Starting with myself. I know it has never been easier to find a job than it is now, but I am constantly anxious about losing my job here. For that reason, I take on all the work they transfer to me and I am completely exhausted. On second thought, I would probably find a job quickly even if I was fired here.
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I disagree that wanting to keep vacation = code for someone who won't leave. It's a part of your total compensation just like health care and 401k so it's something that should be considered.
But I do agree that with Xerox rapidly approaching an implosion, vacation shouldn't play a big part in the decision to leave.
Interest in vacation is a tell tale sign. 9 to 5’er happy to be an employee all his/her life.
The only bad part about leaving if you're a long-timer is losing all of your accumulated vacation. Going back to just 10 days off a year was the hardest part. But it's not as if vacation was ever easy to take at Xerox anyway. No one does your work while your gone, though someone might yes a customer to death and answer an email but still leave it for you. So there is never any real downtime. Maybe instead of paying the C-level 300x more than any other employee and catering to stockholders, we should cater to clients and treat employees like humans instead of machines.
Doesn't hurt to look to see what is out there. Otherwise, you will keep getting more and more work before your job is gone or else the company eventually shuts down. Then you will want to kick yourself for not looking sooner. Of course if you don't find anything better then feel free to stay put.
If you can’t or won’t find a job in the hottest job market in history then you deserve everything you get. Keep up all the hard work! You’re one of the few valuable assets Zerox has left. PS it doesn’t matter how much work you take on - you are either on a list or not based on your job and who you know. Take it from me, I used to be in HR. It has nothing to do with how much work you do.
Don’t feed the trolls. You can tell by the wording that this was written by one of the same 3 tu rds who tries to start new topics daily.
It's like quitting smoking or any other habit. The first step is the hardest, but once you get a little momentum going it gets easier and easier and you'll actually end up spending more of your day looking at job postings, revamping your resume, and networking than you do on your Xerox work. Then you land a new job and look back in amazement that it took so long to get started in the first place.
Make that first step and get out of there.