Trump 2024

Great show guys!!

Here is another story that dovetails nicely with your discussion. It’s about wage stagnation in the US and outlines historic factors that play a huge role in the current stressed workforce - not taking away from your points. It’s called “Why Everyone is Quitting the 40 Hour Workweek”. It also provides the reasons why Keynesian economic ideas failed and how the promise of productivity through technology didn’t provide relief but instead fueled corporate greed (my summary) to the detriment of workers and the middle class. It’s like the frog being boiled slowly. Workers didn’t really realize how screwed they were until it became utterly unbearable. The pressure points of social media and leadership style can’t compete against the overall stew we have found ourselves in.

I just started listening to this podcast, and I disagree with the assessment that outside factors that are being brought into the workplace are causing the employee workplace burnt out and stress levels that we are seeing today. It’s the other way around, the workplace stress is causing the problems in the employee’s personal lives. I’m not married and I have no children, my personal life is as peaceful as can be, but there are many days after working, that I’m lucky to find my way home because of the mental exhaustion and unrealistic demands that are placed on me. Years ago, three people did the job of what one person is now doing in the workplace. These employers are also ruling by fear over the employee. Fear that if you don’t do enough, quick enough to their satisfaction and complete unrealistic expectations, that you can and will be replaced as if you never even existed in the first place there. Thus causing great impact to you and your family. This is how they are getting away with this treatment of the employee. People like to say you should have six months worth of expenses saved up in case something happens. I don’t know too many people who can do this with the inflation and stagnant raises that have been an issue for a very long time, plus, if you are raising children, this becomes even more impossible. The cards are stacked against the employee in the employee/employer relationship. I do expect to see a change in the next ten years in the workplace when these younger generations are coming into the workplace as they are not going to tolerate the way things have been. I’m GEN X, who was raised by Boomers, who thought if you worked hard, you got ahead in this world, but sadly, this is not the case. You do get something for doing this, you get more work and responsibility with no or very little extra pay and the younger generations know this. They’ve seen it happen to their parents and are not going to tolerate it. So, I think you will see with the younger generations, a lot more moving very quickly between jobs when their, not the employer’s needs, are not being met. Where my generation and the ones before me stayed at these jobs on the false promise of loyalty. These employers will have to change how they do business to keep their turnover down, which negatively impacts their bottom line, to keep these younger generations from jumping ship and keep them at their company. That’s how the employee can effectuate change to the employer, by hitting the employer’s bottom line. The almighty bottom line. I do agree that technology has caused major issues in our work/life balance. We are too accessible now. You can text and email a person anytime 365 days a year and it blurs the line between work and life to where that line doesn’t even exist anymore. We have evolved in technology so fast it’s as if we got whip flash from it. It’s too much, we are too connected and it is taking a toll on us in every aspect of our lives.

Are we using AI by accident? Are we talking personal or workplace use? Half the jobs out there are just labour.

Since I started working at 16 management in general has gone downhill. I started working in 1985, and it’s now 2024. Once I found work in 1985 that’s all I ever wanted to do, and found zero joy in my education. I finished college despite a number of setbacks. Upon graduating I still didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I did want to work. I ended up in a very small company working for a very conceited, narcissistic, male chauvinist of a man who ended up losing his company. Then I worked for a company that competed with UPS, and Playboy for several years. Finally, I went into 911 dispatching for 24 years. That job cost me my health. My last center was abysmal. I knew of two happily employed persons. They terminated more people in 3.5 years, than in the 19 at my previous center which closed down only because the city decided they didn’t want to be in the dispatch business any longer. That was 2015. They moved. That center is closing, and my original city is wanted by no jurisdiction. Companies / dispatch agencies play chess with employees like we’re pawns, and care less that lives are at stake. I have the utmost respect for some of my managers over the past 39 years. Others should never have been born. They chose to accept a promotion to management knowing what it was like sitting in the chair, or working the line. How quickly many forgot. Tying healthcare to our jobs in America is the most stressful aspect of our lives. Most companies have zero compassion for a worker who has any form of medical condition outside of maternity leave, and that’s questionable. Not everyone is in perfect health, and it’s not always their fault. This instantaneous gratification bullshit has to stop. The world functioned fine without it, and it’s not necessary now. I started in 911 when a person understood the difference between a true emergency, and a parking complaint. Now a cardiac arrest, and someone double parked mean the same thing in the eyes of the public. We’ve only got ourselves to blame, and our time is limited to fix the situation!

