Joblessness

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

Ok, the price of Altoids appears to be off. But you don’t believe people are losing their jobs?

Unless OP is homeless, knowing 12 people that lost jobs is a stretch. Even if that were true, more of a stretch is that NONE of them got another job. Uber, UberEats, McDonald’s, substitute teaching, waitressing, OF, nothing? Nice troll attempt but make it more believable next time.

I believe the OP.

Of course you do, you wrote it.

No, but you can count me among the jobless.

when your jobless, it seems like everyone is
my SIL is currently jobless, he was doged before he even started (waiting for clearance), but getting lots of interviews

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

Ok, the price of Altoids appears to be off. But you don’t believe people are losing their jobs?

Unless OP is homeless, knowing 12 people that lost jobs is a stretch. Even if that were true, more of a stretch is that NONE of them got another job. Uber, UberEats, McDonald’s, substitute teaching, waitressing, OF, nothing? Nice troll attempt but make it more believable next time.

What a weird take. OP, ignore this buffoon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

This is OP. What is fake?? I am sure you are some elite guy here whose mortgage has been paid off, either you do not have kids who are yet to be on their own or they are already well off. Joblessness is real. 12 people in my close circle are out of jobs and it's been 6 months. A couple of them are good for another 6-8 months and then it's going to be difficult to get through. I am talking about white collared jobs which have been cut due to funding cuts. My job is safe for another 6 months and then it's a big unknown. With impacts of AI looming, it is as it is hard. I don't know what the future is going to be like.

[Anonymous]

Out of 12 people, 3 are whom I worked with at my office , 2 are spouse's friends on West coast, 2 are my cousins, 3 are in my neighborhood, 2 are my kids' friends' parents. For those who are doubling the numbers, you guys are really lucky!!

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

Ok, the price of Altoids appears to be off. But you don’t believe people are losing their jobs?

Unless OP is homeless, knowing 12 people that lost jobs is a stretch. Even if that were true, more of a stretch is that NONE of them got another job. Uber, UberEats, McDonald’s, substitute teaching, waitressing, OF, nothing? Nice troll attempt but make it more believable next time.

I believe the OP.

Of course you do, you wrote it.

No, but you can count me among the jobless.

when your jobless, it seems like everyone is
my SIL is currently jobless, he was doged before he even started (waiting for clearance), but getting lots of interviews

And when you’re employed, it seems like everyone is.

[Anonymous]

I know no one that is out of work. Inflation is at 2.7%. Your Altoids example is both weird and inaccurate.

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Anonymous wrote:I know no one that is out of work. Inflation is at 2.7%. Your Altoids example is both weird and inaccurate.

I bought Altoids for $7.99 at CVS.
You seem to be MAGA!

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Anonymous wrote:I know no one that is out of work. Inflation is at 2.7%. Your Altoids example is both weird and inaccurate.

Even if you don’t personally know anyone, do you not read daily headlines about layoffs across multiple industries? Tech, manufacturing, higher ed, nonprofits, and government, of course. These are real people.

[Anonymous]

My close family and close friends have all been unemployed or underemployed since the early 10s.

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

This is OP. What is fake?? I am sure you are some elite guy here whose mortgage has been paid off, either you do not have kids who are yet to be on their own or they are already well off. Joblessness is real. 12 people in my close circle are out of jobs and it's been 6 months. A couple of them are good for another 6-8 months and then it's going to be difficult to get through. I am talking about white collared jobs which have been cut due to funding cuts. My job is safe for another 6 months and then it's a big unknown. With impacts of AI looming, it is as it is hard. I don't know what the future is going to be like.

Why do you surround yourself with such lazy underachievers? Tell them to get off their asses and get a job!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

This is OP. What is fake?? I am sure you are some elite guy here whose mortgage has been paid off, either you do not have kids who are yet to be on their own or they are already well off. Joblessness is real. 12 people in my close circle are out of jobs and it's been 6 months. A couple of them are good for another 6-8 months and then it's going to be difficult to get through. I am talking about white collared jobs which have been cut due to funding cuts. My job is safe for another 6 months and then it's a big unknown. With impacts of AI looming, it is as it is hard. I don't know what the future is going to be like.

Why do you surround yourself with such lazy underachievers? Tell them to get off their asses and get a job!

Applying for jobs, sometimes getting calls for interviews. But apparently too many people competing for one position is making it hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

GenX?

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Anonymous wrote:I have at least 12 people in my very close circle who have been without jobs for last 6 months. While the government is getting a lot of money through tariffs, people are losing jobs at the same time. How is the country becoming rich and people becoming poor go together? Inflation is through the roof. Altoids is now $7.99 for example. More and more people are losing jobs and hiring has gone down. What is our future like?

My goodness, stop spewing fake news.

NP. Which part of that is fake?

All of it.

Ok, the price of Altoids appears to be off. But you don’t believe people are losing their jobs?

Unless OP is homeless, knowing 12 people that lost jobs is a stretch. Even if that were true, more of a stretch is that NONE of them got another job. Uber, UberEats, McDonald’s, substitute teaching, waitressing, OF, nothing? Nice troll attempt but make it more believable next time.

A former white collar worker doing DoorDash or McDonald’s is still unemployed to most people.

[Anonymous]

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It all depends on your socio-economic circles, OP. Inequalities have been widening slowly and inexorably for decades, you just did not notice.

But now that federal white collar jobs have been cut, people on DCUM notice, because their livelihoods are on the line, or those of their relatives, friends and neighbors. The industrial towns of the north and manufacturing centers everywhere can tell you what it feels like when half the town is out of a job. This is why our current President was able to demagogue his way to the top - by playing on people's long-standing insecurities and resentment.

I grew up in a factory town; actually my entire office of Feds are from LMC backgrounds with similar poor towns in their history.

I think maybe just lawyer Feds come from UMC (to afford law school seems right) but for most Feds, they have been intimately familiar with the hardship of much of America — that’s a huge factor as why they pursued the stability of a Federal job. All my aunts and uncles were laid off by 55 and never had a professional job again. We were trying to avoid that fate, definitely sympathetic of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I know no one that is out of work. Inflation is at 2.7%. Your Altoids example is both weird and inaccurate.

I bought Altoids for $7.99 at CVS.
You seem to be MAGA!

They’re $3.89 and CVS is running a buy one, get the second 50% off. Sad clown.

https://www.cvs.com/shop/altoid-mints-1-76-oz-prodid-1040171