{"id":178388,"date":"2018-12-13T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/13\/this-is-fed-up-and-sh-3\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:36:00","slug":"this-is-fed-up-and-sh-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/13\/this-is-fed-up-and-sh-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This is F%$#ed Up and Sh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"
It appears that people are quitting by “ghosting” their employers<\/a>.<\/div>\n

One day, they are there, and the next, they aren’t, and they refuse all forms of contact:<\/p>\n

Economists report that workers are starting to act like millennials on Tinder: They\u2019re ditching jobs with nary a text. <\/p>\n

\u201cA number of contacts said that they had been \u2018ghosted,\u2019 a situation in which a worker stops coming to work without notice and then is impossible to contact,\u201d the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago noted in December\u2019s Beige Book<\/a>, which tracks employment trends. <\/p>\n

National data on economic \u201cghosting\u201d is lacking. The term, which usually applies to dating, first surfaced in 2016 on Dictionary.com<\/a>. But companies across the country say silent exits are on the rise. <\/p>\n

Analysts blame America\u2019s increasingly tight labor market. Job openings have surpassed the number of seekers for eight straight months, and the unemployment rate has clung to a 49-year low<\/a> of 3.7 percent since September. <\/p>\n

Janitors, baristas, welders, accountants, engineers \u2014 they\u2019re all in demand, said Michael Hicks, a labor economist at Ball State University in Indiana. More people may opt to skip tough conversations and slide right into the next thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy hassle with a boss and a bunch of out-processing,\u201d he said, \u201cwhen literally everyone has been hiring?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The academics above don’t get it, but this guy does:<\/p>\n

Someone who feels invested in an enterprise is less likely to bounce, write Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale, co-authors<\/a> of \u201cHow F*cked Up Is Your Management?: An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cEmployees leave jobs that suck,\u201d they said in an email. \u201cJobs where they\u2019re abused. Jobs where they don\u2019t care about the work. And the less engaged they are, the less need they feel to give their bosses any warning.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Modern management has been eating its metaphorical seed corn for decades, and now they are reaping the consequences of the complete absence of goodwill from their employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that people are quitting by “ghosting” their employers. One day, they are there, and the next, they aren’t, and they refuse all forms of contact: Economists report that workers are starting to act like millennials on Tinder: They\u2019re ditching jobs with nary a text. \u201cA number of contacts said that they had been …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[450,364,578,595],"class_list":["post-178388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-employment","tag-evil","tag-incompetence","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}