Hey, everyone. Quick heads up. We've got some tape in this show of people joyfully quitting their jobs. And when they do that, they curse.

Betsy Stevenson studies big economic trends. She used to advise President Obama. And she started using this phrase to describe the economy right now.

She calls that the life's too short economy.

Sometimes the take this job and shove it economy, it's a pithy way of summing up the fact that a record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September.

That is a new record.

The previous record was set the month before.

In other words, the quitting, it is all around us.

I mean, have you talked to anyone who's resigned in the last few months?

Like, I don't know, it's just quit.

Oh, well, it's so funny. I was like, I don't know anybody. No, that's not true. Like, somebody who was near and dear to my heart who worked with me on my textbook, just resigned. And he resigned. I mean, like, he literally sent me an email and said, welcome to the life's too short economy, Betsy.

Oh my gosh. He's like, I want more out of life than this, and I've got big plans.

By this point, all of us know someone who's gotten an email like this. Maybe you've sent an email like this.

Betsy, who is a veteran sorter of economic data, says by her estimation, there are actually

three kinds of quitters at the moment. One is the angry story, the Walmart worker quitting over the intercom.

Attention, Walmart shoppers and associates.

My name is Beth from electronics.

I've been working at Walmart for almost five years.

Those are people who just have had enough.

To Jared, our store manager, you're a pervert.

You know, I think the tolerance for being mistreated,

for feeling underappreciated,

I think our just collective tolerance for that is lower.

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