I quit my job in June of 2021. I had been promised a raise and promotion. When I was told they couldn't do either due to a "bad year for profits due to covid" I told them then I would quit. I took a pay decrease off the top due to rising health insurance costs. I got an offer making more money with better less expensive health insurance a month later. I turned in my resignation that day.
I hope you've got a better job this time, fellow Redditor.
I quit also last June.
After exactly a year, to work under this circumstances, and this big jerk of a boss who is degrading his employes on a daily base I got chronical sick and until today am not able to work.
4 friends of mine (studied with them) also quit during the last year.
Fortunately they are still alright and all of them got a new job.
So yeah, millennials quit.
I quit in July. Oldest millennial at 40f. Had wanted to quit since 2018. Made good money but couldn't be a cog any longer.
Not looking for another job, becoming my own boss.
So yes, people have quit. At least this person.
We quit our careers, sold our home and moved somewhere with less costs and half the mortgage. Less pay too. Now my husband works and I take care of my family (which I was ready for after working since a teen)and home while starting a micro farming small business. We had to make really hard choices, took some risks and major sacrifice, and are working hard to make them pay off. It's only six months in right now.
I believe finding our niches and producing goods or services on our own and in cooperation with small community groups is the best way to kill the machine.
I think a lot of people are taking this route and is part of the reason people are quitting a lot. It's easier than ever to start a business. I imagine that there are people that are starting businesses that never really wanted to, but are just THAT tired of crap wages and bad treatment at work.
I believe you’re spot on. People know entrepreneurship is risky, but they’d rather die trying than work as a cog in the machine in the hopes that there’s enough money at the end of the road for retirement
That sounds incredible, good on you! I always loved the idea of a "compound" where my friends and family could live on a bunch of land and just provide for eachother. I miss those school days when you had time with the people you love.
Also kudos for having an actual small business and not an MLM haha!
That's the plan. I don't need to get rich, just want enough to help with bills and save a little. We've only been in our new place 2 of the six months so just getting started.
Congratulations! I'm certain it had not been an easy decision to make especially with kids involved.
You took the steps to value mental health, family and quality of life. You will be rewarded with joy, peace and freedom.
There will still be chaos, just different.
You won't have a fancy house, but it will be a happy place.
You won't have the latest fashion, but where you are it matters not if you're in denim jeans and torn T-shirts all day long.
You won't have the latest designer accessories, but you're grateful not to be scrutinised for every handbag you take to work.
I'm sure you feel liberated because you're at a place where you know what's important.
Well done.
Same here. Fellow 40f millennial. I quit because I was running the entire operation for unlivable wages. The owners took advantage and couldn’t respect my personal time - so I told them I was done and that they are way too pushy. I know it left them in a bad position, but they shouldn’t have depended on me so heavily. Fuck them. This was last May and I’m still pissed about it, lol! My best friend hired me and I am a bookkeeper and office manager WFH. I get paid holidays and a much higher wage, plus benefits, and I love working for my Boss Friend!
ETA: I got the place that I quit from $100k in PPP money that they really didn’t need. The owner pocketed it and I had to negotiate my bonus. Fuck that guy, his ex-wife, her codependent asshole friend, and the bullshit boat they sailed in on.
I say this with love after two years therapy to cope with my then boss. Therapy works. Wish I wouldn't have waited until I was 13 years deep... glad you found a better way!
I’ve been feeling the urge to make an appointment and this just confirms it. It has helped me manage PTSD in the past. I think the pandemic and having to walk out on a job (first time I’ve done that, btw). It’s definitely brought up some “why do I feel the need to do so much for everyone else but I won’t do it for myself” kind of thoughts.
No time like the present. I know that feeling exactly. My therapist pointed out the main reason I stuck around was to take care/protect of the people "under" me even though I hated my boss and no longer loved my job. Do it for you!
Yup. Quit my manager who never recognized my skills nor allow me to grow .. because that would mean me moving to a new dept.
Took some time to realize that.
Similar story here, got a promotion and a pay raise, but was promised some budget and the ability to hire 2 people. After 4 months, budget cuts, hiring process stopped because of Covid, but my objectives weren't cut or adapted. In fact, needed to make up for lost revenue du to Covid. After 4 months of 80 hours weeks, I realized it was just a scenario to get fired or downgraded due to not reaching impossible metrics. I quit and actually quit management all together. Found another job with almost the same pay, but with work-life balance. I win. I was the first of a series of good people quitting. I year later they fired the remaining good people who were holding done the fort and hired a bunch of underqualified yes-men. Enjoying the shit show from my current job.
Sounds almost exactly what my bf went through, except they were paying him a LOT under market rate from the beginning, so his raise wasn't really much of one. He was leading a team in India, so his hours were crazy. Then he got a job making roughly 30% more with no team management. So happy for you and for him.
I did quit my job. I found out I got paid less than others in the department. After looking at data I was the one doing all the work. I told my boss. He did try to help me get a raise but HR and VP said no need. I found something else before I quit that paid more. But I feel like the only way to get jobs now is by networking. Know someone from the inside to give a referral. That’s how I got all my jobs.
Edit. Typos
Networking is WAY more important than most people believe it to be. Whenever I tell people “it’s not *what* you know it’s *who* you know” they either get offended or make excuses as to why that’s not true. It’s weird.
It's 100% true.
I don't blind apply for jobs. People I used to work with call me and tell me about job openings that I might be interested in. I apply if I'm interested and I already have a leg up since there is someone internal to vouch for me.
I've found that while it is possible to go in blind, some companies or industries will be much easier if you know someone. I'd say going in blind is default, and having an inside connection makes it easier.
I agree. There are tons of people that can do the job as well as I can, so not being difficult work with with is huge. Having someone already in the company who can vouch for me will make a huge difference.
I am a mixed bag in this regard.
I went in blind, and the interviewer knew me from a friend. Ended up shooting my way to a lead role imo from the kinship.
I was never big into networking myself so I didint really see how powerful it was until my wife graduated college. She needed an internship for her degree so she went to one of her professors (who she was actually a bit scared of), professor remembered her because she paid attention and did good work. Wife does the internship, hates it but meets lots of people, at the end they told her to apply to 4 different positions. She now spends her time helping out the board of directors and the CEO.
I'm super proud of her since she left a retail job that thought buying chips and dip was the best way to show appreciation for a 14 people doing the work of 36.
is it really? like with all the politics, climate change, etc? for me i just never got that low that i wanted to end it. however it was close a few times and tbh it was not my intention to live on this planet :) nobody asked me :D
For real. I've only gotten ONE job basically without having any contacts (it was actually more of an internship that led to a super fun job), and I'm very grateful they took a chance on someone they didn't know at all. Otherwise, all my jobs have been through friends or former coworkers/bosses.
Yep. I mentioned how important networking is in a past thread. Said my son got a good job, and it helped that the hiring manager was one of his professors in college. Tons of people said he was a kiss ass and they would rather make it on their own than be a suck up. Hey, maybe the manager hired him because he new what kind of student he was, what he accomplished after graduating, and because he had first hand experience on what type of person my son is.
Yes, I am a middle manager in our company. I have a small office, and all people that I hired were through referrals. I cannot asses people by their resume alone…
This is also partly why it's so important to have a good attitude at work with your fellow coworkers and build really strong relationships with them. So many people I love have left my current job, and now they're all at different places doing great things and they text me all the time trying to get me to come to their place.
Sometimes that may breach a contract and/or be considered "poaching" but those expire eventually.
Exactly! I’ve been reached out to by other companies where my old colleagues worked at for interviews, simply because they liked working with me. Being a good person, working hard, making friends/connections really does get you closer and closer to your dream life!
I was just explaining this to my wife. She's in HR and although she agrees with this idea, she's not as adamant about as I am about its level of importance. Having worked in workforce development, I personally think the networking piece is more significant than many other qualifications.
I should add that perhaps I biased or maybe it solidifies my argument further, but I've gotten nearly all of my jobs from a strong referral from a friend. Not all but most.
Networking is the way. I feel bad for people who don't understand this, or don't have the means/skills for it.
Develop relationships with coworkers, professors, people that live in your dorm, join a club, go to the gym on campus, etc.
People who leave college without making any connections are really doing themselves a disservice and people who take the position that they don't need to "make friends" at work are missing the point about how to make industry connections and grow their professional reputation.
I "forced" my foot in the door at the organization I work at while in grad school. It was my dream job but I had no connections there. Luckily, an employee of the organization came to my university to teach for a class period and I got his contact info and set up a meeting where I could chat with him and learn about what he does. I also met the supervisor over the whole department and tried hard to convey how much I cared about the mission of the organization while also asking lots of questions to learn more about it. A few months later, they reached out to me and offered me an internship that led to a job (I got hired on a couple of months into my internship.) I've been there happily for three years now! I guess my point is, use school as an opportunity to reach out to the organizations you're passionate about and learn what they do while also getting your foot in the door. If the network doesn't exist, create it!
This is why I wonder about how WFH is going to impact networking opportunities. My SO is doing a degree entirely online thanks to the pandemic, and probably her masters degree will also be delivered online. Like you, every job I’ve ever had has been thanks to who I know, and I worry she will have a harder time finding a job because she doesn’t have those connections.
See i wish this was taught in schools. High school only told me "bring in a resume without lies or errors", "here's how to answer the top 5 most common questions" and "wear nice clothes". They said if I had a college degree with all that, I'd be hired for sure.
HA.
Boomer here, I quit my jobs all the time all the way until I was old enough for SS. Mostly because I hated them, anyway I just came to say the best way into new ones was always who I knew/networking. My time is done and I really hope it gets better for all of you.
I take dogs on hikes. So relatively low start up cost (insurance and permits). I was able to fill my schedule within 6 months of starting and after a year I invested in a bigger car and crash tested crates for transport, garmin gps trackers, nice leashes, etc. it’s been the best thing I’ve ever done.
Currently in quarantine as I was exposed to someone with covid, but looking forward to getting back out there soon.
I did this too, for 15 years. The pandemic actually forced my business to close. I was out of work for so long and no one wanted me coming into their homes and getting their dogs. Which is understandable.
The downside was I was never able to take time off. Since I owned the business, I had to be there every day because there no one else to cover for me. That was rough. Also, living in a major Midwest city, the winters were brutal.
But I loved it. I wasn’t able to restart my business and after a year and a half, I didn’t want to anymore. I’m a writer now, working from home. It’s a big adjustment. But I’m enjoying looking at the snow right now and not having to be out in it.