It is due to the workplace they constantly promote toxic people who seed toxicity employees vying to be the favorite. I don’t care to be the favorite . I just want some peace

A veteran's success often depends on the first manager they have. Outside the Fortune 100, small business owners have a hard time trusting veterans because they, the business owners, have very little ability to assume risk when it comes to hiring. If you are a veteran, work to get into a Fortune 100 so they can train you and actually move you around. They usually have robust training programs and a crop of senior leaders that were former military officers. Small business leaders have much less ability to understand the veteran experience unless they were a veteran themselves. Also, a lot of managers won't hire veterans because they are intimidated by them.

Most people I know are on the “Work Til you Drop” plan.

I use to 'fake' vacation, changed my careers...work 3 days a week making more money and when I'm off, I'm off. Let's be honest, no one loves their job especially not more than spending time with family and friends. Ppl 'fake' vacation because they have to-most employers will make it difficult for you to have time off. So, ppl work around it, it's that simple.

In the last three years, I have never encountered the level of narcissistic "leaders" in my entire 30 year career. Every single one of them never did the job and were scared to lose their incomes. I do not know how this happened, but hiring practices must be a critical component to starting the fix.

It’s like a slug fest of buzz lines

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Great content

You guys have literally been screaming at me to pay off debt. No vacations

23:30. You nailed it!!! Managers aren't taught to ask people how they are doing! Instead it's just about getting things done for the CEO!

I know someone who does work and checks in on vacation. I just have more to do from being gone when I come back is all

I have worked several toxic corporate jobs. You are entitled to two weeks vacation. When you say you will be gone for two weeks the managers start threatening you. That is why I started my own business. Now I take two weeks every year.

I can remember a long time ago when I used to be in the corporate world. Before I accepted the position I negotiated a two week paid vacation the following August. I had it in writing signed and dated in the offer letter. One year rolled around and when I said I'm was taking my two week vacation, the manager tried to fire me. After I took vacation I left that job. I now have my own business. Now I go on two week vacation and don't worry.

There was so many gems in this interview! Keep doing the great work, it is effective. ❤

Cause they get hired too tell us what too do, sometimes in an aggressive way.

John sounds like he’s behind the people asking for “Covid forgiveness”

I thought these two were the same people…

I feel we are back in the era of the industrial revolution days. Do the job of 2 to 3 people. Give us a pizza and a pat on the back and the CEO makes 20 times your salary and golfs on his 3 hour lunch.

If its half the middle class slashing retirement contributions its not just their problem. Its just thier problem to fix.

"Beans and Rice" - Dave Ramsay..... lol.

So many businesses have company values & culture listed that the “leaders” and people in corporate positions violate daily yet if I don’t follow them they will beat you over the head, write you up, and threaten you. Especially women in those positions and if you reveal how they have violated the culture and values by how they treat you, you get on their crap list and live with a target. That’s what causes stress. Women are the worst managers I have ever had! Basically this podcast was way too philosophical and gaslit the working class. The reality is many people at the middle and top are just plain selfish, bad, immoral and immature people. And that’s who the company promotes regularly!!

I originated the fake vacation to Miami years ago. I go to the tanning bed and sit on my couch.

One of my friends is saving for a new home. She works a second job 2x month . She was able to pick up a Friday shift months in advance and use her PTO for that day so, she received her regular pay [ PTO] as well as the wages for working at her second job that day. Folks need to keep their goals in mind. Nothing wrong at all with a Staycation or using your saved time from work and working your second job

Not the greatest time, living in an ultra consumerism society fueled by debt. Going to be tough for millenniums to retire, they are conditioned to spend, not save.

