I Quit! - Why Millions of People Are Quitting Their Jobs
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I knew it was coming several years ago but I prefer to call it "The Age of Intermittent Retirement." I should have written the book I planned. The solution is simple, create a job option that caters for those who subscribe to the ideal of "Try Everything Once" then train people to understand and incrementally improve on all essential services. It would fix a lot of situations in a short span of time.
who uses Facebook these days???
in Pakistan, there is no such thing. the government does not pay us a dime. nobody left their job. our wages are very low. people are hand to mouth and it is getting even worse due to depreciating currency.
Seriously? It was vaccine mandates. Pure and simple. Report the truth
The great resignation? Doesnt magically doubling workers pay force companies to send the jobs out of the country? As a added bonus it doubles inflation rates? We lost jobs to countries that will take us over and now everything costs a lot more? Whats Great about that?
Quit my job as a forklift driver in September 21 and started installing garage doors for more pay. The garage door company is not struggling to find workers because they're willing to pay so well even with someone who has no experience
Are they employing outside U.S,i am in Kenya
@CB BC And how do i go about applying for that job?
@CB BC there is. A job that’s always in demand but nobody knows how to do will always pay well
It's baffling that in an economy where there is a massive lack of certified forklift operators, the salaries haven't been going up with it. Under 18$ an hour to operate a death machine? dafuq is this?
I had a friend who worked in a mattress company for 18 years, he too quit and is installing garage doors and he says not only does he make more money but he's happier and has more time at home with his family.
It really took a pandemic for a lot of folks to realize that we work to live, we don’t live to work. I’m glad people are seeing their worth.
Absolutely. I also realised during this time what makes me happy and who is important to me and I stopped pandering to social expectations, trying to be what women want, trying to attain some kind of status or resume of achievements. It's the most liberated I've felt since my teens.
Nice cliché quote. But at the end of the day everything you consume, be it cars, clothes , food, shelter, takes the labor of others. And you can’t take more out of the economy than you put in.
So if people are choosing not to work and produce goods and services, how are they able to extract goods and services from the system?
@@codycast so are you saying that people have to work like robots on things they dont like?
@@codycast welfare and swindle the system
@@proloycodes wait what ppl dont?
Phase 1: Work hard and be a great, passionate employee
Phase 2: Boss takes notice and starts to praise you
Phase 3: Get more responsibilities and stress without a pay increase or promotion
Phase 4: Quit, getting a new job that pays more for doing less
This social contract is not functional. It incentivizes incompetence and laziness, and it has nowhere to go but toward collapse.
this is exactly what happened to me, my boss is giving me more and more responsibilities for the same salary.
I do all that, but I never take more responsibilities without asking for more money as well.
I think there is a similar phenomenon going on with the adage, "In the corporate world, everyone rises in ranks to the level of their incompetence".
If you do your job well as a worker, you get promoted to a foreman. However, the skill-sets required to being a worker and a foreman are different. Still, if you are doing an adequate job, you might get promoted to a floor manager or even higher, until the point you're landed in a position you can't fulfill well anymore. You obviously aren't going to be promoted anymore, but people rarely get demoted either, because of office culture, so you stay in a position unsuitable for you. Repeat this process enough times over the years, and more and more positions of power get filled up with people who might be amazing workers or decent middle-managers, but incompetent in their higher position, until the company collapses under its own internal strife and inefficiency.
you forgot boss gets credit and bonuses for your work...
@@eveningcommenter6312 Company's under pay people with the promise of higher pay. Stock owned companies seek to keep cost low to drive profit margins pased on low pay, poor benefits And incentives. What you are seeing is not inflation but a reckoning ny the people.
Lets be honest, 95 percent of us just want a decent job with a decent livable wage and a decent work life balanced schedule. Thats it, its a simple request and people are seriously tired of hearing based on business needs
THIS....exactly this.
yes people seem to be too happy to ignore the fact that most people are happy to live within their means and don't need or want excess and sometimes you just need to remind them that as far as we're aware we get one ticket on this ride we call life in which we get to experience this crazy thing called reality. We're so conditioned into believing that a "meaningful life" is about chasing material wealth and we're all supposed to "tow the line" to keep a zero sum system running... I'm a big proponent for universal basic income, others will dismiss and say it'll create laziness etc etc blah blah and whilst it may temporarily do so for some, most of the people will soon realise that now they have their basic needs taken care of they will actually want to be productive and will go ahead and live a better meaningful life and we can progress towards a stable state of being because right now we're using a system based on infinite growth and there's only two things infinite growth is good for, malignant cancer and compound interest, both need to be eradicated.
@@KerbalSpacey people already have their basic needs taken care of, its called welfare and food stamps, UBMI will just move us into hyperinflation as there is no other way to pay for this kind of communist overreach. if people don't want to work then they shouldn't receive a paycheck.
It's not even business needs most of the time. You get shifted around on unreliable schedules so you can't get another job or better yourself by going to school and are slavishly dependent on whatever you get even if it's poverty.
Yes, this is the absolute truth!
This can be summed up with a joke: A guy parks his battered old F-150 pickup truck and sees his boss pull up to work in a Ferrari, he wanders over to take a look. His boss says "Ah it's Steve isn't it?" The guy nods. "Well Steve if you work hard and keep doing well for the next few years I'll be able to get a Maserati too".
It’s the same for us. I’ve asked for a raise and my boss just mockingly asks me what expensive truck he should buy. I plan on quitting soon.
@@angelgjr1999 My boss said something similar before I left. I was the only closer who actually cleansed the biohazards well and I knew once I left it would rot. Only took a week before a health inspector fined him $10,000 for mold on the meat department’s floor. Don’t think he’s gonna be getting that Mustang GT anytime soon lol
So rich that a Ferrari and Maserati are subjectively the same price.
I pay my employees a 60/40 split on services in their favour and 10% on product sales, a Christmas bonus and I pay for any further education they want to pursue. Maybe I'll get that Ferrari soon!
@@j.ramsey8863 well hey I don’t know what field you’re in, but that sounds like it would be pretty damn competitive! Are you finding you have fairly decent employee retention with that model?
What a shock. In recent decades, employers have made it clear, through their actions, that they're only hiring people to work for them until they can be replaced with a robot or foreigner for half the pay. Now employees have decided to take an equally mercenary approach to their employment and employers are losing their shit as they struggle to maintain full productivity.
What goes around, comes around.
I’m one of those ‘foreigners’ who has ‘stolen’ your job. Trust me, things are the same here. People are quitting and exploring new opportunities here as well.
@@yj9032 good, we all stand together on this and they won't be able to shift their exploitation from country to country and region to region around the world looking for new victims of their greed
In a previous life, I repeatedly had my manager come up to me and say "if you do this - we will keep you". What on earth are you supposed to say to that?
@@dcocz3908 "F off, I quit." Threats are never acceptable.
So if most employees are redundant, doesn't that mean the company itself is redundant???
I'm part of that percentage. After 15 years working as a pharmacist in hospitals, I was done. Years of overwork, unpaid overtime, stress, anxiety and burnout took its toll, but the straw that broke the camel's back was when I myself got covid while working the frontline. After 40 days in a coma and months of rehabilitation to function again I was done.
Glad you are on the mend from covid! No amount of money or sense of duty can spur us to return to work in such conditions.
Something I learned from this great resignation is that capitalism goes both ways. If you're not willing to pay me, a quality employee, a quality wage, then I will go to some other employee that'll pay what I'm worth.
Which is exactly what I did last year after being screamed in the face by the plant manager for not running these 30 year old worn out machines any faster. These machines would constantly break down and it can only run so fast before another issue pops up. Now, I'm a low level factory worker at a multibillion dollar company, getting paid more and having less stress. And thanks to our union, they keep the company in check and make sure we're treated like humans than some low life like at the last job.
Incorrect. If you are not willing to work you will not have work and you will end up on a street corner in a tent.
@@speedomars3869 did you read the comment? Did you watch the video? No one said people aren’t willing to work. They are but companies can’t expect people to work more and more, for less and less pay among rising inflation and skyrocketing cost of living in most cities, not to mention being mistreated or threatened with being fired if you miss a day because you got sick. Employment goes both ways and an employee is free to leave at any time if they find a better opportunity and many have. I’ve never stayed at jobs that mistreated me and there has never been more abundance in the jobs available than during the pandemic because people finally stopped putting up with the BS these companies give them. Many have even started their own businesses. There’s always other options and there’s no reason to stay in a job that is killing you on top of refusing to pay a fair wage.
