.
Online entrepreneurship and freelancing are definitely driving a big shift! I had to make a video about the great resignation too!
Although online entrepreneurship is great its not for everyone.
I think that 90% of people see online entrepreneurs and thinks its ABC easy but there is a huge learning curve and expense to creating an online business and I think people will be shocked at how difficult it will be.
@@actorsinsider9967 yes, and more people will be willing to try building the business of their dreams 🤩 start up expenses don't have to be big, and you build business step by step on the learning curve
This perfectly summed up my feelings, and it helped to show others felt the same way. Articles with the same topic often had examples in other fields or job types, and I felt guilty since I had a good job with amazing benefits, but last week I finished out six years at an incredible company. Like one guest said, ~"It was time..." I don't think I would've been able to get help from HR on figuring out another position with the amount of internal and external competition for every role, but I'm a firm believer in meant-to-be/not meant-to-be, and I also have confidence I'll figure it out; the long break is overdue, and that space will provide clarity what it is that I want and need to do next. I'm so grateful for the company's success that I can afford to take a career break, so agree, there is that privilege I do recognize. It'll be a reminder that whatever I do next, I will be sure to help others to find some peace and encouragement in their goals.
love this
You got to do what you got to do
Same here, I was just done.
I’m quoting / early retirement. Enough of having to do stupid shit for a co that really doesn’t care and I know I will be replaced. Health care is crazy. Not nurse just office. Check your statements and call your insurance co. I’ll give no notice. They would not give me notice if they wanting to fire me. Best of luck to you guys
😂😂😂 savage, but no lies were told.
I’ll be staying with the organization I work for, because they meet my needs. I’m in my fifties, still trying to recover from the recession, have no family and am waiting to be vested, in about 1 year. I’ve also had far worse commutes, worked for some pretty screwed up people, in the past and, although this organization is FAR from perfect, it may be the best I can do, at least for now.
Their biggest detraction, however, is a 100% return to the workplace. I am an introvert and immediately went into depression, when I got notice. I would be OK with 3/2 in/out of office per week. I know it’s still a business and I’m an employee. But, the fact that there’s been no talk of anything but a 100% return is not only GREATLY disappointing, but makes me look at this organization as archaic.
It is hard enough to know that it’s always been so that extroversion has always ruled. There are employees who drink the Koolaid and feel that, because they want to be there all the time, that in order for that to happen, so must you and this absolutely silences introverts, who are afraid to express their opinion, lest it offend management and we endure consequences. So, as it has been in decades past, we pretty much suffer in silence, on the daily, trying to look like there’s no place we’d rather be 5 days per week, for the bulk of our lives. People who have relatives they care for and children they’d like to see grow. Heck, I’ve left a few sick pets dying at home, because I knew they didn’t matter in the corporate scheme of things, no matter how much I loved them and see them, as my children. I have pets now and, with the return to the office, I already know that I while have absolutely zero empathy for the office, despite being forced to be there, when my pets’ time comes, we’re screwed again, by these idiots in charge.
Add to this situation that, I’ve just found out that one of my coworkers has C19. Fortunately, she hadn’t returned to the office yet, because she had other issues. But, had it not been for those other issues, she’d have possibly been there and spreading it. She was also already vaxxed, but the return had begun even before I was fully vaxxed, because the 2 weeks subsequent to vax hadn’t passed. But, they don’t care about that. Just be here, when we tell you. We don’t care that people’s children won’t be vaxxed until a couple of months from now either so, bring home the virus to them, too. Serves this business, the government and even the CDC right, that employees are quitting, left and right.
I also resigned & I feel more fulfilled than ever before. I like when people wanting autonomy was mentioned.
People are just done..and I believe it will get much worse on employers but to be honest ..after decades of low pay, high work load, temp status, little benefits, poor and toxic management..ect..I don't feel about sorry for them..I pray for many years to come it's an employee dominant marketplace..
Keep your jobs and start your own biz on the side, just don't telll anyone. Getting a 2nd job for 2yrs will finance just about any endeavor.
People already work too much as it is and your telling people to work more? It’s a waste of time. We need to learn to downsize and minimalize, Americans are all about excess and bigger is better. We need to re-examine what it means to live a happy life. People are different, so this will have many variations, but ultimately, it always comes back to “do I really need this in my life”. We as humans are not meant to work this way. We are exhausted and stressed out, this alone causes other major mental and physical/medical issues. Life is meant to be enjoyed, lived, and experienced, not work the majority of you life to finally realize what in life really matters.
