The TRUTH of The Great Resignation | Simon Sinek

[@travisrawlings3552]

I got two 25¢ raises during my 4 years working a hard job in construction. I couldn't pay my bills and my boss was happily taking care of his family and building a 150k addition on his house and buying new cars. Needless to say i dont work there anymore and he "can't find good help" since i left....

[@catherinesanchez1185]

I got a 10cent raise one year, when the recession was going on. The company made it clear we should all be grateful to have jobs, which is funny cuz without us they wouldn't have made any $$. CEO still made his millions though.

[@Todd.T]

I got a 20 cent raise in 4 years and it was a static raise meaning for the next four years with no other increase. Anybody that could quit. The difference is we all had skills and experience and a second job. Some of us expanded their second business, some of us went to other companies.

[@johnnyquest9519]

You should work at a fast food place. Hear $22 and hour is becoming a thing.

[@ssharp9890]

I got sick of being under paid and unappreciated day in and day out. Micro-managing, nit picking, and constantly having to do other peoples work just sucked the joy out of me so I joined the great resignation club.

[@prestontucker1687]

What's worse is doing someone else's job for them & they call you lazy.

[@vantage789]

But what do you do now though?

[@dhammaboy1203]

Good for you - I have done the same! I hope you find a much more fulfilling career path!

[@goverlord]

@@vantage789 Starve, same as when I was working, but this time with less abuse

[@4homemail]

Well, I hope the recession hit hard and see who will come back to work like you are supposed to. I am sure there are people who were treated terrible at their place but most don’t. But when the money ran out get your lazy ass back to work.

[@whydoesthisexistpod]

Exactly. It's not that nobody wants to work. It's that nobody wants to work FOR YOU!

[@slevinchannel7589]

Part 2: "The Future and Past of WORK" by 'Some More News'.

[@standinginthegap7118]

Exactly

[@artawhirler]

As somebody once said, "Half of life is knowing what you DON'T want."

[@remkojerphanion4686]

True

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@remkojerphanion4686 Part 2: "The Future... and Past of WORK" by 'Some More News'.

[@METALHEAD550]

💯

[@drakoan]

Over the last 6 years of my life I have had 5 different jobs and every single one of my employers was expecting more than they delivered by a wide margin. All of them were violating labour laws or safety laws. All of them were far underpaying for the work requested,, and only one of them actually provided proper training. As a context note since people work so hard to misunderstand things for ego reasons: Covid played a big role in my story and I often worked more than one job at a time because I like being fully employed. I was not changing jobs constantly but working multiple jobs and like many industries mine was effected by covid forcing me to change and adapt. I figured saying "the last six years" would make the Covid portion obvious but people are kind stupid when it suits them to be. Employment is a contract between two parties for an exchange of services and compensation but somewhere along the lines the attitude became that employees are to be exploited and people are just sick and tired of living in a world that treats them with contempt.

[@DecimatorPrime]

And America doesn't have Contract to work system. .

[@BillClinton228]

And if you change jobs frequently it's YOUR fault... you did something wrong to displease your masters. Exploitation, low salaries with no annual increase, toxic workplaces... those problems don't exist and it's YOUR own fault if you change jobs. That's how recruiters and businesses look at your resume.

[@teekay_1]

If your job doesn't suit you, find a new one, or move to where a better job is. I'm always amazed that people will complain that the good jobs are somewhere else, but won't make any sort of effort to move to where they'd have a better life for them and their family.

[@drakoan]

@@teekay_1 There are so many assumptions and presumptions in your statement I won't even bother trying to explain to you how trite and empty of meaning or any wisdom it was. Try harder, assume less, ask questions next time. Cheers

[@teekay_1]

@@drakoan You are the captain of your ship. Focus on on yourself and your family first, and stop blaming others for what happens to you.

[@nickwilliams8302]

There are a couple problems with attributing this to a lack of "leadership and culture": 1. Too many employers think that "leadership" means "a manager monitoring the workers" and that "culture" means "We have casual Fridays and sometimes donuts in the break room". 2. Sometimes it's just about the money. Like, people are willing to put up with a certain amount of suck in a job _if it gives them financial stability._ In a Maslow's Hierarchy way of looking at things, leadership and culture only matter to people who aren't worried about making rent.

[@danr154]

exactly. i dont give a flying fuck about soft intangible benefits that are just an excuse to cut costs and not gove yoy something of value. I solved a 7 million dollar problem at my job. Did my own analysis and handed them the solution all written out on a silver platter. Manageme t even AGREED with my analysis, said not only was I correct I slightly UNDERSHOT the severity of the problem to tbe tine of an additional 400k. Doi g this analysis was above and beyond my normal job duties. I did all the gritty data collection myself. In the end I did get a temporary change to policy based on my study........but I got ZERO reward. Not a thank you. Just a "remember to write this down for later when you go for promotions, we will remember, we promjse!". Meanwhile my roommate in pest control walks around yards spraying shit all day and gets to take him and his gf on a week long trip to jamaica because of sales. Its fuckin bullshit.

[@Papa-dopoulos]

Totally agreed, but like, how does what you said not confirm the exact issues of poor leadership/culture? You just said it.

[@Bailey4President]

Sure, but how much financial stability is there in having *no job* ?

[@stinger4712]

Those worried about making the rent are not quitting

[@codacreator6162]

First thing Daniel Pink writes in his book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us is to take money off the table, out of the equation. That is, to OVER pay employees. Then, motivation can begin to be about what drives people to work: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. None of which means beans if, as you say, you can’t make rent.

[@1701Starfish]

I love this mass awakening. I'm in the UK, and joined the movement this week having worked for the NHS for over 20 years. I would like to give my dreams a chance now.

[@kazansky22]

I was an air traffic controller for 18 years, in the FCT system in the US, I quit for good, tired of terrible pay to have a bad schedule. Going to do what I want to do.

[@vickigreen9545]

Yes it’s great, we spend many hours of our lives working in our jobs - if we need to change vocation or employer, the world is better for it with the right people enjoying their vocation and crappy employers shrivelling to dust!

[@Rianoa19]

20 years? I've worked for the nhs less than a year and I already want out.

[@dr69_420]

@@Rianoa19 as do i. i told them about my mental health and how it effected my work, after a meeting with my manager i got told everybpdy has problems and riffed on me about how i worked and i explained coz of my adhd and i just felt like i was made to feel shit for no reason. Im looking for an out too

[@1701Starfish]

@@Rianoa19 I'm so sorry to hear that.

[@jedrouth9147]

Well said. You can tell this just by vocabulary. How many times have you heard employees called "headcount?" And layoffs called "cutting heads?" Tells a lot about what we think about our employees.

[@andrepostoluck3452]

"seeking fresh trees to turn them into dead wood"

[@thebookwasbetter3650]

People really need to understand that it's a contractual relationship of mutual exploitation. You do stuff, I pay you money. If you can get past that, then you'll do fine.

[@N0noy1989]

@@thebookwasbetter3650 it's an uneven relationship though. So it's not mutual exploitation. Rather a one sided exploitation where the stronger side give crumbs to the other to keep on exploiting them. I mean I'm just going to give an extreme example here. Let's take slavery. Slave gets food, master gets work. But are you seriously going to say that's mutual exploitation? Anyway, I feel like you already have an exploitative mindset so you won't think of uneven relationships as not mutual at all. P.S. Contracts can be struck down for being exploitative btw. Can't just say that both signed that it's fine and dandy already. If we're going with your logic, I'm sure we can just dismiss about half of civil contracts cases in court right now.

[@bradhienzachary]

Employees treat the employer really bad too! Lazy at work, entitlement attitude. Take holidays or day off and every sick day. Here in Australia we pay them 4 weeks holidays and superannuation!

[@philipfahy9658]

@@bradhienzachary "My employees suck because they actually want holidays!!!" Wow, I'm sure you're a great person to work for. Also, laziness is an innate trait of all humans, we are predators, it's called 'conserving energy'. “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” - Frank B. Gilbreth Sr. You know what we call lazy people who get a job done, efficient. Perhaps you just need to improve your work culture. Smart people don't work hard at a job they could care less about. Give them a reason to care.