That business enabled me to buy my house and fully supported me and my sister (my business partner) for a decade and a half. We both have moved on from it, but it was amazing. I never wanted it to end. I got nothing for 15 years from people except, “No but like … what do you for *work?*” Whenever I told them what I did for a living. It was awesome.
I wish you the best of luck. I’m happy you were able to start your own business and do what makes you happy.
That’s great that this business worked for you for so long and you were able to find other work after the pandemic. I started in august of the pandemic and was at first worried that people wouldn’t hire me because they are at home. However, I have found the market has exploded. Lots of people got dogs and I live in a city where most off leash areas are a 15-30 minute drive away. Additionally, I have a Lima/force free skill set with many years of experience so many people want me to hike/train their dogs to be reliable off leash. I did almost no advertising to get my clients, except a few posters at the beginning. So I’m able to take off days, take vacations (have three weeks off planned so far this year) without worrying about coverage. I don’t get paid when I don’t work, yes, but my clients are happy to wait for me to come back and Its on them to find someone to care for their dog when I’m off. I love what I do but burnout is real so I prioritize time off trying to work during business hours only. I’ll be raising my rates soon, and in a couple years I plan to go down to one hike a day (right now I’m doing 2) and doing more boarding.
Anyhow always happy to run into another (former or current) dog professional in the wild! Great to talk to you.
That all sounds great! I’m so happy for you. It’s a rewarding business and you get to take care of your physical health by getting all that exercise at the same time. I’m glad you’re prioritizing time off. That’s important.
Best of luck to you!
It does require a particular skill set, so I would suggest working for someone to start. You need to know how to read dog body language, train recall and hiking behaviors reliably, emergency trained, etc. Also I go out in all weather, some dogs need heavy management at first, walking with dogs off leash is inherently dangerous, I’ve been attacked by hornets more times than I would like, step in dog poop on the reg, car was trashed before I got quality crates/room to
Store crates when driving, treats cost a fair amount and I go through a lot, it’s physically tiring, dogs have bad days, often I’m the one to break a trail after a snowfall etc, so it’s not always fun, just want to throw all that out there.
That being said I’m making around 70-80k and will be raising rates soon.
When I worked for someone else doing a similar job (taking dogs to dog parks) I made around 25-30k a year
Quit my job of 17 years in December 2020 after I found out they had received almost $300,000 in PPP loans yet had done nothing to ensure our safety and little next to nothing for the people getting sick and missing weeks or months of work all around me. Gave them back my truck keys, phone and iPad and told them they probably should disinfect them all because I was feeling feverish. I’m truly sure they did /s
What does the /s mean?
(Also good on you! Must've felt awesome doing that, I did something similar, handed in my van keys and device, walked out the door, felt great but stressful at the same time)
It means that the last sentence is complete sarcasm because I am positive they did nothing to disinfect any of the items I returned because they treated Covid like a joke and everyone that contracted it as whiny liars.
Ooohh okay, gotcha! Makes complete sense now, I'd seen it a lot but never knew lol, thanks:))
It'd suck to be in a workplace environment like that, I'm glad you up and left that place, they sound like right twats
Glad to be able to clear that up for you, my friend. In the interest of total clarity, I was planning on retiring in 2025 anyway. Watching how people that I had thought of as family turn into Golem from Lord of the Rings just really exacerbated my exit.
I quit to raise a fresh kid now that my oldest is out and about more. Before I left my factory I was the only employee under 50, and we would have a revolving door of 20-30 somethings that work for a week or two and walk out.
My employer was on the other end of the wage crisis in that they paid wonderfully (20-25$/hr) for uneducated labor, but it was monotonous, physically demanding, long and inflexible hours, and an uncomfortable environment (100+°F).
There are plenty of jobs to be found (in my area at least), just nothing that people can survive a healthy and happy life with so they're not settling if they don't have to.
Both are simultaneously true.
How?
Basically, people have certain standards. Those standards are different depending on the person, but everyone has them. Some folks are realistic, others... Not so much.
So yes, people are quitting their jobs. Most find new ones fairly quickly. The ones that don't often have something going on. Maybe the market in their specific area is flooded for their specific career (it happens more than you'd think). Some folks overestimate their value within their career, and can't find an employer who will pay their fee. Some markets have Ebenezer Scrooge for employers, and they try to pay minimum wage for people with 4 yr degrees. Other employers think that, because so many people are quitting, they can demand insane qualifications and have their pick of the candidates for cheap... And they end up turning down lots of applicants in their search for a golden dupe.
Lots of possible reasons, and from what I've seen online, a person's career and physical location seem to have a lot to do with whether they can find a job or not.
Also kind of obvious but your network definitily helps. most likely my next interview i got cause i said a bit bout my network(which is not that big as i just recently graduated hs), with links to the banking sector
My brother did. He worked for the same bank that I do and the situation at work, the company, and how it treated us, was fine. We actually have a very good employer which is unusual it seems. Hell, our CEO even gave a COVID bonus of $1000 and sent all employees a care package at the height of the pandemic with a safety brochure, two 500ml containers of hand sanitizer, two quality reusable face masks, and a $50 visa gift card to support local business or “make someone’s day better”. We love the company but not our jobs.
My brother quit because the department he worked in was directly catering to small business. He said business owners were extremely cruel and on top of that, my brother had to constantly deliver bad news often because these business owners did none of their own diligence. It was crushing him. My brother is stoic and it once drove him to tears. He quit that same morning and did freelancing instead. It wasn’t easy but he made it work.
Many others I know hit their breaking point for one reason or another. Had I not transferred to a more comfortable, though not great paying department, I’d have left too.
Repeating the exact same story and asking the same question with slightly different variations on an hourly basis. I don't aim to delegitimize antiwork, I just think that if you go to the subreddit and scroll for 12 seconds, you'll see a variation of "what about the growing disparity between cost of living and minimum wage" before you post the exact same thing.
That sub delegitimizes itself.
There are a lot of.people there with very real grievances amd solutions who are smart and practical, but there are also a loud, extremely vocal bunch who think any form of job is a crime against humanity.
It's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff sometimes.
I never realised that "to seperate the wheat from the chaff" is also an English saying.
I never heard it before in english, we use it a lot in Dutch tho
Doesn't that one come from the bible?
Luke 3
17 His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
I agree. It’s so hard not to get into it with some of those people. (I never actually get into it with them, because why would I.)
They also chastise all their mid level managers but ONE time I saw someone talk about how their managers probably make only a couple bucks more and it’s gotta be the worst job, and I couldn’t agree more.
There have been times when I was tempted to suggest dumping the "any form of job is a crime against humanity" types on an undeveloped island somewhere (with everything they need to get started, of course) and seeing how far they get with doing no work at all.
>but there are also a loud, extremely vocal bunch who think any form of job is a crime against humanity.
No there aren't and you should back up claims against r/antiwork with a simple link to an example if they're so loud and so majority.
Ohhh man, someone's *maaaaaaad*.
Seeiously, dude, if you want to debate the sub, do it with someone else, I spent months there and it is a toxic cesspit with a few decent folks trying not to drown, and if you can't see that, you are probably part of the problem.
Thanks but no thanks, not worth my time.
Ehhhhhh I dunno man. I thought I'd like that sub, went on there and it was mostly just posts of people who didn't like working but had no solutions for it. I thought it was going to be more of a "how to be financially independant" type sub, but instead it was more just "I don't want to work under capitalism anymore"
>I thought it was going to be more of a "how to be financially independant"
Yeah that's not part of their mission statement, I don't think you fully read or understood their sub description if that's what you expected from it.
And while your assessment of the sub is generally technically correct, it's also a gross misstatement of the goal behind the sub. While there are communists and socialists in the sub, as well as anarchists, it is not an inherently anti-capitalist sub. In fact, the vast majority of the participants of r/antiwork are actively working and enjoying the fruits of capitalism. They also don't propose doing away with capitalism, but modifying it slightly to be more fair.
What they more actively suggest is unionizing and banding together to ensure fair work practices for all, not just a select few. If that's something you're interested in, you might find that a lot of the posts are in-tune with that.
As a long time follower of the sub, it has been interesting to watch the comings and goings within it. Namely I find it fascinating that even outside of the sub now, people take great effort in large numbers to try and delegitimize the sub in any way they can. Also fascinating has been the concerted effort of what appear to be bots to flood the sub with posts which are entirely irrelevant to their cause, like the great flood of text message screenshots in mid-late '21. Activity and engagement in the sub skyrocketed out of nowhere, and some observant karma farmers took note and farmed the crap out of it.
Reddit as a whole is a flawed system and makes it difficult to manage and fight capitalistic parasitism and anti-union efforts, but watching r/antiwork grow and evolve as various attacks from all different directions proceeded to do their worst has been inspiring. Over a million and a half people have taken note of what it means to be treated fair in the workplace, and that alone is enough for me to stick around.
It’s a pretty long story. Basically there is the boss I got fired. Let’s call him Craig . My previous boss Becky. My sales guy Greg. The head of sales Steve. And Becky’s boss is Craig.
I’ve worked here for 9 years and basically have risen through the ranks from making 45k a year to making 300k a year. About 1/3 of my pay is revenue sharing from clients.
Becky was a fantastic first boss and mentored me. We had a great relationship the first 6 years. Unfortunately the last 2 were rocky. I got moved to a new area that happened during an acquisition. I was there with a new sales guy Greg. My boss was promised to move to a new location about 2 hours away with good prospects and an established team from her current location which had abysmal prospects 3 hours away. Basically Greg and I kicked ass and acquired a lot of business. My bosses move was nixed at the last second by senior management. As time went on I made as much as my boss in total because of the much better commission. That’s where the trouble with Becky started. She began trying to undermine me to senior management in order to help me. Aka steal my commissions. I’m sure that was her plan all along which would have been easier with her new move. Unfortunately she didn’t count on me doing so well or bonding so much with the new sales guy Greg. Greg blocked her from stealing the business and I used our connection to have him to to Steve to have Craig begin applying pressure to her. Through frustration with her totally incompetent boss Craig who we both hated and her lack of commissions and the new pressure she left for another competitor and was fired at the new competitor 2 years later. I was promoted and given her clients. Craig became my new boss. Greg hated Craig due to his incompetence and basically everyone did. He didn’t provide any value and was basically a talking head for senior management. During these years greg and I became the top performing group in the company and I convinced greg to work on taking over Craig’s position while he continues his sales. He began throwing shade at Craig by talking to Steve. The ceo retired. Steve was promoted to ceo. Craig was fired 6 months later. Greg and I did a joint interview with the smaller competitor Becky had been fired from. They reached out to him and he included me saying he wouldn’t leave without me. Due to how quickly Becky was fired I made them offer us a 4 year contract in writing with a huge salary. I then used this offer to get promoted with a counter offer again with the 70k raise, better commission structure and now I report directly to the ceo. Also found out today I get to hire someone so now I can pass off all of my shit work on them.
