Behaviors often vary at different scales. At a macroscopic level you're correct, this movement is exaggerated based on the coverage to overall economic significance (most of its all inflation driven), but at, let's say, a mesoscopic scale, there are businesses feeling these very real effects. It's in specific industries and certain types of employers, I suspect largely abusive employers, where turnover is increasing significantly. And in such environments, these trends are happening the way the media is portraying it. I've seen it and I too have friends with anecdata who have experienced it. This is
abnormal as prior to the pandemic such turnover and rejection was fairly rare at a given business, it usually happened on the business's terms during restructuring, rarely on the employee side outside of say unionized strikes.
Taking this view that nothing is going on at a macroscopic scale is like standing in the Himalayas and shouting "but the Earth is really smooth, almost spherical." While at a macroscopic scale you'd be very correct (technically oblate spheriod), the mountains and valleys localized around you are very real challenges you need to navigate. That's important if you never travel outside the Himilayas, maybe not if you're circumnavigating the Earth (just, avoid it, you know). Not everywhere is Kansas and if you ignore very real localized phenomena that may be unavoidable, you're going to have problems navigating if your specific scale can't compensate for it.