[@fenixrising1972]

I have a masters degree, a full time job, and the lowest rent in my town, and I'm barely getting by. I don't even have a car payment or a phone contract. I like my job and that's the only reason I stay there. There's no way I'd go to a job I hate every day just to barely pay rent and have zero quality of life.

[@georginatoland]

Proud quitter of jobs since the early 1990s here! The happiest days of my life have always been those where I quit a shitty job. I’m talking really horrible jobs where there was so much abuse, it was accepted as “normal” by all of the employees. And at one of those bad jobs, I was pressured into doing something illegal. I would have complained, but the abuse and corruption started at the top and dripped down on all of us like so much slime. Quitting is life-affirming and a real boost to one’s self-esteem. I highly recommend it.

[@AN-jz3px]

You don’t add value to a business then. If you think everyone else is an idiot, you’re the idiot 100% of the time

[@HarpMuse]

Same here. I’ve quit two jobs where my boss was abusive and higher ups did nothing. Both times I gave no notice, just walked out. The first one was as my boss was yelling at me because the staple was placed horizontally rather than vertically. The second because my boss, who was literally twice my size, came into my office, closed and locked the door and told me he could do anything he wanted to me because he was my boss.

[@HarpMuse]

@MrGriff305 I did not have anything lined up. This was 20 & 30 years ago, so jobs weren't that difficult to find at that time. Now I work 80% for myself, and the other 20% is a small company where the owner treats his employees with respect.

[@davidjenke6756]

"but the abuse and corruption started at the top and dripped down on all of us like so much slime"... yes, sadly that's it goes - can never be disguised as it always shows itself

[@mindovermatter8920]

Same! There's often a bait and switch with these toxic workplaces. One of the first signs for me is when I start scratching my head and thinking, hey that's not what they told me in the interview and onboarding process. This is not at all what they said it would be. Tricksters.

[@Saje3D]

My wife worked for one of America’s largest media companies. She sold cable, for the most part, but she did a lot of different jobs within the company and while not leading sales, was pretty top tier. Her dedication to doing her job RIGHT to the customer’s (reasonable) satisfaction (some unreasonable people get pissed if they call on Friday and can’t get a next day hookup) served her well for nearly two decades. Then she got sick. Disabled. Working from home alleviated nearly all of her symptoms that made going into the loud, chaotic office challenging. But RIGHT before Covid the company decided they would not accommodate her disability and she would have to start coming in to the office. This literally threatens her life. They forced her to quit. Gave her no option. At one time this company, not beloved by consumers, was a very good place to work. But professional dynasties suffer the same flaw as royal ones. No one can guarantee the guy with the best intentions when he started the company won’t have spoiled, greedy kids. And, in fact, it’s probably more likely. “We’re a family” is a great slogan. But it should be illegal to claim. Because it’s nonsense.

[@BillLaBrie]

Most families are pretty awful, tbh. So businesses should think twice before touting that as some sort of advantage. They should be saying something like “We offer you reasonable, ongoing compensation in exchange for professional behavior and determined effort while you are on the clock, all without emotional blackmail. If you decide it’s not for you, feel free to move on without looking back. Thus, we are definitely NOT a family.”

[@SGspecial84]

You can't force someone to quit. As an employee you don't have to do anything you're not comfortable doing, and it's up to the company to compromise or fire you. If you quit, it is your choice.

[@sandtx4913]

"We're a family" actually means "we're a family and you're not part of it!". These big cor-por-at-ions are gre-edy mo-ney-ma-king fac-tor-ies. It's a py-ram-id sche-me on microlevel and all leg-al because it was intentionally made that way by cor-por-ate l-a-w.

[@aaronleverton4221]

You're a family? Interesting. My family is five people and three of them have no choice but to obey me.

[@aaronleverton4221]

@@zeppo9885 If you could get away with telling your parents where and when to step off, that was up to them, I guess.

[@sasha_nivar]

i keep hearing people dont want to work and that simply isn't true people don't want to work in shitty environments with shitty leadership. I experienced the great ressagnation in my early 20's in 2013 and on every job I got I felt and was treated like a number and I was like oh no this ain't for me either I learn how to make my own money or continue to be subjected to these shitty work environments. Now I'm all in on earning my own income!

[@LaChicaTieneTumbao]

My job kept changing. They kept adding more & more stressful responsibilities and removing the ones I’d actually applied for. It was like they were actively trying to drive us insane, see what they could get away with and push us out. After years of success in my desired tasks and even those I hated I gave up expecting them to finally appreciate me & what I brought to the table. They weren’t even at the table. I finally realized the company was not one where people can grow nor have a career. Ultimately and unfortunately finding out they’re not the only company like this.

[@yakamen]

@@LaChicaTieneTumbao I learned something by investing for myself in my trading account -- never be too loyal to any company or investment. Tesla, Amazon, Fedex, they can make or break you in like 3 days as markets fluctuate. Companies view US with even more contempt bc labor is replaceable. So I view employer relationships as temporary investments. When it doesn't work out, I listen to my instincts, pool my resources, and exercise my freedom. This is more difficult if you're beholden to kids, mortgage, family, whatever...but all the more reason to "get it together" financially if you can.

[@AryonaSamoto]

"Treated like a number" yup... this is healthcare and why I left nursing. I loved caring for people and the few moments of gratitude from patients who felt seen and heard by me. But the environment is toxic and most healthcare workers treat patients with bias and critisism(unless they are exactly like them) so the patients treat other healthcare workers like crap. The managers get bonus based on how under budget they are so would force nurse to work short staffed. Then the nurses eat their young nurses because they are so bitter from their years of abuse they enjoy the chance to take it out on someone else. 😔 lets not even get started on the politics and forced compliance😒

[@yakamen]

@@AryonaSamoto Social work was the exact same way. They make young people's philanthropic drive to make it in the helping professions virtually impossible, and they'll lure smart (but poor kids) with the cheese of student loans to pump them out of a 4 year bachelor's in social work with some $40k student loan debt. Then they'll go into an entry level case management position making $25-30,000 a year before taxes. They'll spend half of their time making their case to Medicaid to bill for services, get virtually no support, and get told to make the best of community resources which, while they certainly exist, are strained to the limit. Thats what I did for 4 years until I joined the military, got into logistics, and got out of social work altogether. If I'm going to take on more student loans for a Masters Degree, why not do so for a profession that actually can sustain life?

[@CryptolockerMD]

Covid demonstrated no one is safe and very few companies care, so the "unknown" of quitting was way less scary. If you are going to get screwed either way, might as well take the path that saves your mental health. I was in same job almost 10 years.

[@WhiskiDev]

I love how the answer is never paying employees more. It's all about virtue signaling without any real substantive change.

[@nicholasbroadhurst9096]

Lol yea, I kept thinking he was making this way to complicated, just pat them more and allow them to clean them to continue remote where applicable…

[@MooseBme]

"Oh, instead of money... Record profits and CEO bonuses... Smiling, mocking, lecturing, laughing, threatening... With !Gift-Cards! 'Cause, WE FAMILY! Sooo, JUST PUNCH OUT AND JUST KEEP WORKING... ... Oh, but YOUR *just* A GUY... AND *THEY* CRY and... and... AND... IT'S GOOD HUH?! JUST A FEW MORE YEARS... !" "Abject Superior-Equality" - The "educunted!"

[@wildeyedherman3102]

This guy is severely understating the situation. Most employers are criminal lunatics.

[@realmichaud]

that has been my experience. I remember waiting tables for a major chain in the 90s. I mad ok tips, and my raise was like a nickle and the manager said look how good the raise is blah blah blah....what a joke.

[@wildeyedherman3102]

@@realmichaud This guy is an office/indoors/city type. He has no idea what braving the world in a physical way means. So his opinions end up being the thinnest of gruel. Irrelevant and insulting to those who know what a heavy price morality actually exacts upon a living, breathing, sentient creature.

[@bndrcr82a08e349g]

Just look at what kind of work he does

[@nollindwhachell]

We effectively have to teach companies and their "leaders" how to be human again.

