Te-Ping Chen
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373 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard Oct 2024
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Her hours dropped by more than a half because they had all of a sudden a glut of workers.
And it took a few months.
She was very tempted to quit.
She was a single mother.
And as it happened, actually, after a few months, things shook out and a lot of these new workers ended up quitting.
So it all worked out for her fine.
But
It is sort of indicative of the kind of pattern that can happen in this sort of very strange economy that we're living through right now.
Yeah, really across the board.
One worker was really striking.
I spoke to him.
He had cycled through seven jobs over the course of this pandemic.
Yeah, it's really, really striking as well.
But I think that's what is so, you know, when you really sort of open the hood on some of these statistics on the quote unquote, create resignation, you see, right, it's not 47 million Americans quitting.
It's 47 million jobs that have been quit often by
you know, the same worker who's just turning through trying to find an environment that's actually going to allow them to make the paycheck that they need.
And in each of those occasions, he was sharing how he would say, look, I want, you know, I want 40 hours and hiring managers would sound really optimistic.
But then when it came down to it, he would get maybe eight to 25 hours.
And he really felt like he just, you know, he knew if he stuck around longer, as the ranks of the other employees who they had also hired at the same time thinned,
There was a chance his hours would go up, but he just felt like, look, in this environment, I can get a job as soon as I walk out the door.
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