The Great Resignation ‘21
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east or bust
Hit the nail on the head. It’s mind blowing that this line of thinking is lost on some people.
Been working for a large corporate GC for the last 5 and a half years and the turnover rate amongst our entry level 1-5 year engineers is atrocious. I’ve worked on 3 separate projects with this company and here are the figures ( not including me)
Project 1: 4 of 4 quit
Project 2: 5 of 6 quit
Project 3: 6 of 9 quit and we’re only half way done!
It’s funny, but totally makes sense, how managers are appointed here. It basically requires no questioning of whatever policies get barfed down the food chain, being totally alright with working insane hours on a salary payroll, no reflexibility whatsoever when it comes to teh rulz, and just a boot licker attitude in general.
Example: Friday going into a holiday weekend, craft cuts out at 1pm. Couple engineers finish their shit and leave at 2pm (instead of 5pm), manager goes into payroll system and enters 8hrs vacation for each of them without notifying them. What the actual fuck.
Example 2: We had morning meetings everyday with all of the engineers to go over their tasks… ok, feels micro managy AF already. What this meeting devolved into over the course of a few months was an opportunity for management to berate the engineers and left us know, almost daily, how replaceable we all were. Well the joke was on them when people started dropping like flies, and it turned out they weren’t as replaceable as it was made to be known.
I’m in the same industry. I’ve worked for the same large commercial GC for my entire career (12 years).
We do a lot better at managing people than you describe… if you like the work, you end up staying with us for 20-30 years. All upper management in operations are promoted from within…
But our drop out rate is still terrible. Something like ~30% of college grad engineer hires will reach 5 years. Most that drop out leave the large GC field completely. Many even leave the AEC industry completely.
It’s a tough job. Stress is high. Deadlines are real. The sums of money you are dealing with is large. There is so much out of your control but defined as your responsibility. There are a lot easier desks to ride in other industries….
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