[@bradhienzachary]

Don’t worry! Too many treat their employers very badly! Cost them lots of money and loose customers. In Australia get 4 weeks holiday 8 days sick leave, public holidays days when they just don’t want to be at work. Lazy and don’t make the boss much money at all.

[@jankyyard5610]

@@bradhienzachary Giving lots of benefits without a cause or meaningful reason to do things is counterproductive. It would just make people entitled to something they don't deserve, hence less human than they're supposed to be like their tyrants.

[@truthseeker3536]

They are not human. Watch the movie 'They live' (1988), and you will understand. The bible calls them the tares (aka serpent seeds of Cain).

[@Squintis]

I think this is exactly it. A lot of people are realizing that little bit of money isn’t even worth it to give them all your time. “You work to live, don’t live to work.”

[@jasondoust4935]

I've had a few employers and jobs over the years that taught me that sometimes nothing is better than their particular something. Some of them were well paid, too. But no amount of money was keeping me in an abusive or exploitative relationship.

[@waydesworld108]

Just walked away from a retail management job. It was the sheer lack of macro management support while being constantly berated and taken advantage of by the public that drove me out the door. Thankfully I'm in a position to do so, most aren't as lucky. Don't ever settle though, look for your next opening and get out~!

[@englishmuffin7]

Omg I'm in a retail position now and the pay is so low, and my employer hates me and is messing with my money by cutting out days when i said i needed more because my paycheck isn't enough to pay for my bills! I'm currently looking for jobs but omg I wish i could be out of there as soon as possible!

[@waydesworld108]

@@englishmuffin7 Retail world is brutal. I hope you find something better soon. Youll get there!

[@SupremeCannon1965]

Bean counters made themselves look really, really smart by how much productivity they could wring out of people for as little compensation as possible. I get it - I was part of a family business for 30 years, we weren't doing it to create jobs or pay benefits, that was a cost of doing business. But our retention was always 95% because we refused to treat people like numbers. The modern workplace simply is not good enough. Most people work to live, not live to work, and unless compensation is sufficient for a good life it's a dead end. Enough! An 'economy' exists for people, not the other way around!

[@carladossantos1142]

For the past 2 years, I quit teaching for good because they wanted me to comply with anti-pedagogic methods and teach for statistics, it's pretty much like this on a national level. After that, I worked at a supermarket as a shelf replenisher and refused to be treated as cattle and work in such an abusive and toxic environment after 5 months. This is the norm in these low paying jobs and even others. I am a teacher from Portugal, and I have worked in a lot of different areas, even cleaning, and I really like it because it keeps things fun and teaches me a lot of different skills. Like a lot of people, I do want to work, I am so ready for it, but I'd rather die than to work in these conditions. No one should demand to be respected and treated nicely at work. The other thing that I realized is that people around you, family and friends, that are still in that deep fear, will continually shame you because "you can't secure any job", "you're too picky", pretty much saying that it is okay for me to allow myself to be abused and mistreated at work...I am so glad that this is happening and I hope to get my right job in the right country very soon. All the best to you all too!

[@caesarq7513]

The way many low end workers are treated is just horrible. I was shocked when I learned that some companies would approve an employees vacation time weeks ahead and then tell them last minute they can’t take it even though they had booked planes and hotels and threaten to fire them if they didn’t show up. I couldn’t imagine.

[@wayneanderson8034]

The way to beat that is just walk when they say no to your leave. I was an OTR driver, they have 6-12 weeks to plan to get me back on time. Every time they said we need you just 1 more day I said I am making my flight, the truck can be at the terminal when I do or left at a truck stop somewhere. They always had me back in time. It's the fact that for decades people could not afford to call their bluff, so they obeyed. When you show I am ready to walk right now if you don't keep your word we find out if they really need you or not.

[@realmichaud]

@@wayneanderson8034 exactly just tell them to get lost

[@jonw.3886]

I just left a job that was draining the life out of me. No word of thanks from management about the many hours I worked doing the job of three people. My immediate coworkers bought me a few gifts and signed a card with sincere messages about how much they appreciated the help I gave them. It's interesting to find out who actually cares about you and appreciates you at your job. It sure isn't management!

[@kaitlynjpeace]

I just left a 9 year job for what I thought was a good opportunity. After 10 days at the new one I walked away from that one as well. Pulling myself from the labor market temporarily to decide what I want to do!

[@efjayadi]

Good luck 🤞

[@chessdad182]

I did that about 25 years ago. Left a job where I was underpaid. Took a job at a 25 percent increase. Worked there a little over a week, and found another job paying another 25+ percent over that and quit the second job. LOL. Was at the third job for 8 years.

[@UzumakiX5series]

This is why unions are so powerful and feared by companies. Collectively, employees are powerful.

[@TheHuntercamper]

I left a F 500 Co. after years of abuse. With shortage of people in my area of concern I turned myself into a private contractor. It was like a whole new world. In contracts I had written in, I could quit at any time. I used that portion a couple of times when upper management of that contract company started to talk to me as a subservient subordinate. One, of a company tried to place me under his foot in front of his colleagues with shaming language direct at me. With out saying a word I turn an put the clip board down on the floor and reached in and grabbed my day bag and walk off towards my car, all the while I turned my phone off and didn't turn it back on for 3 weeks...I had other contracts in the waiting as I always do. There is a line waiting on me rather then the other way around.

[@Timbertrussminifarm]

I worked for a fortune 500 company too that does business all over the world and it is amazing how many emails I get every month of all these people promoted to VP or president of different departments… While I sit here struggling

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

In Israel what I see in middle class especially the high tech sector is that when covid forced people to work from home or not work at all for some periods, people saw how much they were missing when working insane hours at the office, and that they would gladly sacrifice some pay for quality time, The correction here features fewer outright resignation but demands for better work/life balance and I see many companies are actually embracing it, since covid showed productivity doesn't plummet. In this case it's the companies that feared the unknown and now embrace normal schedules and hybrid work. Before covid it was assumed that if your programmers don't work 10 hours a day, your company is doomed.

[@musashidanmcgrath]

I retired last year at 44. I'm a carpenter by trade, but the majority of my 27 year career was as a sole trader. I went to Australia for 10 years to work in civil construction and it was a 'worker's market' because of the shortage of skilled tradesmen. We could pretty much pick our jobs and name our price. I put the head down and saved everything for the last 3 years of the 10. Retired now in southern Spain with a beach house bought for cash. I count my blessings every day as I now live in paradise, but it took a LOT of hard work and Spartan discipline to pull it off. This is not a boast, rather a hope that inspires people to work to live, not the other way around. Set goals and reap the rewards.

[@danielpayne1597]

Nobody else acknowledged your accomplishment here, so I will -- congrats, that's amazing, glad you made it! and I'm glad things are not perpetually shit for everyone, because sometimes I think and feel that it is, it gets so depressing.

[@johnshellenberg1383]

Was expecting this to be a part 2 to the "lazy millennial" video. Wow, actually blaming employers for treating people like garbage and finally having at least part of it blow back on them? Simon speaks some truth here.

[@damok9999]

seems like a commie that blames the ones paying the money and not the ones taking it by force

[@bradhienzachary]

Employees treat the employer really badly too! Lazy, entitled attitude take days off, stress leave or any other discomfort they feel at the time. Here in Australia they are paid 4 weeks holiday and 8 days sick leave! Then there is maternity leave and having to find someone when they are gone. Some people should be paid more and are worth it but many are getting paid too much.

[@kajony]

Finally

[@christopherhenderson3715]

@@bradhienzachary Respect and trust goes both ways. I don't know about Australia, but in the U.S. (which this video is mostly about), 4 weeks of vacation time is luxurious, and employees can be laid off at any time for any reason (and in many lower-paying jobs they often are). That doesn't inspire a lot of trust. If a company wants me to care about it more than my bottom line, it has to care about me more than it's bottom line. And are you seriously calling maternity leave "entitlement"? Babies don't raise themselves, and giving birth physically and emotionally drains a person for weeks. It is a traumatic and painful experience, and a necessary experience for raising a family and living a full life. Employees deserve to have lives outside of their job; they are people, not peasants. If a company believes that their employees should devote their entire life to them, *that's* entitlement!

