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Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay "I warned you about hybrid ➡️ RTO," Redux. "Many leaders today believe that hybrid work environments are the future. They are wrong...

[buzzsprout episode='12752459' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️Making a blanket statement that remote work is "bad" and "everyone knows it" is absurd. This type of thing is opinion masquerading as fact. And it's a lousy opinion in my opinion! ✔️However: scare tactics and corporate-shill-esque op-ed pieces are pretty irrelevant because,...

Hey, tacky Bloomberg tweet, hold muh beer and watch this: -https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2023/apr/25/price-rises-nestle-profits-uk-grocery-inflation-cbi-business-live Боже мой! Just accept it, peons. Just do what you're told. Sit down, shut up, and quit disobeying. Gah. "Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, has declared that citizens and businesses 'need to accept' they are...

Image by Harut Movsisyan from Pixabay   In last week's episode I talked about the work from home window and I sort of jokingly said it might be more like an Overton Window before everything is said and done. Now here we are. Elon Musk basically blew up the internet...

Image by Steve Johnson from Pixabay 3.5% unemployment rate. 2 legit open jobs for every 1 unemployed person. No one wants to work anymore. Labor shortage, ca-caw, ca-caw. 🦜 Men are all lazy and living in someone's basement refusing to work. The Great Resignation will go on forever. ...

Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay So . . . how's that nationwide rebellion against RTO coming along? Has all of Gen Z rebelled against it and stayed home? Have all Boomers and Xers taken an early retirement to protest it? NO. If you ignored the hot air & hopium crowd that...

[buzzsprout episode='12713008' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 4/24 - 4/28. ✔️I can tell you: there are more and more conversations going on behind closed doors about layoffs, budget cuts, trimming the fat, how to spin company shrinkage in a way that doesn't scare people, etc. ✔️Is remote work...

-https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-gdp-numbers-economists-fearing-190546110.html So here's another "no duh" moment. "The U.S. economy has been surprisingly resilient in the face of aggressive interest rate hikes and stubborn inflation over the past year, but it started to show signs of wear and tear in the first quarter." -Yahoo Finance, Ibid. Really? Resilient?...

[buzzsprout episode='12678316' player='true'] And other great government "solutions" to problems. 😒 Key topics: ✔️Always look for the money trail. The French say, "Cherchez la femme." Well I say, "Chercher l'argent." ✔️Looking at the AAA and how it helped industrial agriculture tells you a lot about how the system actually...

-https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remote-bullshit-office-situation-change-232727402.html Hmm. It wasn't bullsh*t when people were told to WFH to flatten the C*v!d curve though, was it? And the longer those "two weeks" went on, the less bullsh*tty it seemed, n'est-ce pas? But now that you are expected to c'mon back, you need to believe that...