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Boomers really don't understand job hopping people need to do to increase their salaries (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So yeah title says it all, currently around 8 months into a new hospital position and I've been extending my feelers out and doing job apps and got back invites to the start of preliminary interviews for some other jobs (mainly cuss there is likely going to be no significant pay raises for all us new hires until 2 years out so fuck that).

Bring this up to parents though and they have the weirdest attitude as though I'm betraying my company as well as shooting myself in the foot even though if I got some of these positions I'm interviewing for I'd see a huge pay bump and really good benefits (one of them is a state gig and has a damned good pension plan with only 5 years to be vested fully).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the world used to work by the rules that saying in the same company a long time was the thing good for your career. Which was probably better for everyone as it was less disruptive.

Recently corporate culture has changed when they decided they don't want to reward loyalty anymore on the assumption that loyal people don't need incentives to stay

as my dad says anyone loyal to their company these days is just a mug

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That shit sadly only works with pensions and pensions only exist for government jobs and the few rare jobs still protected with good unions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what I am saying is that decades ago it actually used to work with all companies. The companies just decided to stop rewarding that behaviour because they decided they don't want to

That's why boomers often still think in those terms because for them it was true

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Oh definitely, I think a lot of that was in fact due to labor unions still having power and being a threat. Now businesses now they can treat workers like shit cuss option B is starving to death.

Boomers love to exist in a ahistorical state not realizing what existed that allowed them to make money and have job security.