[@bradhienzachary]

@@christopherhenderson3715 well maternity entitlement is what it is called. To all the mothers of past generations they were not paid maternity leave. Government here also give government subsidies and at one stage here in Australia couples were paid $5000. I don’t know about the US but I’m sure US attitude would be if you want a baby that’s fine but I’m not paying for it! Could you imagine someone comes to your place to do some work and you both agree paid for 5 days works yet he only works 3! You ask I said 5 days where were you for the other two? He says you paid for my holiday and maternity leave to be with the wife for the birth of our child. I understand this is all generalising and it’s hard for the right balance. I’m just trying to work out this world like everyone else!

[@stumac869]

During lockdowns people realised you don't need to keep buying crap to be happy. Freedom of life is much more rewarding.

[@realmichaud]

yes that is a big part of it, and of course those who were laid off/let go got time to think about their lives for once.

[@EmptyZoo393]

One major change that I've seen, and that I'm really appreciative of, is the better understanding that you've got a life outside of work. When you've got a spouse and a few kids, you really can't be working 60-70 hour weeks and not have something crack. I'm hoping that this trickles out of work and into schools and colleges. I can't tell you how sad it is to see a 22 year old who has reached the prestigious Dream Job but has no idea what they want to do with their life. The young adult who's spent their entire life prepping to get into an Ivy League or MIT or Stanford, but doesn't know what comes after. I really hope we can push these changes further.

[@AritheCreator_]

This really hit home! I’m 23 and recently graduated college. It’s important to see how your life shouldn’t revolve around your work. It should be the other way around because there are more components to life outside of work… like health, relationships, family etc. This is the exact reason I decided to go all in with my business and YT channel and not to just get any job. Glad I read your comment 🙏🏽

[@mikecaldwell8014]

Ivy League? I don’t think you’re preaching to the choir here.

[@annel3927]

Get the book "48 Days to the Work and Life You Love." By Dan Miller. Very helpful. Very practical.

[@ytucharliesierra]

"The great resignation is... a market correction." Exactly my words! Not just covid, but covid plus the internet made this possible in my view.

[@jerrybrown6169]

I have done amazing things during my 40 year career, but not working is the sweetest, by far . Time is long past due, to invest my time into my body and my mental well being.

[@jamesferguson5224]

I quit my job of 10 years working in the coal mines. I now work as a support worker and studying at uni. Leaving that career in mining even though I worked half the year and earned over 150k a year never felt so liberating. I quit on the spot on a beautiful Sunday at midday. There was not a cloud in the sky and I left the car park blasting who are you by the who. When money is placed above my morals and values it started destroying me and by the end when I left to be the highest paid operator on site of about 400 people, I realized that it all meant nothing to me and the only way I was going to get what I wanted was to get out of there. Dont get me wrong on that day as I wrote down why I was working there before I quit I was shakin with fear and i had not discussed this at all with my partner. We just built a house and had a baby on the way. Though money, security and stable job did not out way being alive and doing what I wanted to do with my life. The biggest factor that I thought about was when i get older and my son grows up would I like to inspire him to take risks to get what he wants in life or would I want him to see that his father took the easy option and kept working at a place that he hated to be in?

[@JoHoMoCo]

You are brave and courageous and you are absolutely doing it for the right reason. I wish you good luck 🍀

[@itsrawwwwwyoudonkey5850]

u gonna be an awesome day bro take care !!

[@GetGrounded]

I am a millennial, and I quit a six-figure job because of this exact reason. It wasn't worth it. I got through COVD so yea I've been enjoying my off time to re-connect with me and now I am opening up my own LLC to work for myself and I am getting clients that want to pay me double to do the work I like to do. Take the professional risk, and trust yourself.

[@omarsabih]

This guy is very good at saying things that everyone knows in an authoritative know-it all style. Great theatre. These are the big internet celebs.

[@victordossantos1113]

Covid brought the realisation that not only was I 'treading water' in a job that I was not appreciated - I had 'senior' responsibilities but no prospect to progress as I did not fit the ideal racial demographic. So at the end of 2020 I resigned from a 25 year career, sold my house and emigrated to the Netherlands, as my home country South Africa was also failing to meet my growing family's needs. It was a truly horrible experience to expose my family to the risks of not having a job, never mind the emigration. But, we perservered and believed in our abilities. My wife and I took jobs in multinational publishing organisations and the rest is history. In less that a year, in my late 50s, I received a substantial pay increase with a promotion. I am no longer judged by what I represent but rather what I can contribute to my organization. I admit that some of these decicisions are both 'brave and stupid' - but sooner or later we have to decide if we are up to the challenge to change the 'status-quo'. However, its not for everyone.

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

This was me working in a five star hotel as a night porter, there were nights where I was essentially manager. I was in charge of the hotel and looking after up to 200 people a night sometimes. When I asked for a payrise or a promotion, they refused, always stating I didn't have the experience or people skills necesssary for the role. But when I was managing it on my own sometimes, without any issues, problems solved quickly, the systems always up and running and ready to go, they never complained, only when I asked for a rise. In the end I gave them the finger and my colleague got the promotion instead. This hotel, literally one of the banqueting team, literally got a promotion for sucking the bosses dick oO

[@TheJelleyMan637]

Hope you enjoy your new life over there boet. Good luck.

[@LaPingvino]

I'm happy to read that the Netherlands could be this place for you :D greetings from Portugal :D

[@SammyLeau]

How do you like it in the Netherlands? This is on my list of countries I want to visit and/or move to.

[@Verixx]

The only difference between bravery and stupidity is the outcome.

[@mathogre]

I retired in March 2021, and I don't regret it one bit. I'll say that my immediate supervisor gave me a couple years of mediocre reviews, while at the same time the actual group I was supporting gave me a corporate level award for helping develop new capabilities in the company; notably the award included money. Retirement was a year or two before I had planned, and I actually liked the type of work we were doing! That said, I was not going to tolerate my immediate supervisor's actions. Hasta la vista, baby!

[@azmodanpc]

With more and more Boomer/Older Xers remaining, those a holz will have to bend over backwards in order to fill spots. Good luck with automation suckas, you top mba managerz (boomers and sociopathic millennials) will soon discover that automating skilled work is no easy feat. In 20 years they didn't even manage to do automatic invoicing and accounting is still labour intensive af. Pay your employers more, attract talented Xers with experience and skills with perks and whatnot. The younger gen won't bend over backwards to work for you (and you a holz won't hire them since they don't have 5 years experience straight out of college). Fat profits are on their way out. One less yacht and mcMansion, poor yous.

[@torferguson3866]

Either you have the resources to retire or you do not. Make sure you don't ignore critique, maybe there is some truth in the supervisors review, it's still valuable information. Of course he may unfortunately have an axe to grind, either way enjoy retirement!

[@azmodanpc]

@@torferguson3866 More often than not, perf reviews are a way for "managers" to belittle and find fault in their "resources", making them uneasy and limiting their (sometimes) justified raise requests. After all, if they can make you feel inadequate, why promote or give you anything? Good luck with turnover and churn going forward: more boomers retiring and automation ain't there yet!

[@StorytellingHeadshots]

It’s very true. Study after study has shown that people don’t quit jobs they quit terrible managers.

[@alicequayle4625]

I hear that undeserved mediocre reviews are a common tool to get rid of older employees. A few stacked up can be an excuse to dump someone.

[@starbrand3726]

12 years ago, I had just started working for a company. After reporting illegal and unethical labor practices, I was told by a manager..."There are no chains on you." (I'm Black by the way, so this didn't go over well with me.) "If you don't like it, there's the door." Fast forward to today, I'm still working for the same company. The original manager who said that to me was fired (for an unrelated issue) and now the attitude is more ..."What can we do to get you to stay?" Especially since 15 people literally gave notice and walked out.

