[GH85Carrera]

It is not really a new syndrome, but it likely has gotten worse in recent decades.

My very first job started as part time when I turned 16. The very day after I graduated high school, I went full time. After 6 years of working 6 days per week I went to the boss and asked for a raise. I knew I needed more money to live. The boss refused a raise, so I gave him my two week notice on the spot.

The next Monday he had a kid there and said he was my replacement, and to teach him what my job was. The boss figured it was easy to find another guy like me. After one week, the other guy quit, he said it was too much work. So he found another kid the second week. On my last day, the other kid quit, saying it was too much work.

One of the regular customers had become a friend and he called me a month after I had moved to Oklahoma and said the boss ended up hiring the two kids to do my job. So it surly cost him more to have two employees than just me. And at my new job I started at the salary I had asked for from the old boss.

Those two employees simply did not want to work as hard as I had been, and for the first time I had Saturdays off. That first Saturday I got up and said I wonder what I will do today to fill the time. I have never asked that question since.