People Don’t Leave Political Parties: They Leave People

Hard-line progressives are pushing people to leave the Democratic Party.

Good Help is Hard to Find

Anyone who has worked in human resources knows an old truism; people who leave their jobs because they are unhappy usually aren’t unhappy with the company or the job.

Instead, people who quit usually leave because of a difficult manager, a bad boss, or an insufferable co-worker. At some point, the daily aggravations of dealing with that person or group of people becomes more onerous than finding a new job.

Plenty of jobs out there, after all. Americans spend as much or more time at work than they do with their families. Spending that much time with someone you despise simply isn’t worth it.

Sometimes people just don’t get along for whatever reason; their communication styles are too radically different and they don’t “get” each other, or their personalities clash. Sometimes it's personal.

Other times, the difficult manager, the bad boss, the insufferable co-worker really is to blame. The disgruntled employee who quits because of them either isn’t the first, or won’t be the last.

At times like this, the company must face a difficult decision. Losing a valuable employee is a major cost…