[@Timbertrussminifarm]

The sucky thing for me is even if I complained to HR… My manager was friends with someone in HR so I know she has strings… so I can’t say a word

[@starbrand3726]

@@Timbertrussminifarm I've been there as well. I reported my boss to HR for unethical behavior and was told it would be anonymous. One day later my boss called me out by name and asked why I reported him. It turns out that the head of HR and the boss were friends. So much for "anonymous." Afterwards I contacted Corporate and threatened legal action and bad press. Eventually I was left alone and there was no retaliation against me. I resumed work as normal, with no incidences, and the unethical behavior stopped completely. Later however, everytime a new positions opened, or new promotional opportunities became available, I was consistently passed over time and time again. This is the price you pay for fighting for your rights. While my actions helped everyone, those who did nothing and remained silent were indeed promoted. The price you pay for speaking up is steep, but I would happily pay it anytime. I would never advise anyone to do what I did. And if you do, have another job lined up just in case. But for me, I made the right decision. I can sleep peacefully at night and hold my head high at work. Eventually that boss retired (the company forced him to for poor performance) and a new boss came in. I finally got promoted. New boss honestly couldn't understand why I had been overlooked for so long. I decided not to tell him.

[@Timbertrussminifarm]

@@starbrand3726 oh my gosh 😮 Wow . I don’t know what to say. It always amazes me that bosses treat you like crap and then turn into a five year old when you tell. My boss likes me to call her when she has something to tell me. I told her one time : no, you can email me. She tried to get me on insubordination bc I wouldn’t call her . The only reason she wanted me to call her was so she could say why she wanted and I would have no record of it.

[@starbrand3726]

@@Timbertrussminifarm Back in the 90's, from September to December, I worked for K-Mart in the hardware/home improvement section. My job was to stock shelves, and mix paint for customers, and recommend tools that customers might need for certain home repairs, and sales. I was an employee in good standing with an excellent record. K-Mart fired 75% of the store employees the DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS, because they simply didn't need them anymore, the Christmas rush was over. Now, short of cashiers, they tried to force me to be a cashier. They were going to give me a 10 minute crash course in operating the register and just throw me on it. I was never hired for cashier, and had zero experience on their cash register so, I refused. They called me into the office and threatened to fire me for insubordination. I think corporations love using that word. I protested for about an hour in the office, stalling for time, and finally, when I had about three hours left on my shift, I agreed to cashier under one condition.... I told them I was really uncomfortable working with cash and I needed at least a few hours of training to work the register properly. They said okay, and since it was now too late to do it today, as my shift was almost over, they would train me tomorrow morning and put me on the register for the whole day. Again they lectured me on how bad it would be to be fired for insubordination, so I'd better comply tomorrow. I said okay. The next morning I arrived bright and early for work, clocked in and went straight to the office and...I quit. I pre-filled out the paperwork and made sure I was on record for quitting. Yes, it is bad to just up and quit, but not as bad as being fired for insubordination.

[@LysippeLee]

@2:30 No. It has nothing to do with culture. It has 100% everything to do with the worker wanting more compensation for their labor. From the year 2000, when I entered the workforce, companies have continually cut back of vacation time, sick time, bonuses, raises, etc. When minimum wage raised from 5.15 to 7.15, I was making $9. That actually didn't help anyone and cut into people like mine's buying power. I decided then that I wanted to own my own business. And I do. And I love it. You want to know who's NOT hurting from inflation??? The people at the top. The only ones whose buying power isn't affected.

[@jfan4reva]

One of the worst things I've seen in recent years is the new accounting software that referred to employees as 'human capitol'. Employees shouldn't be referred to as a liquid asset. Fortunately, the implementation failed.

[@ytucharliesierra]

Welp, I find "human resource" just as undignifying and telling about what employees mean to the brass. In my early days as an apprentice and after that as rookie employee it was still called personnel and what is called "hr" today was called "personnel department".

[@wabio]

This especially apparent in low level, entry level jobs that have to deal with the public. Workers would rather be unemployed, broke and struggling vs. being employed, broke and struggling.

[@malikasebou5562]

I am a school principal from Morocco and I enjoy listening to you and learning from you.....how to be a good leader, how to start with why and how to think about the infinite game....... Thanks a lot.

[@seliar7586]

Mabrok Aalik goood to see you can bring modern and positive change to your part of the world, keep rising

[@AritheCreator_]

Love to hear this! I had a school principal who was very negative and that energy effected the entire school. Glad there are people like you on the world. 🌍🙌🏼

[@redouanemakhtouri8892]

Glad to read this comment ☺️

[@GreenEnvy.]

I am an American who moved to Morocco 11 years ago. Moroccans need to realize that their Moroccan hospitality is a gem in this world. Don't take it for granted. Being a leader is about showing others the Moroccan hospitality that was taught to you. We were not taught this in America. We were taught that we live in a rich country and we are replaceable. Being a leader is treating people as humans, not as jobs. Mbrouk Leid from Rabat!

[@NikkiSchumacherOfficial]

My husband was fired by Citibank for no jab THE DAY our three month old died in the hospital. Citi knew she'd been sick and refused to process her Medicaid in a timely manner contributing to her death. They then offered him an exemption and we said no thanks. My husband is worth more than the dung that they treated him as. I don't want him to work there if they treat him that way and it's THEIR LOSS because he's brilliant and already making at least double working for himself.

[@bethanderson4843]

How heartbreaking. I am so sorry for your loss.

[@jgalt5002]

So sorry for your loss

[@barriolimbas]

Condolences, and in admiration for you and your husband's strength and resilience.

[@chessdad182]

The straw that broke the camel's back was not being treated with respect.

[@rusticrow]

Forget about the 'Great Resignation', just wait until current and legacy businesses experience the 'Never Going to Apply in the First Place' reality. Maybe we can call that 'The Great No Application'...

[@jockey12022011]

Maybe we call it The Great No Application Period... also known as The Great NAP

[@realmichaud]

exactly, I've been job hunting and there are plenty of jobs I know I can do right off the bat with only a day or two training, and I don't apply. Why because I know they want more than they are paying. And usually the owners of these companies are greedy jerks.

[@tomdrummy4984]

It’s about quality of life. COVID made people wake up to that……….especially when some people were told they are “non-essential”

[@AritheCreator_]

Yes exactly 🙌🏼 Crazy how many people actually woke up during that time

[@Christoph877]

That's a very powerful point brother, "especially when some people were told they are “non-essential”" WOW Well put... 🙏

[@MsGenXodus]

I worked in a big-box home improvement store during the pandemic. I was told I was "essential" but treated like I was disposable. I have friends who work in non-essential careers such as the the arts (photography, audio engineering, and film specifically), who managed to pivot to work from home and are thriving in their careers today. Ultimately, if you make your living being paid by the hour, you are non-essential. Even police, teachers, and nurses are treated like they are disposable. Where does that leave the humble food service worker? Hmmmm...😒

[@genxx2724]

“Essential” means “EXPENDABLE.” We were put in danger while others were given stimulus money and enhanced unemployment to stay home. And they didn’t stay home. They socialized and spread COVID. Their being out getting in trouble caused me to have to be exposed to them. They were paid to stay home. I was forced to work. And they increased my peril. I didn’t get a dime. I’m just the one who pays the taxes.

[@genxx2724]

​@@obiwanjebroni505 Exactly.And it’s not just employers. It was everyone who received money and didn’t stay home. That’s MY tax money being given to them, and in return they all gave us expendable workers a big FU by partying and buying expensive things. I didn’t get a dime and I was in danger. I will not forgive and forget.

[@sophiex7093]

So powerful video.. I was one of the many people who left their corporate job

[@egeneraltnf]

Thank you for speaking up for the working class!

[@richardgreaney]

"I just don't want this" "I don't even know what I want, but it's definitely not this" I've used those lines so many times since this video came out, when telling people about it. It's a great way to describe what goes through the mind when you KNOW you're doing something that's not in your highest good, even though you don't know what 'right for me' looks like.

[@sscott016]

The most pathetic thing I've noticed by management is boosting of record sales in profit but are all cutting hours an provide no bonuses

[@damok9999]

A premise that all work will be fun and meaningful is impossible, thus the example is always art.

[@charlesajones77]

CEOs and other executives give themselves more and more money, and that money has to come from somewhere. So they take it from the people who actually know how to do things, who do all of the actual work. The people who actually deserve the money.

[@realmichaud]

thats what the socialists and the New Dealers have been saying for almost 100 years.

