https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-ghosting-work-its-driving-companies-crazy-chip-cutter/
I'm happy and secure in my job because my team and immediate managers are awesome. I don't plan on leaving anytime soon and if I did, I would extend some courtesy and time off. But damn it if that first sentence in my quoted paragraph isn't a case of the chickens coming home to roost.
May you 'ghost' your next job (for a better one of course) if old.
Where once it was companies ignoring job applicants or snubbing candidates after interviews, the world has flipped. Candidates agree to job interviews and fail to show up, never saying more. Some accept jobs, only to not appear for the first day of work, no reason given, of course. Instead of formally quitting, enduring a potentially awkward conversation with a manager, some employees leave and never return. Bosses realize they've quit only after a series of unsuccessful attempts to reach them. The hiring process begins anew.
Among younger generations, ghosting has "almost become a new vocabulary" in which "no response is a response," says Amanda Bradford, CEO and founder of The League, a dating app. Now, "that same behavior is happening in the job market," says Bradford, who's experienced it with engineering candidates who ghosted her company
I'm happy and secure in my job because my team and immediate managers are awesome. I don't plan on leaving anytime soon and if I did, I would extend some courtesy and time off. But damn it if that first sentence in my quoted paragraph isn't a case of the chickens coming home to roost.
May you 'ghost' your next job (for a better one of course) if old.