Posted on 12/29/2010 10:36:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Actually the unemployment insurance gig is backwards. If you get fired, you can get the payments fairly easily, but if the conditions are bad enough that you can’t take it anymore, you quit. Then it’s your responsibility to tell your future employer why you quit, but good luck with that. No future employer wants someone who is going to “complain” about the past employer, even if they asked why you left!! Quitting is sometimes the best option for emotional sanity.
People are searching for happiness as the question Why? finds no answer.
“Do more with less”-that’s the new workplace mantra...in the private sector at least.
And now we can all join in one big chorus, saying, "We effing hate you, Graybeard." LOL!
Not necessarily. If the cost of continuing a job is greater than the proceeds from the job, at some point the worker has to cut their losses.
W-2 employees are the last remaining real capitalists in this country. They don't have access to "Other People's Money" to put at risk.
I’ve effectively quit jobs when my employers started morphing the requirements - like getting calls at night and weekend support - when I’d explicitly said what I was and wasn’t gong to be doing. I’d let them fire me for “poor performance”.
in my experience, after about 2 years most employers seem to expect that someone doesn’t have other options and will try to see how much extra they can lump on the “dedicated” employees for no increase in pay or benefits.
My job is a hassle and eats a little bit of my soul every day. However, I am thankful that I HAVE a job to go to, whether I like it or not. As long as I have work that (more or less) gets the bills paid, I’m content.
How many are liquidating their 401K before Obama does?
I retired 11 years ago and the same thing was happening then. Someone would quit or retire and his work load was just redistributed among those who remained.
I can see the employers point of view.....to a point but somewhere along the line it gets ridiculous.
I have a rather stupid friend who...
1) just had a baby
2) wife inherited 40k from grandfather
3) hates this city
4) hates his job
5) has no education/job training
so...
moving to “dream” city of San Diego with...
1) no job lined up.
flush the money down the toilet already. he’s moving back here in a year when nothing materializes.
I'm in complete agreement here, and in the same boat. I am looking for something else, but I'm not going to quit with no prospects. I am thankful for a job. It's that pesky thing called eating I have to deal with.
I am single and I do not qualify for unemployment benefits. I will hang on to the work I have. I cannot live off anybody else. What a cruel world.
Few people who’ve trained for or gone to school to qualify for a job would quit like this. A lot of this probably takes place in less desirable jobs with higher than normal turnover. You can’t just quit professional jobs for no reason and expect to be seriously considered for another equal job. But dumb under any circumstances.
The last thing I'd do would be move to a "dream" city, or anywhere in California. That money there is rainy day money.
Case in point: I work in IT, so during the day I have to maintain and manage our systems and occasionally be on-call for problems at night and on weekends. My employer went to the UK and signed an agreement with a Brit company, so now we have to support our systems during the day and the Brit company’s systems at night. Their systems constantly have problems and on holidays, like Christmas, they are off, and we have to work on their systems. It’s like I got a second job, but with NO ADDITIONAL PAY.
Bears repeating. Many companies are screwing over their employees every which way they can and some can’t take it anymore.
I haven’t contributed to mine in a couple years, and I cashed in my IRA to pay off credit cards. I’m pretty much counting on working until the day I die (which, thanks to Obozocare, might be closer than I initially thought).
There is a lot of this where I work. There's no professional requirements. It's largely just skilled labor, and you get a lot of turnover.
People are NUTS to quit ANY job in this economy. My advice is to hold on to your job with both hands.
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