Perhaps The Greatest Irony Of Modern Work

Is it "no one wants to work anymore" or "too many peons are working for other companies in addition to us?"

If you follow the bouncing ball of workplace narratives since COVID, we’ve had quite a few, and many of them end up somewhat contradictory. The basic recap is:

• Now everyone is remote (gasp)

• The Great Resignation

• Quiet Quitting

• Quiet Hiring

• Quit-Toking

• Act Your Wage

• Nobody wants to work anymore (Biden free money)

These happened at different times, and all of them still exist somewhat, at least in the sense that people write about them and discuss them on cable news and whatnot. In fact, a woman I do some work with commented on it this morning on CNN:

So now there’s a concern that some employees are holding 2–3 jobs, often 2–3 “full-time” jobs, and collecting pay from each. Personally I think no one should give a shit about this. Companies have been fleecing workers and stagnating wages, even in white-collar jobs, for 30 years now. If an employee wants to exploit the biggest weakness of companies, let them.