It’s rarely been harder for people to find new jobs
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This is every oligarch's wet dream: People accepting anything to do the job, and can't quit either. The invisible shackles of Capitalism.
They are coming for our standard healthcare options next. Take it all away and be happy.
You guys have healthcare options?
That only lasts so long.
if I'm willing to do anything for money, then I'm willing to sabotage your company for your competition.
But that's the best part: they bribed a few senators so they could buy up all their competition.
No competition when there is no more antitrust oversight. Your boss also owns that building next door - their logo is green, yours is blue, but all the revenue goes to the same quarterly report.
then I have no choice but to sabotage for my own benefit.
"The unemployment rate is low by historical standards..."
What if I told you the unemployment rate is a bullshit number tracked by bullshit people with bullshit jobs?
The only people counted as unemployed are those who both check in regularly with unemployment and either are actively looking for work or expecting to be rehired after layoffs.
Even if you are looking for work, if you aren't actively checking in with unemployment, you aren't being counted. And who the fuck wastes time with reporting to unemployment when they have no unemployment benefits to claim because they either never had them or ran out of them?
A common misconception. Below quotes are from https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm, bolding mine. Also, the BLS report has six different measures of unemployment counting various different groups. The "headline number" of U3 counts only people actively looking for work, but other measures count people who want jobs but aren't looking and people who work part time but want to be full time. Labor force participation is also in there, counting people even if they don't want to find a job. It's all reported!
I have no confidence in these kinds of surveys. How Are people contacted? What kind of person trusts the purpose of these surveys? I couldn’t find anything in that mountain of text saying how they contact these people. Do you know how many people don’t pick up the phone anymore? Do they only call landlines? Do they mail it out?
Also, 110,000 people out of (2020 census) 331 million citizens, 258.3 million adults. That’s 0.04% of adults surveyed monthly.
The survey design and data collection are described at https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cps/design.htm and https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cps/data.htm
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Off to look for new jobs with my briefcase full of jizzum
Hard to leave my current job cuz idk how to explain leaving with my cumcase
AI prompt: old style black briefcase on a blue background with white jizz sticking to the bottom like a lot of jizz more than one person could ejaculate I'm talking bukkake levels of jizz
Next month I will have been unemployed for 2 years… this fucking sucks.
hey that was me last month. im over 50 and I just know there will be stuff about my generation not saving enough for retirement.
Good gravy, really? What industry do you work in?
Yep, since November 2024. Web development.
How are you surviving? If I don't have job for more than 4 months I won't have a place to live. I can't imagine 2 yrs
We have been very very lucky so far. My SO has a good job and got a promotion not long ago, we also have generous friends and family. Unfortunately none of that is sustainable.
My question also. Maybe partner has a job?
What's been the biggest issue for you finding one? I would have thought web dev would have something to offer.
I think it’s a numbers game right now, I have been able to find less than half the number of jobs to apply for as the last time I was in a long term search (though not this long) and the people I talk to say they are getting an order of magnitude more applications many of which are clearly AI generated. Then the jobs I do find are half the time fake themselves or are just posted for some bureaucratic reason and aren’t an actual opening.
Breaking news. No one has a job anymore. Anyway, pay us money to read about it.
But I heard the economy is amazing.
The economy is amazing, tremendous if I must say, the economy is doing great in this great economic time because of my greatness at economics.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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Started listening to a YouTube channel on economics and this guy was straightforwardly taking the unemployment number at face value, not mentioning that the true unemployment rate might be significantly higher, including people who have given up looking for work.
I think it might be a psyop.
One of the biggest issues I've noticed is that the process is broken. I've posted this before; but having to use a website to apply if not a cr'application and to have to take a psychological evaluation, that some stupid bloke made, just to get an interview is asinine.
Then the expectation of blowing smoke up someone ass in an interview is ridiculous. Why do you want to work here? For the money dipshit, I could think of a million better things to do morons. Don't get me started on anything tech or repair related; please
*demonstrate your skills *fix this shit for free.Anything kind of work is just that, work.
Also the rampant job scams are at an all time high. At this point, leave a voice mail. I won't respond to texts, it's a security liability.
We really need to go back to using paper applications and faxes.
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Da real MVP
Now now, I hear there's a promising career path with Crack Cocaine Manufacturing/Sales.
Never give up!
It's tumbling down tumbling down tumbling doooown~🎶
It’s rarely been THIS harder for people to find new jobs