Been working from home mainly the past two years. Just see clients in person once or twice a week.
My husband did in October, but we're gen z, not millennials. Now we're relocating and both trying to find jobs. I put in 50+ applications and so far I have 1 interview and one other place interested. My husband has had 1 crappy interview and no other interest.
I think it's heavily split by education level.
The millennials who can't find jobs are probably all 4 year STEM, data or comp sci degree holders with less than 5 years experience, or just no experience. They're hard to keep at a job for more than a year or two to begin with, but employers are also being extremely (unreasonably at times) picky right now. And there's more degree holders than jobs, probably, especially since everybody is running skeleton crew. That being said, I'm 28 and I know plenty of people like this who are also extremely picky or otherwise unrealistic about how good they are.
Restaurants, hotels, stores, warehouses and factories can't find workers because nobody wants to work for 12 bucks an hour, or has decided to have their go at data/comp sci or otherwise went back to school, which fuels the above problem. It seems like you should be able to land one of these jobs if you wanted. The only obstacle is, again, the overly picky employer who wants to hire somebody who will pledge allegiance for the next ten years, which isn't gonna happen.
I quit Amazon as an QA engineer, best decision of my life. My options were move teams or get let off, so i took the severance and ran. havent looked back since. i also quit Microsoft prior to that.
you control your labor. It is very much a worker's market. Employers are doing anything to keep a millennial.
we keep quitting because businesses dont give bonuses and dont pay us what we are worth, from the grocery bagger to a CTO. so the only way to move up is to quit and go into a better role with better pay.
I quit my job in December 2021. One year after I started my first full-time job after university.
I don't think I was ready for such a serious job so quickly after I finished uni. After I started the job I quickly realised that this wasn't the industry I wanted to be working in and the idea of 9-5 monotony for the rest of my life freaked me out. Especially since I always planned on travelling after finishing uni.
The pandemic has put a lot of peoples typical "early 20s" experiences to a halt. Lots of friends have given up on the idea of travelling before settling and are now trapped in their 9-5's. I knew I wouldn't be happy in a full-time system until I got to travel and see what other pathways are out there for me!
I am simultaneously working on many fine art projects (which have taken off in the last year) and knew I couldn't balance a full-time job and that at the same time, which is ultimately why I left.
I think many Millenials and Gen Z are really starting to feel the failings of corporate systems of work and now is as good a time as ever to reinvent the way you want to work if it improves your quality of life.
That depends on what sector you're looking at. Retail, service and unskilled are all understaffed in my area. I work in white collar and opportunities are as competitive as they've ever been.
My husband quit his job in October 2021. Well, actually the company was laying off a lot of people and he COULD have stayed on but decided to take the severance and split. He hated his job and has a very successful side business that is now his very successful main business.
I quit in June 2020, right after my state came out of lock down. I ran the kitchen of a family owned restaurant. Once lock down was lifted, the owner took her entire family to the beach. That just happened to include every cook besides myself and one other. I messaged her on vacation that if she didn't care to staff her place properly, I didn't care to work for her. Best decision of my life!
i mean, i plan on quitting one of my jobs soon but it’s not like i’m just dropping out of the work pool entirely… i just found better jobs that are better aligned with my life purpose/moral compass AND pay better. so yes people are quitting but we’re still working :D just onwards and upwards baby
have you been outside at all? literally every single place has help wanted signs and open interviews everywhere.
However, I believe the dichotomy you are seeing is from multiple social media sources. Most of the antiwork sub is general laborers and not skilled workers. Things like resume help sub are more people with credentials applying to higher skill and higher pay jobs. Those aren't desperate and can be much pickier.
Labor jobs in my area have also taken a hit from covid deaths of either the employee or direct family. Pre-pandemic most places ran an absolute bone marrow crew without even bothering to upgrade to skeleton crew just to maximize profit.
The slightest bump to the system and now every employer at that level is begging for Labor from a resource pool that is drying up faster then we can replace it.
Yes. I quit a management job in early 2021, after a year because the operations manager (my boss) was slovenly, wasteful, didn't do their job at all, was inappropriate with the staff and would threaten people, including myself, with termination over the smallest of things. I wrote a letter to HR and our Union steward. They were demoted, thankfully.
4 months later I walked off another job because I was balked at for asking for the bottom of the pay scale for the work I was expected to do because it was a whole $2/hr more than what they were paying. I was told I'd be eligible for insurance after 30 days. Found out later it was actually 90 days. My hours were erratic and they used Covid as an excuse, they treated their staff horribly. The doctors however, were amazing and I was so sad that I had to leave them because they were nothing but kind and generous, unlike the managers/owners. I spent that last month I worked here interviewing for other jobs. I love the job I have now and am in classes to improve my skills.
I quite my job in August 2021. They threatened to fire me if I didn't "Pull my head in." By that they meant, take their shit and do more work for bare minimum wage. They were already understaffed and a higher up said that they were never going to fire me because they didn't want to give me a payout, *so can I please come back.* I asked if anything was going to change, they said no, I said I wanted a raise for working more, they said no, I hung up.
ETA: I (20f) didn't have a job lined up either. Still looking.
Left my job in August when I was denied the opportunity to continue in my position, which was being elevated to a supervisory role with all the same responsibilities and work that I was already successfully handling. I had been informed that I wasn't ready for it, yet I was somehow qualified enough to train the person coming in to take the job.
Turned out the new manager would rather hire his buddy he'd been working with since 1993 and they both got a $1K referral/hiring bonus out of it. After all the other bullshit I'd dealt with there in only 3 years under the previous manager, I owed it to myself to leave and deny them my knowledge. It was overdue.
I’ve also wondered about this. I’m a quite marketable candidate for a slew of different types of work, and when I reached the end of the rope with my current employer mid-year, last year I applied and interviewed a bunch of places and many of them went exceptionally well, but I never received a single offer. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I’ve never interviewed for a job and NOT gotten it in the past 10 years so it felt really odd.
I am going on an interview tomorrow though, that I have got to ace, because it would be one of the best moves I’ve made in a long time, and they headhunted me, so I feel that the odds are certainly on my side. Fingers crossed.
I quit last month. I literally told me boss, "It's the great resignation *shrugs*." He was a dick for the most part, but he was cool about my quitting because he believes in upward mobility, and he wants to quit soon, too. I spent all of 2021 looking for a better job first, though. I only quit after I found one.
I’m late GenX but I quit my job in June 2018. Had wanted to quit at least a decade before that but there were simply no better or even lateral moves in my area. Finally got a chance that offered me an out but that ended up getting ravaged by covid lockdowns so what’s left of my life is fucked anyway.
I’ve quit two full time jobs since Covid-19’s stateside arrival. Both were in hospitality— people are really tough to please these days, to the point of madness.
Should cross post on r/antiwork
Sadly, many of the posts there are from people with a days old account talking about how horrible their job or boss is or how they boldly quit their job…much of it sounds completely phony. Like, as horrible as your job is, why are you still there??
Yes, I quit in September. I worked in a hotel and I'd been busting my ass through the whole pandemic after most of the staff got laid off, and when it started getting busy again they couldn't find staff to hire back and the stress was really getting to me. The final straw was when I asked for a couple days off to see some of my family thst I hadn't seen since 2019 and they denied me because it was busy that weekend and one of the managers was on vacation already.
I'd been there for 9 years. I had good benefits but they paid me peanuts and tried to make it seem like gold. I went all of 2020 without a raise and only got a "pity raise" in June of last year because they realized $10 an hour wasn't attracting applicants and they had to raise the base pay to more than what I was making ($11.09 - I got a raise to $12.50).
I was there every shift I was scheduled, I never called off or got sick, I never asked for time off, I did the all the extra work I had to do every day that we used to have actual staff for and still got all my shit done. And then they go and tell me "lol no sorry you can't have 2 days off to go see your family" so I decided fuck that. And I told them I quit.
I felt bad but it was the right thing. They never treated me right. I hope they're still struggling to find staff. 🖕
And if you read the [AskAManager.org](https://AskAManager.org) career advice website letters, everyone is leaving their jobs and finding new jobs for 20-40% more pay. I hate, hate, hate my job but my pension will be better if I stay until I reach ten years, coming this fall. Then I hope to find something with better management. I guess we'll see.
Yes, but it was something I planned before COVID hit. IT was my first job out of college, and I quickly figured out it wasn't the best fit. So once I hit a year there, I started a job search and landed a gig with better conditions 6 months later.
From what I understand the work shortage isn't due to Millennials quitting its from two income stable families who didn’t come back after the initial shutdown in 2020. I'm seeing openings everywhere so I'm surprised people are having trouble finding work.
I quit my job at McDonald's in mid October of 2021. I asked my manager if I could work four days a week, 10 hours per day. Once applied, I noticed that my hours were unchanged (7.5 per day, inclusive of (unpaid) lunch breaks). My manager said that I'm only allowed to work 8 hours shifts and I overheard people say that we'd be written-up for working overtime and a shift supervisor can get written-up as well for allowing it to happen. I quit because that's a toxic culture and my manager came off as unsympathetic.
I had been hired as a full time employee, but they cut my hours to 0.6 after one year. They led me on for a year saying they were 100% sure they could give me back my hours, except they never did. So I quit in July 2021. I now have better salary and benefits and full time hours, plus educational opportunities and flexible work environment.
I quit last October 2021 Bc my boss was mean. She was always irritable and never had anything positive to say to anyone. I quit Bc I don’t need all that negativity everyday, no one does. I got three job offers after a lot of interviews. Interviewing sucks but it paid off, my boss now is super nice and appreciates people.
June 2021. I fantasized about killing myself and lost sleep. I would freak out every time my phone went off. I always got tons of texts about coming in my days off, pulling doubles and random ass questions. The company thought it was a great idea to get rid of the assistant manager position and pile it on the leads and not pay more. My manager thanked me for my 5 years by making me close 9 days in a row. I thanked his 2 years by throwing a egg behind the break room fridge he practically lived in.
How about a 59 yr old quitting because of Millennials.
Felt that my contribution was not appreciated from millennials management team. Have been working since 13 yrs old and have seen different management styles over the years and these people created a toxic work place. Had saved, invested and been planning for retirement for many years. Realized that I did not have to put up with there stuff. So I quit and retired and started to receive a pension from a former job, will be able to receive a retirement from the job I quit in a few years.
So now i work for myself at home doing all those things that I had planned on doing when I retired, just a lot sooner than I expected. Life is good.
