You got the email in the spring. Now the same company is ringing about a new role with AI in the title. Thirty thousand Amazon cuts, and this week the rehire calls started — plus Oracle's fresh round past two thousand five hundred, Legal & General, and a thousand tech jobs gone across the Bay Area in September alone. If you just landed here, this is the station that welcomes you in, and the Roll is open with nobody's name on it yet.

Eleven hundred people at CSX found out this week, in a quarter the company posted record profits. If that was you, this is the station that welcomes you in — we read the arrivals as arrivals, not obituaries.

Also today: why the Bureau's count sitting still doesn't mean nobody moved (both doors were busy), plus Salesforce, Sunrise and Hamilton Health Sciences.

NILF Radio airs Monday to Saturday at 07:00 ET. Sunday we're dark. The door costs nothing — say what you stopped doing and you're in.

Not In Labor Force is a real Bureau of Labor Statistics category — everyone who isn't working and isn't looking. The Bureau has no field for why; this is the daily station that does.

Episode one: what the letters actually stand for, why "unemployed" is a different thing entirely, and what a morning on this station sounds like.

NILF Radio airs Monday to Saturday at 07:00 ET. Sunday we're dark.