I've never understood why some people would be willing to put in more than their 8-hours, for no additional compensation. They call it "quiet quitting" -- I call it "work life balance" or only working the hours you're contracted to work.
If you are in education, you have no choice if you want to be effective. I'm an administrator so it is especially true, it's the nature of the job. Another reason for the teacher shortage.
Yeah, my spouse used to be a teacher. At one point we calculated the hourly rate based on the true number of hours worked, and it was a fraction of minimum wage.
So much this. My contract was 37.5 hours/week. 60 was normal, 70 during exams. If we had all done what we were contracted for the system would have collapsed. My daughter went into a job that pays well but when the day is over she goes home and has her life. No second generation teachers here.
And school districts wonder why they can't find teachers.
Yep. This is particularly common and problematic in traditionally female dominated careers where vulnerable people like children and patients are at risk. Workers step up and do what's needed without reasonable compensation because they feel responsible.
Well, younger women are less inclined to follow these awful career paths, so there are these massive shortages. In my particular professional over 99% of the support staff are female, the jobs are horrible, non-unionized, no upward mobility, and pay hasn't kept up with inflation.
I used to work in staffing and when I started in my clinic I looked at the women in these roles and came home saying "the industry is fucked when women stop pursuing this as a career path" because technology had driven up the clinic overhead costs, and no one could afford to pay their support staff more.
Lo and behold, about 5 years later, the majority of the vocational colleges that teach these staff had shut down due to lack of applicants. Qualified staff became impossible to find, salaries for even unqualified staff sky rocketed, qualified staff got aggressively poached by larger corporations, and there is no solution in sight for the problem.
Most of my colleagues who never saw it coming are now trusting patient well being in the hands of useless, horrible, incompetent staff, and the owners are just grateful that they show up...at least most of the time.
I remember giving talks at industry events about how this was a predictable crisis, and my colleagues thought I was insane. I kept asking them "would you encourage your daughter to pursue that career?" But they just couldn't grasp why someone wouldn't want to work long, hard, back breaking hours, under insane pressure, for $20/hr, no pension, no benefits, and being treated like shit by docs who make ten times more.
Like...it's not fucking rocket surgery folks.