[@alexsamsung5579]

"no focus on culture and leadership for far too long" this sums up perfectly every job I've had.

[@snip3d]

Been working for 20 years. Only ever received a 'noteable' payrise by leaving. If you want to keep my value, pay me my value.

[@susinok]

I retired from my corporate career of 20 years. Got my real estate license and now I'm in business for myself.

[@ShawnSkonberg]

I think we are starving for good leadership in companies. I think that starvation is only going to get worse as people are potentially losing their social skills via smartphones and social media. Being able to speak, motivate, inspire, and lead a team is going to be HIGHLY desired in 5-10 years.

[@christophermoody7579]

You nailed it Shawn. The biggest problem at the companies I have worked is poor leadership. Mediocre leaders stand out as achievers and everything suffers as a result.

[@BenWilson24]

I agree but for different reasons. I think there is a narcisim component. People can still talk and everything from what I've seen, but so many people fresh out of school think they're destined to be the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. There is plenty of ambition out there, but way too many people wanting to take the fast track to the top without actually understanding the work world

[@annel3927]

I think it's highly desired and needed now. I think (hope) that those in management recognize it sooner than later.

[@ShawnSkonberg]

@@BenWilson24 ohh I can see that for sure. But I would consider that more entrepreneurial than management. I think those 2 things are different.

[@BenWilson24]

@@ShawnSkonberg I used those names as examples, but point being they refuse to learn the ropes. They just want to be in charge. For instance, I actually knew fellow engineering students that wanted to be program managers in aerospace immediately out of school and claimed they wouldn't settle for less... As if they knew at all what they'd be managing or how to manage a bunch of people that are also engineers. I worked at a large aerospace OEM for about 5 years before my current job, and I'd estimate that 75% of my young engineering peers were 'project engineers' which basically means they just manage the project schedule and the engineers doing the technical work on it. We'd end up with too many chiefs and too few Indians. Then we'd have 30-year seasoned engineers being managed by some young kid that doesn't even actually know what the work entails whatsoever. Not to belittle project management at all, but there is good reason to spend some time pounding the ground a bit. A lot of the meetings would be the project engineer having some Gantt chart up and people correcting them on every step and telling them why the timeline they promised leadership is nonsensical

[@yakamen]

I quit a very well paying job in August of 2021 and Simon NAILED IT. He pinpointed a sentiment I felt in my core but couldn't even articulate at the time. I saw the writing on the wall and decided to gamble on myself, took all my savings and went after a Masters Degree rather than culminate where I was at (and be replaced by automation in 10 years). I'm over halfway through with that degree.

[@simply-ai]

I resigned from a £150K/$180K job. I didn't like providing solutions for gambling industry and selling govt organisations far more than what they need. Lockdown help me to hear my inner voice. With moral compass, we are just a puppet

[@gtavmj-1852]

GOOD FOR YOU! ... a while ago i did something similiar.... never regretted it.

[@downswingplayer9712]

The truth of the great resignation is, that there is no point in working for wages that are below the cost of living.

[@realmichaud]

true, and they've been artificially keeping wages low since around 2000. Cost of living goes up but wages don't. I wonder why. Rich people are greedy. But the good news is they can't take their riches to hell with them. That is right! To hell with them!

[@Potato-mu7nu]

I think it comes down to the CEOs of large companies bowing down to big investors. Once your company goes public it is much harder to convince investors that money should be spent on quality training, good benefits, a team building atmosphere, and a healthy work to family life balance. Instead many greedy investors want high returns as soon as possible, which I understand we all like money, but at what cost? Some of the most organized and professional companies I can think of are Private. For example Price Chopper, Hyvee, Chic fil lay, Aldi, Quiktrip, these businesses attract a lot of customers and are not driven by corporate greed as much as a public company is due to pleasing shareholders. This is just my opinion based off personal experience.

[@simongross3122]

That's why I only invest in companies with a good history of dividends. These are companies that are in the business for a long time as well as a good time. "Investors" are doing a lot of buying and selling and so they are price driven rather than income driven.

[@_Huperniketes_]

I think it comes down to useless boards of directors bowing down to greedy CEOs, who are paid salaries 100-1000x more than their front line employees. Cut your pay to 1/10, and put the savings into better wages and training the folks actually doing the work.

[@thugly921]

Absolutely. This is why you always have to take what guys like Simon and Adam Grant say with a grain of salt. They haven't worked at large public companies in leadership roles

[@simongross3122]

​@@thugly921 Perhaps many grains of salt. I have worked in leadership roles for several different types of companies, some American, some European and some Australian. I can tell you that some companies, particularly large North American ones, are more sensitive to share price than to earnings (except as earnings affects price). This is because in the USA, shareholders can launch class actions against executives of a company if they don't take action against downward share price movements. These sort of companies reward their top management with options to encourage policies that will push share prices up. This often involves cutting costs and not paying dividends. So it is not just management that is to blame, it is also shareholders. These sort of companies take bigger risks, innovate, and they either succeed, or they crash and burn. When they crash, it is common for the entire top level of management to be retired (with huge payouts) and the new management will start cutting costs and quality, which means that lower ranks also face job losses, but without the huge payouts. Rewarding risky behaviour will lead to risky behaviour - it's simple as that. Too bad, that those risks affect other people. There are other companies that do not have this extreme sensitivity to share price - they may have a history of being mutuals in their past (no profit motive), or they are not American. Whatever the reason, they have a softer attitude towards employees and clients, and they strive for quality, service, longevity and stability rather than risk taking and high share prices. These companies do not innovate at the same rate, and they can suffer for that. They are often less agile, but they do provide stability and dividends. And of course, there are many companies in between. In the end, you need to decide for yourself, which model you like the best. For myself, I am interested in income rather than building wealth, and so I will lean towards stability and dividends. When I was younger, I probably preferred the more exciting riskier companies. Maybe because taking risks seemed more exciting. It's pretty simple. If you see a company exhibiting behaviour that you don't like, don't invest in it. The aspects that are not simple are identifying the behaviour, and deciding what you like or dislike :)

[@thugly921]

@Gaia Barone why not?

[@leadershipisaphilosophy]

A significant part of this problem is we have polluted the idea of what "leaders" are. Now it is "someone who can make a bunch of money". What we should be selecting are individuals who can take care of the team from culture to environment, etc. while keeping the company profitable. It's easy to find the money makers and difficult to find leaders.

[@majdavojnikovic]

And "someone who can make a lot of money" is very often a certified asshole.

[@BenWilson24]

At least for me, the reason I swapped jobs after covid was that I was the last engineer left in my team of 8 engineers because 55% of my large company was laid off. Our director decided we were going to still hit the same goals, so I was working 100 hr weeks trying to wear all those hats for a year. At first, I thought it would serve me well when the dust settled, but they just expected more of me, so I got sick of that, trained up an intern a bit, and bounced to another company

[@jimkennedy4509]

Yeah I just left a job like that. I gave them 2 weeks notice and they fired me immediately

[@BenWilson24]

@@jimkennedy4509 wow. I think there is an expectation right now that if you're not will to live for your job, then you're not valuable, and that's not ok

[@jimkennedy4509]

@@BenWilson24 Banfield which is owned by MARS

[@anthony9600]

Sounds familiar

[@kazansky22]

@@jimkennedy4509 You should contact an attorney.

[@joshuabenton3785]

I graduated in 2017 and every single job experience has been less than stellar. My first full time position in SoCal was only $36K a year as a marketing coordinator. I have lost my job and have had difficulty getting it back for a collective amount of 1 year and 7 months since that time. And now we are in a recession. I am so sick of companies making profit margins in the BILLIONS and then handing out 3% "raises".

[@tikalaxmilimbu9965]

I Love you and thank-you Simon for who you are for the people like me who constantly works for company who dangles a carrot everytime I resign to leave and constantly makes you small & wrong. I watch your video and bounce back from what I’m dealing with. It’s my mantra what leadership looks like in your life and community. You have no idea the difference you make to humanity. Thank-you♥️♥️♥️

[@AritheCreator_]

Always remember your worth, you’re not just another pawn in their company you’re a valuable human being 💖

[@sygad1]

For once, the employee has had a taste of true work life balance and remote working has opened up the world stage to our options, we no longer have to be content with idiots demanding our time and loyalty at a desk whilst we suffer the cost and consequences of and underfunded travel network. I can live anywhere and work anywhere, why would I go back to an additional 50% increase of MY time to do a job.

