Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   People Quitting their Jobs in Record Numbers Date:   10/17/2021 9:44:00 AM

Clearly, what worked for you would not work for everyone.  A lot of people need structure in order to accomplish their work.  I always felt that the employees in my last 3 jobs didn't need me to stand over them - for the most part, they were self starters and would have accomplished the mission without me.  My job was to create the environment for them to do their best work, and see that they got opportunities for additional training or job enrichment.  

I've actually always been a proponet of working from home.  Living in DC area and dealing with the frustration of the traffic and stress of just getting to work, I've alway felt that working from home would make people just as productive.  I have a "thing" about stress - I lived with a lot of work stress for years, and  I realize it took a toll on my health.  Stress produces cortisol and cortisol creates an inflammatory response.  

I understand that not everyone wants to make work the entire focus of their lives.  But I feel like the techology has pushed us to this.  I was a person who was getting texts at 10 o'clock at night about work issues that could have waited until the next day.  I started my career before there was the technology, and one of the benefits was that it gave us time to really think about a response before responding.  

I'm a little taken back by the nastiness we are seeing in the workplace.  And it goes both ways - customers are ruder and more impatient, but the workers are also more likely to snap back and curse the customers out, because something isn't going their way.  

I'm just wondering how all these people quitting their jobs are going to support themselves.  They won't be eligible for unemployment if they quit, so are they planning on filing for welfare?