The Great Resignation or the Great Reshuffling pretty much started in 2021 and is still going very strong today. It's hard not to feel like you could be missing out if you don't take the opportunity now to pursue a better job, especially one with better pay and work-from-home arrangements. That's how I felt as my coworkers started moving on to better roles, and when the recruiters started hitting me on LinkedIn, I decided to pay attention. Now a month into my new job, I feel like a traitor and sell-out. I had a long tenure at my previous role and had life pretty easy. I can't help but feel that the current wave of job changing is fueled by hype and greed, and honestly I do not think that companies deserve to be screwed by all this turnover. While I am confident I can do fine in my new role, I have a nagging disappointment about contributing to this current trend.
Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?
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#2> I do not think that companies deserve to be screwed by all this turnover
Perhaps companies should better look after their employees and give them a reason not to leave. Many of us are fed up of being underpaid and undervalued. Add to that the increasing demands to return to an office and it's not hard to see why we're jumping ship to work for businesses that pay better and offer remote working arrangements.
I changed jobs almost a year ago and have zero regrets. I had a long tenure too. What did it get me? Maybe a 2-4% raise a year if I was lucky (which we all know is a pay cut in disguise when you consider inflation). None of us should feel that we have to be loyal to a business. That same business would lay you off in a heartbeat if it would save them money.
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#3My food expenses have doubled. My utilities have nearly tripled. It's a crime not to be looking for a new job right now, unless of course you're happy with what you're making.
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#4> I do not think that companies deserve to be screwed by all this turnover. While I am confident I can do fine in my new role, I have a nagging disappointment about contributing to this current trend.
How are companies being screwed? By one half of an at-will relationship exercising their will? Do you have as much sympathy when companies cut employees loose, often with too little notice? All in all, your concern sounds naive.
If you've contributed to anything it's waking up companies with lazy leadership, mediocre managers, and culture-less culture. These place are real.
And I myself am proud for having pushed myself away from the table and stated, "Not for me. No thanks. I'm leaving. There's no sustainable future here."
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#5My food expenses have doubled. My utilities have nearly tripled. It's a crime not to be looking for a new job right now, unless of course you're happy with what you're making.
Where are you that utilities tripled?
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#7Sounds like you got FOMO and are regretting it.
Did you actually care about better pay or WFH arrangements?
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#8I changed jobs at the end of 2020, my new job has better pay and better work-from-home arrangements, and I don’t regret a thing.
My hypothesis is that a significant chunk of the people who changed jobs circa 2021 are people who would have changed jobs in 2020 if there hadn’t been a pandemic, but held off for about a year while things shook out.
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#9Traitor? To a company? What a concept. Corps will happily throw people on the street.. I don't understand that guilt that seems interwoven in your post. I changed jobs recently and got much better pay and WLB. Not doing so would have been betraying myself.
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#10I changed jobs and I don't regret it. I left federal contracting due to vaccine mandates. New job is very comfortable. Making a bit more money, far less work. Good growth potential on the stock grants. I guess thanks to Biden for making me question my job security enough to start looking.