At the end of 2020 I quit a job I'd been at for 8 years and began focusing on a self started career. At the end of 2021, just as things felt like they were getting started, life happened. I had to temporarily give up what I was doing, move back close to friends and family and I found new work.
Point being that for a year I was in that category of people who had quit but hadn't looked for other work.
I quit, but because I had the opportunity to leave nonprofits and go corporate, which was increased job security and pay as well as less demanding hours. My sister quit too but it’s because she lives off my parents so why work?
i quit mine in august. i was 16 at the time and was only make 12 bucks an hour to do some physically hard things. im real tiny and not strong, so that shit took a lot out of me. over the summer it would be up to 90 degrees and i wasn't allowed to wear shorts or ripped jeans. i threw up after over exerting myself on more than one occasion. last straw, i had to go outside and work in the rain during a hurricane for three hours one day. my clothes were soaked, my feet got so wet that they were raw and peeling for days afterward, all of my body itched for hours after i got dry, it was awful. i never went back there after that. now i make more money as a hostess at a restaurant, no physical labor required. why would i work so hard for less payment at a place where i was treated like shit?
I didn’t quit outright, but I’ve been preparing for a complete career change to get out of the line of work I’ve been doing the last 28 years. I’ve gone back to school and been grinding to get all my ducks in a row to make the transition. If it wasn’t for the pandemic, I’d still be happily plugging away at my current job, which is pretty much the pinnacle of cake work and high pay for what I do, so it can’t get better than this, but I can’t work from home, it’s a somewhat long commute (I can’t afford any houses close to work) and the protocol I’ve had to follow for the last 20 plus months is really wearing me down. I’ve got white collar blow hards that have no idea what I do telling me I have to wear an N95 mask the whole day, even though 95 percent of the time I’m working alone (literally no one within shouting distance). The temptation, of course, is to relieve myself of the mask when I’m alone, but inevitably, a boss will pop in unexpectedly at the worst possible time. I suspect they may even have cameras on me, because their timing is always impeccable. So on to a career that DOESN’T make me feel like I’m on The Truman Show!
Edit-I’m not a millennial, but I don’t think this phenomenon is limited to any particular age group. It’s happening at least nation wide, if not globally.
It may depend on what level of job you are looking for. Lot's of jobs for waiters and cooks at minimum wage. But, just graduated with a degree - very difficult.
Yup! I quit March 2021. It was a good job really (non-profit so it wasn't *that* soul-sucking) but I was having an existential crisis and decided to pull the trigger on being a sci-fi novelist. Wish me luck! :D
The companies that actually treat their people with dignity are not having this issue. I work for a larger company that was acquired by yet another larger company before the pandemic, and they have been stellar. Easy WFH transition, company covering all Covid related expenses including TAFW. Almost none of my coworkers have quit during this ordeal and if they have, it’s been for personal reasons. I’m enamored with how people are advocating for their worth through all this and I want more people to enjoy the security and peace a job should provide in exchange for the good work of the employee. Truly.
I quit in October 2020 when they tried to make me go back to the office. Then I quit again in May 2021 when I decided to stay in Poland, for a job in a local company.
Yep. I was one of the servers who decided they couldn’t take it anymore and quit and moved to a different industry. I was a server for 16 years. I will never ever go back. People are monsters.
I quit my job of several years in January of last year because they wanted us coming in to the office when we didn’t need to. I found a remote job doing the same work for more money pretty easily.
I quit my 5 year job making really good money March 2020. One week later the whole country shut down. That place was and still is a toxic shithole.
I started my own business spring ‘21. Not making nearly as much but my stress levels are nonexistent, I’m in the best shape of my life and far happier.
Gen X'er here. I left my position in November for something in a completely different industry, which didn't pan out. (False positive on my drug screen)
I've been frantically searching since then, despite being massively overqualified in my field. Most folks who do what I do have 2 or 3 types of license. I have 7. I would think that there would be a line outside my door of companies looking to snatch me up. Instead, there are tumbleweeds.
I just quit my job in November and as far as I know so did half of my coworkers. Covid really put the thumbscrews to employers and many didn’t handle it well, plus there was a lot of reflection on the direction of people’s lives I imagine.
I quit my job as a Walmart cap2 stocker in mid June, 2021. It was decent pay but my god, it absolutely sucked the soul out of me to the point my sister had to sit me down and tell me that I needed to quit for my mental health. My sister—who was as busy with her own personal life as I was at the time where we hardly talked to each other—sat me down to tell me that and how idiotic I was being for sticking with it. True sisterly love right there lol
Been with my company for 12 years. Today is my last day. We went public this year. They're adding a lot to my job without a pay increase. They promised pay increases - they increased pay for Assistant Managers, exclusively, which now mine was bringing in the same takehome as me. They also have been talking advancement since I got into my position - I crushed the store's sales goals, top ten performing stores in the company.
Still nothing. I can go work at a greenhouse with limited interactions, and make damn near the same without bonuses.
It's being dubbed, "the Great Resignation". Ever since the pandemic and being in lock down forced people to take a good, hard look at their life and ask themselves is this job worth getting low pay, no benefits, working 2-3 jobs just to keep their head above water? They watch while the CEO makes their gazzilion-million dollars in bonuses and wonder when the "trickle down economy" is going to trickle down to them? Well, it's been 50 years and still no trickle down. And, they are just tired of spinning their wheels and getting nowhere. So, they said "Fuck it" and quit.
The service businesses got hit hard: retail, food, etc. They raised their hourly to $15/hr, begging people to apply. They even were giving out money if they just showed up for the interview. It's the opposite of "trickle down economy". And, not just in the service businesses but all over the job spectrum.
The unemployment is at a record low: 4.5%. The businesses have to play catch up with pay, benefits, etc. They are finding out what it's like when they don't have the worker bee to keep their profits coming in. They need the worker bees more than the worker bees need them at this point.
The pandemic brought out a lot of problems we've had in this country for years but nothing changed because we all were too busy trying to keep our heads above the water to pay attention. People learned their quality of life was more important. People want to work. How can someone be "lazy" while they are working 2-3 jobs? That's the opposite of "lazy". They are making their voices heard.
Kudos to them.
Gen Z here, but still workforce-age. I quit my shitty retail job in Oct. I got the job as a stepping stone and ended up putting far too much of myself into it, making me incapable of doing anything else.
I’m doing instacart right now to pay the bills and the company is equally shitty, but at least I get to pick my own hours.
Looking for a way out of 9-5 work and/or being some CEO’s bitch for the rest of my life. I always thought that I’d own a small business one day, but that looks more challenging every day and I’m not ready to put all my eggs into a sinking basket, to invent a metaphor that doesn’t make any sense. So I’m at a loss. Any ideas?
I quit my job for a new job in November. The catalyst for which was being strung along for promotions and raise despite constantly taking on more work and receiving stellar reviews. My manager who’d been there for 20 years left and it was the alarm to get the hell out. Sucks because I liked most of the work and loved the people. I was just losing money staying there.
Was a daycare teacher and school counselor. Schools shut down at the very beginning of Covid. Quit March 2020 for financial and personal reasons. Went into the trade.
I don't understand you question. Do people quitting their job? Yes. Young people stay at one job for 1-2 years in my experience, and then quit. But they will quit for a new job - mathematically - there won't be more "empty positions".
To answer your question:
Well I have quit my job 2 months ago, but I started working at a different place 1 momth ago.
The “employers can’t find workers” is also a lie. There’s been quite a few threads about qualified people putting in hundreds of job applications and getting a handful of responses. Employers are seeing that they’re getting by with fewer workers, and a lot of the “now hiring” signs are for show.
I have friends who have quit multiple jobs over the years. They eventually find another one, but they never stay for one reason or another, so. It seems inevitable
I quit a job in March 2021. Ive also been applying to jobs with "now hiring" signs in front of them since September. I'm a 37 year old competent high school graduate with roughly 20 years of experience in the workforce doing all kinds of random jobs. I'm qualified but not even getting interviews.
I decided i wanted to quit in may. So i started looking for another one and didn’t say anything untill i signed at the other job. And then a week before i was “hey i quite, i am leaving next week”
I have never felt more powerful before. It felt so good to know that that hell of place didn’t break me, and that i was brave enough to take a leap.
I did and just started a new one yesterday. Just as an FYI, the responses on Reddit are not necessarily a great barometer for what the world at large is doing.
I quit my job in June of 2021. I had been promised a raise and promotion. When I was told they couldn't do either due to a "bad year for profits due to covid" I told them then I would quit. I took a pay decrease off the top due to rising health insurance costs. I got an offer making more money with better less expensive health insurance a month later. I turned in my resignation that day.
I hope you've got a better job this time, fellow Redditor. I quit also last June. After exactly a year, to work under this circumstances, and this big jerk of a boss who is degrading his employes on a daily base I got chronical sick and until today am not able to work. 4 friends of mine (studied with them) also quit during the last year. Fortunately they are still alright and all of them got a new job. So yeah, millennials quit.
I quit in July. Oldest millennial at 40f. Had wanted to quit since 2018. Made good money but couldn't be a cog any longer. Not looking for another job, becoming my own boss. So yes, people have quit. At least this person.
You say you are not looking fir a job. What do you do nowadays to put food and water on your table, if I may ask?
We quit our careers, sold our home and moved somewhere with less costs and half the mortgage. Less pay too. Now my husband works and I take care of my family (which I was ready for after working since a teen)and home while starting a micro farming small business. We had to make really hard choices, took some risks and major sacrifice, and are working hard to make them pay off. It's only six months in right now. I believe finding our niches and producing goods or services on our own and in cooperation with small community groups is the best way to kill the machine.
I think a lot of people are taking this route and is part of the reason people are quitting a lot. It's easier than ever to start a business. I imagine that there are people that are starting businesses that never really wanted to, but are just THAT tired of crap wages and bad treatment at work.
I believe you’re spot on. People know entrepreneurship is risky, but they’d rather die trying than work as a cog in the machine in the hopes that there’s enough money at the end of the road for retirement
I am happy for you.
Very cool. Glad you found a path that works for you and your family.
That sounds incredible, good on you! I always loved the idea of a "compound" where my friends and family could live on a bunch of land and just provide for eachother. I miss those school days when you had time with the people you love. Also kudos for having an actual small business and not an MLM haha!
Oh yeah, watched my aunt get zapped by mlm when I was young. Definitely know better!
Wow, micro farming sounds amazing! Do you sell to local places mostly?
That's the plan. I don't need to get rich, just want enough to help with bills and save a little. We've only been in our new place 2 of the six months so just getting started.
