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Thread: The Great Resignation ‘21
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10-26-2021, 02:24 PM #476
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10-26-2021, 02:38 PM #481Registered User
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10-26-2021, 02:39 PM #482
Last edited by Toadman; 10-26-2021 at 03:57 PM.
"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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10-26-2021, 02:43 PM #483Registered User
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My parents didnt get anything and so I didnt get or expect anything from them
I got some lucky breaks but I still had to do the time to get where I am and i always played the long game
I'm wondering in this great resignation what exactly is the game ?
and since I always played the long game what is it now ?
and how long is long ?Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-26-2021, 02:44 PM #484
The Great Resignation ‘21
I’m not a REALLY good skier but I’ve been skiing 50-100+ day seasons since I was 35, 53 now. I’ve been gainfully employed with no financial assistance from anyone since I graduated high school. Lots of people do this without generational wealth. It’s about priorities and sacrifices if you want to do it.
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10-26-2021, 02:45 PM #485
Cue millennials and younger whining about higher tuition costs and massive college loan debt in 3..2....1.... And it's a legit beef! My kids are borrowing a shit ton of money to pay for college. It ain't all coming from me..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-26-2021, 02:46 PM #486
Hate to break it to you but in the grand scheme, if you were born white, male and in the US or Canada you were born on 3rd base with a pretty good lead toward home plate.
I’m not a REALLY good skier but I’ve been skiing 50-100+ day seasons since I was 35, 53 now. I’ve been gainfully employed with no financial assistance from anyone since I graduated high school. Lots of people do this without generational wealth. It’s about priorities and sacrifices if you want to do it.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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10-26-2021, 03:00 PM #487Registered User
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Im a millennial. I paid for college with some loans but mostly scholarships, many i didnt qualify for. What i learned is that a ton of scholarships went unclaimed every semester at my state school... how do i know that? Because i never had higher than a 3.0 GPA in engineering and held thousands of dollars in scholarships that required a 3.5 or above to qualify for, or were for entirely different majors (business and comm mostly). I would just apply to any and every scholarship i could find regardless of stated qualifications or the amount it was for. People didnt want to write letters for $250/semester scholarships, or likely waste their time applying for scholarships they barely didnt qualify for i guess. Living frugally after college was also key to paying off my loans quickly.
Then i have to hear from my SIL whine about her huge debt load from grad school in marine sciences, when her father paid her full undergrad, and she refuses to work for anyone but non-profits.
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10-26-2021, 03:01 PM #488
A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview
https://www.businessinsider.com/work...ortage-2021-10
This was very much my experience too some time ago when trying to get ANY job. WTF is going on with these companies? If they're SOOOOO desperate for workers and all have "now hiring" signs, then why is so tough to get an interview? It's kind of strange. Are they still trying to milk Federal handouts saying they're still being impacted by COVID or what? Almost seems intentional. Also annoying is that gone are the days when you could simply walk into a business, ask to talk to a manger, shake some hands, and often walk out with a new job. Now you go in and you're told "You'll need to apply online." And THAT'S where I think most applications get auto-filtered out by bots, never to be seen by human eyes. Perhaps that's where the root of the problem lies with all of these so-called "worker shortages." I'm not buying it that everyone's living on the government dime these days. It's just not enough to live on in the long run. Most people still need jobs, and I'm willing to bet there's a ton of people actively searching dealing with the same trouble finding work as the person in that Business Insider article.
Yet another challenge that the younger generations are having to deal with on top of everything else.
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10-26-2021, 03:02 PM #489Registered User
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10-26-2021, 03:08 PM #492
Now that we've established that we're all entitled candy asses and most of you can't ski back on topic..
I know this has been posted in at least two other threads.. but THIS is a big reason people are quitting service industry gigs.
No pay is enough to put up with actual entitled assholes like this fuckstick.. And, they're fucking everywhere..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1452752299558846470Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-26-2021, 03:08 PM #493______
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From the article “ Then, he widened the test and spent the remainder of the month applying to jobs — mostly at employers vocal about a lack of workers — and tracking his journey in a spreadsheet.”
The employers are virtue signaling to their Facebook friends about not being able to hire.
(I know people struggling to hire, so know this isn’t 100% the case. They also work for companies that don’t want to help them out by paying more.)
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10-26-2021, 03:11 PM #494
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10-26-2021, 03:12 PM #495
I realize that I had a step up being born white and being born when I was, that doesn’t change the fact that I made good choices based on my priorities. I realized at an early age that leisure time was more important to me than money or status.
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10-26-2021, 03:17 PM #496A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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10-26-2021, 03:22 PM #497
The fact that my parents got much better property loan offers, so I got to go to better schools, and was let go by the police for DOZENS AND DOZENS of things friends who aren't white (looked like they couldn't afford a good lawyer) did real jail time for is proof enough for me that I was definitely born on 2nd base. Only had to work part time for party money when I was in college. If you went to a decent high school because your parents found suitable housing in a neighborhood with a nice high school you were born on first base.. even if you had to pay for college or made your own different way AFTER that on your own..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-26-2021, 03:23 PM #498Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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10-26-2021, 03:28 PM #499
Yup, I have said that to anyone who needed to hear that forever. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to acknowledge the great place and time we were born into over the last 70 years. No shame, but don't act to special either unless you really did something with your life like found a life saving cure for millions. So go fuck yourself Elon. In the grand scheme of things you are here to contribute billions to improve society. Maybe then you will be able to tote your own horn.
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10-26-2021, 03:38 PM #500Registered User
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