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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...

[buzzsprout episode='13058156' player='true'] By the time you write an email like the one that recently appeared on Slate.com, it's too late. Links: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/05/24/a-cautionary-tale/ https://slate.com/business/2023/06/remote-work-layoff-personal-finance-advice.html Links where I can be found: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/01/30/updates-housekeeping/ Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/   Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos! Welcome to the Causey Consulting Podcast. You can find us online anytime...

Image by Free Photos from Pixabay But for me some of those people include individuals that got so geeked up on remote work and work from home and work from anywhere that they built an entire identity and an entire business around that. Now I'm not saying building an...

Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay   He's an economics professor. He understands the economy and the future of work more than most people out there. Why? Because he's an economist? I've told you before, in my opinion, some of y'all are going to listen to these economists and follow...

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay   Personal note: I intended to publish this on Sunday but I was impacted by the Oklahoma tornado and subsequent power outages. All humans and animals in my household and on the farm are fine and I am grateful for that.   If nothing else, the...

[buzzsprout episode='13025994' player='true'] 52 weeks' worth of Saturday Broadcasts and we are STILL getting breadcrumbed about a recession that hasn't "officially" started yet. Good grief. Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 6/12-6/16. ✔️I'm not sure what kind of pro-state kool-aid these neolibs are drinking these days, but wow. Just wow. ✔️More...

+ The cronies work together. Corpo America doesn't surprise the state. The state doesn't surprise Corpo America. Please wake up to this. Corpo America, Wall Street, The Fed, Capitol Hill - they're in it together. They're not worried about you and me.   You can read this article...

[buzzsprout episode='12990192' player='true'] I recently watched "Essential -- A Documentary about America's Working Class and the Challenge of Income Inequality," which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1eZd2hjxVs. The film explores unions, income inequality, the declaration of "non-essential" during the pandemic, etc. Key topics: ✔️At 8:54 we learn that the American...

  Meanwhile, for Sara Causey, a consultant who specializes in staffing and recruitment, it is the unwillingness of employees to face reality, especially as it relates to RTO, that’s got her worried. “I think some folks have their heads in the clouds,” she said, expressing concern...

-https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-graham-says-remote-does-225728000.html What can't be said is: Work remotely when you are told to and RTO when you are told to. Panic about C*v!d when you are told to and then pretend it doesn't even exist anymore when you are told to. In 2005, Paul Graham cofounded Y...