Posted on 12/29/2010 4:10:12 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
Dont be surprised if your company loses top workers in 2011.
A recent survey reveals 84 percent of U.S. employees plan to look for new jobs in 2011 up from 60 percent a year ago. Only 5 percent want to stay at their current position.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessnewsdaily.com ...
I’m torn. You make an excellent point about wanting to move up to a better job, and between the argument that people have misread the job environment and are dissatisfied with their current position and believe they can do better elsewhere.
I’ll certainly be happy to replace any of the folks quitting though.
Starting my own business was the best decision of my life. I have one employee: Me. I’ve worked for me longer than I worked for any other employer. I went fishing this afternoon, and I did not have to ask anyone’s permission or fill out any paperwork to do it. I just went.
Congratulations on being a successful business owner. What type of business did you start?
I do insurance claims field adjusting. Property/casualty.
But I guarantee every one of these people is terrified of losing their jobs before they have another.
The headline may be misleading. Could be true for corporate employees 24-45 and good educations, but I doubt that it would apply to older workers who are scared of being downsized with little notice.
Now government workers (local, state, federal, and just about all tenured teachers) are pretty well set for as long as their pension funds remain solvent. When the pension promises prove to be worth next to nothing, then they will realize the pain of the rest of the unemployed.
Let’s face it: government workers and their unions are making too much money and their constant demands for MORE and MORE will kill their golden goose - taxpayers who make much less than they do for similar work, not to mention lower SS payments that may soon evaporate.
“84%? Dont think so, too many people just like to bitch.”
Agree. I actually like my job. And commute by car 200 miles a day to do it.
I’ll quit after I sell my great American novel. But for another job? He!! No!
A simple fact of life is Nearly EVERYONE hates their jobs.
Quoting the great Red Foreman:
“Work is not about fun; it’s about work! It’s about seeing how much crap you can take from the boss man! And then takin’ some more!”
“If it wasn’t work, they’d call it ‘Super wonderful crazy fun time,’ or ‘Skippedy-do!’”
As soon as the economy picks up, I’m looking for other opportunities.....working 45 and getting paid for 32 blows!!
In contrast to my previous job, it's a cake walk - excellent pay and hours, no stress, good bennies. And the boss who everyone "hates" seems reasonable enough and does not micro manage.
That's the reality when there is high unemployment. If they manage to get a different job it will be the same there.
Yep. Sad, ain’t it?
I can’t imagine commuting 200 miles per day.
I had a 10 mile round trip and hated that. :-)
In this business climate, the worst and the meanest have total advantage over the best and the brightest.
It’s been jungle ROE for a couple years and I can’t see when it won’t be. I see 22-year olds playing Machiavelli to get wo-workers fired to make room for their friends and family.
‘Old age and/or treachery will beat youth and experience every time’.
Which didn't last long because some employers wanted to put family or friends in the spot, wanted to cut back on expenses or, as in one case, found it easier to fire the "kid" for stealing than the manager who actually was stealing. (and they knew he was but had some connection needing protection) Then repeat the two week job search process.
That's the way it is when you have fifty people ready to take any position on a day's notice. You can afford to fire people for anything at all. To be fair an employer in such an environment is under the same pressure to some extent and has a lot of motivation to tighten up their operation.
An old girlfriend of mine, several years older and a workaholic, gave me the best advice I know of for staying employed. Be indispensable. Be irreplaceable. Know more about your job than your employer does. Then, even if your employer's business goes under, you will be hired by someone else or you can start your own business and do it better than your old boss.
It is sad that due to human nature people sometimes take advantage of circumstances in unnecessary or greedy ways. Like when the job market is tight and people milk their jobs knowing that their employer can't readily replace them. It is simultaneously the harshness and the balance of an open market place.
Of course all of that is thrown out the window in a socialist/unionist environment where market conditions aren't allowed to intrude in the employee/employer relationship. No harshness. No balance. No accountability in good times or bad.
ping to #34
“People in today’s workplace are simply screwed.”
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True, there was a time when many American “workers” could pretend to work and their employer would really pay them. Now most are expected to work their asses off while their employer pretends to pay them. Prices up, wages down, the new normal.
Another horrible thing about this market is that excellence is viewed as a threat to entrenched management, who have fought hard to keep standards low and don’t want anybody raising the bar in the operation, which happens when way-overqualified people take lesser jobs to stay alive.
Managers who have no experience outside their industry, or actual job, are highly threatened by over-qualified subordinates. They also tend to keep horrible employees on so they have a scapegoat someone to bitch about to THEIR managers.
Congratulations.... You answer the following question!!
Why have American employers hired tens of millions of low wage illegal aliens.
Only as long as the CEO is willing to tolerate it. People play games in good times and in bad. If things are so rotten in a company that it goes all the way to the top and honesty, excellence and good service to your employer don’t count is that the kind of place you want to work even if you happen to be rising in the ranks at the moment? If your character and performance aren’t the basis of your job security then whatever is is out of your control and can disappear in an instant without the slightest warning.
I suggest they find new jobs, THEN quit.
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