Good point. The other thing that I imagine torques young workers in this environment is just how favorable the gig economy can be to older, experienced workers. Certain experienced professionals, if they can get health benefits elsewhere, can pretty much decide where and when to work. These are the same people who’ve already seen their net worth vastly inflated by unimaginable gains in the stock and housing markets. Who now have maximum flexibility and the resources to deploy to enjoy it.
This is primarily an experienced married workers prerogative. They have benefits from the spouses job and they’re able to take the best pay and hours arrangements w/o worrying about the nuts and bolts Of benefits. In this age the young workers are preyed upon by management interested only in shareholder benefits.
They offer internships though so younger employees can gain the experience they need ...unpaid, of course
Quiet quitting -- AKA doing what your job description says between the hours you're paid to do it. I think the 08' recession scared a lot of people into doing more outside of their job description or given hours due to fear of losing their job and that mindset kinda stayed. Gen Z doesn't give a damn, if you want them to do something, pay them. (source: I am Gen Z)
That’s how the current system is setup. You have to sludge through a decade of being paid subpar wages while working a lot of hours to get “experience” and connections. Blindly applying for jobs gets most resumes thrown in the trash since it’s just a computer algorithm that reads through them at large companies people want to work for. One of our sales managers is near 60 and is new to my company. He’s worked as high up as VP of Sales jobs and has traveled the world with different companies. He said the best way to keep making more money is to stick at a company for 2-3 years and move on. It’s the only way you can really see your wage grow.
For older guys this is probably true. It definitely becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when you start hopping jobs after 50 or so. Hiring people take a look at your resume and figure you're not going to be around for long so they're not afraid to offer you a very competitive salary. Then if you're still at the company in 3 years they move on as a cost-cutting measure and you're hunting again. One really important lesson for younger workers to learn is that the job market will change after about 45. You're really not going to find great opportunities after that point because for the good jobs everybody is looking for somebody younger and cheaper who can be trained to fit the company standard. They'll be totally screwed when they get too expensive along about 45 but they're the prime candidates at 28.
It looks a bizarre thing to me. You pay me to do a job. I do said job. You don't own me, you compensate me for taking my time. Any work I do above and beyond my job is at my discretion (and I do). Quiet Quitting, Hell's teeth...it's called doing your job.
I always thought that doing more, would eventually lead to getting more (ie a raise, promotion, more customers, better reputation). If someone is unhappy with what they are doing, and see no chance of those things happening, why spend your day doing Something that makes you miserable? I always do extra on every job , even things I’m not getting paid for. For example .. “Mrs Jones, while I was cleaning your carpet, I saw a large stain on your sofa, so I cleaned that cushion “. Almost every time , it gets them to think about having me back to clean all the furniture, and makes them a customer for life, resulting in reviews , referrals etc. I know it’s easier, because I’m doing it for my own company, but ffs have some drive and determination in whatever you do.
I get it, but also there are tasks that I just want to get over with because doing extra will provide no value to me. If I'm not learning/enjoying it/doing a specific tasks above the request that will help me get a promotion (which I find rare unless you are in the wrong position altogether), I'm just getting it done and moving on. I think that's the difference between owner and employee. Example: if I'm building a endpoint management solution, I'm going to go as detailed as possible to create the best solution. I'm learning, probably enjoying it, and if I'm in an entry level role doing something that is above my pay grade or at least doing something that will get noticed by leaders. If I'm tasked with cleaning up licenses, I'm just trying to get that over as fast as possible because I'm not learning, most likely not enjoying it and doing something practically nobody above my direct manager will notice.
I've been a free-lancer for the last 25 years... best decision I ever made was to leave a staff position.
Do people still have that plastic slipcover shit you used to see advertised on channel 9 back in the seventies? I always wanted to meet someone with them.
No. You didn't want to meet them, trust me. My mother in law had that stuff and also clear plastic runners over the carpet. Not sure what she was saving it all for because if the pope himself came to visit those covers were staying put and his holiness would have had his ass on the plastic.
Ah yes, the plastic runners! Protect your carpet! Except for the thousands of permanent indentations from the bottom of the runner.
