The Causey Consulting Podcast

Key topics:

✔️Making a blanket statement that remote work is "bad" and "everyone knows it" is absurd. This type of thing is opinion masquerading as fact. And it's a lousy opinion in my opinion! 
✔️However: scare tactics and corporate-shill-esque op-ed pieces are pretty irrelevant because, as I've said before, I do not think most people will sit at home unpaid to have a quixotic battle against RTO.
✔️Conformity is so important to the system. Believe what you are told. Sit down, shut up, and go with it.


Links:

https://medium.com/illumination/working-from-home-is-bad-48ad0cdc3196


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Key topics:

✔️ ICYMI news, 4/24 - 4/28.
✔️I can tell you: there are more and more conversations going on behind closed doors about layoffs, budget cuts, trimming the fat, how to spin company shrinkage in a way that doesn't scare people, etc.
✔️Is remote work BS? According to corpo real estate investors, LOL.
✔️Of course more people are using the gig economy. It's called survival.

Links:

https://fortune.com/2023/04/23/remote-work-bullshit-real-estate-legend-sam-zell-office-situation-will-change/

https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2023/04/24/can-this-possibly-be-true/

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/internal-faq-what-amazon-is-telling-employees-before-they-return-to-the-office-next-week/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-worst-both-worlds-high-150424787.html

https://medium.com/@sara_causey/maybe-just-learn-to-code-wasnt-the-answer-cc2cfe18566

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/business/layoffs-2023/index.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gig-economy-is-much-larger-than-thought-a-key-development-for-these-workers-171909854.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/more-young-workers-just-scraping-by-5622284/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/smaller-pay-bumps-for-job-switchers-5257817/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/fdic-to-take-over-first-republic-5627076/

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And other great government "solutions" to problems. 😒

 Key topics:

✔️Always look for the money trail. The French say, "Cherchez la femme." Well I say, "Chercher l'argent."
✔️Looking at the AAA and how it helped industrial agriculture tells you a lot about how the system actually works.
✔️Replace the traditional family farm with giant behemoths and put industrial corn in everything. Cheap, quick food = most people are now overweight or obese and on pharmaceuticals. Chercher l'argent!
✔️Is the food system as rigged as the broader economy? 🤔

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RwIWGkMxrE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/29/usda-farmers-conservation-program-507028

https://theconversation.com/industrial-corn-farming-is-ruining-our-health-and-polluting-our-watersheds-39721

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbc2MeaU_Xo

https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259

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Key topics:

✔️ ICYMI news, 4/17 - 4/21.
✔️Debt is not always about FOMO and frivolous spending. It's taking every dime most people make just to survive these days.
✔️The LARPers are the ones who will get steamrolled the worst in the coming crisis. It's sad but true, IMO.
✔️A fortune teller might be about as accurate as some of these so-called "economists."

Links:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/state-street-tumbles-as-it-loses-key-deposits-122940909.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/in-office-work-has-benefits-poll-6235258/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/are-more-turning-blind-eye-to-debt-5240937/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/economists-wary-on-inflation-6248530/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/18/public-pessimism-on-the-economy-hits-a-new-high-cnbc-survey-shows.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/companies-are-paying-workers-to-relocate-to-discourage-remote-work-%E2%80%94-and-it-can-cost-them-up-to-dollar97000-per-employee/ar-AA19YydE?li=BBnb7Kz

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/19/meta-started-latest-round-of-layoffs-focusing-on-technical-employees.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/grocery-shoppers-buy-now-pay-later-6263922/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3gy8/the-pity-city-ceo-is-sorry-now

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/buzzfeed-will-lay-off-15percent-of-staff-shutter-its-news-unit.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/where-are-the-rural-grocery-stores-6260450/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/googles-80-acre-san-jose-mega-campus-on-hold-amid-economic-slowdown-.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/el-nino-to-bring-record-temperatures-5616596/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/money-trickles-out-of-smaller-banks-5249369/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/home-prices-fall-most-in-11-years-5249353/


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IMO, going into a downturn in the best shape possible is to your benefit. Obviously financial health and wellness are important in an economic crisis, but I think it's also important to be in good shape physically, mentally, and spiritually as well.


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 Key topics:

✔️ ICYMI news, 4/10 - 4/14.
✔️Bankers and fat cats made huge profits in Q1, which should surprise no one. 
✔️Retailers and fast food are having layoffs and turning to automation but supposedly: 3.5% unemployment rate and hey, if you're hurting for a job, go work in fast food and retail. 😣
✔️Where is inflation slowing? I'm certainly not seeing it!

