In one generation it’s really changed from being a place where workers were valued and trained or developed. Now we are all ( and even many specialized jobs ),in a society where you are an undervalued disposable cog in the big wheel. Employers no longer care if you vanish. I’ve seen so many examples where they hire in someone new to replace the guru who quit that was utterly done with management and policy. The new person tries but has sparse training and unless they are a go getter they spew errors into the system rampantly. This is ignored by management while on time delivery slips past the goal posts. There’s no documentation - this step gets skipped. I’m currently in a fortune 500 company and mostly just bitching about my gripes but how we run a business using the “everyone is disposable” mentality is costing companies billions. Senior management does not care.
GenX checking in. I know so many Boomers who got factory jobs with pensions out of high school and stayed with them for 35 or 40 years. They were able to raise families on a single income (or maybe have a spouse who worked part-time). They had nice homes, new-ish cars, and could afford to take their families on vacations. They built equity and were able to upgrade to McMansions in the late '90s and early '00s.
Meanwhile, my friends and I have advanced degrees and we have to look for new jobs every 5 years just to try to beat inflation.
Our parents climbed the ladder our grandparents built, and then they pulled it up after them. At this point, none of us can afford to quit working to care for them as they age, so anything we would have inherited will likely be paid to nursing homes.
God I hate this. The company doesn’t care about its workers so they leave. The workplace has high turnover so the company doesn’t want to train anyone. The people with job experience are golden and everyone else has to be highly educated just for a chance to get job experience. This is becoming true of even entry-level jobs.
In one generation it’s really changed from being a place where workers were valued and trained or developed. Now we are all ( and even many specialized jobs ),in a society where you are an undervalued disposable cog in the big wheel. Employers no longer care if you vanish. I’ve seen so many examples where they hire in someone new to replace the guru who quit that was utterly done with management and policy. The new person tries but has sparse training and unless they are a go getter they spew errors into the system rampantly. This is ignored by management while on time delivery slips past the goal posts. There’s no documentation - this step gets skipped. I’m currently in a fortune 500 company and mostly just bitching about my gripes but how we run a business using the “everyone is disposable” mentality is costing companies billions. Senior management does not care.
GenX checking in. I know so many Boomers who got factory jobs with pensions out of high school and stayed with them for 35 or 40 years. They were able to raise families on a single income (or maybe have a spouse who worked part-time). They had nice homes, new-ish cars, and could afford to take their families on vacations. They built equity and were able to upgrade to McMansions in the late '90s and early '00s.
Meanwhile, my friends and I have advanced degrees and we have to look for new jobs every 5 years just to try to beat inflation.
Our parents climbed the ladder our grandparents built, and then they pulled it up after them. At this point, none of us can afford to quit working to care for them as they age, so anything we would have inherited will likely be paid to nursing homes.
Hooray for late-stage capitalism, I guess?
God I hate this. The company doesn’t care about its workers so they leave. The workplace has high turnover so the company doesn’t want to train anyone. The people with job experience are golden and everyone else has to be highly educated just for a chance to get job experience. This is becoming true of even entry-level jobs.