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Why Employers Are Losing Power Over Job Seekers
They’re labeling it “rage-quitting” and it’s the long-awaited revolution on the rise, featuring a growing number of disenchanted job hunters, who have spent way too much time weighing the pros and cons of suffering through thankless, dead-end, low-paying gigs that offer nothing in the form of financial security.
The fluctuating state of the job market has been a mainstay in the news cycle ever since vaccination stations popped up all over the country, spearheading the ambitious and celebratory season of a national reopening.
News reporters are descending on local businesses to get a pulse of the hiring practices now that it’s finally safe to be fully operational, and frustrated owners of resurrected establishments aren’t holding back in their accusations against the federal government for daring to come up with a rescue plan that rivals what overworked employees had to accommodate.
Instead of insightful segments about the undefeated virus of wage stagnation that reached its peak in the mid-seventies and hasn’t let up ever since, TV viewers are treated to surfacy and quite frankly insulting talking points, that once again shame the “have-nots” for carrying those lazy traits too far, at the expense of an economy that thrives from overburdened laborers.