[@realmichaud]

try a manufacturing job where you are on your feet all day at 90 degrees and super humid in the building.

[@sygad1]

@@realmichaud I worked in a fast food shop for 9 years while going through college and Uni, no air con or heating, summers and winters were brutal, I feel your pain

[@JohnnyFaber]

@@realmichaud lol...cry me a river. Try shoveling concrete in 110° heat, or roofing houses in that heat with 250° hot roofing tar in your face all day...factory job is a daycare compared to some of the real tough manual labor.

[@Ocker3]

@@JohnnyFaber so, because some jobs face huge physical challenges, all workers should suffer? Lots of people have experience in sitting at a desk, and we need lots of jobs that involve sitting at a desk. It's only poor managers that get too worked up about Where that desk is.

[@johningram2153]

We have a burger joint in down that put up a sign saying "Closed because nobody wants to work anymore." It's like seeing ground beef prices going up so much that you tell your customers "Nobody wants to sell ground beef anymore." No, that's not it at all. They're still selling ground beef. Just at a higher price than you want to pay. But with ground beef, you have to pay. With employees, you feel like you can just wait around for an employee who is more desperate. That would be like waiting around for lower quality beef to be offered to you. You could do it, but why would you?

[@realmichaud]

Great point, your comment should be pinned somewhere everywhere

[@rosedevereux2391]

Because they do not *CARE* about quality.

[@redstarling5171]

In my limited experience as an employee 13 years so far the best solution I've come up with for progress is to work at a place for 3-6 months get the experience you need even if pay is garbage. During that time assess from other employees if the company takes on permanents often and how good the wages and conditions are. Constantly keep an eye out for new jobs with higher pay and better conditions (radio on in the background, cafeteria, progress options in the company) do not hesitate to apply and leave for a better job. I have worked in dozens of places over the years and stagnation in a low paying job in the same industry is terribly demoralizing to people. You have to force your way up the chain and move around place to place, big companies with strong unions offer the best wages and conditions. It's a long road but pays off in the end, a job isn't necessarily about happiness but with good wages you can do alot of what you want, be brave and sell yourself like a mercenary to the highest bidder.

[@GreenEnvy.]

I see comments like you're often. The flaw is that most people don't want to constantly change jobs. New people, new commute, same bullshit.

[@defaultworkouts]

MERCS! learned a lot from the arcade game by CAPCOM in 1988!

[@sl907]

You made such a great point. I was in the banking industry for 30 years and retired during covid. All along the banks' attitude was, or still is, we have many other applicants to do your jobs if you don't want to. Now they all have to increase the wages to attract and retain employees. Hope they realize money is not the only factors.

[@Spungebobonicerocks]

Yeah, "take it or leave it" arrogant mentality is getting back at companies big time. Average employee is waking up, I hope average consumer is next movement. We have been paying too much for shitty products/services for way too long.

[@T1Oracle]

In the 1800's workers were property, in the early 1900's workers were literally being disposed of as they died constructing dams, railroads, and bridges. In the early 2000s, workers had rights but were still replaceable commodities. Maybe in the 2100 workers will finally be human beings? That, or robots...

[@jcronin3155]

Corporations will never see people as human beings. They are lead by sociopaths whos only goal is profit at any expense for the company.

[@sandtx4913]

"We didn't treat them as people, we treated them as human resources. That's why we created HR departments, to coordinate and manage them".

[@sentiasatransformasi]

i think one of the main reasons why the great resignation happened is the fact that the internet made a lot of young people not wanting to work a job that they don't like.

[@SO-le4qc]

We labeled the masses as "Nonessential".. I'd quit too if I were not essential.

[@KEOSOUNDS]

Glad to be part of this. Hopefully this will open some eyes and give more room for kindness and purpose into the work place. Fellow resigners, I hope you will reach whatever you are looking for, even if you don't know what it is yet.

[@IanMcD204]

Pretty simple- people can't be expected to not do what they rationally feel is in their best interest. The remote working debate is a similar issue but many don't realize that they're debating a symptom vs. the cause. I've never heard someone say "I like my boss, my coworkers are nice, and my work is interesting. . . but for the love of god if they make me come in one more day I will quit." Even if people aren't prepared to resign, remote work lets them avoid many of the daily stresses of a work environment that is reminiscent of the film Office Space.

[@chadpatrick5112]

Once again, Simon hits the nail on the head. If you want people to choose to come to work for you instead of ____________, you need to give them a REASON to choose you.

[@shirkaner6548]

no one ever explained it better. it’s exactly what im going through the past year, after years of suffering in the architecture world. id rather stay home than continue working in this field. thank you simon for your, as always, great content.

[@mandymoore5774]

Yea fear of the unknown WAS enough to keep me at my job. It was an airline for a cpl decades till I finally mentally checked out. I was DONE! & I’m fairly certain I was letting that show. Was something I’d actually gone to a tech school for. Now I work for myself & as quiet as it, I’m truly beginning to treasure the quietness.

[@MissAnthropeR6]

Though I completely appreciate the message Simon was relaying here, not everyone "made it" through Covid and ended up "fine". Many people were left broken, diminished, and devastated. A lot of THEM would take a "fine" job in a heartbeat.

[@MayowaAbidakun]

It would surprise you that many that lost their jobs would not take the jobs they lost back. Do a legit survey, do not just ask your pals.

[@rburns4048]

Unemployment numbers along with number of unfilled positions says otherwise.

[@blueyedaxo]

@@MayowaAbidakun you're speaking of people who have the privilege of options. If you have four kids and need to put food on the table you'll be happy with anything.

[@LMBOatU]

@@blueyedaxo to an extent

[@MayowaAbidakun]

@@blueyedaxo But these "do anything ti out food on the table" is a reducing percentage. Especially among the young, which are the most desired group for work. Plus, a lot of people lost the fear factor they had. If not for mortgage or child tuition, even more people wouldn't bother.

[@eclowe6594]

I did it. For basically exactly what's described here. I'm a therapist. I'd had a couple opportunities pre-pandemic to take commission based jobs where I would get a whole lot of autonomy... I went with the safe option. An undervalued, underpaid, but guaranteed money, salary position. The fear of the unknown of the ebb and flow of clients (and thus the ebb and flow of money) was too much pre-pandemic. I got laid off in early 2021 due to cuts that company made as a result of lost revenue in the pandemic. After a few months I ended up in another underpaid undervalued salary position at another company where it became clear that money was the ONLY thing that mattered and was driven home over and over and over again. On the list of priorities, clients mental health was on the bottom of their chart and employees mental health wasnt even on there (literally I got lectured about how calling in when you don't have PTO was unacceptable... The only reason I didn't have PTO was that they barely give you any and I had to use almost all of it from having COVID myself). They also 100% had a culture of micromanagement. Nearly zero flexibility in schedule... And shortly after I started there they decided that salaried employees weren't allowed to work remotely at all. When an opportunity for a commission-based job (where I get MAJOR flexibility and I already personally knew people who have worked for this company for a while and have said things like the only regret they have is that they didn't leave a salary job sooner and that the only ways they're leaving is if they're fired, the company closes, or they retire) I dove headfirst into the unknown. There is STILL a lot of uncertainty (and always will be to some extent). Last week I had multiple clients miss appointments because of things like the heat was blowing transformers... And then this week storms have knocked lines out. I don't get paid if clients don't come (we do charge a no show fee and I do get a % of those... But we don't charge them for things like the weather knocked the power out and that meant the person couldn't get on their telehealth appointment) but I'm right there with my coworkers. only thing I might've done differently was try to get here sooner. Very few ways I'm going anywhere. And, while the company has it's issues just as every company and every person does, the culture is phenomenal. Thanks to COVID I will never again work a job where I'm treated as a cog in a corporate machine instead of a person. I hadn't really thought about it that way before but you're absolutely right... The pandemic gave me the courage to quit a miserable but steady job and embrace an unknown where I'm a lot happier.

