Hi, this is Wendy. My mom's Aisha and I'm her son. This week, why are so many people

quitting their jobs? Alright, let's start the show. Alright, let's start the show.

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Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR. I'm Aisha Roscoe, filling

in for Sam Sanders. This week on the show, we're talking about quitting. At this point, you've

probably heard that we're in a labor shortage, despite high unemployment. And actually, we've

talked about that topic before on this show. But have you also heard that we're deep into something,

people are calling the great resignation, the big quit, the era of epiphany quitting.

And right now, it's happening across all sectors of the economy. People are quitting their jobs

in record numbers. During April of this year, nearly four million workers decided they'd had

enough and quit their jobs for a lot of reasons. Last week, we asked for your stories about quitting.

Here's what you sent us. I was working in a local substance abuse

hospital and I quit at the start of the pandemic. I quit my job at a nonprofit about a month ago

and transitioned into something different at a university. I am going to go back to school

and hopefully get a job that I don't have to work this many hours. Basically, it wasn't really

for me, but also the pandemic was causing a lot of anxiety for me. Yeah, I would say because

I didn't feel valued. And once I sent my resignation email, they didn't even respond with a thank you.

They just removed me from the online portal. So that's why I left.

Lack of pay, lack of communication.

So I quit my job. My last day was Friday, this past Friday.

She was crazy. I'm the director of operations for a seven restaurant group in San Francisco.

So this year, my mom had a COVID. She spent 51 days in the hospital, 22 days on

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