Probably spoiled millenials that aren’t getting enough play time or free soda at work & dissatisfied with 8 weeks vacation and 30hr work weeks.
They don’t know what a hard working job is like
Actually it’s probably older IT workers like I was, 60 years old working with 25 year olds who knew everything and managed by 30 year olds who knew even more
Or maybe some of them are tired of being treated like crap and paid low wages and want to find better, I know, try being on the NMCI help desk for a year, we lost most of our people that year who found better and were understaffed at one point.
>Probably spoiled millenials that aren’t getting enough
Probably tired people who are tired of watching the money go to the leads who can offshore and H1B the most, tired of watching foreigners only hire foreigners, of doing all the real work plus the cleanup since the non-Americans only write garbage code...
... and now on top of this, having been sent home to work better for 12-18 months, be told to jam back into disease-breeding cubes, get jabbed and masked and nose-swabbed and maybe fired.
While everyone’s been watching truckers and airlines and ports, the tech companies have excelled in COVID-oppression.
Could be a lot of that I suppose.
If theyre tired of working for idiots then its time to get out and be their own idiot if they can because working elsewhere right now isnt going to be any better.
Let me tell you a bit about the job Im leaving on Friday. Its a third level management position and it used to be a good job. Then all the nonsense with the cooties started and we havent been able to get entry level employees so I had to start picking up entry level slack. Then a first tier subordinate manager was injured and put out of work and cant return, I was expected to pick up the slack. A second tier subordinate manager found work was interfering with her personal life, I was expected to pick up the slack. Level four management and his replacement quit and level 5 has me involved in picking up some of that. All the Im on call at all times.
Between entry level through my actual position, level 5 expects be to personally cover 220 hours out of every 168 hour week and that still doesnt cover the rest of the shortages and problems that stem from that.
I get better than 8 weeks vacation a year. Our PTO is earned based on the number of hours one works. Its all theoretical nonsense though because there is a ceiling on how many hours one can bank. I quickly zoomed up to that ceiling and have been losing that benefit time ever since. It doesnt make a difference how much vacation time one gets if they cant take it, cant bank it, and cant sell it back.
That isnt even the worst part. Its not so much the single shifts that wind up being 28 hours or so, its the days where I do 30 some hours over a 40 something hour day that get exhausting.
I dont care what vacation package they offer where Im going and I dont care if they do or dont offer stock or any of the rest. Im done here. When I gave my notice I dropped to 40, I just dont care what happens here next.
I wont make the mistake of offering any employer any loyalty after this.