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Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by toyg »

rantallion wrote: post #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 chang…

> a 2-4% raise a year if I was lucky (which we all know is a pay cut in disguise when you consider inflation)

Well, when inflation was around 2-3%, it was alright: one could more or less keep up, without having to change.

But this year inflation skyrocketed and now that's definitely not good enough.

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by throwaway787544 »

You can always be screwed by changing jobs, it shouldn't be taken on lightly. But I think a lot of us are enjoying that companies are now offering us more flexibility, better work, and better pay, for the same job. And tech workers had already been changing jobs every 3 years.

Certainly I can attest there's some greed involved in my current job hunt. But the greater factor is getting to work on what I really want to work on. I want to feel excited to go to work, like I'm serving a useful purpose, and not just contributing to society's ills and bankrolling of some rich white dudes. For me that means I have to change jobs. This is just a great time to do it.

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by orange_joe »

You’re being extremely naive if you think of yourself as a traitor. If you stopped performing at your current level due to a major life event, most companies would fire you. You’re a resource being expended by your employer. Even if they treat you well we all know that they’d stop paying you if you became terminally ill for any real length of time, and you very likely weren’t given a pension to support you in old age either. The companies least affected by this trend are the ones that have given their employees better bargains (see fedex v UPS)

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

If you like the new job then you have nothing to worry about. Forget the “traitor” thing entirely. It’s just business.

There has been a huge uptick of “I hate my new job what should I do?” posts in an advice/mentoring community I’m part of.

The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out and got higher paying jobs at companies that were desperately in need of engineers where they tend to have higher wages, shorter interviews to get people in the door. When the new job demands higher performance commensurate with the higher compensation and the company want everyone performing at a high level, it comes as a shock to the system to people who were accustomed to lax companies with lax delivery schedules.

Of course there are people for whom the opposite has happened or who are doing the same work for better pay now. Those people are happy! But I think the “great resignation” narrative being repeated over and over again created a lot of FOMO that also churned people out of otherwise comfortable jobs at good companies, with mixed results.

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by ampgt »

chaircher wrote: post #6
mwint wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you that utilities tripled?

UK potentially

As an expat currently in the UK - my electric tariff is about to go from .18p per kWh to .36p. Gas is doubling as well. Most homes here have awful insulation, so I’ll be looking at 230gbp a month for my little two bedroom apartment. It’s crazy out here.

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by cutthegrass2 »

chaircher wrote: post #6
mwint wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you that utilities tripled?

UK potentially

Not the commenter you were referring to, but for context, i'm in the UK and have seen water increase by 25%, gas and electric increase by 32%.

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by toyg »

mwint wrote: post #5
sakopov wrote: post #3

My 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?

Likely UK or Europe. We've been hit by the Ukraine situation harder than elsewhere, because Putin started hoarding gas last year to prepare for the Ukraine campaign.

Re: Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?

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Post by youngbullind »

It's nothing new. People have always changed jobs. And people who change every two years end up with 50% better salaries over time. If you haven't added enough value in those two years to make it worth hiring you in the first place, then you probably weren't a great hire in the first place.
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