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What % of this was caused by the jab mandate that was introduced around that time?

Unrelated. Its for better pay/less miserable jobs.

I work for an HR company. There hasnt been such a crazy market in modern, recorded history of our industry. Want to change jobs? Now is the time.

Prob not as much as the pandemic as a whole causing stress and other issues where people are re-evaluating their careers. I can't imagine what it must be like to be a slave to a rich asshole boss who says things like, "Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me."

From what I can tell, I don't think he has any problem finding people. From what I can see after watching teardowns of his products, the best of the best are working on his teams. Maybe the low level grunts are swapped in and out like disposable cogs but the rest of the org? I mean look at what they do compared to the competition. The engineering on their products is truly next level. Their workers are probably sacrificing a ton of their sanity and energy but still stick around.

Regardless of your opinion of musk, this quote doesn't seem especially awful? Like, the obvious evil boss quote here is "get to work". Not "I'm going to be there with you and if there's any problems I'll take the fall personally"

Except that isn't how law enforcement works and you know it.

Not really. That would look incredibly bad for the police. That's a highly publicized event with outcomes way above generic officer's pay grade. In particular, we can just look at what actually happened. Nobody went to jail. The county folded and let him do it. Shrug.

Why ask when you can easily find out the answer? I suspect because the answer is "very, very few" and it doesn't fit with a certain narrative.

> Just 5% of unvaccinated workers—and 1% of all workers overall—said they left a job because of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate from their employer, more evidence that a feared exodus of workers due to mandates isn’t as severe as some predicted.[1]

1. https://hrexecutive.com/how-many-unvaccinated-workers-have-q...

Article doesn't seem to differentiate between people resigning and getting let go due to medical mandates. It'd be interesting to see those numbers.

Unlikely that it's related. For example, here's a report about the September quit rate: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/12/a-record-4point4-million-peo...

That was 4.4 million people, even before the vaccine mandate was around.

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