LOL! As if they actually *wanted* to find the SCOTUS leaker. What a joke. If they had allowed an outside person/agency to conduct the audit, we’d know by now.
It’s a sitting Justice, I guarantee you that. And the Blackrobes protect their own at all costs.
Maybe in 60 years we will know the truth. If it was a Justice then burying the truth is actually the right thing to do for the good of the Court and institution. What would the punishment be, impeachment? Yea, that will be popular and not look political. The Court is apolitical.
Whenever I see those private jets lined up in Davos, I can almost see two pilots leaning their heads out the window and one asking the other, "Pardon me... do you have any Grey Poupon?"
"In his first move as governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro eliminated college-degree requirements for 92% of state government jobs."
I have been advocating this for years.
Related to this, I think the announcements of so many corporate layoffs is a sign that these companies are taking advantage of the economic downturn to rid themselves of the toxic indoctrinated campus brats of woke ideology. At least I hope.
Eliminating college degree requirements, agree 100%.
To assume that corporations are riding themselves of toxic, indoctrinated campus brats of woke ideology is to assume that is who is being laid off.
I propose because of DEI those are the folks being kept. What the fortune 500's are actually doing is concentrating the pool and creating a work environment of incompetence, fear, and paranoia.
I hope not. I do know there is a lot of chatter in my space as a CEO that there is less work getting done and a lot of time wasted coddling these brats. The prior years with the Trump economic expansion that followed the first six years of Obama's jobless recovery had employers scrambling for hires. The pandemic with the Dems paying people not to work caused a fake employee needs bubble of sorts. That bubble is popping in the tech and other business that most benefited from the government actions related to the pandemic. Economic downturns are times to cull the workforce of the toxic deadwood. That is how you get it done without being accused of bias. You cut the non-essential employees, units and departments... like the DEI department. If the Fortune 500 are concentrating these people instead, they are doing it against all the chatter I see with the C-suite complaining about low productivity of the workforce. I think it is more likely they are taking a page from Elon Musk's moves with Twitter.
I think there is an overlap in the millenial "live my best life"/ college indoctrinated "DEI SJW".
The former are low productivity, the latter are high maintenance. Both cost money in different ways. Low productivity means requiring more people to do the same job.
High maintenance means spending money and executive time on usless feel good programs that detract from the core mission both sucking up resources and reducing productivity.
I have both millennial and gen-z employees that are marvelous. Generally I find their low-productivity peers supportive of the woke doctrine, but I agree not always.
I guest-teach an undergrad college course in a research university in the economics program that is introduction to business. In the beginning of the class we poll this question:
Assuming the same health benefits with prorated paid time off, given the choice of a job making $120k per year working an average of 50 hours per week, or a job making $65k per year working 30 hours per week, which would you prefer?
15 years ago most of the kids picked the $120k job. Since then the 30-hour a week job is highly favored.
Then we ask the students what they would do with their extra time. "Travel" was the answer for many. But "side hustle" would be another common response.
I think this shift has a mix-bag of causes. One, the kids are just not as resilient and not as career-focused... I think because they have so much entertainment distraction and see their work-life as non-enhancing with respect to the alternatives. I think that is a big mistake.
Two, I think they have had their lower level needs so taken care of (even the low income kids likely never really went hungry), that they just imagine those things will always be provided to them and hence don't calculate the full picture of what it takes to be economically independent.
Lastly, I think some are bright-eyed noting that the business world really holds no loyalty to them and careers and economies can drop and wipe out family finances in a heartbeat, and thus they need to seek some supplemental income stream that is more reliable... and the extra time would help them diversify. This I see as both smart and risky... smart in that diversification of income streams can be good... but risky in that the lack of time spent in developing mastery of skills in the workplace can result in lower career advancement opportunities.
I lament the fact that C-4 certified pipe welders in my area bill out at $150 per hour. The welders that do work for me (I own a manufacturing business) drive very nice trucks and live in very nice homes. The owner of the company complains that he cannot find qualified workers. The work is dirty and hard... but very satisfying in what is built by the welders. Our snowflake generation does not want to do that work. One - it is hard. Two - it is not a career that they or their parents can harp about to their peers to show that they are high hierarchy elites.
I think part of what we need to do to help the kids is to get back to honoring work and achievement from work... where people actually make, build, grow and fix real things... as the primary badge of elite hierarchy. And I think this layoff of woke is a step in that direction. I hope in the future that we turn the table on these kids corrupted by the woke parasitic mind virus, primarily the kids of well-off liberal elites, and label them as lower on the social hierarchy compared to the kid that skipped a useless undergrad degree in victim studies and instead started working in the construction trade or farming or ???
I am a big Mike Rowe fan. I have worked from the time I was 12. I worked blue collar (construction, food service, manufacturing, ag) and then moved to white collar in the IT field. Got degrees in business going to night school. I worked from the supply room to the CEO. I got hammered by the 90s tech stock crash and again in the Great Recession. The 529 accounts I had started for my kids when they were young ended up losing money. But because of my earning capability, I have been able to pay my way and recover financially.
I too am pissed at the government policies and corporatism that wiped out so much of my hard-earned assets, but I tell the kids that this is the reason to work your ass off and gain marketable skills... because those idiots in charge are going to keep doing the same.
LOL! As if they actually *wanted* to find the SCOTUS leaker. What a joke. If they had allowed an outside person/agency to conduct the audit, we’d know by now.