@@TheLibraryofOddities Companies can and will get the work they need from their labor forces. Why? Because there will always be someone who would rather work than not work. And always someone that will take YOUR job if you choose to be a deadbeat at work.
@@speedomars3869 again you are assuming that people don’t want to work even though no one has stated that but I’m not going to waste my time any further because from the replies I’ve seen you posting all over other peoples comments you’re either a retired boomer or a deadbeat yourself 😂 happy trolling 😉 hope you’re having fun ✌🏼
I really am glad you realized this, but I'm also super amazed that there are people who didn't get this. It's the whole point, you can do things that people find value in, so you can only accept pay thats equivalent to what you're giving. Thats why this works, that's why it's functional and better than anything else.
Here's the other side. I have a good job, but I'm JUST below 6 figures after taxes, so I found a similar job to do part time that makes a small percentage more per shift, and doing it 3 days a week would make up that difference.
After a week, I quit. It simply wasn't worth it. The increase in amount of work wasn't proportional in my mind to the increased money, even part time. And now, I appreciate my job WAY WAY more and I'm happier to do it, and also to get to sleep in a couple hours more per day.
When I worked at Love’s Truck Stop, my employer would frequently praise me for being a model employee, even telling my family he wished that he “had ten of him” (me). Despite this, he would demand that I worked harder and faster, and no matter how much faster I got it was never enough. I got so burnt out over a period of only a couple of months that I would sob at work when I thought nobody was looking, and genuinely thought about “permanent” self harm if you catch my drift. Ultimately I quit in December and not once have I regretted it.
Interesting. One of my best friends has an identical story working at Loves.
They can basically keep their praise and just show me the money
Ah capitalism at it's finest. Exploiting employees to maximize profits at the expense of their health and well being.
Similar thing happened to me in one of my first jobs. Restaurant where I was a commis waiter. I was trying hard because the manager was pushing me and never satisfied until one day he said "you need to be faster" once again. I look around... Everything is done. This fker was playing me. You have no idea how much I slowed down when I realised that. They never put me on cleaning the tables anymore xD still worked there for months more and was overloaded with work too but my performance didn't depend on the managers wish. It depended on my mood.
I'm so happy for you. I've had similar experience as well.
One thing I've noticed is massive companies that underpay workers who keep complaining about nobody wanting to work have done NOTHING to make their businesses a place worth working at. All they've done is whine and complain that their slaves are leaving and have completely refused to even entertain the idea of you know... not treating their staff like slaves.
How dare you not want to work 18 hour days, 7 days a week for $2.50 an hour with no benefits? Damn lazy young people not wanting to work! **sarcasm for those dim enough to not gather that**
Let them complain all they want. Its their business that will suffer, not the lowly paid workers.
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My wife and I quit our jobs a few weeks apart from each other around September/October of 2021. She was a nanny and I was a medical equipment delivery driver. We proceeded to start our own business as house cleaners, and to say that decision was life changing is an understatement. We have so much more freedom and flexibility. We don’t make as much money as we did, but that is offset by the amount of time we now have to do other things that are truly worth while. God is good everyone 🙏🏻
Nothing wrong with initiative.
With that free time and now that you have more experience in the cleaning business, why not create, modify or invent a tool or system to better clean or automate parts of your job? All it takes is one invention and you can make lots of money.
What does god has to do with that?
you actually make me wanna start up my hybrid passenger/delivery business more now. i won't be taking a pay cut because my current gig work is making me heavily reliant on tips. one delivery job is 3 bucks with no tip. the hybrid delivery/taxi business im wanting to start up, is 10 bucks per job, plus mileage if outside local towns in my area. on top of it, while i want to stay competitive, ill have set rates for trips to big cities and regional commercial capitals.
bottom line is, you do what you gotta do, to keep your mental health and money up.
I was working for my father as an operation coordinator in his roofing company. I tried to push the company in a direction where employees would be more happy but he kept ignoring all projects and not making any change. His workforce is now less than half of what it was 10 years ago and he struggles to find new employees because he’s not willing to pay them more and make them happy. I left the company to pursue a passion in sound design for video games. Best decision I ever made.
Yup like every old businessman they don’t realize those days are gone
@@kadnan6111 Exactly. Every times we arrived with new project like actual human ressources, software that could remove paper work and save half the time of work he wouldn’t understand why it was necessary. He didn’t understand why marketing was important.
I mean, the way he hired people is ridiculous. He would call them or receive a call, speak for about 2-3min because he can’t concentrate longer than that and then give them the address of the current project and that’s it. He would never really meet them and would rely on the foreman.
I understand that it’s construction, but that’s not how you retain a workforce. Especially during a workforce shortage.
This attitude is the reason for why most companies now lose their slaves, sorry employees.
@@maximilian19931 Yup. Their problem
Yep, left my family business -
I had a saying - "I can't be fired - Slaves are sold"
Saying that I did have benifits, but I had to be available nearly 18 hours a day, 6 days a week.
I left my job in Metro Manila because I felt grossly undervalued. I worked as a language trainer who taught online ESL teachers how to do their jobs. I had a graduate degree and teaching experience in the secondary and tertiary levels. Still--when my entire department left for greener pastures while I stayed behind out of loyalty--I got passed over for promotion as training head. The entire training team literally jumped ship, and no one else knew how to do our job. But still I was passed over--and in favor of someone whom I outranked when I began the job. It was a slap in the face. I am now a freelance writer and feel better.
Mas mataas sweldo ng freelance diba? At least 6 digits pa po versus regular work?
@@deantan4080 It could be but a lot of clients will try to lowball you and it depends on how many hours you put in and if you find generous customers. Overall it's just as intensive as a desk job and there are high-volume months where you might make 40 to 50k followed by slow months when you only make 10k. Dapat listo ka sa pera, wag ka magwawala sa Shoppee.
Can you please tell me how to become freelance writer from scratch. Is cold emailing is good .
@@MortimerZabi as you slowly build reputation naman, and find your niche, money will grow as well. Best thing is we own our time now
It’s crazy how many companies want loyal workers but constantly fail to reward they staff when they are loyal.
Left my software engineering job at a “startup” that went public when I realized that I could get a 40% increase in salary by moving. Oh also most of the employees were barely compensated for the IPO. It was apparently a trend as many other coworkers left within weeks of me and around the same time that Apple was offering huge bonuses to retain their talent.
LOL. Same here. I was just the first. Almost all the engineers left within 2 years after i did in my firm. My salary went from a low 5 figure to a 6 figure after i left the firm. Some bosses just don't know how to appreciate peoples' value.
@@noiJadisCailleach They want to push their luck with people until they've found their luck has run out, and it's too late. Once you lose trust with a boss and a company, even money can't win it back. You'll be headed for the door sooner or later unless your boss him/herself gets fired with a hefty boot.
I'm working in the Healthcare industry in one of the largest hospital in Singapore. March 2022 will be last mth of work in the hospital.
Time to start a small time online business with my wife. The pandemic really amplify the toxic and hostile working environment among so called colleagues. The office politics is becoming so unbearable and unhealthy.
It's time for me to finally quit
Singaporean here. Heard how underpaid and understaffed the healthcare sector is. Not to mention the crazy shit you guys deal with. Respect.
Best of luck
You discover there is much more to life than keeping a stable 9-to-5 job that you are only half-assing. I decided to quit and pursue what I care about the most; and in turn, I am positive that that will affect others more and better. Let’s all appreciate life to the fullest while we’re still here.
What is it that you pursue now? What kind of job did you have previously?
This... I quit my background artist job in october 2020 cos it was low paying and stressful af. I literally worked 15 hours a day 6 days a week. Fast forward to december 2021 I got offered an art assistant job at a start up and I'm getting paid half of my entire salary from 2020 per month, and it's very chill job. Lol
@@andershusmo5235 I worked as a game designer for a big game company in Japan. I was payed OK but not good, considering the company’s scale. The company itself was more focused on making money than actually creating something meaningful, and started incorporating predatory practices more and more. I worked for a large scale project, and I didn’t really jive with the direction it was taking. I wanted to put my own thoughts in as much as I could, but would get constantly rejected. My artistic freedom felt extremely limited, and everything started to feel like a chore.
So I quit. I’m trying to make a career out of screenwriting and making films. Films are my passion.
Same here. Good luck, buddy
@@char252 best of luck.
