Posted on 05/03/2022 8:30:58 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
The following is an excerpt from Becker's Hospital Review.
The latest group of workers to quit their jobs are older, tenured employees with decades of experience under their belts, reported Vox April 30.
While earlier in the pandemic, the droves of workers quitting tended to be younger, less experienced and working in the service industry, those joining the Great Resignation now are older and more tenured.
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
It is not a “creep”, it’s a tsunami.
These days most large employers have created hostile work environments for many of their experienced, knowledgeable and productive employees.
The result is predictable.
I’m full time salaried with plenty of experience in the IBM midrange arena. I *could* retire and probably do very well consulting if I were motivated to do so.
I may give it a try. I’m tired of the 8 to 5 gig.
Exactly.
“I have some thoughts on why, part of it is the creeping wokeism entering the corporate workplace.”
I’m retiring in 1 month. I’m still reasonably sharp, in decent health, and in an environment like the one at my current employer 20 years ago, I could hang on and help. Now I do admit, I’m a little burnt out, and I’m not sure if it’s father time catching up to me, or if it’s the bs from the nanny employer environment.
What I see now is that employers can’t effectively correct employees. Everyone is hyper sensitive and if an employer attempts to punish a member of a protected group, e.g. anyone who isn’t a white male, all heck breaks loose. The response has been to micromanage employees to death. It seems to be the line of thought that if you can’t correct an employee, you just monitor them to 5 minute intervals. Couple that will all the silliness, mandatory training, woke garbage, etc.
It’s time for me to go.
If you can start collecting retirement DO IT and ‘double dip’ by becoming a contractor.
Exactly.
I see the Exact same thing on a daily basis. For now, ignoring the daily dose of diversity, inclusion, and equity BS is barely tolerable. But I have asked myself, why the hell am I still here dealing with this crap?
Answer - I guess I still have a barely measurable level of integrity and work ethic left. Actively planning my escape!
After having 4 different bosses and regional HQ in 3 years, having my division sold, having rumors spread about me by one outgoing manager above me whom I clashed with (A eurotrash leftist who shortly after I left was fired for groping 3 different female employees) - I quite big corporate life to start my own business 15 years ago. Best decision I ever made
I think you’re exactly right. And all the Covid stuff was just an added spur.
Vital info missing! Age?
Regards,
Our company calls it “the gray tsunami”.
I agree with some of the commenters on the original article that the vaccine mandate was a factor. I am at that age, with 29 years at the same company, where If you tell me to jump, I will not say How High? I am vaccinated because I wanted to see a concert in CA, but a lot of my colleagues chose not to. My employer went out of their way to not fire them, an indication that they know what’s at stake.
I would only get a 100% remote position, and there are now a ton of those in my technical area.
The place I will be leaving I've been at for nine years and it's become way too woke, which has made low and middle management top-heavy with non-white males, in physical locations that white males still make up the majority of “maleness.”
It's like the men at the top are justifying their existence by saying “We can't be discriminatory against minorities, because that's all we have below our level,” but that means they discriminated against while males to get that air cover.
Before the Great Theft. (Happening now)
Do you really want to retire when the idiot in the White house and democrats are leading the fight against inflation? They’re talking about student debt forgiveness and printing more money, which will only exacerbate inflation. Retiring when expenses are rising dramatically and may increase at a greater extent is a tough pill to swallow, regardless of the woke corporates political indoctrination all around. Might be best to hunker down and tap that retirement nest egg and fixed income when sanity returns.
I got pissed off because I was being pissed on, so I retired.
Oh no Older workers are quitting, the younger workers are just so going to miss fixing Boomer’s Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents while they take all the credit. Shame.
I could have kept working but retired. I wasn’t going to go back into the office after the quarantine.
Keeping contact lists? No fucking way. That was the deal back then.
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