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What’s wrong with Paramus, NJ?!?

Was hanging out in what I would guess is the more tony (and conservative?) parts of LA and Calabasas and Malibu this week and noticed something hilarious. On a bus bench you had realtors advertising their services with a “Ready to Move to Dallas?” Tagline.

Have you considered Flagstaff, AZ? Though I wouldn't consider NAU major, it's still something. And that far north its essentially South Utah.

This sounds attractive but the main problem I'd have is access to a large economic center hub and a big airport for work. I get there are some great logistics companies and retail due to Walmart and JB Hunt and Tyson foods, but outside of those industries, pretty sparse pickings for someone who needs the higher income and earning power of a Houston or Dallas. Same problem as Oklahoma in that regard, but it sounds like a great destination for those on the downhill coast part of their career or retired.

We are looking at moving from Texas to a nearby state with medical marijuana as Texas will be the 50th state to pass it, at this point. The problem is as you said; a high powered job in Oklahoma that would meet my quality of life in Texas seems to be non-existent. So alas, we continue to wait and monitor the situations...

If your kid is the really smart but super lazy and directionless one who plays a lot of video games to the short term detriment of his future plans that was mentioned up thread, then yes your kid smokes a ton of pot I would wager. I could be wrong if things have changed so much that this behavior pattern isn’t a good correlation anymore and parents are no longer painfully naive… Aint nothing wrong with smoking pot though.

I once flew American in and out of Toledo, so that hits home.

Job hopping is the tried and true way to get more money, for sure. Can't fault anyone for doing that and I don't see that as a problem at all. If companies don't like it or see it as a problem, they can always pay more. Not to get too off-topic but it's like what others are saying about the Saudi-backed LIV tour money-whipping these golfers with a platform and name brand. if the PGA doesn't like it, pay more. Since the beginning of fiat currency the same has always been held to be true for everyone: Money talks, BS walks. This is why the funniest and most true things the youngest cohort of workers are saying resonates with me when they say "Keep your free beer and ping pong tables and other stupid perks I don't care about and pay me more cash money."

AA to cut flights into 3 smaller regional cities I saw this AM.

@Catdaddyhorn Thank you for posting that. For the last few weeks I've had a reoccurring question I couldn't quite make sense of which is how it came to be that black people in Texas didn't hear they were free until 2 years later after the emancipation proclamation. How could that be? 2 full years, even hand written notes across the the Atlantic and muled to the Far East would take shorter time than that. The explanation of Confederate controlled Galveston in those tweets helped and also I guess the way we are being taught Juneteenth can't be literally accurate, as in surely they heard about the EP and slaves being freed, they just didn't get have it applied to their locale until 2 years later.

I see and I agree with you that it is in everyone's best interest to view your job as transactional and that was because organizations have fundamentally changed how they do business and view employees. Also I'm learning a lot about ghosting here and also it's a good reminder of how lucky and blessed I am and a reminder to be grateful like how I'm posting here on a federal holiday that my company lets us take instead of working.

Gotcha, I think these things should be table stakes for all people too and the days of working up to it and "paying your dues" should be outdated and put to the pasture and I agree with the PTO thing actually, i'd much prefer to have PTO that i can cash-in at some point as well or use versus the unlimited PTO scam some companies, depending on the culture, run.

I'm getting this inputs from the last couple of pages here and that article that was linked. The article makes it seems like it's new but is also vague about who is doing it. This is the quote from the article:

They had to have given Barron some government secret human growth hormone or something. he looks unnaturally big and it probably plays into Trumps ideology of master race to have a big tall son when he had the means versus his first two failed attempts.

At the risk of sounding as tone deaf as those on the Biden thread who were all "just pack a lunch and drive less", I have a slight problem or different viewpoint on employers based on my own personal experience. Most companies these days seem to be leaning into perks and benefits listed above as diminishing as a way to attract and then maybe more importantly retain, good employees. Far be it for me to say, "Just go get a better job" because I'm not sure everyone's ability and skill and I know I am privileged, but I personally wouldn't take a job that didn't offer all the above: -Unlimited PTO - Paid Monthly Mental Health Wellness Days - Great Healthcare benefits plan - ESPP or RSU/Equity grants if pre-IPO - Paid Paternity leave of at least 12 weeks - Compensation/Salary at which I expect based on my subjective criteria of experience, value, etc. These are all table stakes at this point and tons of companies have gotten the memo. My company gave us the day off today for JuneTeenth to be progressive and show solidarity with our BIPOC employees. This is a new thing and it's really cool. So again, at the risk of sounding tone deaf because I am older and more established in my career (a lot of that establishment came from NOT ghosting former employers or generally acting like an immature child in professional settings and situations, I will add), my knee jerk reaction is to say "just get a better job, then." if you think your job sucks or isn't bringing enough to the table.

Tell us your kid smokes a ton of pot without telling us.