Since the internet, companies pay people a pittance of wage and act like they own them 24/7, as though they have shares in the business. Expecting them to be on call at all times. It's time for people to stop being treated like slaves.
Not under this economic system mate!
@@Otzkar no company needs billions of profit. They could keep less profit and treat their workers better.
@@Rockmaster867 are you suggesting socialism?! How scary! They will take all the surplus labour value and instead of giving it to the rich you want to steal it for the working class?! I think you're better off living in slavery under capitalism than have money in a different economic system.
@@Otzkar The only one suggesting socialism is you. Free enterprise beats grossly inefficient government control of everything every time. The problem is that the system is too lopsided right now, and needs reforming. Throwing out what works with what doesn't isn't the way.
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I don’t think I’ll ever go back to “jobs” as we know it. By the end of 2020 I had realised that I am the most important thing in my life, not my career, education or social status. I started therapy, I had to figure out how to support myself, I knew it had to be drastically different going forward.
One life! Enjoy creating your own story!
So now what? You live off of the government?
@@eightlights4939 do you know her personally ? She might not and she might and it’s honesty none of anyone business but hers and I couldn’t care less. You people value money more then human life and it’s pretty shameful.
@@aaronnerswick5359 It is my business because I pay taxes which fund people who sit on their ass because "WoRk Is Too HaRd"
@@eightlights4939 looks like your education went nowhere
It’s amazing seeing everyone come together and finally stick it to these large corporations, at the end of the day if you’re treated like a number it’s hard to be happy there
You are a not wise. No one is coming together...you and those like you will simply be homeless once your parents no longer support you.
The majority of jobs in the US are from small businesses. Not corporations.
I quit my job as a mechanic over a year ago. Was tired of breaking my back for my equally rich, shitty and ungrateful boss.
Now I work in civil service and I feel a lot better now, mentally and physically. Payment and work-life balance is awesome!
Best choice I ever made!
You rate a low paid civil service job more than being a mechanic? How so?
@@Longlostpuss when I was in a similar position last year, as far as a work environment, I was bringing that work stress home. My boss was very eccentric in the most unreasonable ways. I was always under too much pressure to meet his standards, his assessment of how correct your decisions were always with his benefit of hindsight and not how wise your choices were with the information you had available at the time. Needless to say, I was miserable.
If I had a job where I wasn't made to feel like I was always about to walk into a trap at work and even at home I would've been much happier all those years.
@@zachj7953 Fair enough
Absolutely, being a technician is a horrible job, expectations and abuse, after 27 years in, I'm done. Good for you wishing you all the best.
@@Longlostpuss Low paid? Well, not in my country. Yes, it is very unusual, but the payment is on par with my old job.
As a man who works in a call center aka the service industry I can tell you that this video was spot on. I interviewed with three other companies this week because I plan on leaving this company because I am completely overworked and underpaid. The company I work for is miserable. They're incompetent and they make all sorts of decisions that just make life harder. I realized last year that life is too short to be stressed out and to be seeing yourself as an incompetent failure because the company that you work for doesn't care about who you really are doesn't care about what your real talents and abilities are. All you are to these companies is a battery to be drained.
I quit my call center job too. They promoted me to a trainer and I quit after five days - I was just telling all the new hires they shouldn’t take getting shouted at personally, even though they absolutely fucking should. Call centers are just full of managers that talk whatever shit they need to to avoid talking to customers themselves
Sounds like the Philippine Department of Education. Arbitrary choices made by whoever Secretary is currently sitting on top just to make their “mark”. Stuff that don’t improve anything
I lost my job in the service industry during the pandemic. I used the pandemic to get into web development. It was a golden opportunity!
I was a correction officer for almost 10 years. Made over 100k every year due to massive overtime. I resigned last year and it was probably the best decision I ever made in my life. I see my wife everyday, my 2 year old daughter sees me everyday and gi for walks daily
I feel you on this, I do the same in New Zealand but the overtime is crazy
What do you think the good things to work as a correction officer?
Hope you had something better lined up.
I was working McDonalds as a staff manager(lowest rung on the management ladder) and tried to balance school with my work. I was paid $10 an hour for a job . Before then I had thought the fight for the 15 movement was stupid - but I truly believe that a massive business like McD should be able to compensate. Working there I had a gun stuck to my face , I had food thrown at me, I have had people throw racist insults at me (I am White , Racism is racism), Ive been hit. When I asked my boss for a raise he laughed at me and said "For what?" And Talked about sales. The next week the guy took a vacation. The week after we were preparing for a big festival in the town that attracts many people. He showed up to work 2 days whilst I had to work my 40 hour week balanced ontop of school. The next week following that he took another vacation. That week was hell. We had shortages of everything. We had a shortage of employees because half our staff were students and we were getting slammed in the lunch rush. One day I even gave someone a more than 50 dollar refund , they were waiting an hour and I am not just gunna screw someone around that came out to the town to have fun. After my shift another manager threw a temper tantrum. Calling me retarded , etc etc. I decided after that to quit. For 10 dollars and recieve that amount of shit? Fuck. That. Fuck McD.
I agree 👍
Sounds like he tried to McD you in the A
Stress is a silent killer, so ppl need to rethink “how much is my mental health/physical health worth?” But also in another way, it’s like one big test and those who have had to endure and overcome these stressful battles like you have endured come out so much stronger, richer, and mightier than ever and can now move the mountains 💪
Glad you quit bro. I hope something better comes your way. Thanks for sharing.
$15/hr is not reasonable in my opinion.
There is a lot of people willing to work for way less.
People work for about $300usd in my Country and many would kill for $500usd/month
Around 2005-2010, people would kill to work for $100usd/month (mostly because of the fiscal policies like pegging exchange rates etc)
Right now in the UK, jobs where you call for information like your cell provider call centre, your electricity and utilities stuff that you mostly call and your information is on a computer or data base, those jobs, they are done by people in India and South Africa. Willing to work for a fraction of minimum mandatories in UK
Standard of living is cheaper so win win.
But a job is better than no job.
And those jobs you guys demand pay $15/hour will be shipped to India and Africa where people will work for $5/hour and live like kings..
I got onboarded to Google during the pandemic. I was originally supposed to move to Silicon Valley, but the pandemic spared me of that. Now I am permanently remote. This is a win-win for both me and Google because we BOTH save money.
Until Google finds a way to replace you with a cheaper worker, living in a country where the average wages are lower. Then it will be a win for Google and you'll be wondering what you did wrong with your career (part of the answer is working for Google; the other part is buying into the b.s. that not separating work life and personal life is "win-win").
@@GC-qe8vc Google isn't a simple manufacturer. They will only build offices in cities that have a highly educated population. But yes, this can include outside of the U.S. They have an offices all over Europe, Asia, etc
BTW I happen to think that white-collar jobs will also be displaced by automation in the coming decades. But that will take quite a bit longer & by the time white-collar jobs are at serious risk, U.S. total wealth will be so high & productivity will be so efficient we can simply have an automation tax + UBI.
Anyway, you want to see serious displacement? Just wait to see what happens to truckers later this decade.
And I do consider remote work a "win" but it is preference I guess
That’s awesome happy for both of you.
I worked in a call center for a year on the phones and then was promoted to a trainer - training others how to do good talking to customers. I quit after five days. One of the senior trainers took me aside for a chat and, in all seriousness, stressed “in this job…work life balance IS important, because this is one of those jobs that can get…that little bit soul destroying maybe” with the stereotypical toxic positivity. I made the decision to put myself first and go after something I actually want to do. I didn’t grow up dreaming of customer service.
The pandemic made me realise the same thing.... Life is too short to sit around doing something just because you think you're 'too old' to start something new. I quit my £40k corporate job in local government in 2021 at the age of 30, to become a voice actor full time. I'm now making more than twice as much, doing something I absolutely love, while still spending all day with my family at home... Go figure!
Amazing
On which company & what was your role?
the pandemic really broke the "employment enertia" alot of people had. either resigning or being lett go of, tons of people realised they werent satassfied working the terrible job they wasted so much time with.
The plandemic had zero effect. It was the tyrannical measures taken by public officials, businesses & unelected power brokers.
I tend to agree with this. Even habits that are bad for you are hard to break once they are entrenched, and lack of steady employment lasted a significantly long time. For those whose employment is just "a job for money" and not "a career I enjoy", there was less drive to go back.
