Another bad flashback was a time when I found out I was underpaid at a job, particularly in light of my performance there. When I confronted management about it, the President of the company told me, "Well, I mean, look at it this way: you're...
[buzzsprout episode='12822014' player='true'] Hopefully, none of this is a surprise to you. If it is, I imagine it's like being tossed out of a warm bed into a bathtub of ice water. Key topics: ✔️ By the time someone on an MSM outlet is "allowed" to publish anything...
It's cliché but true: what goes up must come down. These insane-o markets do not last forever. I'm old enough to have lived through more than one boom/bust cycle with oil and gas and more than one completely nutso real estate market. People paying $500K...
Photo by me of my wild mule boy. "Well now I am not gonna do it!" I have a mule and yes, he's stubborn. The cliché of someone being stubborn as a mule rings true. A similar expression is: a hard head makes a soft @ss....
Image by Frantisek Krejci from Pixabay "'In the 58 years we’ve been running Berkshire, I would say there’s been a great increase in the number people doing dumb things, and they do big dumb things,' he said, meaning that there will be more opportunities to make money down the...
Image by Pexels from Pixabay Well. Here we go again: "There is no doubt that remote or virtual work is more efficient for white collar workers. And it may be more effective in some cases. But the tragedy of the commons may be coming into play with organizations that encourage...
[buzzsprout episode='12760014' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/1 - 5/5. ✔️"The worst of the banking situation is over." Two days later: oops, ha ha. ✔️ Somehow, in the face of so many layoffs, budget cuts, and hiring freezes, we now have an even lower unemployment rate. What an absurd...
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay "I warned you about hybrid ➡️ RTO," Redux. "Many leaders today believe that hybrid work environments are the future. They are wrong...
[buzzsprout episode='12752459' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️Making a blanket statement that remote work is "bad" and "everyone knows it" is absurd. This type of thing is opinion masquerading as fact. And it's a lousy opinion in my opinion! ✔️However: scare tactics and corporate-shill-esque op-ed pieces are pretty irrelevant because,...
Hey, tacky Bloomberg tweet, hold muh beer and watch this: -https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2023/apr/25/price-rises-nestle-profits-uk-grocery-inflation-cbi-business-live Боже мой! Just accept it, peons. Just do what you're told. Sit down, shut up, and quit disobeying. Gah. "Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, has declared that citizens and businesses 'need to accept' they are...