So yeah title says it all, currently around 8 months into a new hospital position and I’ve been extending my feelers out and doing job apps and got back invites to the start of preliminary interviews for some other jobs (mainly cuss there is likely going to be no significant pay raises for all us new hires until 2 years out so fuck that).
Bring this up to parents though and they have the weirdest attitude as though I’m betraying my company as well as shooting myself in the foot even though if I got some of these positions I’m interviewing for I’d see a huge pay bump and really good benefits (one of them is a state gig and has a damned good pension plan with only 5 years to be vested fully).
You don’t even really hear “teammates” or “employees” anymore. It’s “associates” and “Individual Contributor”. There is no such thing as a team, we are all just individual and discrete nodes in a collection, but no teams. It’s just so slimey that corporations have utterly sandblasted the very idea of teams away from the modern language. Everything is so individuated even things like workplace safety is your responsibility. To me it really shows how utterly alienated we are at work, even alienated from our work. Job hopping is the logical outcome of making everyone a team of 1.
I have mainly the healthcare perspective on horrid corporate cultures, but yes workplace safety in a hospital is insane especially with the cases of abuse and assault I’ve seen from patients towards healthcare workers, overall that the push towards “picking up extra shifts” and just the combined physical and mentally taxing labor has made me push towards outpatient work cuss fuck getting myself broken by a hospital system that will replace me with a traveler by weeks end if I died.
Why did boomers have kids anyway? They all seem to hate us. My dad loves reminding me how he didn’t really want kids and how he hated my mom. Why the fuck did you marry and impregnate here then?!?!?!?
I live in Japan, and it’s insane here. I get judged both for changing jobs and spending too much time in deadend ESL jobs with no hope of a promotion. I once got caught off-guard at an interview because it was my first one in 2 years and I’d forgotten that they’d want a reason for why I left a job more than 15 years ago.
That’s fucking insane, 15 years I’d be hard pressed to remember anything really
They also don’t understand the hellish nightmare that every step of the job hunting process is for neurodivergent people
The slightly younger Xer junior boomers also have no idea how much “open offices” fucking suck for anyone who isn’t a dudebro social parasite that needs to make noise and harass coworkers and subordinates all day.
Every day the noise and lights and constant interruptions/task changing are driving me insane and I’m so fucking drained I can’t jump through all the hoops to look for a new job
I’ll probably just have a massive nervous breakdown and send a resignation after I leave and can’t stop crying for hours
I know this feeling, and I really hope it doesn’t come to that. I hope you get free and find something that makes you feel fulfilled and cared for.
Mood. It doesn’t matter if I sleep 2 or 12 hours, I’m just mentally exhausted by the time I get home.
I’m betraying my company
I figured out 40 years ago that the only way to get any significant pay increase was to hop jobs. Loyalty to the company is a suckers bet, they have zero loyalty to you, you owe nothing to them.
Exactly, I’m tempted to not even do a two weeks notice and instead cashout my PTO and do a personal vacay
This is the way. Give them as much notice as they give workers when they shut down the jobs and kick us to the curb. Fuck the bosses.
one of my boomer relatives always said the best time to start looking for a new job is right after you got hired
We love our good boomers folks
A rare example of a boomer being based and not trapped in their shit mentality
I think back in their days, staying at a company actually did work out to being paid more whereas it’s flipped these days. I’ve had these same discussions with my boomer parents too.
