Russell Brand: the great resignation continues ..

[DaisyStiener]

He’s not wrong is he?
I know he generally is on about USA, but the U.K. - feels like people cannot be arsed to go back to shite jobs with shite pay with shite management?

My DH work is a fairly nice atmosphere.
His bosses are quite reasonable , they get sick pay ,but not much above the minimum wage.
DH has been covering the crappiest part of their office, ( not his job) as the work cannot get or keep staff- they don’t want to be getting hassled for minimum wage.
And DHs bosses have got him thinking that they’re doing him some sort of favour by continuing to employ him?
They’ve NO STAFF

Yeah : f*ck that. If you’re going to take a shitey job role, then at least pay me well

Other side is: I’ve found any service I’ve received recently has been quite bad - staff are outright rude ( and tbh I don’t blame them ) but it’s still like “woah!” when you get let down.
Are we just accepting that a Hermes /yodel parcel may or may not appear today/tomorrow/in a bin…? I was served a cold dinner in a restaurant this weekend. Just got a “sorry….” as I’d already paid for it on a bloody app.
Staff member on webchat just down right lied, to get me off the chat a few nights ago..

Have YOU left a crap job? What are you doing now ?
Do you have an important job ( nursing ) and left because youd rather stack shelves in Tesco for £9 an hour ?

Feels like a huge big change in society…

@EllieLucy if England could stop voting Tory, that’d be great : sincerely, rest of U.K.

Yes I left a stressful role in the NHS to run gardening groups. Half the pay but much happier. TBF though I'm not the breadwinner of the family.

Without knowing what you dh does
Impossible to know if employers are doing him a favour or not

I’d be worried though if I was him. Sounds like they really aren’t bothered about him sticking around

@Oftenithinkaboutit
Nah he does admin, but has been manning phones since he returned after furlough
They can’t get anyone for the phones. I think cos he’s not said : he’s not bothered. He’s said now ,though.

Confused
So his employers have given the impression that they are doing him a favour by continuing to employ him?

And you are not a little bit concerned that this means they are possibly less than impressed with him?

@Oftenithinkaboutit
No

Wow… I would be if my employer thought they were “doing me a favour” by keeping me in employment!

Seriously worried actually but 🤷‍♀️

This is interesting: (US focussed but I think it might be a factor here)
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/19/great-resignation-mothers-forced-to-leave-jobs

I also read that it could be down to a lot of retirements as well which makes sense, especially combined with the fact we aren't having as much immigration as these are usually younger people

This is really fascinating - especially about 'gig' or freelance jobs. I think an overall blunt picture of that is the sense that you have control over your hours or commitment for these, at least at the start, so it feels enjoyable and manageable. I was thinking around the cottage industries of a few hundred years ago and wondering if there is about the same level of this going on now, but facilitated overwhelmingly by the digital marketplace.

Even with 'good' positions where there has been years of progression, if the control is in the lap of someone else, the stress and demands are things you may not sign up to accepting, if they change radically over time. When I started my post-maternity 'respectable' job, I was working part time for 3 people. When finishing it, it was for 8 people after 2 restructures on the way, but same small amount of hours. The longer I spent, the further away I got from progression at all. I also remember interviewing people some time ago, who had got stuck in a job, and also remember the sense of them coming across as stuck and without things that were easily transferable out of the thing they had been doing.

Following with interest.