The Great Resignation, Part 2

Part II of my take on The Great Resignation. Some folks are proposing that we stop calling it "the Great Resignation" in favor of something warmer and fluffier, but I disagree. I think we need some of that "I'm a person, not a robot" energy in Corporate America. No one rules if no one obeys. ✊

Key topics:

✔️ Here's a dirty little secret: all these video conferences and video interviews can be and sometimes are used for discriminatory purposes. If some company is browbeating you about showing up on video when there seems to be no coherent reason for it, ask yourself why that might be.
✔️ The same people who act like jerk managers to their employees within a company do not deserve to be in your freelancing business either. They will make your life a living hell, too. They need to stop being jerks!
✔️ Running on the hamster wheel of consumerism and "keeping up with the Joneses" will keep you trapped in Corporate America. I've lived long enough to see Gordon Gekko go from vilified yuppie who demonstrated 1980s excess to hearing him give the most cogent explanation of the burst housing bubble of the late 00s I've ever heard. And be aware: we're headed for the same territory again. More on this topic in a future episode.
✔️ The magic salary number of $75K for happiness is 10+ years old. Adjusted for inflation, it's more like $95K now. Some companies want to pay yesteryear's wages and then wonder why no one is interested.

Links I discuss in this episode:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/05/07/3-ways-video-conferencing-can-unintentionally-cause-bias/

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/are-our-new-virtual-workplaces-equitable

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danpontefract/2021/11/22/the-great-resignation-isnt-really-a-thing-something-else-is/?sh=6c796be423e5

Logical Finance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88Lkr-TzjI&t=416s


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