IMO, part of what’s being telegraphed in Pichai’s comment is exactly that. It’s as if to say, “Hey look. I hope you are watching the news and the markets and the overall economy because, uh, it ain’t lookin’ real good out there.” Read this in its...
[buzzsprout episode='11550940' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 10/23 - 10/28. ✔️ The Dollar Tree is the $1.25 tree with some items now $3, $5 & $7. Even the discount stores are not very discount anymore. ✔️More and more neighborhoods showing economic distress. I drove by a neighborhood that was built...
https://features.marketplace.org/why-no-ceo-went-jail-after-financial-crisis/ It's complicated LOL. Is it though? I don't think so. Corporate ethics for the plebs and peons, but not for the fat cats! Rules for thee, but not for me. https://www.comicsands.com/canopy-employees-multiple-jobs-stealing-2658505007.html Bell's LI post is above. "At no point did Bell consider that people have many reasons for why...
[buzzsprout episode='11547794' player='true'] On September 28th, I bucked the social media trend and told you that GM walking back its RTO mandate was temporary. It didn't represent a total capitulation on RTO in favor of WFH. Instead, IMO, it was a temporary stop-gap for people to...
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/24/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-outpaces-income.html Make up your mind, CNBC. Which is it? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/fewer-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-starts-to-ease.html Our media talks out of both sides of its mouth, I swear. So . . . that escalated. This is one reason why I think it’s important to ignore what the fat cats say. Usually, it’s either hot air or...
Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay In 2015, FastCompany published an article titled, "5 Things Your Employees Wish They Could Tell You," which you can find here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3045282/5-things-your-employees-wish-they-could-tell-you Seven years later, has anything really changed? The five things employees wanted to tell the boss were: 1. “YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS NEED WORK” 2....
[buzzsprout episode='11505484' player='true'] Let's kill the notion of forced corporate fun. You know what I'm talking about. The kind of bull 💩 that strikes fear in the heart of every introvert working for you...
Connect the dots, la la la la. ➡️Corporate America wants the balance of power to rest firmly with them. ➡️The Fed wants to crash the job market and see unemployment rise. ➡️Oh, and those who remain employed will see their wages stagnate. So… can these TRAPs really be that big of a...
[buzzsprout episode='11517475' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 10/17 - 10/21. ✔️ 1 in 4 Americans say they will skip Thanksgiving this year due to the costs. But on the same day, CNBC is telling us how great the stonk market is. Uh, is that helping any of...
Photo by Gwen King on Unsplash One of the responses to Carly’s post replied that he had a boss who accused him of leaving early each day and when he pointed out that he left at 5pm, which was not “leaving early,” the boss told him...