[@Liam-B]

Growth for the sake of growth is the most contrived and greedy business model ever conceived. What's the point of growth if it means compromising principles?

[@MrCxiong116]

I’m about to join y’all, I’m not happy with my job atm. Been there for 6 years full time taking on higher responsibilities and stress while being underpaid. Just letting it sink in and soon I’ll be off chasing my dreams instead of making someone else rich.

[@zerofragment3417]

Simon was spot on back when he called out millennials for being snowflakes, and he's spot on now calling out employers for treating people like replaceable parts.

[@giancarloortiz9236]

I've never understood that argument. I find it hard to call millennials snowflakes when everyone born past the 90's have had to deal with boomers their whole lives. That group of people is one of the most entitled, self-serving, culturally blind, ignorant sects in the United States.

[@zerofragment3417]

@jyoti Kumar Not sure what point your trying to make here. There are still lazy millennials around working at places that will tolerate it, but it's not like it was before.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

@@giancarloortiz9236 EVERY generation has those kinds of people: Lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and snowflake.

[@anjealin259]

Totally agree. I think the same could also be said regarding "quiet quitting". For some, choosing not to go above and beyond is just them finally setting the boundaries they have needed all along.

[@Carmen-mp3je]

I survived covid and 2 hurricanes in 2020... I feel like superman now

[@jasonpike5821]

"You've not focused on culture and leadership." If by "culture" you mean respect and by "leadership" you mean fair compensation.

[@sasha_nivar]

I love the insight! this is something I have felt and expressed for years! and I'm looking forward to seeing the paradigm shift in the labor force

[@AN-jz3px]

As an owner of 3 manufacturing facilities, Ive fired all employees who tried to Unionize, used aggressive recruiting to find foreign laborers, and have prospered beyond belief for the risks iv’e taken. CEOs deserve the highest compensation and am proud to OWN to make others lives better. I plan to sell to a large Capital company.

[@thirdactwarrior317]

I retired a couple of years ago after nearly three decades as a management consultant working in the human capital area. I worked with dozens of companies on how they handle their workforce issues. My observations: Yes, companies generally treat their employees like crap and their efforts to make employees feel better about their jobs are usually a joke. Leadership is a lost art in most of corporate America. Most companies are horrible at handling remote work, which got highlighted by COVID. But employees have to also take responsibility. Many take jobs for all the wrong reasons. Many stay in jobs because it's easier to do that than find something better. Most don't really have a passion for what kind of work they want to do in life or if they do, are willing to sacrifice to pursue it. Companies are always there to make money, period. They only change if they have to. Workers need to look out for themselves if they want to be satisfied with what they do.

[@GreenEnvy.]

The problem is there's not enough good jobs for people to be passionate about them.

[@thirdactwarrior317]

@@GreenEnvy. I think people mistake "hobbies" and "interests" for passion. I saw a documentary about a guy in Japan who spent his whole career just making noodles, because he was passionate about it. If you have a talent for something that is useful to others and you perfect that talent, you can develop a passion for any kind of honest work.

[@BknMoonStudios]

I quit my job because of mental health. My company was not horrible, since they paid well, I was able to work remotely and my coworkers were nice people. The real issue were the task themselves. Long story short, I was a debt collector for large amounts of money. The amount of people that threatened to send me to jail or even KILL me was absurd. Worst thing is that everyone else around me said "this was just part of the job" and that I "shouldn't take it so personal". One year after starting, I suffered my first panic attack ever when working on a Saturday morning and it left me unable to work for the rest of the day. When Monday came, I made the decision to call my supervisor and put in my 2 weeks notice. I'm not gonna lie and say everything is perfect right now, because it sure as hell isn't. But the mental relief and peace of mind I feel everyday reassures me it was the right decision.

[@realmichaud]

its part of the job that is correct, but this debt driven economy needs to change to an economy where your job to collect debt is a thing of the past.

[@NathalieLazo]

“Instead of “to-do lists” we need “to-be lists”. The question isn’t what do we want to do, it’s who we want to be.” - Jay Shetty ✨

[@Christoph877]

Nicely put sister, quite accurate... 🙏

[@NathalieLazo]

@@Christoph877 Thank you so much, my friend! I appreciate you! ❤️❤️

[@StorytellingHeadshots]

Since Jay Sh*ttys “do be” list is “blatant plagiarizer” it’s hard to take his advice seriously.

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

I want to BE the person who does what they want to DO. lol

[@aaronporterfield3456]

I work at Egg processing plant in Minnesota, were I got hired out of Yuma, Az. Where 90% of the staff is 30 and older. But we are 70 employees short. It’s totally apparent and a massive deficit.

[@roberti76]

So many leaders love to parrot messages such as this, I completely agree with the message BTW, but they absolutely do not live it. I believe this to be a worse sin than just doing leadership wrong. Knowing that there is a better way, sometimes forcibly ramming it down subordinate leaders throats using post its and bean bag sessions then simply going back and doing the opposite is worse than just being a bad leader. "You must do better at reward and recognition because our internal staff survey says we score low on it! But don't spend over the budget, the budget is the budget!" "Oh and by the way, good job on that massive deal that made us millions, no I'm sorry the market and the economy is too tight to consider pay rises or bonuses this year." "Hey look shareholders we made a record profit in a really hard year and here's what we paid all the execs in bonuses..." The whole evangelical hypocrisy behavior model is a massive turn off and it's getting worse as more leaders are getting exposed. You can't make me believe in something just because the company thinks it looks good on its brochures. I think the global pandemic has contributed to the work mindset reset but if you look at all the other environmental factors such as the heated socio-political divide and identity politics and not the subsequent backlash to those phenomenon? It's only natural to see that show up in business and commerce. So many businesses that were previously held up as fantastic models and "employers of the year" are now facing the heat, sometimes quite publicly which also hurts their carefully cultivated "brand." More must fall before the new version rises or they must change the leadership. As they say in sports "change the man, or change the man!"

[@Brettagher]

The leadership creates the business model.

[@Mysticaltyger]

After suffering with a swollen throat off and on as a result of the Vax, I quit my job as a result of the booster requirement. 750 other employees refused to show proof of a booster and the City council reversed its mandate a week later. But by that point, I was already gone. I'd had enough of California for so many other reasons. But I was glad people started standing up.

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

I dont know what I want...but, I know it isn't this. EXACTLY! I think I'm crazy or unstable until I hear Simon break it down...then, I realize that I'm sane and sound. 😁

[@JohnSmith-il4wi]

Many employers see people as obstacles instead of assets.

[@kevinmacwatters1519]

speaking of leadership failures - look at what is happening in public schools and teaching right now

[@realmichaud]

lots of folks are noticing this. Most teachers are good people, but the system is screwing them and the kids.

[@0rnery0verwatch]

I was in that exact boat that he described... while I survived multiple rounds of lay-offs, and my job was "fine", it wasn't good, either. And when you're the last man standing after multiple rounds of lay offs... guess what? You're the only person left to train up all the new-hires while still being expected to keep up with your own work load and that leads to one thing: Burn out. Problem is, organizations just don't seem to know how to handle burnt out workers (and I can't entirely fault them for that). My company told me "well... we see you still have over a week of unused PTO, why don't you just burn through it?" I'll admit I tried that... but it didn't make a difference because even with 7 days off, if you go right back to the same job that created the burn out in the first place, are you really any better off? The last straw was when the vice president of my dept came to me and said "why did you tell people you were burnt out?" I looked at him puzzled and asked "what do you mean?" He told me that it just gives our dept a bad image, and I said "all due respect, what was my alternative, just bottle it all up inside and keep drinking myself to sleep every night?" to which he replied "just keep your head down... you can get through this". I told him that was the mindset that got me to the negative position I was currently in, and that I would need to take the night to think through some things. Put in my 2 weeks the following morning.

[@robnemily]

"I'd rather have no job than this job." can only work for so long... if a recession or market collapse comes in, this could quickly change to "I'd rather have this job than not eat."

[@kisekinomahou]

Yes, but that does not reflect the current environment. We should taking advantage of the opportunities that this current market environment is providing. And not worrying about what ifs.