@CB BC The overwhelming majority of places don't even have vaccine mandates. What are you talking about?
scamdemic*
@@Alpha-ro8sc I think I would add that for some, after tasting the better balance when working from home, being forced or subjected back to tyrannical approaches is a no-go. Some people say that wfh are for people just being lazy and that it has been a disaster, that everybody should have to go back… as if delays, failures, etc weren’t happening BEFORE this. In my experience and team it is even better than before, massively so.
It also came to my attention, while mentioning to friends and acquaintances that even if I’m actually working more hours being at home it has been a blessing, that several of them has been in that situation for over a decade… and this is people quite successful at what they do, making a quarter or half a million each year from home, talk to me about WFH being a failure then.
To my opinion, the main cause is that people started to THINK. I had a familie member that like many, jumped from issue to issue, never stopping, resting, thinking. It took me a year of pressuring down to get her to calm down. Reason: if you think, you are confronted with yourself, your flaws, mortallity, mistakes… In our society this is avoided at all costs and our consumerism gladly provides, avoiding a bad feeling…
Quite Bradburian.
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles the new job or created business provides😉
Started to think because the world pause for a moment thanks to covid
Yeah, 2yrs locked up by the government does that to people. Probably a side effect that corporations and governments didn't plan for.
Quit my job working in a bar at a function venue as covid was starting.
The government wage help was great for my expensive Hobby's like eating and having a roof over my head.
My boss tried to get me to pay back all of the money from covid relief funds, and explained to me that I have to work for free.
Quit on the spot.
I used to clean peoples' houses for a living at £9.50/hour while my son was at school (single parent). I quit in February this year because it was just soul destroying. I wasn't prepared for the appalling way people treat minimum wage workers. I was an apprentice mechanic before my boy arrived. It was hard work, I developed carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of all the scrubbing, scraping and polishing. I was "self employed" so no holiday pay, sick pay, or pension whatsoever. They didn't even cover fuel, so £60+/week was lost to the ever increasing cost of petrol as I was driving up to 30 miles a day between jobs. Having the energy and motivation to be proactive and fun for my son is far more important and I won't be going back to work until I can find something worthwhile, with people who don't treat me like I'm garbage.
For me it's a lack of coping resources. Every time my employer asks something of me, lack of forward planning impacts on me or another problem I warned them about ends up on my desk, I get closer to quitting. It's really hard not to send in my notice.
Social media has also created a weird environment for these conditions, too. For example, some boss might post something on Instagram that says, "Check out Tom, he's doing the work of four people, all by himself. Isn't he great?" Of course, the post will get plenty of likes, etc., because Tom is crushing it. And the boss thinks he's great because he's bestowing gratitude, sharing positivity, etc.
But I look at that same post and go, "Yeah, Tom is great... but if you weren't being such an assclown of a boss, shouldn't you maybe get Tom some help rather than posting on IG how hard he's working!?"
I'm getting there too, I work in IT for a contractual service provider, and I am absolutely fed up with the extra baggage from things I openly opposed landing on my desk.
I've been an engineer for the last 20 years, currently working on weapon systems for the DoD and MoD, but not for long. My company announced recently that they want everyone back in the office because "they're unsure on the effectiveness of the team when working remotely" despite having two years of positive data to work with. Couple that with the fact I'm working 10-12 hour days for 100k per year and I've come to the conclusion I no longer enjoy this job. That's before I even consider the health impact of sitting in a chair all day.
I have a job lined up in another country (I have dual citizenship) where I'll be getting paid around 180k per year to drive trucks in the mine sites. Sure, it's not as prestigious, but when I'm getting nearly twice the money for half the stress and I'm getting to be outdoors again with a semblance of physical activity I'm really struggling to justify staying where I am.
Being an electrician isnt very prestigious either, yet im near retired at 33 in Australia.
@@MrWackozacko I got divorced a few years ago and still financially recovering from that. I ended up with the choice of giving everything to the ex, or everything to the lawyers. The legal system in Australia, at least Perth, is insane. It didn't help my ex was a lawyer herself and knew every judge in town, when we entered court she was greeted as a friend by the judge. I knew at that moment that I was proverbially penetrated.
Good to hear life is working out well for you mate, hopefully be in your shoes in another ten years. Save a beer for me :)
Had no clue mine truckies made that much bank
It's funny how unaware most people are of how much blue collar jobs pay.
They acrye massive debt to get into college, and then get a shitty soul sucking job in a cubicle, while another guy that skipped college and went straight to a blue collar job is ready to retire by 35.
@@----.__ Thanks mate. I saw that happen to my dad and 5 uncles, all had to start again from scratch living in caravans or crappy units or with each other in converted sheds in the back of another uncles place.. Thats what made me hunger to buy a house so young anyway so i could get ahead and never have to start again. Just have to keep these women from getting too close
6:26 Turn it into apartments, there's a housing crisis!
Also side note: Having these offices closed greatly increased cooperate profits as they no longer had to pay for electricity, heating or cleaning services.
And this is precisely why working from home is a horrible idea for the middle class: these workers are now shouldering the cost of heating and electricity. And with the war in Ukraine and the associated inflation, they now realise that maybe these costs weren't as inconsequential as they originally thought...
Eh. Converting offices to housing is difficult, as that requires a rework of plumbing and other systems.
I worked at a Jimmy Johns in a small tourist town where we made an enormous percentage of our annual income in the Summer and Fall. Sometime in that window, the assistant manager told the franchise owners that they either needed to pay people better for the 60+ hour weeks we were working, or he and his wife would resign. Literally on the same day, the owners fired them both, and subsequently five other people quit, out of a staff of 12. The store manager tried her absolute best and already worked almost 80 hours a week, and the owners who never bothered to even visit gutted her whole staff in less than one week. I thought it was amazing. Anyone who stayed through that was offered a 35 cent raise over a month afterwards.
$0.35?! That’s it?! They deserve to lose their business!
Store manager needed to see the big picture as well.
I've always thought that COVID was the primary culprit, in my case I feel like quitting now, because COVID made me realize how tiring and stressful my job really is even with the Work from home setup. I can't imagine going back to normal now with the added stress of commuting to work and having to deal with traffic.
You’re exactly right and I feel what you feel - even though we felt like COVID may have been the culprit, it was probably just the event we were looking for to confirm our feelings about the displeasure and dissatisfaction amongst ourselves. It had always been there, but the last two years have made it evidently clear that there is more to life than 9-5, circling the drain.
How will you earn enough to eat and live? Are you so wealthy you didn't need to work to begin with?
What a weakling.
I have the same thing going as you. Almost 100% work at home right now, but I have more anxiety than prior to covid. Might just be me being more miserable from the lack of human contact too though.
i quit 6 months ago and now a free lancer.. I quit my job because my father passed away because of covid... And my employer was surprisingly very unsupportive in a situation like that... So i thought FUCK THEM and resigned ..
Covid made it crystal clear for me. I'm done working for others, away from family, on a stupid rigid schedule executing bs tasks and being ignored by higher management on the course of action impacting my daily job. Companies want pions, regardless of contradictory statements coming from their mouths. In the process of starting my own company now.
I sincerely wish you and your future employees every bit of prosperity and success.
@@TheDirge69 Thank you!
Awesome! You can do it.
Great video, i really enjoyed watching it. Also i have a lot of friends in "bad jobs" that are feeling the same way, so i can kind of relate to a lot of things that were discussed in the video, because of the feedback i get. Thank you.
I was well ahead of the curve, quit my well-paid job some years ago, living in a mortgage-free rural house in nice surroundings, and with a lifestyle of low expenses, the moderate monthly payout from my savings are enough for me to actually need to think about what I can find to spend money on. I worked in IT, and with time the jobs drifted away from "just working together".
I quit my job last summer, I will never work in such a low paid, sadistic and inhuman environment ever again. Companies and cooperations treat humans like slaves in order to squeeze every penny they can from them, they become ungodly rich and powerful while the vast majority of population suffers. My generation, will never buy a house that is can repay in his life time, while rich people and companies buy hundreds of real estate just for investment and they mostly stand empty.
This. Most handicraftman related jobs, especially those that fall in the luxury industry, are booming like never before. While company CEOs and incredibly weathy clients get to profit from and enjoy expensive goods, the craftmen that work hard to actually put those goods together often get paid minimum wage. Also buying real estate for investment should straight up be illegal, talk about ruining it for everyone else.
No point working for someone else when there is no attainable goal to come from it.
