I Quit! - Why Millions of People Are Quitting Their Jobs

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[Ryan.zelenski]

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

[myronidasvestarossa]

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.

[gubzs]

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.

[mr_ice]

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

[gordonlawrence]

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".

[ryang]

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.

[patrickmalec]

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 🙏🏻

[showdodoc]

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.

[RedshirtAfficionado]

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.

[PhxSml]

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.

[PiroFyre]

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.

[patrickisboard]

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.

[rainmanslim]

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.

[MortimerZabi]

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.

[charlottemia]

STARTING AN INVSTMENT IS ACTUALLY VERY EASY THE ONLY HASSLE IS FINDING THE RIGHT ONE FOR YOU, THE FUTURE IS
CHANGING WE ALL NEED TO CHANGE WITH IT

[LvFlstin]

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

[thetruthstand]

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.

[LuKiSCraft]

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.

[Afrobriit]

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.

[ivanThaOoze]

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!