JOBFINDING: Your “job” is to “find your NEXT job”

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

FROM REDDIT

I was fired by my employer today. They wouldn’t let me collect any personal belongings from my desk except my wallet, my keys and my own personal phone. Can they do this and if so how long are they allowed to keep my things?

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MY CONTRIBUTION

On Wall Street, it was “common practice” for brokers (aka “financial consultants”, :”wealth managers”, etc. etc.) to keep a duplicate “shadow book” at home. This would be all their contacts and their information as well as portfolio holdings record. When they were “walked out”, their ”significant others”, who were not covered my NDAs or non-competes, would be on the phone letting “their Customers” know the news. Usually in a day or two, they were hired by a competitor and “their Customers” would be transferring their account to the new firm. Often, before a replacement was found for the departed, the Customer were already gone. That’s called “job security”. Brokerage house were always trying to discourage that “personal relationship” by inserting “assistants” into the process and relationships. But “high net worth” individuals want that “personal high maintenance touch”.  

The lesson I learned was to keep duplicate files offsite and always remember that my “job” was to always be looking for my “next job”. Once, I had an offer in hand and resignation letter written, when I was fired as “surplus” about 2PM on a Friday afternoon. I was prepared to hand it in at 4PM and be “walked out”. Thanks to the timing, I was walked out with a very nice severance check which I wouldn’t have gotten if I’d quit. Started my new job on Monday with a renewed outlook to find my next job.  

TL:DR Always be looking for your next job and plan / act accordingly!

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JOBSEARCH: Corporate mergers ALWAYS result in LAYOFFS

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

https://www.androidauthority.com/t-mobile-layoffs-2023-3357846/?utm_campaign=dailyauthority&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=Daily%20Authority 

📞 T-Mobile keeps doing the thing it said it wouldn’t do

When T-Mobile acquired Sprint, it promised to keep employee count higher than pre-merger. Yet, here we are with more T-Mobile layoffs. 

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Corporate mergers ALWAYS result in LAYOFFS. (Regardless of what “they” say!)

While NOT ALWAYS true, it’s usually the ACQUIRED company that gets laid off.  

Occasionally when the ACQUIRER wants a particular aspect of the ACQUIRED company, that “team” will be spared.

Typically layoffs occur in the duplicate functions like HR, Finance & Accounting, mid-level management.

Be always prepared for it.  You should always be in “job search” mode.

REMEMBER:

Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.

If you’re “surprised”, then you have failed at your most important job!

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MONEY: “Labor Day” is a reminder of the effect of fiat money on the labor wage rate — Where is the $ 22-per-hour minimum wage?

Monday, September 4, 2023

https://schiffgold.com/commentaries/we-dont-need-better-government-policies-for-workers-we-need-better-money/

We Don’t Need Better Government Policies for Workers; We Need Better Money
August 31, 2023 by Michael Maharrey

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Labor Day is coming up. That means we will hear a lot about the plight of American workers. And we will undoubtedly hear calls for new policies to help make their lives better. But we don’t really need more government policies to help workers.

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When he announced the closing of the gold window, Nixon said, “Let me lay to rest the bugaboo of what is called devaluation,” and promised, “Your dollar will be worth just as much as it is today.”

This was also a lie.

The dollar has lost more than 85% of its value since Nixon’s fateful decision, based on the CPI calculator. The purchasing power of a 1971 dollar is equal to less than 14 cents today.

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Johnson promised removing silver would have no impact on the value of US coinage. “[The] Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin,” he said.

He was lying, just like Nixon.

When LBJ signed the 1965 act, the value of a dollar was almost exactly the same as it had been in 1792—0.77 ounces of silver. By 1980 the dollar had plunged to 0.02 ounces of silver. Today, a dollar today is valued at about 0.06 ounces of silver.

What does this have to do with the minimum wage?

Consider this: In 1964, the minimum wage stood at $1.25. To put it another way, a minimum wage worker earned five silver quarters for every hour worked. Today, you can’t even buy a cup of coffee with those five quarters at face value.

But today, the silver melt value of those five quarters stands at over $22.

That’s a $ 22-per-hour minimum wage.

Now flip things around. Today, it takes 88 quarters to pay a $20 minimum wage. If you paid that in 1964 silver quarters, the value of the metal would be something in the neighborhood of $390!

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That’s a $ 22-per-hour minimum wage.

So it you’re asking for a higher “minimum wage”, remember that the same Gooferment asking is the one that screwed you in the first place!

Focus on the true cause of “inflation” and why you can’t make ends meet.

Argh!

Happy “Labor” day, suckers.

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RANT: Voting reasons?

Sunday, September 3, 2023

https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2023/08/26/dont-vote-democratic-n2627551

Don’t Vote Democratic
Alan Joseph Bauer | Aug 26, 2023

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  • If you don’t want a completely open southern border, don’t vote Democratic.
  • If you want cheaper energy, don’t vote Democratic. 
  • If you want a strong military, don’t vote Democratic. 
  • If you want better and safer cities, don’t vote Democratic. 
  • If you want your children to have a healthy and normal childhood, don’t vote Democratic.

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  • If you want a safer America with less crime, don’t vote Democratic;
  • If you want a more prosperous America, don’t vote Democratic;
  • If you want a more united America without endless focus on racial and other needless divisions, don’t vote Democratic;
  • If you want a stronger military, don’t vote Democratic;
  • If you want a more confident America with less governmental interference in your life, don’t vote Democratic; and,
  • If you want a better future for your kids, don’t vote Democratic.

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Seems pretty obvious to me.

Not that the R’s are “saints” and there really is a “uni-party”!

Try Libertarian?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Two Beers A Week” soon to be a diktat?

Saturday, September 2, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/bidens-booze-czar-floats-new-possible-guidance-only-two-beers-week

Biden’s ‘Booze Czar’ Floats New Possible Guidance Of Only Two Beers A Week
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Aug 26, 2023 – 05:00 PM

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In yet another example of the nanny state’s intrusion into the private lives of its citizens, President Biden’s so-called ‘alcohol czar’ revealed to Daily Mail that the United States Department of Agriculture could soon revise its booze guidelines to a meager two drinks a week. 

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Yeah, the war on drugs has worked so well.  Like the war on “poverty” and all the other “wars” the Gooferment wages.

Argh!

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RANT: Theodore McCarrick after finding him unfit to stand trial

Friday, September 1, 2023

Ex-Cardinal’s Charges Dismissed

A Massachusetts judge yesterday dismissed a criminal sexual assault case against former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick after finding him unfit to stand trial. The 93-year-old was the highest-ranking Catholic cleric to face charges in the church’s sexual abuse scandal. 

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It seems like nothing will be uncovered and prevented in the future?

Like Epstein’s black book or the various shooter’s manifestos!

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Put an airtag on every child!

Friday, September 1, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12442763/Moment-five-year-old-boy-rings-doorbell-help-child-dropped-WRONG-stop-school-bus-driver.html

Moment five-year-old boy rings doorbell for help after he and another child were dropped off at the WRONG stop by school bus driver

  •     Kelly Mulholland said her son and her boyfriend Jonathan Vanderlois’ daughter, both 5, were abandoned at a bus stop together desperately looking for home
  •     Mulholland uploaded the ring video and explanation to TikTok and it went viral

By Aneeta Bhole For Dailymail.Com
Updated: 17:45 EDT, 24 August 2023

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Two five-year-old children were abandoned at the wrong bus stop in Edmond, Oklahoma and left to wander a neighborhood miles from their home for more than an hour.

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Air tags on everything important.

I’d love to be able to hide one in sneakers.

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