@@jacksonjacob7791 exactly
I assume you're Danish too because of the spelling of your name. If so: We're among the absolute luckiest ones when it comes to working conditions and wages. While I absolutely agree that unskilled labour is underpaid in Denmark too it is simply not true that the younger generation can't buy a house and repay it. The interest rate on a bonds backed real estate loan is 1.7-2% and 33% of your interests expense on real estate is tax deductible. The problem is the increased urbanization. House prices in or near the big cities are climbing in according to increased demand. But if you want to live 30-40 minutes out you can get a house that a couple on minimum wage can pay the mortgage on. Heck, if you have a work from home job and don't mind living in the middle of nowhere you can buy a house that has a lower payment than a rented small apartment in a city center.
@@LilBadPanik Ive been saying this for a long time. It should be illegal to buy houses to flip/ rent. Houses were built to house a family, not generate a profit.
I was never an employee but in a similar way, I sold my restaurant during the pandemic and canceled the one I was about to open in another country. I moved to an Aegean seaside town and now living a much more peaceful life. It doesn't worth all the fuss just for money, life is priceless. I think Covid made many people realize that.
It appears there were some benefits from COVID, yes.
What island did you move?
@@user-BasedChad Not an island, it is Kusadasi.
I ended up quitting my job I had for 8 years in 2020. I worked in TV news and I got burnt out. Remote working was the straw that broke the camels back for myself. I still had to work at the news station because the control room is too complex. The anchors and reporters worked from home but the issue was, a few people at the station had to funnel all of the stories into the newscast which was ten times the work we normally did. On top of that we launched two new shows right when the pandemic hit. At one point I was directing 6 shows by myself. It just became unbearable and because of remote working, I hardly saw my manager and he was not good with email or phone call communication. In many ways I felt abandoned and over worked. It really was a depressing time to quit because I didn't really say bye to anyone, it was just like an empty void, it was really weird. No closure at all.
I quit my job on December 31, 2021. I was unhappy & underpaid before the pandemic but I was scared to leave given the uncertainty. Once I realized the pandemic was behind us I started looking. Now I work full time remote and get free health insurance at my new job on top of a higher salary. It makes me sad that I didn’t quit earlier.
I was thinking that it was most of the medical staff that quit because of covid. I was a medical assistant and I left my job for school about 3 months ago. I never enjoyed it. I was overworked and underpaid. People would also be a pain to work with. The patients would get upset when I get their height, that thats not their height, some will complaint to you for something small, some patients will report you for no reason at all. the older folks are the worst. I can't tolerate people so Im just coding instead. My only regret is to have not left a long time ago
Gosh these bots should stop spamming
The so called *medical establishment* is actually black magic
I’m elemantery school teacher, I’m leaving after my contact ends!! I’ve had Enough!!
Any job that requires talking to vast variety of individuals sucks.
Basically humans think of themselves as entitled pricks
@@kugul1683 Dagogo needs to watch a Linus Tech Tips video on a tool that makes it easy to find and delete all spam comments in the YT comment section of his videos.
It is just simply made us thinking more
My job doesn't allow me to work from home so we all work from office all the time even when pandemic is raging on. Sometimes, we have to cover the job of those who got infected and need to take a break from 2 weeks to 1 month. Meanwhile, our top management are all working from home and they give very slow response to e-mail and also prolong the meeting time.
Some of us loved to watch our boss be a good example by working together with us. But during pandemic, we all are working hard while we saw them chilling at home.
Saw a few vids from you, you have had a nice way of delivering content. Thanks for the being able backlog, looking forward to watching the titles that pop out to me.
I personally have doubts if this is true. This is more anecdotal, but I've seen many of my friends, who just got out of high school, that have been declined low paying jobs such as at Target, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, etc even though they were claiming that they were understaffed and need people. Then when that story came out about this one person applying to 60 jobs and only hearing back from a few, I was like, bruh if you claim you need people, THEN HIRE PEOPLE.
This is also pretty common. It's a ploy by bosses to get public support. "No one wants to work," and so on. Just ignore the fact that plenty of people want to work; they just want better conditions and pay.
They're probably also getting around the whole "we don't have enough people" thing by shoving the work of multiple people onto each remaining worker.
@@MysticKenji2
Theyll burn out what remains of their workforce if they do that which ironically will cost them even more in the long run.
Working conditions and especially salaries have stagnated and detoriated for decades so people finnaly being fed up and quitting might be the one good thing to come out of Covid-19.
We are not even close to the worker-paradise of the '60s that my dad told me about: as a semi-skilled worker he just needed to let companies know he was available and would get several offers within hours.
I believe this 'great resignation' is just people who were too scared to quit in 2020. Coupled with companies who've gotten so used to exploitation that they think there is a shortage if workers apply for a job instead of beg for a job.
You can't just hire anybody, remember. Crappy workers (people not fit for their job) make good workers leave and this can ruin companies fast.
@@AGFuzzyPancake I feel like there's definitely some truth to that. Don't know that much to lean either way.
For me Covid wasn't the main reason to switch jobs, but it was the final straw for me.
After being in local IT support for almost 7 years without an promotion, as there were already too much senior colleagues in our department, which weren't really working at all, I found that moving to another position in that company wouldn't give me the much deserved promotion or raise, but staying at home would save me 200min on my daily commute. That in itself represents an raise of whopping 42% per invested hour.
It's awesome to see what a couple of hours of spare time does for your mental health. I wouldn't start commuting for a job, even if they would match those 42% in money.
Damn.. my Company offered me job as supervisor with 3hrs commute a day.. should i do it? I'm not sure i want this. I have customer service job and 15min from where i live.
@@blablasss Just try to sit on a train for 3hrs for a week and see if you can cope with it. Or just imagine commuting for 33 days a year...
I've done it for over 10 years, but you really have to ask yourself if any money is worth it. Also the commute itself costs a lot of monys.
Pretty much me. I liked my last work and my colleagues, but I realized that any promotion I'd get wasn't really worth it. Resigned within the month.
Anywhere there's seniority, theres quite a number of senior guys who don't do the work. I rewatched The Wire, and they even show it within the police force too lol!
bruh wtf you were commuting for 3 hours every day?
This is one of the very best channels on CZcams. Your topics, research, and delivery are superb! Thank you!
For a lot of young people it was the realisation that no matter how hard we work, we're gonna be worse off than previous generations. Working so hard to the point of burnt-out, under incompetent and frankly abusive employers and workplaces with little chance of owning a home due to the housing market, or even renting a place as a single adult without having to resort to housesharing (in effect reverting back to uni style living for some) or having to continue living/return to the family home (for those lucky enough) is just all so depressing and makes you realise that forcing yourself to work somewhere where your skills are unappreciated and wages far too low is just not worth it.
The pandemic got me from giving classes to annoying rich adults and earning 1.2k a month to programming at home for a great company and earning 10x more
U learned programming yourself?
@@fazalihtisham4421 yeah
@@reinoob how long did it take and how tough was it?
@@fazalihtisham4421 took about 3 months to learn frontend and land the first job, i studied around 2 hours a day by taking udemy courses and practicing.
@@reinoob thanks for the response.
i quit my job as a design engineer 5 days ago. I was grossly underpaid and excessively overworked. wouldn't even get weekends off and toxic colleagues. these toxic colleagues wouldn't give any opportunity to grow. couldn't take it anymore and finally quit my job of 5 years!!
Entering the pandemic, I was stuck in dead end retail work. I was in and out of work. Things happened, I pulled some strings and I entered the construction industry. Fast forward to today, I'm making $64,000 a year working a camp job. Company flies me in for a week, I work 80 hours, and then they fly me out and I have a week off. They feed me, pay for my flights, house me in a pretty decent camp. I only have to worry about food for half the year, gas for half the year. There's talk of me being trained on a bunch of the equipment, and then bumped up to equipment operator pay. Which is around 35 to 38 an hour, pretty much the same job, same schedule. My quality of life and happiness has improved 10-fold. It's still weird looking back to where I was at when COVID started to now.
I would say one of the most under reported segments with the aging population in mind, are people who left the workforce to become a caregiver for a parent or close relative especially with Alzheimer's and dementia. Also when considering long term and/or hospice care costs while also examining real estate/asset values, it makes more sense in many cases to keep the patient with in home care while staying in the home than using funds from the estate to pay for nursing/long-term care needs at an outside care facility.
People these days are too educated to be content performing menial, repetitive, unrewarding work that they aren't even adequately compensated for.
