He said the reason was, new hires were getting bonuses and higher pay, while those who have been loyal, working through the covid mess get nothing.
I'd quit too.
In the corporate world the fastest way to a promotion is to get one from another. corporate upper management has devolved into "grasshopper people" and they go from company to company like locusts and they think that any one who stays at one company a long time as useless because they are not moving around. They want new talent. It does not matter if you are doing it to keep your kids live stable, make your wife happy, or you like what you do - they cannot understand it so they cannot respect it. Once you are employed over two or three years your corporate employer thinks they own you because you are still there. Add that belief to the common human fallacy of thinking that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and you get new employees making way more than previous employees.
“He said the reason was, new hires were getting bonuses and higher pay, while those who have been loyal, working through the covid mess get nothing.”
WOW! I’ll bet it’s not just happening at Home Depot, either. I see ‘Employment Bonuses’ on EVERY store window I see, begging for help. If an employer treated me that way, and put new hires higher on the Food Chain than me, I’d hit the bricks, too!
Is ANYTHING going right these days? WHO is running these businesses? And why aren’t they all closed by now? Yeesh! This kind of stuff just makes me INSAME after managing two multi-million dollar enterprises over the past 20 years before I retired.
We are in a world of hurt - for SO many reasons. :(