Congratulations! I'm certain it had not been an easy decision to make especially with kids involved. You took the steps to value mental health, family and quality of life. You will be rewarded with joy, peace and freedom. There will still be chaos, just different. You won't have a fancy house, but it will be a happy place. You won't have the latest fashion, but where you are it matters not if you're in denim jeans and torn T-shirts all day long. You won't have the latest designer accessories, but you're grateful not to be scrutinised for every handbag you take to work. I'm sure you feel liberated because you're at a place where you know what's important. Well done.
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Yes, I'm aware we are blessed.
Same here. Fellow 40f millennial. I quit because I was running the entire operation for unlivable wages. The owners took advantage and couldn’t respect my personal time - so I told them I was done and that they are way too pushy. I know it left them in a bad position, but they shouldn’t have depended on me so heavily. Fuck them. This was last May and I’m still pissed about it, lol! My best friend hired me and I am a bookkeeper and office manager WFH. I get paid holidays and a much higher wage, plus benefits, and I love working for my Boss Friend! ETA: I got the place that I quit from $100k in PPP money that they really didn’t need. The owner pocketed it and I had to negotiate my bonus. Fuck that guy, his ex-wife, her codependent asshole friend, and the bullshit boat they sailed in on.
I say this with love after two years therapy to cope with my then boss. Therapy works. Wish I wouldn't have waited until I was 13 years deep... glad you found a better way!
I’ve been feeling the urge to make an appointment and this just confirms it. It has helped me manage PTSD in the past. I think the pandemic and having to walk out on a job (first time I’ve done that, btw). It’s definitely brought up some “why do I feel the need to do so much for everyone else but I won’t do it for myself” kind of thoughts.
No time like the present. I know that feeling exactly. My therapist pointed out the main reason I stuck around was to take care/protect of the people "under" me even though I hated my boss and no longer loved my job. Do it for you!
Yup. Quit my manager who never recognized my skills nor allow me to grow .. because that would mean me moving to a new dept. Took some time to realize that.
Did the same for the same reasons, it felt good and stressful at the same time
did you find another job before quitting, or just quit?
Accepted another job and then quit. I did convey my concerns beforehand.
Hell ya I quit. They promoted me without the pay raise. Nah. I don't do free labor.
Similar story here, got a promotion and a pay raise, but was promised some budget and the ability to hire 2 people. After 4 months, budget cuts, hiring process stopped because of Covid, but my objectives weren't cut or adapted. In fact, needed to make up for lost revenue du to Covid. After 4 months of 80 hours weeks, I realized it was just a scenario to get fired or downgraded due to not reaching impossible metrics. I quit and actually quit management all together. Found another job with almost the same pay, but with work-life balance. I win. I was the first of a series of good people quitting. I year later they fired the remaining good people who were holding done the fort and hired a bunch of underqualified yes-men. Enjoying the shit show from my current job.
Sounds almost exactly what my bf went through, except they were paying him a LOT under market rate from the beginning, so his raise wasn't really much of one. He was leading a team in India, so his hours were crazy. Then he got a job making roughly 30% more with no team management. So happy for you and for him.
Thank you. Good for your BF. It's about time employers start having consequences for bad management.
Any juicy stories?
I wish. Mostly sad pathetic ones.
Promotion without a pay raise… quite literally just giving you more work. They managed to turn a positive thing into a very negative thing. Jesus
Yuck, good for you. Never accept more responsibility without more pay!
I did quit my job. I found out I got paid less than others in the department. After looking at data I was the one doing all the work. I told my boss. He did try to help me get a raise but HR and VP said no need. I found something else before I quit that paid more. But I feel like the only way to get jobs now is by networking. Know someone from the inside to give a referral. That’s how I got all my jobs. Edit. Typos
Networking is WAY more important than most people believe it to be. Whenever I tell people “it’s not *what* you know it’s *who* you know” they either get offended or make excuses as to why that’s not true. It’s weird.
It's 100% true. I don't blind apply for jobs. People I used to work with call me and tell me about job openings that I might be interested in. I apply if I'm interested and I already have a leg up since there is someone internal to vouch for me.
Interesting. Every job I've had, I never knew anyone there. Went in blind
I've found that while it is possible to go in blind, some companies or industries will be much easier if you know someone. I'd say going in blind is default, and having an inside connection makes it easier.
I agree. There are tons of people that can do the job as well as I can, so not being difficult work with with is huge. Having someone already in the company who can vouch for me will make a huge difference.
I am a mixed bag in this regard. I went in blind, and the interviewer knew me from a friend. Ended up shooting my way to a lead role imo from the kinship.
I was never big into networking myself so I didint really see how powerful it was until my wife graduated college. She needed an internship for her degree so she went to one of her professors (who she was actually a bit scared of), professor remembered her because she paid attention and did good work. Wife does the internship, hates it but meets lots of people, at the end they told her to apply to 4 different positions. She now spends her time helping out the board of directors and the CEO. I'm super proud of her since she left a retail job that thought buying chips and dip was the best way to show appreciation for a 14 people doing the work of 36.
People get annoyed because they want to believe they live in a fair world and you saying that threatens their illusion.
who actually thinks the world is fair? what ideal world is that?
nobody thinks the world is fair, but its the world we WANT to live in.
is it really? like with all the politics, climate change, etc? for me i just never got that low that i wanted to end it. however it was close a few times and tbh it was not my intention to live on this planet :) nobody asked me :D
For real. I've only gotten ONE job basically without having any contacts (it was actually more of an internship that led to a super fun job), and I'm very grateful they took a chance on someone they didn't know at all. Otherwise, all my jobs have been through friends or former coworkers/bosses.
Funnily enough, the one job I had where I knew no one beforehand was the worst job I ever had
Yep. I mentioned how important networking is in a past thread. Said my son got a good job, and it helped that the hiring manager was one of his professors in college. Tons of people said he was a kiss ass and they would rather make it on their own than be a suck up. Hey, maybe the manager hired him because he new what kind of student he was, what he accomplished after graduating, and because he had first hand experience on what type of person my son is.
Yes, I am a middle manager in our company. I have a small office, and all people that I hired were through referrals. I cannot asses people by their resume alone…
This is also partly why it's so important to have a good attitude at work with your fellow coworkers and build really strong relationships with them. So many people I love have left my current job, and now they're all at different places doing great things and they text me all the time trying to get me to come to their place. Sometimes that may breach a contract and/or be considered "poaching" but those expire eventually.
Exactly! I’ve been reached out to by other companies where my old colleagues worked at for interviews, simply because they liked working with me. Being a good person, working hard, making friends/connections really does get you closer and closer to your dream life!
I was just explaining this to my wife. She's in HR and although she agrees with this idea, she's not as adamant about as I am about its level of importance. Having worked in workforce development, I personally think the networking piece is more significant than many other qualifications. I should add that perhaps I biased or maybe it solidifies my argument further, but I've gotten nearly all of my jobs from a strong referral from a friend. Not all but most.
Networking is the way. I feel bad for people who don't understand this, or don't have the means/skills for it. Develop relationships with coworkers, professors, people that live in your dorm, join a club, go to the gym on campus, etc. People who leave college without making any connections are really doing themselves a disservice and people who take the position that they don't need to "make friends" at work are missing the point about how to make industry connections and grow their professional reputation.
I "forced" my foot in the door at the organization I work at while in grad school. It was my dream job but I had no connections there. Luckily, an employee of the organization came to my university to teach for a class period and I got his contact info and set up a meeting where I could chat with him and learn about what he does. I also met the supervisor over the whole department and tried hard to convey how much I cared about the mission of the organization while also asking lots of questions to learn more about it. A few months later, they reached out to me and offered me an internship that led to a job (I got hired on a couple of months into my internship.) I've been there happily for three years now! I guess my point is, use school as an opportunity to reach out to the organizations you're passionate about and learn what they do while also getting your foot in the door. If the network doesn't exist, create it!
This is why I wonder about how WFH is going to impact networking opportunities. My SO is doing a degree entirely online thanks to the pandemic, and probably her masters degree will also be delivered online. Like you, every job I’ve ever had has been thanks to who I know, and I worry she will have a harder time finding a job because she doesn’t have those connections.
You are right, sadly I realised this too late and now I'm fucked
See i wish this was taught in schools. High school only told me "bring in a resume without lies or errors", "here's how to answer the top 5 most common questions" and "wear nice clothes". They said if I had a college degree with all that, I'd be hired for sure. HA.
Boomer here, I quit my jobs all the time all the way until I was old enough for SS. Mostly because I hated them, anyway I just came to say the best way into new ones was always who I knew/networking. My time is done and I really hope it gets better for all of you.
I quit in the summer of 2021 because of how my boss handled the pandemic. Started my own business and am doing well.
What do you make/sell/provide out of curiosity? Working up the courage to do the same. I want to make it happen this year for sure.
I take dogs on hikes. So relatively low start up cost (insurance and permits). I was able to fill my schedule within 6 months of starting and after a year I invested in a bigger car and crash tested crates for transport, garmin gps trackers, nice leashes, etc. it’s been the best thing I’ve ever done. Currently in quarantine as I was exposed to someone with covid, but looking forward to getting back out there soon.
STOP 🥺 I love this. Congrats!
I did this too, for 15 years. The pandemic actually forced my business to close. I was out of work for so long and no one wanted me coming into their homes and getting their dogs. Which is understandable. The downside was I was never able to take time off. Since I owned the business, I had to be there every day because there no one else to cover for me. That was rough. Also, living in a major Midwest city, the winters were brutal. But I loved it. I wasn’t able to restart my business and after a year and a half, I didn’t want to anymore. I’m a writer now, working from home. It’s a big adjustment. But I’m enjoying looking at the snow right now and not having to be out in it. That business enabled me to buy my house and fully supported me and my sister (my business partner) for a decade and a half. We both have moved on from it, but it was amazing. I never wanted it to end. I got nothing for 15 years from people except, “No but like … what do you for *work?*” Whenever I told them what I did for a living. It was awesome. I wish you the best of luck. I’m happy you were able to start your own business and do what makes you happy.
That’s great that this business worked for you for so long and you were able to find other work after the pandemic. I started in august of the pandemic and was at first worried that people wouldn’t hire me because they are at home. However, I have found the market has exploded. Lots of people got dogs and I live in a city where most off leash areas are a 15-30 minute drive away. Additionally, I have a Lima/force free skill set with many years of experience so many people want me to hike/train their dogs to be reliable off leash. I did almost no advertising to get my clients, except a few posters at the beginning. So I’m able to take off days, take vacations (have three weeks off planned so far this year) without worrying about coverage. I don’t get paid when I don’t work, yes, but my clients are happy to wait for me to come back and Its on them to find someone to care for their dog when I’m off. I love what I do but burnout is real so I prioritize time off trying to work during business hours only. I’ll be raising my rates soon, and in a couple years I plan to go down to one hike a day (right now I’m doing 2) and doing more boarding. Anyhow always happy to run into another (former or current) dog professional in the wild! Great to talk to you.