Unlike in the days before the internet, people know exactly what they're missing out on while they work themselves to death. They can see thousands of glimpses into better lives than their own through social media. How can an intelligent person be satisfied commuting long distances to work just to spend all day shuffling paperwork or frying McFood?
Modern corporate work is both utterly unsatisfying and still leaves us poor; it's a lose-lose. Let it crumble so that something better can grow up out of the ruins. We might find that we never needed "next product" to make us happy in the first place.
but also the mandates weren't great for employee morale.
Ever notice how commercials show better lives that don't reflect reality. Everyone is going on vacation and living in model homes but need drugs for health and happiness. It's not real.
Letting the economic infrastructure crumble so that something new takes its place may be good for your grandchildren (though probably not), but it will leave the present in abject misery. Are you really willing to be that noble, that self-sacrificing, for future generations?
@@joesterling4299 If we are careful and buy what we need and scale back the unnecessary things would be ok.
All I can figure is the need for automated warehouses, indoor farms etc are going to become a more and more important part of society
Idk, I think social media makes us think we want certain things when we don’t really always want them. I mean stuff like looking successful, the amount one cares about appearance. These wants are sometimes to get others approval. Everyone wants success but success is different to everyone and not necessarily what we see on social media.
Past generations may have been less aware of what others had but they may have also, in general, had better mental health because they weren’t as simulated as we are. But we have more tools or access to tools to fix our mental health and change our lives.
Lots of people getting fired lately as well. Such as myself and two of my good friends. Whats different is that this time I'm not feeling too enthusiastic about getting back out there. I started 5 years ago at a farmer owned co-op. I felt fortunate and blessed to work at a reputable company with a history of stable and well compensated employment. About 2 years ago, I noticed after a new CEO, a fear-based culture start to be pushed from the top. Cameras, threatening legal language, patronization of technicians who make the company all of the money....all of this was coming from a 'corporate' headquarters which was moved years ago 10 hours away, strictly to create that divide between production and management. I'm a conscientious worker who thrives independently and loves solving problems on my own, as well as teaching how to work effienctly while increasing standards. I admit the company was stuck in 1970s, but instead of moving to an updated, innovative process, they went straight to surveillance, fear and conformity. Not possible when 4 people on 2nd and 3 on 3rd shift are trusted to complete their duties independently. Im sure I'll find a new job, who knows it could be better, I just don't understand how my generation is supposed to survive, I just bought a house last year.....A culture of high turnover is a depressing thing of that's yo remain into the future.
They don’t want your generation to survive. Work a shit job, lease a car, rent an apartment. Own nothing, max out credit cards.
This is my 2nd day of my resignation and I'm loving it. Each passing day, my mind feels like it's breathing much better. Room to think things through. GOD bless all escapees from the wicked rat race & bless the NHS100K xXx
Yea. Isnt not working fun? Laughing.
The only people shocked by this are people who have never worked in food or retail. The majority of workers in those industries are often overworked, understaffed, abused, exploited, dehumanized, and, most importantly, undervalued.
Worked in IT, trust me, you are not the only ones.
I understand business and the need for profit, I'm all for it. The last 2 years have shown just how much companies are willing to punish and push people for the top end to squeeze every penny. I live in the UK and it's got so much worse for our benefits system, more people would rather eat the government's shit than a company boss.
If a company can't pay it's workers a living wage without going under it doesn't deserve to stay afloat.
The take it or leave it attitude just killed it for me, so i called their bluff. Never felt better in my life. I have a masters but Im in school learning a trade where I can make all the money that I need and take the time off that I want. Yes a customer can be worse than a boss but its also a temporary one.
Interesting point at the end. I've never thought of it like that.
Around me i’m seeing local businesses I respect have no issues- employees are staying and customers are coming back. It’s only the shops and restaurants where the owners already had bad reputations -for being rude, underpaying, or undreasonable-where we are seeing so called staff shortages, and those people wonder why nobody wants to work for them.
I quit the end of May 2021. Healthcare. Not working was not really an option because we were deemed essential. But the stress... omg. I stayed home for 3 months and then went back to work.
It's happening everywhere, even in so-called hardworking or overworked countries like China or South Korea. People are just fed up with wasting their physical and mental wellbeing working for companies which don't care about them. It's at the point where even the whole culture of "you must have a house, a car and a family" is something many young adults don't even bother about anymore especially with how uncertain and frightening the state of the world is at the moment.
Not to mention, as important money is for a stable life, it doesn't necessarily bring happiness or solve every problem. I work a rather well paying job but I'm bored out of mind with it. Only staying because........money now.
Yup, people in China are “lying flat” basically just meaning they’re not going to excel at their jobs, not have kids, and not do anything for their country or government in their lifetimes.
It’s an incredibly interesting form of silent protest in a country where protest wouldn’t normally be allowed.
@@jakob4112 That's the one. Thanks for naming the term.
No car, no house. Problem is, my wife tricked me into having a family. Now i'm stuck!
@@caty863 ahhh , that’s how a lot of men lose their way. By having families too early or never planned to have in the first place.
"If you want to be a successful adult you need to own a house, car, and start a family."
"Ok, then pay me enough from my work so that I can afford those things."
"No."
And then they are shocked when we reject their definition of success and refuse to participate in a cycle that tortures us.
Another great production! Amazing work man!
My company shut down operations during Covid in 2020. It had not been run well but the pandemic was the final straw. I have been a SAP Business One software developer for 10+ years and interestingly enough, I got development jobs right after company closure. I had been doing side jobs while being employed but once clients found out I was "free" I have been getting job after job and setting my own hours and money for projects. The money I make now on average is about the same as my salary was. But I have much more peace of mind and control. I have am not looking for employment right now and am happy.
Thank you Dagogo for this. I lost my job when covid came here. I was working in the education industry teaching tech in Nairobi. The company quickly let go of us and scaled down. They couldn't afford to pay us and to this day, still owe me money. In the months that followed, I started privately tutoring the students who came to my center on for once I made more than my salary. My of my colleagues left as well. The employers tried to engage me a few months ago but I had since moved on. I realized that the company made so much money from students but paid the tutors peanuts yet these are highly skilled individuals. Unfair to say the least! Glad covid put a stop to that. Much love from Nairobi Kenya.
@CB BC Precisely.. the company (directors) had been exploiting both the trainers and the students. By charging exorbitant rates to the students yet paying peanuts to basically all it's staff. The whole thing came crumbling thanks to Wuhan. 🤣
I am happy for you that you can get the payment you deserve!
There is nothing more satisfying than showing your former boss the middle finger when they thought they could exploit you and your collegues. Best wishes!
This is my last week with my employer of 5 years. It seems that all of the good employees in my company were supposed to pick up the slack for short staffing. The writing on the wall is when all of the good employees quit after years of working.
That's what they do. Instead of hiring more help they overwork who is left.
@@jacksonjacob7791 This practise should be illegal.
They're doing the same at my job. They also hire really talented people with a lot of experience - these guys last a year and a half tops. I wonder why I've stayed here so long.
Absolutely love this channel mate! How's life in WA atm? Looking forward to when all this COVID crap is over..as im sure everyone else is too. I own a trade business in Toowoomba Qld and I am one of the lucky ones with 3 valuable staff.. I look after them very well as we can afford to, however I have friend's in hospitality businesses and boy they are struggling! Keep up the good work my friend 🤓
Yea it's definitely a struggle in hospitality. It's not bad over here for me, we're just starting our Covid wave but the boarder finally opens tomorrow, so I'll be out of here for a bit soon! Thanks for the comment mate!
I love your soundtracks! And of course the content!
My crushing-stress point came many years before Covid. The time was 2001, when several bad factors, including 9/11, converged into an upheaval of both family life and work. I ended up jobless and alone. Tech was at such a low point compared to just a 2 years earlier, and there were often hundreds of applicants for available jobs in the field. So I tried other kinds of employment, but found the work completely unsuitable. I was miserable. Eventually, I realized I had to take a step into the unknown: How to make a living without a traditional 9-5 job? It was a painful, uncertain time, but eventually I found ways to make ends meet.
I have not worked for anyone other than myself since. It's not a glamorous life, but it's certainly a free one. I don't owe my soul to any company store.
Similar story for me. Been self employed since 2002
And I thought I was one of the few who quit. Nice to be a part of the "Great Resignation" lol.
