What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It's a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn't require much in the way of income or stress.
The drivers of the Competent Opting Out are obvious yet difficult to quantify.
As the competent tire of the artifice and make-work and quit, the remaining competent must work harder to keep everything glued together.
Their commitment to high standards and accountability are their undoing, as the slack-masters and incompetent either don't care or they've mastered the processes of masking their incompetence, often by blaming the competent or the innocent for their own failings.
This additional workload crushes the remaining competent who then burn out and quit, go on disability or opt out, changing their lifestyle to get by on far less income, work, responsibility and far less exposure to the toxic work environments created by depersonalization, politicization and the elevation of the incompetent.
As the competent leadership leaves, the incompetent takes the reins, blind to their own incompetence.
There's only slack-masters and incompetent left, and the toxic work environment has been institutionalized, so no competent individual will even bother applying, much less take a job doomed to burnout and failure.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-happens-when-competent-opt-out.html
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