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.
“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.
I think you’re exactly right. And all the Covid stuff was just an added spur.
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.
Before the Great Theft. (Happening now)
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.
After 4 years of retirement and some medical issues I’ve been trying to get back into the workplace with a job that fits my qualifications, after over 100 applications and only 3 interviews and zero offers im just about ready to call it quits.
Let the damn 'white liberal 'elites' do the jobs the middle class and working class were doing... Maybe they think they can train the illegals and MS13 drug dealers.
The best solution is to peacefully divide the country into two nations. One free- one woke. They can have what they want 0 we can have what we want... A total WIN WIN.
Yet another Perfect Storm brewing. Thanks Brandon!
Better learn some basic skills because you’ll be cooking at home more (no restaurant workers), fixing your own car with spit and bailing twine (no mechanics, no parts), installing your own home appliances (no plumbers or electricians) and butchering your own meat - that you hunted for, or raised yourself.
I hope I live long enough to watch all of this from the sidelines...sittin’ here on my sack a’ seeds! ;)
WTH? I thought this is exactly what the Bushbot liberals wanted! Get rid of older more expensive employees for foreign cheep workers.
No mater how experienced talented and dependable if you are a white male you will be treated as a pariah with hundred years of wrongs you had nothing to do with hung about your neck. You will become ‘woke’ manage, supervisor, department head and Corporate officers whipping boy
That, and "vax" mandates.
but for the exact OPPOSITE reasons...
they don’t have to put up wi this wokiness and can in many cases be hired right back as a consultant!
or just get out early and go Galt
Hi.
I get emails from recruiters at least once a week.
For CFO, controller and project mgr type positions.
I live on island time now, and wouldn’t work 60 hrs a week at $200k a year. For nobody.
5.56mm
and with them, the entire collective corporate memory
These are careerists and not job-hoppers. They were the institutional memory of their companies. I was one of them.
It wouldn't surprise me if most of them are millionaires several times over from their 401(k) and pension benefits.
I'll bet that many of them are going to go John Galt and take their retirement savings and withdraw from the labor force to spend their savings on the lifestyles they deferred while working.
-PJ