I work in construction in Canada. For starters, there is labour and foremen shortages. You xant yell or ask them to hurry up or else they will drop what they're doing and bump over to the next company. Some new labour are making almost as much as seasoned carpenters. Even when Canada opened its borders to Mexico (ETA approved no visa required) still not that many Mexicans are willing to battle the cold or rain. In a nutshell, all sectors are screwed. Rebar, concrete and semi truck employers are stressing out as well.
I quit my job right before the pandemic, and switched jobs twice during the pandemic. The reason for the first switch was due to pay, and the subsequent switches were simply down to the fact that I wasn't happy. I've switched my focus to building my own company, and so far it's going pretty well. Within the next few months I'll be completely self-employed and I'll most likely never return to a 9-to-5 ever again.
Im 33 and dont have a house, ive been working since I was 17.
You may say im bad with money, but my take home after bills was no more than a few hundred dollars a month.
I finally moved out of state to actually get myself in a better position.
The disconnect from managers is my belief that fuels the issues we are having.
Ive been through 4 jobs this past year and none of the managers understand whats going on.
Great video again. As an owner of an online video training business we saw a 1200% increase in our training product as organisations scrambled to try and support remote workers. It hasnt returned to pre pandemic numbers yet as we see more and more organisations realise the benefits of having remote workers whereas before the pandemic they wouldn’t entertain the idea! I cant see us returning to that lifestyle now we have proved this new work style can be achieved
A lot of people that were lay off, discovered that they can get a raise by changing jobs. And that companies are not loyal to them.
I quit my job due to unrealistic work life balance expectations, non-existent pay rises and unhealthy work culture.
Best career decision I've ever made. My mental health has improved greatly.
I’m 51. When the pandemic hit us full force, I just decided to retire (same job since I was 19). I was lucky to have a great retirement planned and am financially secure. I signed my stimulus checks over to St. Jude Hospital and my local Humane Society. That was for me the best use of that money.
The pandemic made us all step back and realize our own mortality. We have been killing our selves to make money and at the same time ignoring what’s most important in life; our loved ones. I just hope others that have lost friends and loved ones find some peace during these times and pull through.
Smart man, smart move !
We're definitely feeling it at my place of employment. I do tech support for Bank of America and every week seems to get busier and busier. No down time in between calls, even at 5pm on a Friday on the West coast we can't keep up. It's causing me to burn out just a year into this job...
i empathize..work harder, not smarter. Useless rules and regulations. A unique set of people who have mental disoreders (organic or installed) - and they look at you when you show a shred of common sense or ask a question, and you get violent, fearful or insane reaction.
And then YOU are the problem when you walk away from crazy.
THAT is the crazy part!
I don't want to rub salt, but according to Google "[Bank of America] CEO Brian T. Moynihan received a 31% boost in pay to $32 million in 2022". Imagine if they used just half of that to pay you guys a wage that would draw more workers. I don't know your specific circumstances, so I can't say for certain that low wages is an issue for you guys. But as someone who's worked in support, low wages are typical.
If you guys aren't unionized, I say you start talking with other tired workers about unionizing. Don't tell your boss, or managers, or HR, because some will target you for even just bringing it up. But it's worth the risk and effort talking to your fellow support workers. You guys deserve good working conditions and livable wages. The business relies on you and your co-workers, but being unified is the only way to exert your power.
Seems to be happening everywhere, in the auto industry the deadlines get shorter and shorter and the products get more and more complex. Many meetings end in yelling and complaining. Companies wont hire more people, just give more projects to the current employees. I get constantly told how great I am, big thanks, keep it up, yet last year I get a 2.8% raise. I've significantly dropped my work ethic as a result.
I am an expat who went home and got stuck there due to COVID travel restrictions, I started working from my home country on just 50% of my salary, I worked for 9 months that way and couldn't be happier with the arrangement. I could perform 100% of my job from home and now I think that going to office everyday is waste of time and resources.
I quit my job in late November of 2021 and had no idea this was a movement. I had gotten really into engineering during the first few covid shutdowns and I had decided to quit my job as a junior carpenter to start my own electronic manufacturing company.
It's crazy. I did this before covid hit. I realizing that I was just a slave under capitalism/consumerism. always buying new stuff-, upgrading, improving my social standards. But then I took a real good look in the mirror and ask myself "is it worth it?", constantly overworking, being stressed, never having time to be with the people I love....so for me it has been a journey of downscaling, and nowadays I basically only need to work 2-4 days per month to earn my upkeep, which means that I could work for 6 months, and become financially independent for another two years. Now I follow my dreams instead. I have enough savings to get me by for years to come. I don't buy much except food, and then I pay my abysmal upkeep cost of 200$ per month. And it's great. Feels like a lot of people have gained similar insights.
What will you do at 60
No one is a slave to capitalism. You can be addicted to consumerism, yes. But capitalism is merely the notion that A will give Y to be B, for X. Equal trade, peacefully agreed upon by two parties.
It sounds fun, but make sure you are investing for the future as well, though.
Your practice will become more difficult with age, and if you plan to rely on the social system to take care of you, then perhaps imagine how would a society do so, if all the working class adopted your life style? If everyone lived like you, nothing would be produced, nor would there be money to be given/lent to elderly that expect to be taken care of by their children, nor even a safety net from the government. Take your destiny into your own hands and invest in your future. Double your work time (still a crazy lax schedule) and put the extra into investments to incubate over the next 30 years.
@@brednbudr2406 I actually don't care, I don't give a shit, anymore, I'm like that other guy, and so many others. I worked for a roofing company, more and more physical work and more and more workload, one morning, I came in to work, saw the MASSIVE pile of jobs I had to get through, and I just flipped. I threw the papers to the ground, and picked up my bag and left. Boss turned up at my house, told him to just fuck off. The end. Now I'm on the dole, I don't want to work for minimum wage anymore, it's a endless cycle of poverty of pain, I'm done with it, I'd rather be poor, and happy than rich and miserable and physically exhausted. I can get by, and what about old age ? well fuck it, old age is over rated, if it gets bad, I'll just either kill myself or something, but this whole idea of working your guts out for a retirement you spend in ill health etc. is utterly fucked. It's all a giant scam to turn us into robots and then dump us when we're too old. screw the whole fucking show.
Do you have health insurance though? That has been one of the biggest reasons for not doing what you have done
@@lcr2382 I will retire. :) I have already done my capitalist journey. I have worked for 20 years. I am 40 years old now. This apartment is in the central parts of the 3rd largest city in Sweden, I will sell the apartment and buy land on the countryside and build myself an off-grid homestead. I have savings. I still continue to work, but just enough to get me by. And during everyday life I spend time working on video games (passion projects). and I believe that this will help me secure my retirement even further...
One thing worth noting however, retirement isn't guaranteed. I only need to look at my father, at the age of 64 he got heart failure, kidney failure, strokes, epilepsy etc. his body is giving up. Now he is retired. 65 years old, counting his days, He worked the final 10 years of his life to save up for retirement. He wanted to live a happy life as a retiree, but is now facing death. So the question becomes, Why not live when we have the ability to do it? rather than pursuing the fake promise of only being able to have a comfortable life when we are older, when our bodies are no longer able for us to live to the fullest? And with that beign said, why consume unnecessary stuff that ultimately rob us from our freedom to live?
I am always suprised how Dagogo uses stock footage to cover such important topics in a great story telling format.
Thank you
As a U.S. Federal Government employee, I’ve been teleworking FT since March of 2020. I’m nearly burnt out. I’m researching my numbers (retirement and my finances) and considering to leaving in hopes of starting my own consulting business.
As a physician, I can say that the past two years completely torched my love for the job.
Same as a mere CNA. I'm sweating like a pig in a very hard and dirty job made far worse by the heat-retaining gowns and masks that turn my face into a portable sauna and ridiculous shields we must wear while residents almost never wear even a mask and admin does whatever they want; they just increased the number of residents we're "allowed" to care for, we effectively can't collect unemployment if we get the virus(thank you heroes!), all while still not given a livable wage. I'm great with the residents and they love me so much some cry when I go off-shift, but everything else about it is the shitz.
A lot of corporations played their hand at the beginning of the pandemic. Now the employees are playing theirs. Ethics and loyalty goes a long way.
