[OneWingedShark]

Or it could be signs that the employees aren’t buying the “you’re lucky to have a job, now work harder for no pay/benefit-increase” that, I’m sure, some companies are trying to pull.

[Perdogg]

There is steaming, but it is not coming from the economy.

[CORedneck]

I know in my current job, they are squeezing our b@!!$ more and more. No pay increases but the load of work we are expected to deal with is getting bigger and harder. I am also looking for other opportunities, preferably in-house. Hate to have to start over on vacation time.

I talk with some of my old cohorts at Lockheed Martin (division under Linda Gooden) and unlike 2007, no one leaves early on Friday anymore, casual overtime is required. And on vacation, forget vacation, there is more work to be done. I know quite a few people are losing vacation time now. Oh also, causal Friday is gone as well.

> Or it could be signs that the employees aren’t buying the “you’re lucky to have a job, now work harder for no pay/benefit-increase” that, I’m sure, some companies are trying to pull.

[Gaffer]

My bet is that there was no follow-up whatsoever on these people who quit their jobs, presumably to take betters ones, with respect to whether they may have actually just ‘come to Jesus’ and seen the light that SSDI, TANF, SNAP, WICs, EITC, Section 8 et al are better than any damned mediocre job.

[Vigilanteman]

Or it could be a sign that employees are tired of standing behind jag-offs in the check-out line who use food stamps to buy food they can't afford and drive away in cars they can't afford either.

The 2% payroll tax increase which started in January while the slackers getting free ObamaPhones didn't have to contribute a penny may have been enough to push enough people over the edge to say "to hell with it, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"