Not to mention all the other petty crap some of you bicker about.
> On Dec 18, 2021, at 5:27 PM, Doug <d...@bkassociates.net> wrote: > > I suggest politely you leave politics, of any kind, out of this forum. > > Doug Fuerst > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Sasso, Len" <0000039db7f8412a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu > Sent: 18-Dec-21 18:01:08 > Subject: Re: The Great Resignation > >> So True! >> >> Trumpsters will put Americans in the Dumpsters" >> >> >> >> Thank You and Please Be Safe! >> >> Len Sasso >> Systems Administrator Senior >> CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company >> 327 Columbia TPKE >> Rensselaer, NY 12144 >> >> TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More >> >> Office Hours: M-F 7 AM - 3:45 PM >> >> Vacation: 12/17/2021 - 01/03/2022 >> >> Phone: (518) 257-4209 >> Cell: (518) 894-0879 >> Fax: (518) 257-4300 >> len.sa...@gdit.com >> URL: www.gdit.com<http://www.gdit.com> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of >> Bill Johnson <00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2021 5:49 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> >> Subject: Re: The Great Resignation >> >> >> >> [External Email with Covid-19 Information: Use caution with links & >> attachments] >> >> I doubt Jesus said a man unwilling or unable to work shouldn’t eat. And, I’m >> not surprised the low wage earners are unwilling to work for $2.13/hour >> (tipped wage) plus tips. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in over a >> decade. If the minimum wage I worked for in 1975 had kept pace with >> inflation, it would be over $20 an hour now. In most of Europe, restaurant >> workers make a living wage plus benefits. Tipping is optional. Plus, their >> health care is single payer and better/cheaper. Don’t get me started on >> their fabulous infrastructure, mass transit, and education systems. >> Factor in many don’t want to go back to work while a fourth wave of covid is >> raging. (Thanks to the GOP and trumpers pushing against public health) Then >> there are women who can’t afford child care because it eats up the majority >> of their wages. Funny that the build back better legislation intended to >> address that and provide child care help like most of the rest of the world >> provides. >> My brother in law made a career out of the restaurant business. He’s making >> 6 figures now as a regional director but works 70 hour weeks, has had 2 >> heart attacks, smokes like a chimney, and will never see retirement from the >> hamster wheel. >> Younger Americans are not buying into the rat race. Conspicuous consumption >> isn’t their religion. And as we are seeing, the baby boomers are much to >> blame for global warming, the results we are seeing in fires, floods, polar >> icecaps melting, and yes, the recent record setting tornadoes in Kentucky, >> Tennessee, & other states. >> America is in decline when a two bit reality TV show host, who lies >> incessantly, has molested 20+ women, cheats on his taxes, and tried to >> overturn a free and fair election, can get 35% of the populace to follow him. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Saturday, December 18, 2021, 5:04 PM, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> A while ago on one of the forums I hang out at -- I think it was this one -- >> we talked about people dropping out of the work force and looking for >> something more rewarding. I'm all for people looking for work they like >> better, but one gathers that a lot of these folks are dropping out and THEN >> looking for something they like better, which strikes me as a teenager's way >> of doing it. >> >> I particularly remember an NPR report about an example of this, someone who >> quit his job and wanted to get into the restaurant business. (Don't laugh; >> I thought seriously about making my career in food services, too, before I >> discovered computer programming.) The item finished by saying that he was >> now applying for unemployment benefits. >> >> Partly but not entirely on the strength of this story, I suggested without a >> great deal of certainty that the COVID payments to all and sundry are >> largely fueling this "Great Resignation" -- that lots of people are finding >> they can afford to take time off from work, get COVID payments and >> unemployment benefits, and worry about working some time later. I realized >> that probably wasn't the whole story, but it sure sounded like it was a >> significant part of it. As both a Christian and a political conservative >> (they're not entirely synonymous) I was raised on "if a man will not work, >> neither let him eat", so I was all prepared to wax indignant. >> >> Now I read an article >> (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/15/economy/labor-force-retirement-great-resignation/index.html__;!!JRQnnSFuzw7wjAKq6ti6!jr9halPC0nIWFE-9fINPw3kgeGxl_puZ0XC-MygV4h-aU9lnZSJ8ONFyhfzz4Q$ >> ) that suggests I may (gasp of horror) have been wrong. >> >> "Instead, early retirement — whether forced by the pandemic or made possible >> otherwise — is playing a big role in America's evolving labor market....Last >> month, there were 3.6 million more Americans who had left the labor force >> and said they didn't want a job compared with November 2019, says Aaron >> Sojourner, a labor economist and professor at the University of Minnesota's >> Carlson School of Management. Older Americans, age 55 and up, accounted for >> whopping 90% of that increase." >> >> Later it says "Nearly 70% of the 5 million people who left the labor force >> during the pandemic are older than 55, according to researchers from Goldman >> Sachs, and many of them aren't looking to return." I don't know how 90% was >> knocked down to 70%. But anyway, it's another datum that tempts me to >> reëvaluate. >> >> --- >> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 >> >> /* Because large flat areas of land are good for warfare many European >> airports are built on the site of battles. 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