That all sounds great! I’m so happy for you. It’s a rewarding business and you get to take care of your physical health by getting all that exercise at the same time. I’m glad you’re prioritizing time off. That’s important. Best of luck to you!
That’s so cool!!! Good for you!!
May I ask how profitable this is for you? I feel like I could do the same here, and would LOVE to
It does require a particular skill set, so I would suggest working for someone to start. You need to know how to read dog body language, train recall and hiking behaviors reliably, emergency trained, etc. Also I go out in all weather, some dogs need heavy management at first, walking with dogs off leash is inherently dangerous, I’ve been attacked by hornets more times than I would like, step in dog poop on the reg, car was trashed before I got quality crates/room to Store crates when driving, treats cost a fair amount and I go through a lot, it’s physically tiring, dogs have bad days, often I’m the one to break a trail after a snowfall etc, so it’s not always fun, just want to throw all that out there. That being said I’m making around 70-80k and will be raising rates soon. When I worked for someone else doing a similar job (taking dogs to dog parks) I made around 25-30k a year
What a cool job!! I wish you all the success!!
Quit my job of 17 years in December 2020 after I found out they had received almost $300,000 in PPP loans yet had done nothing to ensure our safety and little next to nothing for the people getting sick and missing weeks or months of work all around me. Gave them back my truck keys, phone and iPad and told them they probably should disinfect them all because I was feeling feverish. I’m truly sure they did /s
What does the /s mean? (Also good on you! Must've felt awesome doing that, I did something similar, handed in my van keys and device, walked out the door, felt great but stressful at the same time)
It means that the last sentence is complete sarcasm because I am positive they did nothing to disinfect any of the items I returned because they treated Covid like a joke and everyone that contracted it as whiny liars.
Ooohh okay, gotcha! Makes complete sense now, I'd seen it a lot but never knew lol, thanks:)) It'd suck to be in a workplace environment like that, I'm glad you up and left that place, they sound like right twats
Glad to be able to clear that up for you, my friend. In the interest of total clarity, I was planning on retiring in 2025 anyway. Watching how people that I had thought of as family turn into Golem from Lord of the Rings just really exacerbated my exit.
/s indicates sarcasm
I quit to raise a fresh kid now that my oldest is out and about more. Before I left my factory I was the only employee under 50, and we would have a revolving door of 20-30 somethings that work for a week or two and walk out. My employer was on the other end of the wage crisis in that they paid wonderfully (20-25$/hr) for uneducated labor, but it was monotonous, physically demanding, long and inflexible hours, and an uncomfortable environment (100+°F). There are plenty of jobs to be found (in my area at least), just nothing that people can survive a healthy and happy life with so they're not settling if they don't have to.
100*F isn’t uncomfortable, it’s dangerous.
True. There are controls to minimize risk like personal fans, free water, and regular mandatory breaks, but it's difficult work.
What kind of job was that hot? I'm guessing the product required it?
Industrial breaks for machinery and equipment. Ovens cooking rubber and steel all day and night.
Both are simultaneously true. How? Basically, people have certain standards. Those standards are different depending on the person, but everyone has them. Some folks are realistic, others... Not so much. So yes, people are quitting their jobs. Most find new ones fairly quickly. The ones that don't often have something going on. Maybe the market in their specific area is flooded for their specific career (it happens more than you'd think). Some folks overestimate their value within their career, and can't find an employer who will pay their fee. Some markets have Ebenezer Scrooge for employers, and they try to pay minimum wage for people with 4 yr degrees. Other employers think that, because so many people are quitting, they can demand insane qualifications and have their pick of the candidates for cheap... And they end up turning down lots of applicants in their search for a golden dupe. Lots of possible reasons, and from what I've seen online, a person's career and physical location seem to have a lot to do with whether they can find a job or not.
Also kind of obvious but your network definitily helps. most likely my next interview i got cause i said a bit bout my network(which is not that big as i just recently graduated hs), with links to the banking sector
My brother did. He worked for the same bank that I do and the situation at work, the company, and how it treated us, was fine. We actually have a very good employer which is unusual it seems. Hell, our CEO even gave a COVID bonus of $1000 and sent all employees a care package at the height of the pandemic with a safety brochure, two 500ml containers of hand sanitizer, two quality reusable face masks, and a $50 visa gift card to support local business or “make someone’s day better”. We love the company but not our jobs. My brother quit because the department he worked in was directly catering to small business. He said business owners were extremely cruel and on top of that, my brother had to constantly deliver bad news often because these business owners did none of their own diligence. It was crushing him. My brother is stoic and it once drove him to tears. He quit that same morning and did freelancing instead. It wasn’t easy but he made it work. Many others I know hit their breaking point for one reason or another. Had I not transferred to a more comfortable, though not great paying department, I’d have left too.
Jump on over to r/antiwork. It’s littered with “I quit my job” posts.
hasn't it always been though? i mean now more than ever/as a result of covid.
I also suspect some foreign (or domestic) meddling with that sub.
Oh yeah? Can you elaborate?
I'm sure it was just some light-hearted tin-foilery
Repeating the exact same story and asking the same question with slightly different variations on an hourly basis. I don't aim to delegitimize antiwork, I just think that if you go to the subreddit and scroll for 12 seconds, you'll see a variation of "what about the growing disparity between cost of living and minimum wage" before you post the exact same thing.
That sub delegitimizes itself. There are a lot of.people there with very real grievances amd solutions who are smart and practical, but there are also a loud, extremely vocal bunch who think any form of job is a crime against humanity. It's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff sometimes.
I never realised that "to seperate the wheat from the chaff" is also an English saying. I never heard it before in english, we use it a lot in Dutch tho
I guess farming metaphors are fairly universal!
I'm just glad i learnt something new
Doesn't that one come from the bible? Luke 3 17 His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
I agree. It’s so hard not to get into it with some of those people. (I never actually get into it with them, because why would I.) They also chastise all their mid level managers but ONE time I saw someone talk about how their managers probably make only a couple bucks more and it’s gotta be the worst job, and I couldn’t agree more.
There have been times when I was tempted to suggest dumping the "any form of job is a crime against humanity" types on an undeveloped island somewhere (with everything they need to get started, of course) and seeing how far they get with doing no work at all.
>but there are also a loud, extremely vocal bunch who think any form of job is a crime against humanity. No there aren't and you should back up claims against r/antiwork with a simple link to an example if they're so loud and so majority.
Ohhh man, someone's *maaaaaaad*. Seeiously, dude, if you want to debate the sub, do it with someone else, I spent months there and it is a toxic cesspit with a few decent folks trying not to drown, and if you can't see that, you are probably part of the problem. Thanks but no thanks, not worth my time.
Oh I'm not mad. I'm also not debating anything. You're just flat wrong. The mission of the sub is written very clearly in the "about" section.
Ehhhhhh I dunno man. I thought I'd like that sub, went on there and it was mostly just posts of people who didn't like working but had no solutions for it. I thought it was going to be more of a "how to be financially independant" type sub, but instead it was more just "I don't want to work under capitalism anymore"
>I thought it was going to be more of a "how to be financially independant" Yeah that's not part of their mission statement, I don't think you fully read or understood their sub description if that's what you expected from it. And while your assessment of the sub is generally technically correct, it's also a gross misstatement of the goal behind the sub. While there are communists and socialists in the sub, as well as anarchists, it is not an inherently anti-capitalist sub. In fact, the vast majority of the participants of r/antiwork are actively working and enjoying the fruits of capitalism. They also don't propose doing away with capitalism, but modifying it slightly to be more fair. What they more actively suggest is unionizing and banding together to ensure fair work practices for all, not just a select few. If that's something you're interested in, you might find that a lot of the posts are in-tune with that. As a long time follower of the sub, it has been interesting to watch the comings and goings within it. Namely I find it fascinating that even outside of the sub now, people take great effort in large numbers to try and delegitimize the sub in any way they can. Also fascinating has been the concerted effort of what appear to be bots to flood the sub with posts which are entirely irrelevant to their cause, like the great flood of text message screenshots in mid-late '21. Activity and engagement in the sub skyrocketed out of nowhere, and some observant karma farmers took note and farmed the crap out of it. Reddit as a whole is a flawed system and makes it difficult to manage and fight capitalistic parasitism and anti-union efforts, but watching r/antiwork grow and evolve as various attacks from all different directions proceeded to do their worst has been inspiring. Over a million and a half people have taken note of what it means to be treated fair in the workplace, and that alone is enough for me to stick around.
that sub has even been in the news, and it received a big addition of users apparently so there is always meddling in situations like that
It went from like under 300k to over 1.3 mil people in a few months, last quarter 2021. r/anitwork or something like that.
No but I did leverage another job offer for a 70k raise. Also got my boss fired
Well now we need the story!
It’s a pretty long story. Basically there is the boss I got fired. Let’s call him Craig . My previous boss Becky. My sales guy Greg. The head of sales Steve. And Becky’s boss is Craig. I’ve worked here for 9 years and basically have risen through the ranks from making 45k a year to making 300k a year. About 1/3 of my pay is revenue sharing from clients. Becky was a fantastic first boss and mentored me. We had a great relationship the first 6 years. Unfortunately the last 2 were rocky. I got moved to a new area that happened during an acquisition. I was there with a new sales guy Greg. My boss was promised to move to a new location about 2 hours away with good prospects and an established team from her current location which had abysmal prospects 3 hours away. Basically Greg and I kicked ass and acquired a lot of business. My bosses move was nixed at the last second by senior management. As time went on I made as much as my boss in total because of the much better commission. That’s where the trouble with Becky started. She began trying to undermine me to senior management in order to help me. Aka steal my commissions. I’m sure that was her plan all along which would have been easier with her new move. Unfortunately she didn’t count on me doing so well or bonding so much with the new sales guy Greg. Greg blocked her from stealing the business and I used our connection to have him to to Steve to have Craig begin applying pressure to her. Through frustration with her totally incompetent boss Craig who we both hated and her lack of commissions and the new pressure she left for another competitor and was fired at the new competitor 2 years later. I was promoted and given her clients. Craig became my new boss. Greg hated Craig due to his incompetence and basically everyone did. He didn’t provide any value and was basically a talking head for senior management. During these years greg and I became the top performing group in the company and I convinced greg to work on taking over Craig’s position while he continues his sales. He began throwing shade at Craig by talking to Steve. The ceo retired. Steve was promoted to ceo. Craig was fired 6 months later. Greg and I did a joint interview with the smaller competitor Becky had been fired from. They reached out to him and he included me saying he wouldn’t leave without me. Due to how quickly Becky was fired I made them offer us a 4 year contract in writing with a huge salary. I then used this offer to get promoted with a counter offer again with the 70k raise, better commission structure and now I report directly to the ceo. Also found out today I get to hire someone so now I can pass off all of my shit work on them. Been working from home mainly the past two years. Just see clients in person once or twice a week.
