Is the Great Resignation 2.0 coming? Nearly 3 in 10 workers plan to quit this year

dhork , 5 hours ago

Of course, if your employer isn’t giving out raises and prices keep going up, people who can get better jobs will engineer their own raise.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 4 hours ago

The biggest raise I’ve ever gotten for staying at a job is half of the lowest raise I’ve gotten from switching jobs, in terms of percentage of income.

Zerlyna , 4 hours ago

My boss told me if I try to leave they will pay me more. That just pisses me off. I do a kick ass job for them, I made myself a profit center. I have saved the company half a million a year. Throw me a bone, it costs you NOTHING.

meleecrits , 3 hours ago

All your boss told you was that if they could, they would pay you less.

All hard work gets you is more work.

01189998819991197253 , 45 minutes ago

Don’t let it piss you off. S/he just told you how to get a raise. Go get your raise.

Fondots , 38 minutes ago

When I left my old job, a lowly shipping/receiving guy in a warehouse, my job panicked and offered me a pretty significant raise if I stayed.

After having been there about 5 years, I’d made myself somewhat indispensable, they kind of just kept piling responsibilities onto me, I absorbed a lot of a supervisors duties when he retired with no replacement hired for him, I had fairly minimal oversight and was mostly left to figure out how things worked on my own (which I didn’t really mind, it made the job more interesting and I was up to the task, but I definitely didn’t get paid nearly enough for the work I was doing) so I was pretty much the only one who knew how all of our shipping and receiving stuff worked.

Along the way I wrangled myself a couple OK raises, but not really enough to bring me to a proper living wage. I had asked a couple of times about at least getting a promotion in title if nothing else so that I would have something more impressive on my resume that “warehouse associate” which I’m pretty sure was my job title the entire time I was there despite effectively being a supervisor.

When they offered me more when I told them I was leaving, it pissed me off more than anything. If they’d just paid me that much from the get-go and kept on top of giving me decent raises to reflect the job I was doing there’s a good chance I’d still be working there now and never would have tried looking for another job. What they offered me wasn’t quite my starting salary at my new job but it was pretty close.

I could have left them really high and dry and just left, but I didn’t want to screw over whoever was replacing me too badly, so I wrote down instructions for everything I could think of that was my responsibility because honestly no one else had the whole picture, a handful of people there could do parts of my job but a lot of it, like I said, was stuff I had to figure out on my own. All of the business cards I’d acquired for different shipping companies, vendors, etc. and I gave 3 weeks notice and attempted to pass on as much knowledge as possible to my likely temporary replacement before I left. Last I heard, they went through several replacements within a few months of me leaving.

Got_Bent , 5 hours ago

I’ve become too old to be marketable in free agency so I’m stuck, but you better believe the day it’s financially viable to do so, and not a minute later, my happy ass will walk out into retirement and never look back.

Track_Shovel , 4 hours ago

Idk what you do, but don’t limit yourself. In my line of work, people with a shitpile of experience are very sought after

Reyali , 59 minutes ago

I hired a 65-year-old guy last year. I knew he was older, but didn’t know his age until after he joined my team.

It was also a slightly new career path for him. He’d worked as an IT Project Manager for most of his career, focused on backend systems interacting only with other IT folks. Now he’s a Program Manager on a Product team so it’s not wildly different, but his stakeholders are significantly different and the way he works is different (focusing at a higher level than before).

And he is rockin’ it. I love working with him and seeing him grow into this role has brought me a lot of satisfaction. He is a great member of my team. He’s mentioned wanting to retire within 5 years and I’ll be sad when that happens, but I hope I have the chance to be his last manager and support him through when he makes that choice.

I’m not trying to minimize the challenges of changing jobs as you get older; the statistics speak for themselves. But I do hope that if you want that change that this anecdote might help inspire you. There are other hiring managers who will only care about what you can bring to the table.

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Warl0k3 , 4 hours ago

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sunzu , 4 hours ago

It is a known fact that if your employer is not willing to give market rate comp, it is on you to get the market rate on the market.

But owners knows most of us are lil bitches who loath any discomfort or change. So he is able to attricion us.

If you can, you should be getting raises after 2-3 years per employer. They should he actually offering you more to keep you tbh but that's a sorry for a different time.

QuarterSwede , 5 hours ago

Already happening in the trades. Good luck finding an electrical company that isn’t booked out for weeks. There is way more work than can be done right now with electricians being extremely hard to hire. So if your electrical quote seems insane, that’s why.