Author name: saracausey1

“Casinos are crafty, giving players just enough hope to keep them betting. Ultimately, the longer you bet, the bigger the house advantage becomes.” -Investopedia, Ibid. Corporate America and the whole crony capitalist system are pretty damned crafty, too. Some people like to imagine that all politicians and Wall Street bankers are idiotic morons who make […]

Image by Peter Paar from Pixabay   “And so we’re told this is the golden age / And gold is the reason for the wars we wage…” -U2, “New Year’s Day”   –https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/10/remote-work-and-return-to-office-whats-next-for-workers-and-bosses.html   First of all: no duh. Secondly: what golden age? People were sent home because we were all told we were gonna die and Corporate

*said as the meme* –https://fortune.com/2022/08/08/why-recession-boost-remote-work-leadership-careers-gleb-tsipursky/ –https://finance.yahoo.com/news/return-office-mandates-just-keep-102658377.html   I made the prediction more than once that remote work _____ (fill in the blank as you will: experts / gurus / advocates / unicorns / tricorn hats, etc.) would simply shift their narratives when it became obvious that WFH was not gonna last forever for most white

Image by Yunus Emre Ilıca from Pixabay   “The Job Market Slowdown Is Getting Hard to Ignore The payrolls data still looks fine, but under the hood are signs of deterioration for the growing number of people who are unemployed or keen to switch jobs.” –https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-14/the-job-market-slowdown-is-getting-hard-to-ignore#xj4y7vzkg   published November 14, 2023   Yeah . . . the thing is:

Image by Olga from Pixabay   Excuse me if I refuse to be a lemming packed into a shiny metal box again. Been there, done that, hated it. But of course if you look at the promoted comments on LI, you’ll see people (or bots? who knows) seal-clapping about how grand the commute is. Give. Me. A. F**king.

Image created by me using Canva   Another article that John references is that Newsom has approved minimum wage for health care workers and we can find this on Politico on October 13th. It reads, “Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a closely watched bill that would raise the minimum wage for California health care workers

A couple of thoughts here: + November, December, and January tend to be graveyard months in HR work. The exception to this rule for me was 2021. I could tell the market was artificially overheated because I had clients asking for project work during Thanksgiving week and Christmas week. In fact, I had a client

Photo by Bruno Aguirre on Unsplash   First, Alibaba founder Jack Ma demanded tech workers follow “996”, a schedule of 9:00am to 9:00pm, six days a week. Then Elon Musk asked workers at Twitter—now X—to commit to long working hours at a “high intensity.” And late last year, Tencent CEO Pony Ma complained that his employees were taking it easy on

Image created by me using Canva.   ‘The era of “do nothing, the boss can’t fire me” is over’ says Ivy League professor Jeremy Siegel, as workers face down fear of layoffs –https://finance.yahoo.com/news/era-nothing-boss-t-fire-120236840.html   Remember the 5000 times I dropped this? –https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/   When the Great Resignation actually was going strong and people could quit