Links:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/10/outlook-for-credit-access-hits-record-low-while-inflation-expectations-jump.html

https://fortune.com/2023/04/10/gen-z-2023-grads-accepted-fully-in-person-jobs/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/theres-one-job-every-two-applicants-right-now-other-world-borden/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/banks-creating-downside-risks-for-global-growth-imf-chief-economist-.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/70percent-of-americans-feel-financially-stressed-new-cnbc-survey-finds.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/walmart-warehouse-automation-powers-higher-profits.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/heres-the-inflation-breakdown-for-march-2023-in-one-chart.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/walmart-retreats-from-chicago-5607492/

https://www.businessinsider.com/remote-jobs-return-to-office-outsourcing-to-cut-costs-2023-4

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jpmorgan-nixes-wfh-for-directors-5229129/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/wholesale-inflation-slows-sharply-5608252/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/other-things-break-legendary-investor-182507977.html

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/big-banks-report-bigger-profits-5241625/

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/exxon-ceo-gets-record-raise-5244425/

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Subtitled: Listen to it at your own risk.

 Key topics:

✔️ This one person quit over RTO and you can, too! *said in the manner of "Champagne wishes & caviar dreams" on the old Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.*
✔️It's not 2021 anymore. The FOMO & YOLO of the markets we saw then is gone now.
✔️"Productivity paranoia" is not going anywhere. Watch that creepy, nightmare-inducing video from the WEF if you think otherwise.
✔️"'You're going to end up losing them anyway,'" she said."  No, you won't. I stand by my track record of accurate predictions. Too many people live paycheck-to-paycheck and have debt for everyone in the US to sit it out with $0 pay. Not gonna happen.


Links:

https://www.businessinsider.com/remote-work-return-to-office-quit-job-micromanager-boss-salary-2023-4

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/09/the-coming-commercial-real-estate-crash-that-may-never-happen.html

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 Key topics:

✔️ ICYMI news, 4/3 - 4/7.
✔️You are digits on a screen to Corpo America and by their own admission, they are looking for a "pretty quick payback."
✔️Wages and open jobs are cooling off yet we still have no "official" proclamation of a recession. You already know - if you wait to be officially told something, you're waiting too late, IMO. By the time they admit that unemployment is not 3.6%, how bad will it actually be? Allegedly, we now have a 3.5% unemployment rate. 😒😣
✔️As the job market worsens, you have to consider how you behave on interviews. Are you a no show, no call 90% of the time and then blaming everyone else?
✔️Employee hoarding and bubbles.


Links:

https://tinyurl.com/3y2m98za

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wsj-mcdonalds-close-offices-briefly-061814814.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-says-banking-crisis-is-not-over-yet.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/jolts-february-2023-.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/adp-march-2023.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-got-5-000-workers-093900703.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/06/layoffs-are-up-nearly-fivefold-so-far-this-year-with-tech-companies-leading-the-way.html

https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2023/04/06/walmart-automation-layoffs-inflation

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/302277e1-d908-362b-9b2c-ebb0399bf844/bosses-want-hard-workers%E2%80%94so.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/imf-head-warns-world-economy-is-set-for-weakest-near-term-growth-since-1990-144205510.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/jobs-report-march-2023.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/federal-reserve-fed-inflation-jobs-report-unemployment.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-us-economy-is-still-creating-problems-for-the-fed-161620642.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-tech-workers-say-they-were-hired-to-do-nothing-762ff158?mod=hp_lead_pos2

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Subtitled: "Elite Immunity" and the Abandonment of the Working Class

I recently watched "The Rise of the Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" on ENDEVR's YT channel. In this episode, I will discuss that documentary as well as Glenn Greenwald's book With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. 

Key topics:

✔️The neocons and neolibs work together as part of the same elite class? Say it ain't so!
✔️The elites break the law and then pardon themselves. How could we be surprised by that? At this point, it would be more shocking if they obeyed the laws they expect the rest of us to follow.
✔️"These guys are making up to $1 billion a day."
✔️Governments as instruments of the wealthy super elite.


Links I discuss in this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMjalPFSzU

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality-Powerful/dp/1250013836

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I recently watched "WORKPLACE LOYALTY IS DEAD - 10 REASONS I'LL NEVER WORK ANOTHER 9-5 JOB" and one of the comments the author makes is that the modern office is like a high school. I won't bury my thesis: I agree.

Key topics:

✔️ Why have offices become this way? Why do they so often feel like introvert hell?
✔️"Karens & Darrens" in the customer base. Backstabby colleagues. Authoritarian bosses.
✔️Your metrics can be outstanding but if you're not "one of us," that often does not matter.


Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31i6NA3Pho

The story of Bob: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125110/8902952


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