[buzzsprout episode='12280439' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 2/18 - 2/24. ✔️Some of these mansplainers and finance bros who want to convince you that up is down and left is right are gonna get steamrolled by what's coming. ✔️You're only just now being told that inflation is far from...
Wages in both the UK and the US have not kept pace with the rate of inflation. In America, we’re told that inflation is abating, yet when you analyze the numbers, the costs of food and energy are not counted. This makes no sense. People...
Image created by me using Canva. Say what you will about the 80s or Hollywood movies. Gordon Gekko tried to tell y'all. In fact, he tried to tell y'all in 1987 and again in 2010. Ignore it at your own peril. BUD Tell me, Gordon--when does it all end? How...
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay "Dear Life Cereal, where do you get off?" -Peter Griffin in a comically oversized bow tie. So . . . the hot air & hopium crowd and the wannabe social media influencers want to LARP that a petition or an angry Slack channel is somehow...
[buzzsprout episode='12282676' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ Who benefits from the promotion of hot air, hopium, and total nonsense? ✔️ Some influencer or wannabe influencer who gives you toxic positivity is NOT gonna show up and bail you out of an economic crisis. ✔️If someone has been in their chosen...
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay So . . . are people flush with cash from 2020 stimmy checks and doin' great or nah? -https://www.yahoo.com/now/back-broke-americans-racking-debt-100000378.html Oh. I guess we get a twofer there: a) people are broke (which we already knew) and b) the "coming" recession is all the fault of the...
Image by Bertsz from Pixabay One thing I don't miss and will never miss about being butt-in-seat at a job is the long commute. Yuck. Hated it. Found it stressful. Don't miss it at all. And yet: "Commutes can create work-life balance By Todd Dybas, Editor at LinkedIn News Incremental movement while strapped...
Image by Foundry Co from Pixabay "Are YOU having a Bare Minimum Monday? New workplace trend sees staff taking it easy on the first day of the week after suffering the 'Sunday scaries' UK career expert Adam Butler has shared tips to hack 'Bare Minimum Monday' The Officeology CEO said how...
[buzzsprout episode='12230270' player='true'] On February 5, 2023, The NYT Magazine published, "Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting Dumber." In this interview with writer Walter Mosley, Walter says, "We’re living in a dumbed-down culture because the education of most people in America is sad and not useful....
Image by Franz P. Sauerteig from Pixabay "Why Are Your Employees Actually Quitting? You Can Narrow It Down to 1 Reason A basic understanding of human motivation, and what employees say they actually need will keep them from quitting." -https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/why-are-your-employees-actually-quitting-you-can-narrow-it-down-to-1-reason.html One reason? Only one reason for anyone who quits? Do tell. "Leaders have...