Is the economy really that good?  Must be because The Washington Post reports employees are walking away from their jobs and becoming impossible to find, moving on to that next big thing without so much as a “thank you” or a “goodbye.”

“Economists report that workers are starting to act like millennials on Tinder: They’re ditching jobs with nary a text.

“A number of contacts said that they had been ‘ghosted,’ a situation in which a worker stops coming to work without notice and then is impossible to contact,” the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago noted in December’s Beige Book, which tracks employment trends.

“National data on economic “ghosting” is lacking. The term, which normally applies to dating, first surfaced on Dictionary.com in 2016. But companies across the country say silent exits are on the rise.”

Unemployment is at historic lows and, it appears, so are manners.  From The Post:

“Recruiters at the global staffing firm Robert Half have noticed a “ten to twenty percent increase” in ghosting over the past year, D.C. district president Josh Howarth said.

“Applicants blow off interviews. New hires turn into no-shows. Workers leave one evening and never return.

“You feel like someone has a high level of interest only for them to just disappear,” Howarth said.”

The phenomenon says as much about our social mores as the economy.  But frequently, the  “ghosters” counter that the jobs are terrible, they’re underpaid, overworked and seldom appreciated.  And most importantly, better jobs await.