Okay wow. It sounds like it’s a real thing and I have just been lucky.

No clue. In my personal experience it’s less about the age and generation and more about the transience of the labor and jobs to be done— which I guess there is an overlap with millennials and transient work. And a lot of the transience is because of white hot demand where it’s better to move fast and make more money in a “do it now and ask forgiveness later” speed of business. I’m thinking of the movers in my earlier story who are scheduled 6 months out as well as stories I’m hearing of framing crews building homes and walking off the job with incomplete framing because a competitor is offering 25%-50% more to poach due to lack of skilled labor in what was a white hot housing construction boom. Coinbase offering $70k for call center warm bodies where they were used to getting $38k, etc. All those roosters will come home to roost in a down market (already seen with layoff of said overpaid warm bodies in crypto land, tbd with housing market).

Are you meaning that you are working with a recruiter and they are trying to follow up with you and schedule the next step in the process and you find something else or lose interest and just…stop responding? That seems irresponsible for the sake of being irresponsible especially considering in some industries (not sure yours) it’s a small world with incestuous management teams and recruiters with memories.

I’ve never been ghosted by an employer. That’s interesting it was so common. When I say that I mean, once I’ve spoken to someone on the phone and done a first round interview, there have been times when I didn’t impress or there wasn’t a fit and it was made known I wasn’t moving on in the process— sometimes in form email and sometimes more gracefully. There are other times when l apply to a job online through a link and by uploading a resume and just never hear anything at all. Is that what you guys mean by ghosted? That said, I think it’s way crappier for people to ghost employers who then impact expecting customers directly. Here is a personal example— I hired some movers a few months ago, a professional outfit with great reviews. I order the 3 man crew to start at X o’clock. I get a call the day of and one of the guys is sick and so I will only have a 2 man for the first half of the move and then when another move was finished I’d be supplied with a 3rd hand. Starting talk to the two guys and they leveled with me that the guy didn’t show up to the job yesterday and had an excuse but swore he’d be good for today and he ghosted them. Had the guy just had the balls to say he didn’t want to work as hard as movers work for what the company paid them as the weather wasn’t full Texas hear yet but plenty hot, the company could have made arrangements to serve the customer (me) better instead of scrambling around. So yea I guess it’s all funny and games until the ghosting ever materially impacts something you’ve planned and contracted for and then it’s probably more annoying. My neighbor is building a pool and has ghosting stories of the labor as well and his July 4th pool now looks like September 4th. Okay now that is kind of funny, but you have to know the guy. All this to say, the ideal situation is people act like adults and engage in responsible and responsive communication and leave the ghosting crap to teenage lovers. But as it were I guess employees are going to take advantage of their leverage and ghost, but I don’t want to hear a peep from these same tiers of labor when the economic winds turn and they are the ones being ghosted. Apparently it’s turn about is fair play.

Explain for those of us who are missing this joke?

Y’all saying ribs are crazy. Get rid of the burger.

Bernie would never have gone. Probably just stay in the Northeast right? Checked out the US Open in New Hampshire this week.

Agreed that falling in the manner he did is not only something we’ve literally all done and should be ignored. Even if you are concerned because he’s almost 80, the video didn’t leave too much doubt that it’s alright. Im sure ar his age he will feel it the next few days but it’s not an existential issue. We live in idiot world where anytime anyone does anything, there are political points to be bad one way or another.

Are you mistaking prosperity for progress? Only you can answer that, but from the same interview quoted above by Brisket’s boy in NYT. It’s an interesting discussion: “We mistake prosperity for progress. And we have created tremendous, staggering, unprecedented prosperity. I think the mistake or the myth that we buy into — that whenever there’s prosperity economically, the G.D.P. grows, that it’s going to translate to progress for a nation. What do we mean by progress? I think the ballast — and it’s my first chapter in the book — is a healthy and thriving middle class. The geopolitical power of a nation, its well-being, its democratic strength, is usually a function of how prosperous its middle class is. Now the issue in America — and Europe makes it to a lesser extent — is that America has either believed this myth that the middle class is a natural-occurring object of a free-market economy, and it is not. The middle class is an accident. It is an aberration of economics. There’s a constant notion that if the economy does well, the middle class will restore itself. That is not true. What happens over time in all economic history is that the wealthy weaponize government, lower taxes on them, resist competition — the biggest, most powerful companies entrench themselves, and you end up with an erosion of the middle class. You end up with income inequality. It gets worse and worse, and then the same thing happens with income inequality. The good news is income inequality, when it gets to these levels, always self-corrects. The bad news is that the mechanisms for self-correction are war, famine and revolution. Unless you provide and invest in a strong middle class, whether it be the minimum wage or support of unions or vocational training or access to free education or reduced-cost education, the middle class, as an entity, goes away. We have fallen into this notion that as long as the economy does well, the middle class will do well. The two are not necessarily linked.”