Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. Quits in your job
Speaker 1: is the rights of passage for everyone, whether you're turning
Speaker 1: in your two weeks notice because you're going to college,
Speaker 1: or turning in your two seconds notice before they find
Speaker 1: all the printer cartridges you've stuffed into your pants. And
Speaker 1: America just set a new record for how many people
Speaker 1: are calling it quits. It's being called the Great Resignation.
Speaker 1: A record number of Americans are telling their bosses I quit.
Speaker 1: According to a new Labor Department report, four point three
Speaker 1: million people quit in August. That's the highest number of
Speaker 1: people quitting on records dating back to more than twenty years,
Speaker 1: and that's up from four million who walked away from
Speaker 1: jobs in June. Leading the quitters restaurant, hotel, and retail
Speaker 1: employees eight workers and food and accommodations quit in the
Speaker 1: month seven twenty one thousand employees in retail. Workers in
Speaker 1: state and local government education also quit by the thousands.
Speaker 1: There are more jobs available now than ever before in
Speaker 1: US history. Many businesses are suffering from a major shortage
Speaker 1: of workers. With a ten point four million jobs open,
Speaker 1: employers are scrambling to find health that's right. More people
Speaker 1: than ever before. Are quitting their jobs. Restaurant workers are quitting,
Speaker 1: teachers are quitting. Katie Kurry quit being a journalist, and
Speaker 1: some of the numbers are crazy. Seven hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: quit retail jobs, which explains why the TJ Max I
Speaker 1: went to yesterday looked like it was hit by a tornado. Well,
Speaker 1: oh it always looks that way. No, the shoes were
Speaker 1: on the roof. So many workers have left. Pretty soon,
Speaker 1: every business is just going to be self service. Like
Speaker 1: you realize you're gonna have to make your own food
Speaker 1: at a restaurant, or you're gonna have to give yourself
Speaker 1: a root canal, or even worse, at strip clubs. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be dancing for yourself in the mirror. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that, don't. I'm gonna give me all my money. Man.
Speaker 1: The strippers in this club are really said by the
Speaker 1: way Kosky as a question, like why is everything in
Speaker 1: America the great? Like do you do you ever think
Speaker 1: about that? It's like the Great Depression, the Great Recession,
Speaker 1: the Great Resignation, the Great Gatsby. I mean, like the
Speaker 1: dude got shot in a summing pool, like a little bit,
Speaker 1: what's great about that? Anyway, you you might be wondering
Speaker 1: why everyone is quitting now, Like right now, why is
Speaker 1: everyone quitting? I mean, people have wanted to quit their
Speaker 1: jobs since the beginning of time, right all the way
Speaker 1: back to caveman days. The guy who's shopping the stones
Speaker 1: by hitting him against other stones. He hated his job.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to dance, but music hadn't been invented yet.
Speaker 1: But it turns out there isn't one reason people are
Speaker 1: quitting their jobs, because the pandemic has given people a
Speaker 1: million reasons to quit their jobs. Americans are looking for
Speaker 1: better pay, better working conditions, and more flexible working arrangements.
Speaker 1: Some have elder care and childcare responsibilities in this pandemic.
Speaker 1: Some say they feel burned out after working through a
Speaker 1: year that had so many challenges. Three to four million
Speaker 1: people are still saying I am fearful for my health,
Speaker 1: for the health of my loved ones, and therefore unwilling
Speaker 1: to take jobs with the risk of contingent is higher.
Speaker 1: Millions of Americans worked from home over the last year
Speaker 1: and will likely quit rather than go back to the office.
Speaker 1: Anastasia long to return to working from home and bravely
Speaker 1: asked the question well, why can't I have that? Like
Speaker 1: we did? We did have it, we all worked from home,
Speaker 1: So why can't Why can't I still have that? Because
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, look, you know what, she has a point.
Speaker 1: For companies that had people work from home during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: everything seemed fine. They kept making money, they kept making
Speaker 1: a profit, which really made a lot of people wonder
Speaker 1: what the point of coming back into the office is,
Speaker 1: Like why sit in two hours of traffic to then
Speaker 1: sit at a computer that has the same Internet as
Speaker 1: my computer at home, except everyone here can see that
Speaker 1: I'm looking at porn. I mean, honestly, I think companies
Speaker 1: are playing a dangerous game here. If you're telling employees
Speaker 1: the only time they can work from home is when
Speaker 1: there's a global pandemic, you're going to have people trying
Speaker 1: to start another pandemic. There's gonna be people sneaking into
Speaker 1: the zoo, like all right, let's see what happens when
Speaker 1: I bite this turtle. Okay, nothing there, I guess I
Speaker 1: gotta try banging that snake. But it's not just a
Speaker 1: desire to work from home. There are so many reasons
Speaker 1: that people are quitting their jobs right now. Some people
Speaker 1: don't feel safe because of COVID. Some people don't have childcare,
Speaker 1: some people are burned out, and some people just want
Speaker 1: to try their luck in squid game. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of money, you know, if you ignore the
Speaker 1: people who died, it's a pretty inspiring story. But there's
Speaker 1: another reason people are quitting, And honestly, I think this
Speaker 1: reason is one of the most interesting because it comes
Speaker 1: from a deeper, almost philosophical place. For a lot of people,
Speaker 1: the pandemic has changed their minds about life really and
Speaker 1: what's important. And for some people that means changing careers.
