[buzzsprout episode='11809620' player='true'] 👻 Ghosts and bad hiring managers and lack of remote work, oh my. Allegedly, the job market is still BLAZING HAWT! Yet simultaneously, job seekers are looking for back-up employment, side hustles, and/or part-time jobs. So...
On the heels of this bizarre info: -https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/your-job-is-probably-safe-even-in-a-recession-employees-are-going-to-have-the-upper-hand-for-years-/amp_articleshow/95980473.cms which I reported on yesterday, now we have an absolute laundry list of companies that have laid off in Q4. I wonder if those people feel like they have the upper hand? According to LinkedIn, December layoffs have included Wireless...
-https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/your-job-is-probably-safe-even-in-a-recession-employees-are-going-to-have-the-upper-hand-for-years-/amp_articleshow/95980473.cms Honestly, I would laugh at this but I find it so offensive, I'd rather not. I mean...
[buzzsprout episode='11775961' player='true'] Not content to settle for generational clickbait, now we need to point fingers based on gender. 😒 On November 13th, I published the article, "The poop storm is your fault" because that's where we're at. The fat cats who created this mess are NOT gonna...
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...