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[buzzsprout episode='11443801' player='true'] Cue N'Sync here. Oh, the treasure trove that is Fortune.com these days. Yesterday, they published an article titled, "Bosses admit they’d start with remote workers during a layoff. How to make sure it doesn’t happen to you." IMO, we're moving from the dress rehearsals to...

[buzzsprout episode='11431131' player='true'] When CBS News reports that The Fed wants to crash the job market and INCREASE UNEMPLOYMENT, it's worth taking note. "With an additional million or two people out of work, the newly unemployed and their families would sharply cut back on spending, while for...

[buzzsprout episode='11382613' player='true'] And if so, is it really because of the pandemic? Not to let us down, Fortune.com gave us another gem: "The ending of the pandemic is revealing an America full of bad behaviors, in and out of the workplace." Key topics: ✔️ Is this even true?...

I originally published this piece on Patreon on July 24th of this year. Whenever I'm on YouTube and see clickbait titles and photos, I wince. You know what I'm talking about...

What even is company culture anyway? When I was working for other people in an office — or worst of all, a so-called “bull pen” environment — it was awful. I’m sorry, I can’t sugarcoat it to avoid hurting anyone’s feelings. I hated it. Being...

[buzzsprout episode='11388670' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 9/26 - 9/30. ✔️ Russell Brand is moving his content to Rumble. I predicted on Saturday Broadcast 16 that he'd be slapped down and censored soon. Happened even faster than I thought. (And yes, I finally got a hype man to announce my...

-https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/jobless-claims-hit-five-month-low-despite-feds-efforts-to-slow-labor-market.html "There's no such thing as a winnable war / It's a lie we don't believe anymore...

[buzzsprout episode='11328447' player='true'] Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ? Key topics: ✔️ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism. ✔️ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or...

Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash "GM delays return-to-office mandate after employee backlash." -https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/27/gm-delays-return-to-office-mandate-after-employee-backlash.html You mean people don't actually wanna go back? Imagine that! "The company’s senior leadership team on Friday said corporate workers would be required to return to physical locations at least three days a week, beginning...

Image by AndyPandy from Pixabay A couple of years ago, I was on the Pirate Broadcast with Russ Johns. One of the things we talked about was how email used to be exciting but then it turned into a cesspool of spam. I remember he said something like, "Marketers...