30 Sep Who still believes this?
-https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/jobless-claims-hit-five-month-low-despite-feds-efforts-to-slow-labor-market.html "There's no such thing as a winnable war / It's a lie we don't believe anymore...
Author: Sara Causey
29 Sep When Does Optimism Become . . . Cruel? đ¤
[buzzsprout episode='11328447' player='true'] Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ? Key topics: âď¸ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism. âď¸ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or...
28 Sep Imagine that!
Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash "GM delays return-to-office mandate after employee backlash." -https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/gm-delays-return-to-office-mandate-after-employee-backlash.html You mean people don't actually wanna go back? Imagine that! "The companyâs senior leadership team on Friday said corporate workers would be required to return to physical locations at least three days a week, beginning...
27 Sep Scammers, Email Bombers, Desperate Marketers, etc.
Image by AndyPandy from Pixabay A couple of years ago, I was on the Pirate Broadcast with Russ Johns. One of the things we talked about was how email used to be exciting but then it turned into a cesspool of spam. I remember he said something like, "Marketers...
26 Sep Bonus Episode: “Scam Frameworks” & Hopium
[buzzsprout episode='11341390' player='true'] Recently, I read the article "Why Successful People Donât Teach Success: Gurus, income experts, and business coaches preach personal success systems" by Jim Clair. Unfortunately, some of these personal success systems don't actually help you achieve that success...
25 Sep This Might Be the Most Warning You Get
âI think itâs very important to look at the number of job openings,â Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, told CNBC. âThe question is how steeply they will fall, how sharply they will fall, if they go back to 7 million [job openings], the level...
24 Sep Saturday Broadcast 17
[buzzsprout episode='11347293' player='true'] Key topics: âď¸ ICYMI news, 9/19 - 9/23. âď¸ It's funny that these cities are telling people to have bug out bags but then at the same time acting like "nothing to see here, no big deal, no need to worry." What?! âď¸ It's also funny...
23 Sep It’s another excuse to scoot you out the door
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash In Saturday Broadcast 6, which I published on July 9th, I talked about the good old-fashioned PIP: "You ever heard of the PIP - the performance improvement plan? A lot of times that comes out when somebody either legitimately is not...
22 Sep Why I Quit the Free and Low Cost Platforms
[buzzsprout episode='11295632' player='true'] In my đŽ Prediction Alert: We Will See More Rip-Off Artists episode from September 8th, I talked about: "Jean Anouilh said, 'What you get free costs too much.' TouchĂŠ. Sometimes what you give for free also costs too much." In this episode, I will pull the curtain...
21 Sep â ď¸ Emergency Message: It’s Happening! â ď¸
[buzzsprout episode='11354166' player='true'] Another prediction vindicated. Sadly. I have been warning you for months on my blog and on this podcast (as well as anywhere else that will listen) that, IMO, the labor market is being used as a straw man. Looky over here at this hawt job market! Why, we couldn't...