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Nobody Wants to Work Anymore - 2025 Edition! LeeLee joins to talk HR in healthcare
Tonight’s possible topics:
* Hiring/firing/job searching
* Insane work culture / Work From Home / Return to Office policy
* Union leadership vs rank and file labor struggles
* Messed up stuff companies do to workers
* AI & new tools
* Actual practical stuff too
Links:
Funny Stuff
* Star Trek killed the capitalists
* https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1mrxig0/when_do_we_get_to_this_stage_of_capitalism/
* Craziest Way You’ve Seen Someone Quit
* https://www.reddit.com/r/work/comments/1mo9yhj/craziest_way_youve_seen_someone_quit/
* Tide Talking Stain - Super Bowl Ad
* Everything is Urgent
* Filling Out Resumes Redundantly is So Much Fun!
* “Anonymous” Surveys too!
* Always Give 100% at Work!
* Why Are You So Quiet at Work?
* “How Was Work?”
* Russell Nailing His Interview
* Burnout can be real
* Scott Seiss “We’re a Family”
* https://youtube.com/watch?v=E_o2X-y4nQg?feature=shared
The Job Market Is In the Toilet - Shadow Jobs and 800k+ Layoffs in 2025
* The 2025 midyear HR checkup: Layoffs, DEI pivots and a ‘tricky’ AI future: Ryan Golden HR DeepDive
* https://www.hrdive.com/news/2025-midyear-hr-checkup-layoffs-dei-pivots-ai-future/758545/
* Four in 10 Companies Posting Fake Job Listings: More Perfect Union
* https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1963312455049953669
* Job Market is an Absolute Dumpster Fire
* https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromthejob/comments/1n7if6r/is_it_just_me_or_is_the_job_market_an_absolute/
* 806,000 Layoffs in 2025 as of August 15
* https://www.whatjobs.com/news/2025-us-jobs-report/
* Salesforce Laid off 44% of Support Staff: Sam Illingworth
* ‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’: Joe Emery, The Telegraph via Yahoo News
* https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ve-applied-over-5-000-060000449.html
* Expect Tech Layoffs to Continue: NYU Grad
* Conoco-Phillips laying off 20-25% of workforce
* https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/conocophillips-lay-offs-21031616.php?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=68ba449d6f38f1000197c9a0&fbclid=IwZnRzaAMod7tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvZvtydULk2DIwpj6yF6FYVdn6Lb0RpJqiFgxE_vYeouqkOEPGEhdVXYO5qr_aem_OP8n3wsoH2oOSgys-ximxA
AI and the Job Market in 2025
* 17 Year Olds Programming AI to take our jobs
* https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/1n8c03j/theyre_going_to_take_your_job/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
* AI Interviewers? Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley
* https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/06/ai_job_interview_experience/
* Using AI to Find a Job
Skydance Takes Over Paramount, Forces 5 Day a Week Return to Office Starting in January
* Paramount’s new CEO tells employees to return to office full-time or quit ahead of layoffs: Marco Quiroz-Guttierez, Fortune
* https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/paramount-skydance-ceo-david-ellison-return-to-office-mandate
Hyundai/LG Battery Plant Raided by ICE
* 450 Detained by ICE at Hyundai Georgia Plant, Where 3 Workers Were Killed Previously: Mike Elk, Payday Report
* https://paydayreport.com/450-napped-by-ice-at-hyundai-georgia-plant-where-3-workers-were-killed-previously/?ref=payday-report-newsletter
Closing it out
* Why wouldn’t we want to go back to the office? Everyone Needs This
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