[AccessD] The "Great Resignation"

[Arthur Fuller]

Rocky et. al.
I think that you are quite correct in pointing out that something
significant has happened in the past/present workplace. I don't have stats
to back up my opinion, but I can feel it on the ground, as one might feel
the initial shimmers of an earthquake. Thanks to the pandemic, millions of
people have begun to rethink their situations, buying habits, home/work
relationships, and more.
We are among the lucky. Most of us on this list have the freedom to choose
where we work (home or office) and how many hours we work. Most of our
brothers and sisters do not enjoy that choice. We  need you to operate this
machine or press or digger on-site, right now!
Not so for most of us on this list. We are the privileged few, who can work
from home and decide which hours we work, and to some extent, even decide
what aspects of a project deserve our immediate attention.
And every now and then, I even get to hire outside help, and that is
perhaps the most fun thing. I can reach out to this community and find
someone more skilled than I to perform a task that is out of my depth.
In short, thanks to all you AccessD and SQLlisters. Without your expertise,
I would be a far lesser developer than I am.


On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 12:45 PM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was just joking.  It's a serious question - nothing improper about it.
> But I think many of us are (or were) indie developers. Probably low numbers
> who decided to retire - indies can work from home and the number of hours
> they want (if they can control their sense of greed and turn down work if
> it makes more hours than they want to work). The rest in the W-2 world
> probably worked from home and were under much less pressure to retire to
> escape from the work world.
>
> But the Great Resignation is a real thing, for sure.
>
> r
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 9:34 AM Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Rocky,
> >
> > I did not expect the conversation I started to take the direction it did.
> >
> >
> > Anything improper in my original question?  I was interested to know if
> > anyone in this group opted for a change of work lately, it seems that
> over
> > 4 million people quit their jobs in the past year, and the trend is
> > ongoing.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:48 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Careful, here, amigos.  This is the kind of talk that got us kicked off
> > of
> > > AccessD in 2000 and exiled to the land of OT (where we still thrive
> > today).
> > > 😁
> > >
> > > r
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 8:34 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > In a strictly technical sense, the US is not a 2-party system, but in
> > > > reality it most certainly is -- or, as Noam Chomsky put it, it is aa
> > > > one-party system, with two barely distinguishable factions.. Of
> course,
> > > the
> > > > US is not alone in this; witness what the UK laughably calls the
> Labour
> > > > Party. Here in Canada, our so-called leftist party has strayed so far
> > > from
> > > > the Left (whose values include free tuition to universities, free
> > > > child-care, increased corporate tax rates, no nukes, and more
> recently,
> > > > compelling Big Pharma  to make their  COVID-19 vaccines free from
> > patent
> > > > protection. This is especially important in Africa and South Asia,
> > where
> > > > the stats are especially sad. But in the US, more COVID deaths are
> > > recorded
> > > > than in any other nation (at last look, the deaths number over 700K
> --
> > > more
> > > > then China and India put together, and each of these nations'
> > populations
> > > > outstrips the US population by a factor of approximately four).
> > > > "Something is wrong in the state of Denmark " (Sorry, Gustav, I'm
> just
> > > > quoting Shakespeare.)
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 9:52 AM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm resigned to seeing my country's two-party system implode.  Does
> > > that
> > > > > count?
> > > > >
> > > > > r
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 6:10 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Lol I resigned in 1993
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 4:53 AM Bill Benson <
> bensonforums at gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Has anyone on this List participated?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Experiences?
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Arthur