It's because everybody's running a skeleton crew. Everybody's doing four or five jobs. You cannot keep putting more and more work on people, with less pay, and make them happy. This is what we're facing. If you're a nurse, you're doing the job of like five nurses. Same thing with every other job. However we all know that the population is increasing, but we're getting less and less workers? And that's not because people don't want to work. That's because companies don't want to pay people. For example, we need an analyst on my team, but for this last 6 months they've been dragging their feet. So I've been footing the bill for the analyst. And I can already tell you they're thinking, well he can do the analyst role and the demand planning role, let's just keep it that way for as long as we can. And that's what gets people to leave. Of course it's already made me sour, so I've already done quiet quitting. And now I'm just waiting for them to fire me because I'm only working like an hour a day because of what they've done to me

Even worse. "The last 4 years there's been record inflation, can't afford rent, groceries, fuel, a vacation... But let me vote for the same ppl who have been in charge those same 4 years" I can't even fathom what these ppl have for brains 😮

More and more people might face a tough time in retirement. Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Americans find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place to retire.

They are talking about radical acceptance

After George got spanked by Dave for mentioning the 4% rule, he’s using estimates of up to 8% now. Bad idea. 8% is going to make a lot of people go broke in retirement

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A great solution would be culture change. If we could stop demanding immediate service for all our wants and needs, companies would be less inclined to press 24/7 staffing. We need to be less demanding culturally, and learn to make do without things until the next business day, or after the weekend is over, or after the holiday.

PK-12 Schools, particularly public schools, often act more like social service agencies than academic institutions now. We often have to link families to food, clothing, healthcare, and sometimes housing to keep them afloat. This alone creates extra stress beyond the basics like reading, writing, and math which were our most basic concerns about 25 to 50 years ago. Just a note here from a PK-8 School Librarian who has worked in and out of education for almost 28 years in rural and urban environments.

You can always do what Lebron does and take steroids and cheating the entire league

Best part about my job, is that it is mostly stress free. Only time I am sort of stress is when taking tests for certifications, which I can always comeback to if I fail.

I'm only 4 mins into this and he got what crushed me as a teenager to 21 years old while i was in Afghanistan. My dad died when i turned 17. Bought a house just prior to the recession. My mom worked menial jobs. We lived in the Southside of chicago so they paid for a catholic school because the CPS schools were shit. I called home from Afghanistan My mom said she's losing the house, i gave her my deployment money and she still lost the house. I felt betrayed by my mom. They never savedfor retirement as my mom said, we never quite got to that part yet.. I've come a long way since then. I don't want to be married nor have kids. I missed the opportunity to lock in low interest rates. I don't have debt but i have always put away for retirement.

Ken Coleman for president

I have phenomenal management but I know I am very lucky to be able to say that.

George you believe that your kids are going to inherit your real estate after your dealth. You have neglected to realize that many of us will end up in a care center at the end of our life. with cognitive decline or neurological decline. This means that we will pay out of pocket for that care center to the amount of $6,000 to $12,000 PER MONTH. You pay until your money is gone (or you die.). Then if you are still alive and need that care center, Medicaid will put a lien on your home and will take whatever dollar amount they have spent on your care. Yes, there may be "some" money left on that (asset) piece of real estate but it is likely they will not inherit the total value of your real estate.

My sister was really struggling in retirement. I tried to get her to sell jelly at the local market and rehabbed items on facebook. She was pretty hostile to the advice.... at first !

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Lots of KZfaqrs who blog about living retirement at 500k. Most people croak way before 90 too, or they wish they did

The expectations of teachers, of police, of nurses has all changed drastically in the last 30 years. The jobs have absolutely changed and could be changed again. Just ask the old-hands in these fields

I think every American can agree that we need to vote for Harris/Walz to stop Project 2025.

George, when you say “$2m to retire”, you need to specify whether that amount ignores or includes home equity. $2m PLUS a paid-off home is a lot more wealth than $2m INCLUDING a paid-off home. I’m thinking that because they’ve been referring to these amounts as “retirement assets”, they are assuming that one has a paid-off home in addition to those assets. The assumption shouldn’t be glossed over, though.