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Pfff!

Quitting your job is a rights of passage for everyone.

Whether you're turning in your two weeks notice because you're going to college, or turning

in your two seconds notice before they find all the printed cartridges you've stuffed

into your pants, and America just set a new record for how many people are calling it quits.

It's being called the Great Resignation, a record number of Americans are telling their

bosses I quit.

We're going to a new Labor Department report, 4.3 million people quit in August.

That's the highest number of people quitting on record dating back to more than 20 years,

and that's up from 4 million who walked away from jobs in June.

Leading the quits, restaurant, hotel, and retail employees, 892,000 workers and food

and accommodations quit in the month, 721,000 employees in retail.

Workers in state and local government education also quit by the thousands.

There are more jobs available now than ever before in US history.

Many businesses are suffering from a major shortage of workers, with a 10.4 million jobs

open, employers are scrambling to find help.

That's right.

More people than ever before are quitting their jobs.

Restaurant workers are quitting.

Teachers are quitting.

Katie Couric, quit being a journalist.

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