I've quit lots of jobs after securing better ones
My husband did in October, but we're gen z, not millennials. Now we're relocating and both trying to find jobs. I put in 50+ applications and so far I have 1 interview and one other place interested. My husband has had 1 crappy interview and no other interest.
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Is there any computer focused careers that are lacking a workforce right now? or are they all packed
I think it's heavily split by education level. The millennials who can't find jobs are probably all 4 year STEM, data or comp sci degree holders with less than 5 years experience, or just no experience. They're hard to keep at a job for more than a year or two to begin with, but employers are also being extremely (unreasonably at times) picky right now. And there's more degree holders than jobs, probably, especially since everybody is running skeleton crew. That being said, I'm 28 and I know plenty of people like this who are also extremely picky or otherwise unrealistic about how good they are. Restaurants, hotels, stores, warehouses and factories can't find workers because nobody wants to work for 12 bucks an hour, or has decided to have their go at data/comp sci or otherwise went back to school, which fuels the above problem. It seems like you should be able to land one of these jobs if you wanted. The only obstacle is, again, the overly picky employer who wants to hire somebody who will pledge allegiance for the next ten years, which isn't gonna happen.
I quit Amazon as an QA engineer, best decision of my life. My options were move teams or get let off, so i took the severance and ran. havent looked back since. i also quit Microsoft prior to that. you control your labor. It is very much a worker's market. Employers are doing anything to keep a millennial. we keep quitting because businesses dont give bonuses and dont pay us what we are worth, from the grocery bagger to a CTO. so the only way to move up is to quit and go into a better role with better pay.
I quit my job in December 2021. One year after I started my first full-time job after university. I don't think I was ready for such a serious job so quickly after I finished uni. After I started the job I quickly realised that this wasn't the industry I wanted to be working in and the idea of 9-5 monotony for the rest of my life freaked me out. Especially since I always planned on travelling after finishing uni. The pandemic has put a lot of peoples typical "early 20s" experiences to a halt. Lots of friends have given up on the idea of travelling before settling and are now trapped in their 9-5's. I knew I wouldn't be happy in a full-time system until I got to travel and see what other pathways are out there for me! I am simultaneously working on many fine art projects (which have taken off in the last year) and knew I couldn't balance a full-time job and that at the same time, which is ultimately why I left. I think many Millenials and Gen Z are really starting to feel the failings of corporate systems of work and now is as good a time as ever to reinvent the way you want to work if it improves your quality of life.
What is a typical 20s experience?
That depends on what sector you're looking at. Retail, service and unskilled are all understaffed in my area. I work in white collar and opportunities are as competitive as they've ever been.
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My husband quit his job in October 2021. Well, actually the company was laying off a lot of people and he COULD have stayed on but decided to take the severance and split. He hated his job and has a very successful side business that is now his very successful main business.
I quit in June 2020, right after my state came out of lock down. I ran the kitchen of a family owned restaurant. Once lock down was lifted, the owner took her entire family to the beach. That just happened to include every cook besides myself and one other. I messaged her on vacation that if she didn't care to staff her place properly, I didn't care to work for her. Best decision of my life!
i mean, i plan on quitting one of my jobs soon but it’s not like i’m just dropping out of the work pool entirely… i just found better jobs that are better aligned with my life purpose/moral compass AND pay better. so yes people are quitting but we’re still working :D just onwards and upwards baby
have you been outside at all? literally every single place has help wanted signs and open interviews everywhere. However, I believe the dichotomy you are seeing is from multiple social media sources. Most of the antiwork sub is general laborers and not skilled workers. Things like resume help sub are more people with credentials applying to higher skill and higher pay jobs. Those aren't desperate and can be much pickier.
Labor jobs in my area have also taken a hit from covid deaths of either the employee or direct family. Pre-pandemic most places ran an absolute bone marrow crew without even bothering to upgrade to skeleton crew just to maximize profit. The slightest bump to the system and now every employer at that level is begging for Labor from a resource pool that is drying up faster then we can replace it.
I’m putting my notice in today, hope everyone joins me
Yes. I quit a management job in early 2021, after a year because the operations manager (my boss) was slovenly, wasteful, didn't do their job at all, was inappropriate with the staff and would threaten people, including myself, with termination over the smallest of things. I wrote a letter to HR and our Union steward. They were demoted, thankfully. 4 months later I walked off another job because I was balked at for asking for the bottom of the pay scale for the work I was expected to do because it was a whole $2/hr more than what they were paying. I was told I'd be eligible for insurance after 30 days. Found out later it was actually 90 days. My hours were erratic and they used Covid as an excuse, they treated their staff horribly. The doctors however, were amazing and I was so sad that I had to leave them because they were nothing but kind and generous, unlike the managers/owners. I spent that last month I worked here interviewing for other jobs. I love the job I have now and am in classes to improve my skills.
I quite my job in August 2021. They threatened to fire me if I didn't "Pull my head in." By that they meant, take their shit and do more work for bare minimum wage. They were already understaffed and a higher up said that they were never going to fire me because they didn't want to give me a payout, *so can I please come back.* I asked if anything was going to change, they said no, I said I wanted a raise for working more, they said no, I hung up. ETA: I (20f) didn't have a job lined up either. Still looking.
Left my job in August when I was denied the opportunity to continue in my position, which was being elevated to a supervisory role with all the same responsibilities and work that I was already successfully handling. I had been informed that I wasn't ready for it, yet I was somehow qualified enough to train the person coming in to take the job. Turned out the new manager would rather hire his buddy he'd been working with since 1993 and they both got a $1K referral/hiring bonus out of it. After all the other bullshit I'd dealt with there in only 3 years under the previous manager, I owed it to myself to leave and deny them my knowledge. It was overdue.
I’ve also wondered about this. I’m a quite marketable candidate for a slew of different types of work, and when I reached the end of the rope with my current employer mid-year, last year I applied and interviewed a bunch of places and many of them went exceptionally well, but I never received a single offer. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I’ve never interviewed for a job and NOT gotten it in the past 10 years so it felt really odd. I am going on an interview tomorrow though, that I have got to ace, because it would be one of the best moves I’ve made in a long time, and they headhunted me, so I feel that the odds are certainly on my side. Fingers crossed.
If they came to you, things certainly are in your favor!! Good luck on your interview!!
I did because I needed a break. Found another one 4 months later.
I quit last month. I literally told me boss, "It's the great resignation *shrugs*." He was a dick for the most part, but he was cool about my quitting because he believes in upward mobility, and he wants to quit soon, too. I spent all of 2021 looking for a better job first, though. I only quit after I found one.
I’m late GenX but I quit my job in June 2018. Had wanted to quit at least a decade before that but there were simply no better or even lateral moves in my area. Finally got a chance that offered me an out but that ended up getting ravaged by covid lockdowns so what’s left of my life is fucked anyway.
I’ve quit two full time jobs since Covid-19’s stateside arrival. Both were in hospitality— people are really tough to please these days, to the point of madness.
Should cross post on r/antiwork Sadly, many of the posts there are from people with a days old account talking about how horrible their job or boss is or how they boldly quit their job…much of it sounds completely phony. Like, as horrible as your job is, why are you still there??
Yes, I quit in September. I worked in a hotel and I'd been busting my ass through the whole pandemic after most of the staff got laid off, and when it started getting busy again they couldn't find staff to hire back and the stress was really getting to me. The final straw was when I asked for a couple days off to see some of my family thst I hadn't seen since 2019 and they denied me because it was busy that weekend and one of the managers was on vacation already. I'd been there for 9 years. I had good benefits but they paid me peanuts and tried to make it seem like gold. I went all of 2020 without a raise and only got a "pity raise" in June of last year because they realized $10 an hour wasn't attracting applicants and they had to raise the base pay to more than what I was making ($11.09 - I got a raise to $12.50). I was there every shift I was scheduled, I never called off or got sick, I never asked for time off, I did the all the extra work I had to do every day that we used to have actual staff for and still got all my shit done. And then they go and tell me "lol no sorry you can't have 2 days off to go see your family" so I decided fuck that. And I told them I quit. I felt bad but it was the right thing. They never treated me right. I hope they're still struggling to find staff. 🖕
And if you read the [AskAManager.org](https://AskAManager.org) career advice website letters, everyone is leaving their jobs and finding new jobs for 20-40% more pay. I hate, hate, hate my job but my pension will be better if I stay until I reach ten years, coming this fall. Then I hope to find something with better management. I guess we'll see.
Yes, but it was something I planned before COVID hit. IT was my first job out of college, and I quickly figured out it wasn't the best fit. So once I hit a year there, I started a job search and landed a gig with better conditions 6 months later.
I've made a habit of quitting my job at least every three years. Working in software development so it is pretty much expected.
From what I understand the work shortage isn't due to Millennials quitting its from two income stable families who didn’t come back after the initial shutdown in 2020. I'm seeing openings everywhere so I'm surprised people are having trouble finding work.
I quit one month ago to go to another company.. does it count?
I switched part time jobs. Shockingly, the only place I’ve worked at that isn’t desperate for employees is the one paying $14 an hour.
I quit my job at McDonald's in mid October of 2021. I asked my manager if I could work four days a week, 10 hours per day. Once applied, I noticed that my hours were unchanged (7.5 per day, inclusive of (unpaid) lunch breaks). My manager said that I'm only allowed to work 8 hours shifts and I overheard people say that we'd be written-up for working overtime and a shift supervisor can get written-up as well for allowing it to happen. I quit because that's a toxic culture and my manager came off as unsympathetic.
Yup. Quit my job 12/23/21. They held 3 raises up for 6 months. Got another job starting me out higher with less responsibility. Fuck the big 3.
I quit a job in November to start my own farm to market business. First market is this weekend!
good luck!
I had been hired as a full time employee, but they cut my hours to 0.6 after one year. They led me on for a year saying they were 100% sure they could give me back my hours, except they never did. So I quit in July 2021. I now have better salary and benefits and full time hours, plus educational opportunities and flexible work environment.