Speaker 1: A growing number of them are not jumping to a
Speaker 1: new full time job, but just taking a break. They
Speaker 1: are saying, I don't want another full time job right now.
Speaker 1: I want to hit cause, maybe learn some new skills,
Speaker 1: take a breather, um and maybe plot a new direction
Speaker 1: in my career. It was a lot of reflection time.
Speaker 1: I know what I want out of my career, might
Speaker 1: as well just make the move. Forty two year old
Speaker 1: Dan nikola Escu had spent more than two decades in
Speaker 1: the restaurant industry, but he says a year home with
Speaker 1: his wife and two kids changed his perspective nikola Escu
Speaker 1: is hoping to trade mixology for my collogy mushroom farming.
Speaker 1: Is there money in mushroom farming? I guess I have
Speaker 1: to find out. But we can't always puts you only
Speaker 1: the financial side of things. There is no rewind button
Speaker 1: your life, right. The man that ties women to train
Speaker 1: tracks is right. There's more to life than making money,
Speaker 1: and the pandemic has forced people to reconsider whether their
Speaker 1: jobs were really how they wanted to spend their entire lives.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about boring office jobs either.
Speaker 1: I mean this guy was mixing cocktails, I'm assuming in
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds, and even he wanted to try something new.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I think it's great that people
Speaker 1: are pursuing their dreams. But I also think we need
Speaker 1: like a Google doc or something just you know, to
Speaker 1: make sure we're balancing things out. Like, think about it.
Speaker 1: We can't have a society where everybody is pursuing their
Speaker 1: quirky second careers. I'm all fult mushroom farmers, but I
Speaker 1: still need a proctologists. Eminem Is aren't going to remove
Speaker 1: themselves now. Obviously most people won't or can't leave their jobs.
Speaker 1: So these quitters are a very small minority, but the
Speaker 1: quitters are still having a broader impact because with so
Speaker 1: many workers willing to leave their jobs, companies are forced
Speaker 1: to make the jobs more appealing. A pandemic forced power
Speaker 1: shift employees gaining the upper hand and making lifestyle demands
Speaker 1: with employers hoping to keep them happy. Some companies are
Speaker 1: changing their policies to adapt to the times, offering more
Speaker 1: perks and lexibility. Are I, the apparel retailer gave up
Speaker 1: their headquarters building in favor of creating satellite offices so
Speaker 1: that people could go to work, but go to work
Speaker 1: in a smaller office that would be closer to their homes.
Speaker 1: LinkedIn is leaving the office behind for good. The networking
Speaker 1: website says most of its sixteen thousand employees will be
Speaker 1: allowed to work remotely full time. The crowdfunding platform kick
Speaker 1: Starter says it's gearing up to test a four day
Speaker 1: work week. The popular dating app Bumble closing its offices
Speaker 1: this entire week to give its staff a break. Nike,
Speaker 1: they just gave a week off to their employees so
Speaker 1: that their employees can really recharge. Yes, finally, finally, people,
Speaker 1: it's great that companies are starting to be a little
Speaker 1: more flexible. And you know who deserves the most credit,
Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines. They will way ahead of the curve on this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy who cleans the airplanes. He's been working from
Speaker 1: home for years. And you know what sort of sucks.
Speaker 1: What sort of sucks about this thing is how it's
Speaker 1: all the white collar jobs that are getting more flexible.
Speaker 1: Because I know anyone in any job can get burned out.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but I would love to see
Speaker 1: the staffs of Kickstarter and Bumble trying to explain how
Speaker 1: burnt out they are to a group of coal miners.
Speaker 1: And like West Virginia, we had this one customer who
Speaker 1: just would not verify his email. I mean, how is
Speaker 1: your day? Carl died? Yeah, so you totally get it.
Speaker 1: I will say, though, the one company we rarely can't
Speaker 1: afford to lose employees is go fund me, Like they
Speaker 1: better make the jobs more flexible. We kind of go
Speaker 1: fund me employees quitting American healthcare depends on it. So look,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, anytime humans experience a
Speaker 1: massive life change, it changes what they expect from their work.
Speaker 1: And these changes could be anything. Having a kid getting divorced,
Speaker 1: losing a loved one, and the pandemic has done that
Speaker 1: to everyone in different ways. Hell, it's even done that
Speaker 1: to me. Like I thought I was going to host
Speaker 1: The Daily Show forever, but no, I don't know. And
Speaker 1: I heard there's a job opening for a guy with
Speaker 1: a badass mustache to make cocktails, and I think I
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