Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay Trapped in a home or an apartment + trapped in a job + trapped by finances / debt = trapped. Full stop. We need to acknowledge this and stop tiptoeing around the topic. On Medium, Jared A. Brock published: -https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/jp-morgan-announces-it-will-spend-1-billion-to-devour-homes-and-rent-trap-people-forever-4a16a677429c I feel like Bruce Banner in The...
[buzzsprout episode='11775701' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 11/28 - 12/2. ✔️ Forced fun is not fun? Wowee, ya don't say! ✔️Some candidates will apply to a job they don't actually want in an effort to get a raise, a promotion, etc. IMHO, if you are commanding everyone to RTO and you're...
Image by Holger Langmaier from Pixabay I'm not gonna be shy or modest here. I WARNED YOU THIS WAS COMING! This is one of the reasons why I say, IMO, if you wait to be "officially" told something, you have waited too late. "The ‘great remote work mismatch’ is here: Workers...
[buzzsprout episode='11745649' player='true'] It would be nice if those Progressive Insurance commercials where you could ask for an official review/replay in life actually existed! Unfortunately, in the business world, you may occasionally encounter someone who behaves like Jon Lovitz as the Pathological Liar. Hence we add to the...
Photo by Javier García on Unsplash Forced corporate fun sucks. So do the phony-baloney staged photos of, "Wow! Look at how much fun we're having here!" Yucko. On October 24th, I published a bonus podcast episode titled, "Kill the Corporate Forced Fun" because it's way past time...
And I thought layoffs via Zoom were ghastly. Apparently another company thought, "Oh yeah? Hold muh beer and watch this!" "United Furniture Industries laid off all 2,700 workers while they were sleeping" -https://nypost.com/2022/11/25/united-furniture-industries-lays-off-off-its-2700-workers-while-they-were-sleeping/ "A big US furniture company this week fired all of its 2,700 employees while they...
[buzzsprout episode='11737648' player='true'] Even people with little or no expertise in the job market have started to look around and say, "Uh-oh. Maybe, um, things are not so great after all...
Image by Canva I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. *Cue Gordon Ramsay violently screaming SHUT IT DOWN here.* I am in desperate need of a break, so there will not be podcast episodes, blog posts, articles, etc., until next week. Stay safe, stay sane,...
-https://medium.com/@tedbauer/welcome-to-the-its-a-wonderful-life-season-for-execs-good-luck-finding-them-3f9ba37b791 Ted Bauer published this yesterday. If only! I've actually been dealing with a couple of people who have decided to get in my sandbox during Thanksgiving week and it's pretty annoying. I'm still trying to recover from the 'Rona and the exhaustion has lingered on....
Remember this? -https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/housing-market-buyers-remorse-homeowner-regret Here’s the thing: The Fed has not been shy in saying they want to see unemployment rise and wages stagnate. So some realtor or broker telling you to pick up extra work would seem to me to be especially ill-informed of reality. What if the option of...