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 ...
I am 57 and considering it, mainly for health reasons. I walk with two canes from an autoimmune disorder which destroyed my balance and leg strength so I can’t bend over and raise up, can’t stand for any length of time and now I have restless legs syndrome which causes my legs to cramp and shake so hard they wake my wife up at night with the bed shaking. Throw in getting older and some arthur and its the perfect storm.
Plus my job is changing radically. I work in a library at a community college and covid has killed in person traffic on the campus. You assist people online mainly. In reality I expect the in person library with books to go away at the community college level, I’m already seeing it on other campuses. I have enjoyed my job up until covid and now with my health and an empty campus, honestly I hurt with every step I take and am just tired and I have had enough.
My wife makes far more money than me and I figure I can use some of my retirement to pay off what is left on the house and then I will file for social security disability. My employer pays my health care until I go on medicare.
Do the math - you’ll make more money retiring now and take a part-time job then you will holding out for that measely difference by waiting til 65.
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They didn’t have the foresight to realize that they would be older. Or maybe they somehow figured that they’d all retire as multimillionaires at age 50.
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I retired last year at 63 1/2. No regrets at all. My wife and I are currently getting our medical through COBRA, and this summer we both turn 65 so will go on Medicare. I’ve had numerous offers for WFH positions as a tech writer (my former career), but turned them all down. Just got tired of all the wokeness and feeding the beast.
The civil war was not a peaceful agreement. There were huge moral choices involved. That's not the situation today.
Today it's more like irreconcilable differences... two groups who no longer have anything in common and not one reason I can think of to stay together.
Here's the difference on one issue - immigration. Elites want cheap labor and they use these people to bring down wages of working class and middle class citizens. That's not 'slavery' or immoral' it's a choice. Our side would rather NOT do that do our fellow citizens. Again, that's a choice. No one in either country is forced (as in slavery)
So in the country for 'elites' they could import a servant class to do their dirty work for them.That's fine with me. I just don't want to live with people like that... the other differences are very similar.
So let the 'elites' have their way and allow the rest of us to have our way. What's the problem? Why is this a big deal?
One out of six black men voted for Trump - they and their families would go with us. Almost half of Hispanics would go with us - so it's NOT a diversity issue. All the WOKE people and companies stay with Progressive United States... We would lose Disney but really that's OK with us...
What are you talking about? I know more about Word, Excel and PP than you ever will.
Sounds good. I can continue my health insurance through work. Health insurance is the main issue with early retirement.
I also work in large bank, I am a young 50 something and the rest of my team that is effective in more than pushing some complex IT design system interoperability work around is 60+, they all were hired in between 1985-2000 at this enterprise and have this Jedi High Counsole work effort methods. In general it works out very well, slower than most F500 but still works. Lots of communications never exposed to the younger crowd because they tend to ask questions about why they are not set loose chasing new. Tons of edits to plans to get the design intent out of the Bad News Bears generation, it works only because everyone involved is extraordinary patient and we have regilatory requirements that can be used as a hammer.
As these 60+ work force leave we cannot seem to internaly promote 40 year old replacements because they would be termed “to expensive” if give responsiablity.
We have an overall plan that gets past buzz words of marketspeak and builds supportable collections of products to deliver applications to our customers. None of this works without an overall plan, that remains mostly unwritten and in the head of Jedis. Now we are throwing cloud, or other peoples software, techniques and compute at a known problem set.
The expectation by the younger team members (age 25-35) is to be lead to a goal, and get bonuses for team efforts, the friction is those goals are set by a declining number of Jedi. The Late Gen Xers know they are going to be left holding the bag in 5-7 years. Those Gen Xers is the defacto Jr Jedi class that have none of those goals except not be be crushed by Return to office politics and get our chance at leadership or move on before the consulting free for all ends.
Add this to the mix of consultants and service companies who think they can be dropped in and figure out the topology of a complex environment in 160 consulting hours.
When the 60 year olds walk, do not be surprised to see everyone born in the 1970s also walk if our management wizkids cannot get beyond the wizbag of outsourcing to Amazon, Microsoft, Google and the India consulting firms. We have been waiting along time for this handoff, we saw the Boomers hang on to long.
Thank you, caww! I am hearing this, too. And you know, it is more than just having to wear a mask (I work for a health department) and being around liberals, which we know is actually bad for the soul. All these years of working, I have missed so much of real life. I want that slow, simple life, and to spend more time with my husband, who is a cancer survivor. Hoping to take your good and wise advice and leave much sooner!
The modern leftist woke-force is the enemy of productivity.
Yikes—sounds like you old guys need to get tossed!
The wokisms are pushing many out the door to companies not woke or retirement.
What do you mean. Some of us have been using office for decades! Some of us just transferred knowledge from Word Perfect and Lotus. As a side duty I was in charge of teaching my coworkers Zoom and Teams once COVID hit.
Ha! I remember using PROFS on the IBM mainframe!
-PJ
I retired last September at 67. My advice, for whatever it is worth....if you are financially set....Do It Now.
“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 would hope that the younger workers fixing the Boomers’ documents can write better than you.
Lol, yup. Might even see some Gen X’ers (who I like to call “the forgotten generation”) get promoted past middle management before they hit 60.
Probably a lot of it.
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