Unprecedented turnover on my team over last 2 years (work in IT). People leaving for more pay, or bigger life changes. Something has changed. Employees feel they have more leverage. I actually see their leverage increasing in short run and don’t see anything stopping this trend
You’ll see those people fighting for employment in a short while and government assistance going up. The writing is on the wall. It’s easy to convince this you get generation to own nothing and be happy and decrease their actual drive and ambition. They’ve already been programmed by tech not to be socially interactive. Time will tell, but I’d bet my life that it will get worse before it’s better and that this is motivated by a more nefarious plan to control people. We were in a huge entrepreneur boom, and now that’s gone. The new generation will bring very little to the development of new startups an innovation and be happy cashing their government checks to stay home. They got them used to being quite complacent with very little.
Seeing the same too. I’m in tech and the leverage people have is unprecedented. People are willing to not put up with suffocating work culture
I quit my job in September 2020 to complete a Masters in Business Administration, something I had planned to do for a few years already. It was clear that the rate of career progression in the company I was in would not match the possibilities more education could provide. Happy to see I was a bit ahead of the curve for once :)
I began working in construction after a bit of bar work. I came back from Brazil after 4 years away. I did about half a year bartending in 2021, then I switched to labouring in construction about mid 2021.
I find the pay, hours and satisfaction is much better. I am planning to go back to finish my carpentry apprenticeship at age 30
They keep telling us the IT field is growing so fast it's outpacing the workforce but yet nobody wants to pay us what we are worth, and you can't get any job without having already worked that job for a year or two. If you "don't have any experience" you'll be lucky to get the bottom-of-the-barrel IT job paying McDonald's wages. Once you've worked that shitty level 1 job for 5 years you are deemed "worthy" of getting paid what you're worth at the administrative level.
The system is broken, and we are fed up. Good luck running a company without an IT department, because my last job was at a national bank and they are down to 1 IT guy! If he leaves they are screwed.
Generally, to get a pay increase in IT you need to move companies every few years.
They cant pay what you are worth If they dont understand what are you doing...
As a mechanic you start Low and Help a lot to get Up and Up. (There is Low Work to Help even If you dont know any about the Job)
And at the end of the Day anyone can See the Progress of your physical Work.
For real IT Work i dont See a starting Point you need to know it all or read and learn fast as you move on. (OK, Program vs coding but that dont Help mutch, it add the Problem of ppl that think they know but dont)
And after 4 years still no one knows that the IT is crap or good... Until they get the First big Problem and no fast fix.
(Manage a growing Produktline of 64000 items with a spreadsheet, in the old days)
And the Problem of small Business they need one IT man for a hour a Day, but He must know all from the company to understand the Processing there... So they hire one (because pay a other company Sometimes dont Work) but wanna him to do other Work too. So He can compensate for the liddle use. But then you Work all Day without time to learn new Things and slowy get useless for IT in the Future.
Like understanding Security... You pay to build a Wall, and Crackers only pay for a ladder to get over your expensive wall.
... Now measure the ladder is easy but the Wall you never know ;-)
So working on Automation other Jobs is easy to measure, you save them millions and get a few Bugs and Bad Dreams.
By the way:
(Most ppl dont get statistics, KI will be a lot of fun in the Future) Bo0oM
Greatz from Germany
and have a nice Day
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Its the same in trades and damn near everywhere else. They expect you to spend half a decade working for min wage or next to it and than finally one day you might make 20 - 25 an hr, which still aint shit in this society
Yeah, I quit my job. It was making me sick because of the fumes from the solder. I enjoyed the work but the people were jerks that were looking forward to the dictatorship.
Yep me too I worked as a repairer for electronics
Tvs laptops smartphones you name it
But pay never increased in 2years some coworkers were jerks too taking credit for things that I did and the boss refusing to care
Its been a week since I just got the paycheck and just left
I couldnt bee more happier
Fumes from solder are bad. I would think your employer should be held responsible for not providing clean air.
I’m from the US and quit my job as a front desk agent at a hotel in 2020, in order to pursue a Master’s degree. I am now in my final semester and living in Europe. I was motivated by the lack of upward mobility and by frustration with what I perceived to be an out of touch upper management team. My direct supervisors on site were supportive and kind. But the orders coming down from on high fell flat. To add to this frustration was the hysteria by many of our guests. We had locals become de facto Covid police. Calling us almost daily to complain about our hotel being open, or spying on families in their rooms. I was also angry to realize that my coworkers who were furloughed and sitting at home were making more than I was working.
The dream of careerism is a nightmare
I hope anyone who takes that step finds peace in their life
I'm 23 and I graduated from college in May 2020 in the midst of Covid. My main concern was getting a job and maintaining it. For the record, I work in HR. I was laid off from my internship in April 2020 at a company I worked for since 2018. August 2020, the company brought me back when things settled down a bit and they really needed someone that at least had an idea of the work in order to cover for someone going on maternity leave and I was super grateful to be offered a solid hourly wage and the ability to work remote like 99% of the time. The coworker I was filling in for left a few months after and I was basically a solo HR Operations department, but I dealt with it and was willing to do overtime and maybe put in a few hours on the weekends (not a big deal since it's remote) to do what was needed. Come the end of 2021 when everyone is getting pay raises, they gave me a 2% salary increase which felt like a small slap in the face for all the hard work I put in and they chalked it up to it being my first year out of college working full time even though I felt like I went above and beyond. For the record, I love the team I work with and I tolerate my job, but the bare minimum pay increase has me open to other opportunities.
Mate, you should tell them all this. Have another oppertunity lined up, but then let them know. This die hard hinging on experience is so archaic, it needs to just die out. If a kid is doing 3x a better job that their 30 year experienced counterpart, the kid deserves the pays and the accolades.
Sadly even more weight has been put into "experience" since our colleges have been decaying, and degrees correlate less and less with actual good educations. But your work ethic and the RESULTS YOU PRODUCED should be more than enough for a boss that has 2 brain cells, to realize you deserve better.
Have something else lined up incase, then let them know they're about to lose another HR if you don't get the credit and pay you are due. Or atleast, tell them how it felt like a slap in the face after you filled in for them and worked beyond expectations and you firmly believe you deserve better.
Ask for the rise in pay when they need you the most. They will be more willing to agree at that point. After with a back to normal status you get a normal increase in pay. Many people worked for companies for decades. Worked themselves to the bone and they didn't get any increase only if your still here next year you can get increase then by minimum amount.
People don't quit when asked to step up. They quit when they step up and remain unappreciated
You can NOT change the management culture, so find your next opportunity and resign. I once asked some headhunters if I should make a counter offer to an employee that was resigning and they told me that if the employee did accept, they would be gone in less than a year because I couldn't fix the corporate culture that was driving them away. I never made a counter offer after that but tried to listen to my employees and fix what I could.
HR shouldn't exist. Your group causes a lot of problems in a company. I know..I know...you're different.
OMG what a great summary of what is happening right now. I happy that someone is talking about it. Many times I spoke with friends, co-workers about what's going on, how we feel etc. Every person is thinking the same. That lockdown gave us time to think where we are and where we are going. I'm not taking pleasure from work anymore so I've decided to start YT channel. I'm still not sure what I'll do. Still trying to figure it out. Great video
most of the security jobs i worked for over the last few years we always had low staffing which caused us to work lots of 12s. you can imagine how well that went. we're going through the same people want more out of the job but the company wants to pay us as little as possible and work us to death then find someone else to put up with them. The cherry on top is getting emails from them claiming we are "valued employees"
I resigned my job as a Senior IT Manager due to a toxic work environment and a bad work relationship with a new boss that had 10-15 years less professional experience than my own. This new boss was big into fire fighting and crisis management, rather than planning and acting ahead to ensure that there were no fires to fight and no crisis to manage. This boss had the audacity to tell me that I was employing micro agressions against him - as a Latino/Hispanic in my mid-50s (from a white man in his early 40s that just had EEO training - where he picked up the term "micro agression"). The company is managed by "bean counters" from a private equity firm that worked remotely from home but expected all employees worldwide to be back in the office - even if their local governments had COVID restrictions and mandates for employees to work from home where ever possible (if not essential workers). Salaries and bonuses were below average, except for senior management. Now I face an uphill battle... finding a new job that has meaning and purpose to me as a minority in my mid-50s, especially when it's difficult to find a job in the high-tech sector as a highly educated and skilled old man (over-50 age discrimination in the high-tech sector). Although I applaud the Great Resignation... I don't see any real change towards better labour conditions and pay for the average worker and under employed worker due to the "kleptocracy" in government, business and legal system in favour of the established wealthy few. Sad.
A Hi from India. Soundtrack was just so so awesome. Please post it Dagogo.