Posted on 11/20/2021 3:09:30 PM PST by Enlightened1
As the federal government mandates experimental Covid-19 vaccines for nearly all employees, a record 4.4 million American workers walked away from their jobs in September.
According to data published on Nov. 12 from the United States Job Openings and Labor Turnover report, an unprecedented number of Americans in most sectors abandoned their jobs amid pandemic stress and childcare challenges.
The number of mass resignations is the highest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began measuring the data in 2000.
Sectors in which work is done in person and wages are relatively low, particularly in the arts and entertainment industries, saw the highest rates of resignations.
Remote work is a priority for approximately 56 percent of people in the workforce, according to a recently published Bankrate’s jobseeker survey.
In addition to the record quit rate, millions of Americans were fired or furloughed for refusing to comply with Covid vaccine mandates.
In April 2020, COVID-19 resulted in the loss of 20.5 million jobs in the United States. As employees have been forced to endure the mandates for nearly two years, there are now over 10.4 million job openings in the US, exceeding pre-pandemic levels, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
As an unprecedented number of Amerians walking away from their jobs, desperate business owners are offering higher wages, flexible work hours and bonuses. But when will they quit complying with oppressive Covid mandates?
Makes sense. A lot of people with low end jobs quit because they got better offers.
It's a hot jobs market if you have any skills.
Thank goodness Biden opened the border for millions of new job applicants. /s
“Abandoned their jobs” means left the labor force completely.
The vax mandates caused most of it - which I’m sure is hard for you to believe since you push the jabs in here daily.
Job applicants are not what Democrats want. Socialism requires a growing, increasingly desperate, government-dependent and panicked population. It’s what the Revolution is all about.
I’m curious, how many are Boomers who decided to retire?
You... might want to look up “abandoned” in relation to this report. You’re being intellectually dishonest at best or completely ignorant at worst.
Lots of stores here in Aiken County, SC have “Now Hiring” signs in the window.
I went thru the drive thru the other day and there was a notice taped to the loud speaker: “Sorry if you order takes longer than usual. We’re short on staff. Want a job? Come inside and let’s talk. Sorry if we don’t have the item you want. We’re having supply problems. Some times we just don’t have the ingredients for the item you want.”
My hubby was fired from SRNS. All religious exemptions denied. He’s worked from home since last March. Ridiculous. Filed w EEOC. Waiting for lawsuit and offer from SRNL for exemption approval.
A more likely reason for the large number of resignations is the availability of other jobs probably with higher wages and benefits.
A more likely reason for the large number of resignations is the availability of other jobs probably with higher wages and benefits.
From the article: “So far, roughly 34.4 million people have quit their jobs this year, with more than 24 million doing so since April. By comparison, 36.3 million people quit their job in all of 2020.”
This year will be very close to the same as last year. So much for the clickbait title.
Maybe people aren’t just quitting jobs, they are switching jobs. Plenty are available. This is a great time for fresh starts at companies where one can work remote, for example.
People are leaving the jobs where all the restrictions are, where the fights happen over masks, etc., etc. We need to know more before saying people just don’t want to work, maybe they just don’t want to work at jobs ruined by restrictions and loons.
I think something much larger is going on than just what this article describes.
Not only are places finding it hard to find people to work, I see the people that are working are working less hard.
Where is the hustle to get ahead? It’s like people don’t believe in it anymore.
Is that because of fake elections, fake news, lies and scams? If everything is fixed, there is no meritocracy, then why try to compete with production, why be a wage slave?
Do they think that the future will be worse, that it makes no sense to save up money now for a down payment on a house and a mortgage? Are they saving and preparing for something else, something if not dystopian, then at least much lower quality of life?
Are people no longer concerned about how far they can climb that corporate ladder over the next 5 years? Is there some other positioning on which they are focused?
Have their priorities changed? Is it not such a big deal anymore to get that Mercedes? Do we care less about what other people think? Would we rather blend in than stand out?
When Russia tried to open market aspects in their economy after the Soviet Union, they had difficulty because the people didn’t have an entrepreneurial mindset. The concept was foreign to them. Is this sort of mindset creeping into American society?
Is it the erosion of values? Is sitting around smoking weed, playing video games and watching Netflix the “good life?” People who work hard are “suckers?” The people who cheat the system and get stuff for free are the smart ones?
I value hard work, I think we were created to work, and I’m happiest when I am working, but I don’t think I could convert many people to that point of view today.
Why? Because it's the term Gateway Pundit chose to use? LOL.
From the BLS:
Add to the mix that jobless claims are down and have been trending down. We are at around 4.7% unemployment with 5% considered “full employment.” A lot of the people out of work now are the ones who always get fired anyway because they have “issues”.
Why do you think that? Because Gateway Pundit told you so?
The BLS, which reports these numbers, doesn't say anything about abandonment.
Doom and gloomers have to doom and gloom. It’s all they’ve got.
I think it has a LOT to do with the complete lack of humanity most employers show staff, while expecting unquestioning loyalty. Of course, that loyalty only goes one way, and the staff are denigrated and insulted if they dare question their “betters”.
Yeah, corporatism and aiming for the lowest possible wage payout, artificially reducing wages and demanding more for less just might have a little to do with the workforce deciding to tell their employers to get stuffed, perhaps.
A quote from a Karl Denninger article, written around the start of the Covid lockdowns last spring, that I think summarizes the new outlook of many...”Killing yourself playing Sisyphus is not smart”.
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