People are realizing this is not a way to live. We should not be living to work. We are fighting and getting the upper hand if we continue. The great resignation has given a message and we need to make it clear it isn’t because of the high unemployment. People resigned after the big 600 stopped. We are tired of the treatment.
We need to make it clear that our life is not about work and have it only a small portion of our life. My manager always says we need to go get along because we see each other more than our real family and that is the sad truth that needs to end.
We need to have the power in interviews and establish rules if they want us to work for them. Yes we need the pay but they need us as well.
My rules is reasonable uninterrupted breaks, vacations are nonnegotiable meaning I get that day off, my days off are my days off – do not call me or ask me to come in, no micromanaging, reiterating I do not exist on my days off – it is time with my family and not my responsibility if someone calls out