WALL OF TEXT: HEALTHY ECONOMY

 

 

WALL OF TEXT: HEALTHY ECONOMY. HR told me we got about 600 job applications over the past week. The company I work for is hiring, but most of the people they hire just up and quit after a week. Even if we kept them, we certainly don’t have 600 job openings per week. Everyone is cynical about a new CEO taking over. What’s he going to do to make the line go back up? Probably the same thing the last guy did: push more work onto fewer people. I joked about the CEO replacing HR with AI. It may not be a joke. I want to change jobs, but my newsfeed is nothing but all the jobs this company is cutting and that other company is slashing. How many other companies are overwhelmed with job applications and no positions for anyone? This is not a healthy economy. Remember the zombie fad of the 2010s? I think we were hoping for a zombie outbreak, cuz we sure knew working hard wasn’t getting us anywhere, and we craved an equalizer, a world that has consistent rules which make sense. The Trump administration is sending the National Guard to US cities. Trump and Vance are outright telling Americans that the cities are so crime-ridden they need the military to keep all these immigrants under control. It’s not true. I live in a city, and there is no crime wave. Immigrants are not committing crimes, but rural Americans will believe it. This is not a solution. This is a distraction. If the US doesn’t split into 10 warring states within my lifetime, I’ll be stunned. I hope the Bible Belt Alliance doesn’t conquer Ohio. I’ll never survive the Inquisition.