Author: Sara Causey

Image by Steve Johnson from Pixabay 3.5% unemployment rate. 2 legit open jobs for every 1 unemployed person. No one wants to work anymore. Labor shortage, ca-caw, ca-caw. 🦜 Men are all lazy and living in someone's basement refusing to work. The Great Resignation will go on forever. ...

[buzzsprout episode='12713008' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 4/24 - 4/28. ✔️I can tell you: there are more and more conversations going on behind closed doors about layoffs, budget cuts, trimming the fat, how to spin company shrinkage in a way that doesn't scare people, etc. ✔️Is remote work...

-https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-gdp-numbers-economists-fearing-190546110.html So here's another "no duh" moment. "The U.S. economy has been surprisingly resilient in the face of aggressive interest rate hikes and stubborn inflation over the past year, but it started to show signs of wear and tear in the first quarter." -Yahoo Finance, Ibid. Really? Resilient?...

[buzzsprout episode='12678316' player='true'] And other great government "solutions" to problems. 😒 Key topics: ✔️Always look for the money trail. The French say, "Cherchez la femme." Well I say, "Chercher l'argent." ✔️Looking at the AAA and how it helped industrial agriculture tells you a lot about how the system actually...

-https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remote-bullshit-office-situation-change-232727402.html Hmm. It wasn't bullsh*t when people were told to WFH to flatten the C*v!d curve though, was it? And the longer those "two weeks" went on, the less bullsh*tty it seemed, n'est-ce pas? But now that you are expected to c'mon back, you need to believe that...

Image by Rob Slaven from Pixabay Hyperbole, line 1. Your party is waiting. Wow. The corporate bull💩 seems to get waist deep sometimes, doesn't it? We got the pity city CEO followed by a mealy-mouthed half-assed apology followed by this: -https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995583/MillerKnoll-threatened-FIRE-workers-speaking-leaked-Zoom-call-boss-berates-staffers.html I said this. I gave a passive-aggressive "sorry y'all got offended" apology, and...

Image by Victoria_Watercolor from Pixabay   Sometimes a walk down Memory Lane is great. Other times it's unnecessary and weird. Case in point: companies who still use 1990s hiring tactics and then wonder why they don't work anymore. SMH. A little while back, I had an experience that left me both...