@@Jerry-cp2uj Of course it's my advice. What else will replace work during our time? Even a biz owner is still working. The goal is financial independence, doing what you've mastered and find delightful, and being compensated accordingly for professional work.
There is no such utopian society you speak of on earth that is static. The system revolves around capital. I dislike this design personally. It is as you stated "a waste of time." Our energy is not meant to be co-opted and corrupted by large corporations.
But I only suggest a personal goal, which is not meant for weary people, just the more intuitive minded individual.
@@natkangol very thoughtful point: “Even a biz owner is still working”. In fact if i love what you do, I don’t mind how many jobs or titles I have. I own a business, in the meantime, I work as an engineering consultant to two firms which have nothing to do with my own business. I don’t fill overworked or burnout.
In terms of loving what you do, I have seen so many happy waitresses or bartenders.
youd be stupid to train your replacement. do they warn u before they fire you? no
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😁 i will keep this in mind
Marie Antoinette is happy to learn that millions of peasants no longer suffer the drudgery of work.
13:50 Yeah... no. Employers dug their heels in long ago. You can't negotiate anything with anyone because the answer is always no.
I see a lot of ppl who quitted their job begging their old employers to take them back, this is a tiktok trend! This is like the “Macarena” or anti vaxxers 😂
Train my replacement? Would they train me to find another job if they fire me! Hell no
Don't worry there will always be cleaners, shop/factory and call centre workers to serve your every need...... they have little option!
There will be a lot less of them, they can no longer able to make ends meet there.
This is like a cat 5 hurricane hitting corporate America
Well, people just don't want to go back to the office.
Companies don't agree.
I am at a crossroad. My management may not use the flexibility option that our company is allowing requiring our team to come to the office full time. Me being the farthest from the location having to commute up to 3 hours a day may be taxing. My greater concern is the mandatory vaccination the company is considering. I am hoping for the few that refuse that they will lay off with a severance package. That may not happen given the event recently in Houston.
Ironic that the real consideration is that a person needs to work until age 65 in order to have a chance at saving enough money to nest egg sufficient retirement funds. Old people don't do well with being destitute.
After the Clinton-Obama 2008 Recession, we found that people who stayed unemployed for 3 consecutive years [because the WH kept extending the unemployment benefits] were unemployable for the remainder of their lives. They forgot how to work. They interviewed poorly. They were not current on best practices & technologies.
The goal should be to never let a prospective employer see voids in your work history. Sitting around being unproductive spells doom in your 70s.
Even if you take a poorly paying job just to keep the income stream coming, you are more likely to be ready to hear of & able to take advantage of employment opportunities as they arise.
The winners of this game are the ones that control their cost of living structure. Follow Dave Ramsey's teachings to set you & your family up for life.
The Brookings Institute explains that a person & their family has a 75% chance of being in the middle class if they do 3 things: graduate from high school, stay employed & never have a child out of wedlock.
Im done too
#JobsAreForRobots #TheGreatResignation #HumansAreForLiving
So are they going to work retail? 😄
I'm leaving my retail job and starting an online store. It's not rocket science.
@@MsGenXodus Same here lol.
The future is automation folk's...think about the repetitive work you all do at the computer here...what makes you think that just 1 super smart computer can do your job's 1000 times faster then you can? time to buy a tent to live in...
The automation discussion is often times not nuanced, lol. I don't think it's time to live in a tent yet.
This video is too politically correct and not addressing the heart of issues.
Sounds like these ladies have someone at home to keep the bills paid huh?? Must be nice.
No. We saved our money.
I know several gentlemen who are leaving their high-stress jobs because their wives have good income in fields like health care. Everyone who is sick of the stress and workplace abuse is looking at potential exit plans. These men work in office environments like engineering, which is very easy to go freelance these days. Nurses are a bit more location dependent, so it just makes sense for them.
One of my male co-workers at my retail job started his own fly fishing website during the pandemic. His wife's job along with his website was plenty to support them. A neighbor started his own conceal carry school online, and was able to leave his delivery driver position as his wife's administrative job covered their expenses. Being married definitely has it's advantages for both partners.
Thr vaccinated need to be protected from the unvaccinated.