Image by Malachi Witt from Pixabay According to LinkedIn: "Work’s getting less remote," https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/works-getting-less-remote-5682076/ Better late than never on getting this reality out, I guess. 🤷🏻♀️ The return-to-office debate is heating up, with big names like Google and Citi announcing they will take note of who isn’t complying with their return-to-office...
Image made by me on Canva. "A pre-screen with human resources. A call with the hiring manager. Followed by six half-hour interviews that stretched across three days. That’s not all — a written case study exercise, before yet another interview with the hiring manager. And finally: one last...
[buzzsprout episode='13111466' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/26-6/30. ✔️The recession has been cancelled. We are now in a bull market. So go back to sleep, little baby. All is well. 😒 ✔️Job cuts, corporate defaults, food costs still going up - but hey! Looky at that stock market,...
Instead of choosing FAMILY you chose WFH. Now you must pay the consequences. You're just a faceless avatar on a Slack channel and the boss feels fine hiring someone in another country to work a few hours a day instead of hiring you for a...
-https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-202-000-global-tech-employees-have-lost-their-jobs-since-the-start-of-2023-ae315da emphasis line mine In the byline, we read: "Last year tech companies laid off a total of 154,336 employees, according to Layoffs.fyi." So apparently, when I asked the question, "Things are better or nah?" the realistic answer is nah. Quelle surprise. "More than 202,000 global technology-sector employees...
Image by Werner Heiber from Pixabay The opening lines to the old Soviet anthem: "Союз нерушимый республик свободных / Сплотила навеки Великая Русь." Roughly in English this means: "An indestructible union of free republics, united forever, the Great Russia." Couldn't help but think of it in reading this article. You're a free...
Photo by dylan nolte on Unsplash You plan your conversation to impress the college bar Just talking about your Mother and Daddy's Jaguar Wear your political t-shirt and sacred college scarf Discussing the world's situation but just for a laugh You'll be working for the rat race You know you're wasting...
Photo by MI PHAM on Unsplash I'm not a fan of New Year's resolutions. And definitely none of that "new year, new me" twaddle. According to polls, the average American abandons their NY resolutions around February 1st. But this is not to say that change is...
[buzzsprout episode='13067063' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/19-6/23. ✔️If you live in an area prone to natural disasters, do you have an emergency preparedness plan in place? ✔️"IMF working on global central bank digital currency platform" BuT thAt'S a CoNSpirAcY ThEorY! 😒 ✔️Jobless claims at a high but job...
Gosh darn it, you guys. We gotta keep working to cool that job market off. It's a devil's bargain, gang. We gotta drive up unemployment to get the inflation down. Sorry, that's just how the cookie crumbles. The thing is: what if we actually don't have historically...