Everybody's Leaving!

Weirdly enough, a lot of them are leaving to become teachers.

is this all part of the IT slump, people leaving for the relative security of a teaching job? (er, i forget where you work) and is that still happening (i spent the year until april out of work but have since lost touch of the job market (but am considering rejoining it))

its publishing rather than IT, although technology is partly behind the reasons ppl have been leaving in some cases....as in many jobs, they are finding more ways of automating production processes, which can often remove the interesting aspects of the job which attracted ppl to it in the first place, as it becomes more administrative.

I think that this is particularly true at present, but it is taking place against the background of something that is happening all the time, ie the way a workplace can be viewed as a pyramid with a lot of ppl at the broad base and fewer ppl higher up. As there are relatively few opportunities higher up ppl have to look elsewhere for jobs with higher pay and more responsibility.

I don't know why so many are choosing teaching as an alternative career. It'll be interesting to see if they stick with it...my experience of ppl going into teaching straight from uni is that they leave and try something else after a couple of years - maybe the extra experience ppl gain by working in an office first will stand them in good stead, only time will tell.

I went into teaching straight from uni, and I'm trying something else. Don't know if I'll go back!

Over a four month period, 15 people have left my department for a variety of reasons - professors got a job elsewhere, grant-funded projects ended, staff that simply can't deal with it anymore.

people leaving for the relative security of a teaching job?

Here in OC, there's a glut of teachers because everyone had the same idea. My department is a teacher training program and a LOT of students are enrolling only to find that the available teaching positions are pretty scarce (at least for those who aren't willing to go teach in poor/lower class areas)

So many people had to leave my school. It seems like the only person who came to the school is Mr. Hill, but he left when I graduated 6th grade and now he's come back.

Three people are leaving work by next week. The good thing about this is that I got promoted.

well done you!

We've had a leaving wave over the past month. For a while, it was really a sort of Blitz mentality, I got scared to come in to work, for fear of who would be gone the next time. Seems to have evened out now. I don't know. It gets tense, but life goes on.

I don't like your new name much :(

Ha ha, never mind, it's a band injoke. I'm waiting for Catty to get online and either laugh herself silly or punch me in the face.

The worst example of this I've experienced was when I worked for a telecoms company during the big slump in 2001. I survived two rounds of redundancies before finally going in the third. Morale was absolutely awful. I mean, it was bad before, but they'd just got an office manager in who was taking the time to get to know people, look at their career development and generally improve the atmosphere. Then she went in the first cull. Eurgh. In the end, I dropped a massive hint to my boss that I wouldn't be unhappy to leave and he kindly obliged. Having survived the first two rounds, I was into my second year of employment and eligible for extra cash, so it worked out good in the end.