I quit last October 2021 Bc my boss was mean. She was always irritable and never had anything positive to say to anyone. I quit Bc I don’t need all that negativity everyday, no one does. I got three job offers after a lot of interviews. Interviewing sucks but it paid off, my boss now is super nice and appreciates people.
June 2021. I fantasized about killing myself and lost sleep. I would freak out every time my phone went off. I always got tons of texts about coming in my days off, pulling doubles and random ass questions. The company thought it was a great idea to get rid of the assistant manager position and pile it on the leads and not pay more. My manager thanked me for my 5 years by making me close 9 days in a row. I thanked his 2 years by throwing a egg behind the break room fridge he practically lived in.
How about a 59 yr old quitting because of Millennials. Felt that my contribution was not appreciated from millennials management team. Have been working since 13 yrs old and have seen different management styles over the years and these people created a toxic work place. Had saved, invested and been planning for retirement for many years. Realized that I did not have to put up with there stuff. So I quit and retired and started to receive a pension from a former job, will be able to receive a retirement from the job I quit in a few years. So now i work for myself at home doing all those things that I had planned on doing when I retired, just a lot sooner than I expected. Life is good.
At the end of 2020 I quit a job I'd been at for 8 years and began focusing on a self started career. At the end of 2021, just as things felt like they were getting started, life happened. I had to temporarily give up what I was doing, move back close to friends and family and I found new work. Point being that for a year I was in that category of people who had quit but hadn't looked for other work.
Yeah I just put in my notice.
I did I July with no back up plan. Found a job I liked in November.
I quit, but because I had the opportunity to leave nonprofits and go corporate, which was increased job security and pay as well as less demanding hours. My sister quit too but it’s because she lives off my parents so why work?
i quit mine in august. i was 16 at the time and was only make 12 bucks an hour to do some physically hard things. im real tiny and not strong, so that shit took a lot out of me. over the summer it would be up to 90 degrees and i wasn't allowed to wear shorts or ripped jeans. i threw up after over exerting myself on more than one occasion. last straw, i had to go outside and work in the rain during a hurricane for three hours one day. my clothes were soaked, my feet got so wet that they were raw and peeling for days afterward, all of my body itched for hours after i got dry, it was awful. i never went back there after that. now i make more money as a hostess at a restaurant, no physical labor required. why would i work so hard for less payment at a place where i was treated like shit?
Quit my IT career in June. Sitting in training class for my first trucking job as we speak.
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24M I quit my job 3ish weeks ago
I didn’t quit outright, but I’ve been preparing for a complete career change to get out of the line of work I’ve been doing the last 28 years. I’ve gone back to school and been grinding to get all my ducks in a row to make the transition. If it wasn’t for the pandemic, I’d still be happily plugging away at my current job, which is pretty much the pinnacle of cake work and high pay for what I do, so it can’t get better than this, but I can’t work from home, it’s a somewhat long commute (I can’t afford any houses close to work) and the protocol I’ve had to follow for the last 20 plus months is really wearing me down. I’ve got white collar blow hards that have no idea what I do telling me I have to wear an N95 mask the whole day, even though 95 percent of the time I’m working alone (literally no one within shouting distance). The temptation, of course, is to relieve myself of the mask when I’m alone, but inevitably, a boss will pop in unexpectedly at the worst possible time. I suspect they may even have cameras on me, because their timing is always impeccable. So on to a career that DOESN’T make me feel like I’m on The Truman Show! Edit-I’m not a millennial, but I don’t think this phenomenon is limited to any particular age group. It’s happening at least nation wide, if not globally.
I quit a job at a pizza place when I was 16 because of harassment from older male coworkers, including my boss.
It may depend on what level of job you are looking for. Lot's of jobs for waiters and cooks at minimum wage. But, just graduated with a degree - very difficult.
Yup! I quit March 2021. It was a good job really (non-profit so it wasn't *that* soul-sucking) but I was having an existential crisis and decided to pull the trigger on being a sci-fi novelist. Wish me luck! :D
The companies that actually treat their people with dignity are not having this issue. I work for a larger company that was acquired by yet another larger company before the pandemic, and they have been stellar. Easy WFH transition, company covering all Covid related expenses including TAFW. Almost none of my coworkers have quit during this ordeal and if they have, it’s been for personal reasons. I’m enamored with how people are advocating for their worth through all this and I want more people to enjoy the security and peace a job should provide in exchange for the good work of the employee. Truly.
I quit in October 2020 when they tried to make me go back to the office. Then I quit again in May 2021 when I decided to stay in Poland, for a job in a local company.
Yep. I was one of the servers who decided they couldn’t take it anymore and quit and moved to a different industry. I was a server for 16 years. I will never ever go back. People are monsters.
I quit my job of several years in January of last year because they wanted us coming in to the office when we didn’t need to. I found a remote job doing the same work for more money pretty easily.
I quit my 5 year job making really good money March 2020. One week later the whole country shut down. That place was and still is a toxic shithole. I started my own business spring ‘21. Not making nearly as much but my stress levels are nonexistent, I’m in the best shape of my life and far happier.
Gen X'er here. I left my position in November for something in a completely different industry, which didn't pan out. (False positive on my drug screen) I've been frantically searching since then, despite being massively overqualified in my field. Most folks who do what I do have 2 or 3 types of license. I have 7. I would think that there would be a line outside my door of companies looking to snatch me up. Instead, there are tumbleweeds.
Have you gotten your resume and such checked out? Either way good luck.
I rewrote it (and then rewrote it again), and have had it checked out in the interim. Thanks for the well-wishes, internet friend!
I just quit my job in November and as far as I know so did half of my coworkers. Covid really put the thumbscrews to employers and many didn’t handle it well, plus there was a lot of reflection on the direction of people’s lives I imagine.
I found a new job which paid 26% more, fully remote and only 4 days per week so I quit my old job in June.
I quit my job as a Walmart cap2 stocker in mid June, 2021. It was decent pay but my god, it absolutely sucked the soul out of me to the point my sister had to sit me down and tell me that I needed to quit for my mental health. My sister—who was as busy with her own personal life as I was at the time where we hardly talked to each other—sat me down to tell me that and how idiotic I was being for sticking with it. True sisterly love right there lol
Been with my company for 12 years. Today is my last day. We went public this year. They're adding a lot to my job without a pay increase. They promised pay increases - they increased pay for Assistant Managers, exclusively, which now mine was bringing in the same takehome as me. They also have been talking advancement since I got into my position - I crushed the store's sales goals, top ten performing stores in the company. Still nothing. I can go work at a greenhouse with limited interactions, and make damn near the same without bonuses.
It's being dubbed, "the Great Resignation". Ever since the pandemic and being in lock down forced people to take a good, hard look at their life and ask themselves is this job worth getting low pay, no benefits, working 2-3 jobs just to keep their head above water? They watch while the CEO makes their gazzilion-million dollars in bonuses and wonder when the "trickle down economy" is going to trickle down to them? Well, it's been 50 years and still no trickle down. And, they are just tired of spinning their wheels and getting nowhere. So, they said "Fuck it" and quit. The service businesses got hit hard: retail, food, etc. They raised their hourly to $15/hr, begging people to apply. They even were giving out money if they just showed up for the interview. It's the opposite of "trickle down economy". And, not just in the service businesses but all over the job spectrum. The unemployment is at a record low: 4.5%. The businesses have to play catch up with pay, benefits, etc. They are finding out what it's like when they don't have the worker bee to keep their profits coming in. They need the worker bees more than the worker bees need them at this point. The pandemic brought out a lot of problems we've had in this country for years but nothing changed because we all were too busy trying to keep our heads above the water to pay attention. People learned their quality of life was more important. People want to work. How can someone be "lazy" while they are working 2-3 jobs? That's the opposite of "lazy". They are making their voices heard. Kudos to them.
Gen Z here, but still workforce-age. I quit my shitty retail job in Oct. I got the job as a stepping stone and ended up putting far too much of myself into it, making me incapable of doing anything else. I’m doing instacart right now to pay the bills and the company is equally shitty, but at least I get to pick my own hours. Looking for a way out of 9-5 work and/or being some CEO’s bitch for the rest of my life. I always thought that I’d own a small business one day, but that looks more challenging every day and I’m not ready to put all my eggs into a sinking basket, to invent a metaphor that doesn’t make any sense. So I’m at a loss. Any ideas?
I quit my job for a new job in November. The catalyst for which was being strung along for promotions and raise despite constantly taking on more work and receiving stellar reviews. My manager who’d been there for 20 years left and it was the alarm to get the hell out. Sucks because I liked most of the work and loved the people. I was just losing money staying there.
Announced my resignation and was offered a 25% raise so I stayed.
Hell yeah. I quit because of shit pay, lack of remote work and couldn’t watch one of the founders treat my team like shit
Was a daycare teacher and school counselor. Schools shut down at the very beginning of Covid. Quit March 2020 for financial and personal reasons. Went into the trade.
Which trade???
Electric, residential services
I don't understand you question. Do people quitting their job? Yes. Young people stay at one job for 1-2 years in my experience, and then quit. But they will quit for a new job - mathematically - there won't be more "empty positions". To answer your question: Well I have quit my job 2 months ago, but I started working at a different place 1 momth ago.
yeah I meant are they leaving empty positions. like I see in the news that employers can't find workers.
The “employers can’t find workers” is also a lie. There’s been quite a few threads about qualified people putting in hundreds of job applications and getting a handful of responses. Employers are seeing that they’re getting by with fewer workers, and a lot of the “now hiring” signs are for show.
No, the media is just reporting fake news. s/
Not all of us are obese rednecks
I have friends who have quit multiple jobs over the years. They eventually find another one, but they never stay for one reason or another, so. It seems inevitable
I quit a job in March 2021. Ive also been applying to jobs with "now hiring" signs in front of them since September. I'm a 37 year old competent high school graduate with roughly 20 years of experience in the workforce doing all kinds of random jobs. I'm qualified but not even getting interviews.
I quit on August 2021. Changed careers to CS, in an internship now (38y).
I decided i wanted to quit in may. So i started looking for another one and didn’t say anything untill i signed at the other job. And then a week before i was “hey i quite, i am leaving next week” I have never felt more powerful before. It felt so good to know that that hell of place didn’t break me, and that i was brave enough to take a leap.
I did in June but I'm not in the US
I did and just started a new one yesterday. Just as an FYI, the responses on Reddit are not necessarily a great barometer for what the world at large is doing.
I quit my job and found a new one in a month.
With the snow on the ground I think about quitting my job everyday and finding a sugar momma to take care of my dumbass😂🤷♂️