It’s a sitting Justice, I guarantee you that. And the Blackrobes protect their own at all costs.
Maybe in 60 years we will know the truth. If it was a Justice then burying the truth is actually the right thing to do for the good of the Court and institution. What would the punishment be, impeachment? Yea, that will be popular and not look political. The Court is apolitical.
Davos
Whenever I see those private jets lined up in Davos, I can almost see two pilots leaning their heads out the window and one asking the other, "Pardon me... do you have any Grey Poupon?"
Erick what the hell was Wray doing at Davis
"In his first move as governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro eliminated college-degree requirements for 92% of state government jobs."
I have been advocating this for years.
Related to this, I think the announcements of so many corporate layoffs is a sign that these companies are taking advantage of the economic downturn to rid themselves of the toxic indoctrinated campus brats of woke ideology. At least I hope.
Eliminating college degree requirements, agree 100%.
To assume that corporations are riding themselves of toxic, indoctrinated campus brats of woke ideology is to assume that is who is being laid off.
I propose because of DEI those are the folks being kept. What the fortune 500's are actually doing is concentrating the pool and creating a work environment of incompetence, fear, and paranoia.
BTW - I have a list of interview questions to help identify candidates infected with the parasitic mind virus of woke.
I hope not. I do know there is a lot of chatter in my space as a CEO that there is less work getting done and a lot of time wasted coddling these brats. The prior years with the Trump economic expansion that followed the first six years of Obama's jobless recovery had employers scrambling for hires. The pandemic with the Dems paying people not to work caused a fake employee needs bubble of sorts. That bubble is popping in the tech and other business that most benefited from the government actions related to the pandemic. Economic downturns are times to cull the workforce of the toxic deadwood. That is how you get it done without being accused of bias. You cut the non-essential employees, units and departments... like the DEI department. If the Fortune 500 are concentrating these people instead, they are doing it against all the chatter I see with the C-suite complaining about low productivity of the workforce. I think it is more likely they are taking a page from Elon Musk's moves with Twitter.
Insightful.
I think there is an overlap in the millenial "live my best life"/ college indoctrinated "DEI SJW".
The former are low productivity, the latter are high maintenance. Both cost money in different ways. Low productivity means requiring more people to do the same job.
High maintenance means spending money and executive time on usless feel good programs that detract from the core mission both sucking up resources and reducing productivity.
I have both millennial and gen-z employees that are marvelous. Generally I find their low-productivity peers supportive of the woke doctrine, but I agree not always.
I guest-teach an undergrad college course in a research university in the economics program that is introduction to business. In the beginning of the class we poll this question:
Assuming the same health benefits with prorated paid time off, given the choice of a job making $120k per year working an average of 50 hours per week, or a job making $65k per year working 30 hours per week, which would you prefer?
15 years ago most of the kids picked the $120k job. Since then the 30-hour a week job is highly favored.
Then we ask the students what they would do with their extra time. "Travel" was the answer for many. But "side hustle" would be another common response.
I think this shift has a mix-bag of causes. One, the kids are just not as resilient and not as career-focused... I think because they have so much entertainment distraction and see their work-life as non-enhancing with respect to the alternatives. I think that is a big mistake.
Two, I think they have had their lower level needs so taken care of (even the low income kids likely never really went hungry), that they just imagine those things will always be provided to them and hence don't calculate the full picture of what it takes to be economically independent.
Lastly, I think some are bright-eyed noting that the business world really holds no loyalty to them and careers and economies can drop and wipe out family finances in a heartbeat, and thus they need to seek some supplemental income stream that is more reliable... and the extra time would help them diversify. This I see as both smart and risky... smart in that diversification of income streams can be good... but risky in that the lack of time spent in developing mastery of skills in the workplace can result in lower career advancement opportunities.
I lament the fact that C-4 certified pipe welders in my area bill out at $150 per hour. The welders that do work for me (I own a manufacturing business) drive very nice trucks and live in very nice homes. The owner of the company complains that he cannot find qualified workers. The work is dirty and hard... but very satisfying in what is built by the welders. Our snowflake generation does not want to do that work. One - it is hard. Two - it is not a career that they or their parents can harp about to their peers to show that they are high hierarchy elites.
I think part of what we need to do to help the kids is to get back to honoring work and achievement from work... where people actually make, build, grow and fix real things... as the primary badge of elite hierarchy. And I think this layoff of woke is a step in that direction. I hope in the future that we turn the table on these kids corrupted by the woke parasitic mind virus, primarily the kids of well-off liberal elites, and label them as lower on the social hierarchy compared to the kid that skipped a useless undergrad degree in victim studies and instead started working in the construction trade or farming or ???
I am a big Mike Rowe fan. I have worked from the time I was 12. I worked blue collar (construction, food service, manufacturing, ag) and then moved to white collar in the IT field. Got degrees in business going to night school. I worked from the supply room to the CEO. I got hammered by the 90s tech stock crash and again in the Great Recession. The 529 accounts I had started for my kids when they were young ended up losing money. But because of my earning capability, I have been able to pay my way and recover financially.
I too am pissed at the government policies and corporatism that wiped out so much of my hard-earned assets, but I tell the kids that this is the reason to work your ass off and gain marketable skills... because those idiots in charge are going to keep doing the same.
Coach Dungy is a good man and need not be troubled by the naysayers who can't bring themselves to simply disagree, but feel the need to harm him.
And I hope Halley is on the 2024 ticket in either slot.