7 minutes ago, TEW said:

Downsizing workforce so far:

 

Lies! This job market is on 🔥.

Maybe the people who know how to code can learn how to mine nickle.

Just now, lynched1 said:

Lies! This job market is on 🔥.

Maybe the people who know how to code can learn how to mine nickle.

Yeah, that’s the interesting trend. The blue collar jobs are in extremely high demand while white collar jobs are under pressure. Definitely a new dynamic.

1 minute ago, TEW said:

Yeah, that’s the interesting trend. The blue collar jobs are in extremely high demand while white collar jobs are under pressure. Definitely a new dynamic.

Eventually some of those people are going to need those diploma's to clean their dirty hands.

39 minutes ago, TEW said:

Yeah, that’s the interesting trend. The blue collar jobs are in extremely high demand while white collar jobs are under pressure. Definitely a new dynamic.

Rising rates make investing in automation very unappealing. And much of anything else…

The automotive sector is Fed for a couple of years yet. 

20 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Rising rates make investing in automation very unappealing. And much of anything else…

Automation is more difficult than people believe. It’s easiest in manufacturing, but we don’t do a whole lot of that in the US.

Plumbing, electricians, etc is virtually impossible from an economic view even if we had the technology, which we don’t.

With agriculture, mining and energy, you can make workers more productive through technology, but you still need people who are willing to work rough jobs in rural settings in dangerous conditions.

On 11/9/2022 at 4:19 PM, DrPhilly said:

I did that professionally for 10 years before jumping ladders. You?

That wasn't directed at you.  It was a universal dig as it's use as a witty retort for "other" folks facing a job loss.  

And yes, I've coded for over 30 years now.  Currently using Python for AI/ML and data orchestration after almost a decade not coding.  I'm past jumping ladders and now am in the "I'll do what I damn well feel like it" phase. 

55 minutes ago, CountBlah said:

That wasn't directed at you.  It was a universal dig as it's use as a witty retort for "other" folks facing a job loss.  

And yes, I've coded for over 30 years now.  Currently using Python for AI/ML and data orchestration after almost a decade not coding.  I'm past jumping ladders and now am in the "I'll do what I damn well feel like it" phase. 

Good place to be

17 hours ago, TEW said:

Automation is more difficult than people believe. It’s easiest in manufacturing, but we don’t do a whole lot of that in the US.

Plumbing, electricians, etc is virtually impossible from an economic view even if we had the technology, which we don’t.

With agriculture, mining and energy, you can make workers more productive through technology, but you still need people who are willing to work rough jobs in rural settings in dangerous conditions.

Automation (bots, simple AI) is really taking off in documentation, "paper pusher" type jobs. 

2 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Automation (bots, simple AI) is really taking off in documentation, "paper pusher" type jobs. 

 

Good, that's where we really need it.

5 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

Good, that's where we really need it.

Yes lol,  but maybe no for some. Those jobs employ people who are not particularly skilled but also lack ability to do physical work. 

36 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Yes lol,  but maybe no for some. Those jobs employ people who are not particularly skilled but also lack ability to do physical work. 

Yeah, some people will inevitably get hurt by the evolving job market, but it's coming whether we want to or not. That's why first-world nations need to invest heavily in education and job-training to keep their workforces competitive. My original comment, though, was more about how automating documentation makes the location, access, and processing of information much easier and more efficient for those who work with said documents. Whereas, a robot making and serving my food, or taking my call to customer service might increase a company's bottom line but can just as easily interfere with product quality and getting things done in a timely manner. Automation is only truly useful if it increases the efficiency of a service without reducing the quality of it.

Problem is that automation goes overseas. No jobs for those displaced except retail or menial labor. Education and retraining doesnt work for that population. Thats why they had those trivial jobs to begin with.

On 11/11/2022 at 3:07 PM, Boogyman said:

Automation (bots, simple AI) is really taking off in documentation, "paper pusher" type jobs. 

Right. The low hanging fruit. I have a friend who is a partner at a major law firm, and they’ve been able to use some of this to downsize the number of associates they hire.

But the rubber meets the road in the most fundamental jobs, and that’s the biggest problem. Even if we could build a robot that could fix power lines (or whatever), it would still be cheaper to just pay someone to do it.

Over 5.5 million illegal aliens have entered the US in the first 20 months of Joe Biden’s administration.

That on top of 25 million illegal aliens here.

2023 should be AWESOME!

34 minutes ago, lynched1 said:

Over 5.5 million illegal aliens have entered the US in the first 20 months of Joe Biden’s administration.

That on top of 25 million illegal aliens here.

2023 should be AWESOME!

Well somebody has to wash these cars and pick this fruit, and it ain't gonna be me. 🤷‍♂️

6 minutes ago, Eaglesfandan said:

Well somebody has to wash these cars and pick this fruit, and it ain't gonna be me. 🤷‍♂️

Then drive a dirty car and go hungry. Freedom of choice. 🇺🇸

Biden’s policies winning so much the Fed wants to slow it down.

Fed tells employers to STOP giving pay rises in order to bring inflation down: Warns wages are rising faster than they have in decades - and there are now almost two jobs for every person looking for work

• Christopher Waller, one of six members of the board of the Federal Reserve, on Wednesday addressed the Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, held in Arizona
• Waller, a governor of the Fed since December 2020, used his speech to emphasize 'the Federal Reserve's ongoing fight to reduce inflation'
• He urged employers not to give any pay rises, saying that it was pushing up inflation
• 'At any other time, I would be pretty unhappy about slowing growth, but not now,' Waller said 

hey Waller, STFU!

How's the "transitory inflation" working out for everyone?

On 11/17/2022 at 10:09 AM, Talkingbirds said:

Biden’s policies winning so much the Fed wants to slow it down.

Fed tells employers to STOP giving pay rises in order to bring inflation down: Warns wages are rising faster than they have in decades - and there

The largest generation America has ever seen, aka the baby boomers, is in the process of retiring.  In addition to all of those jobs that are now empty they are taking all of their capital and using it to live rather than making it available for investing.  At the same time the millennials are hitting their prime spending years.  All of that means rising interest rates and big worker shortages, especially in the trades.  None of that will change for years.

6 hours ago, Bacarty2 said:

That Work force is probably the only posative that this entitled generation has  given us

I'm not impressed by them in general. A couple I'd keep around. The rest......pass.

Still not a recession...

 

Freightwaves, employees received the following statement,  "At the instruction of the board of directors of United Furniture Industries Inc. and all subsidiaries, we regret to inform you that due to unforeseen business circumstances, the company has been forced to make the difficult decision to terminate the employment of all its employees, effective immediately, on Nov. 21, 2022.”

Every week I send a suggestive picture of myself to my many admirers. I call it my "bod" cast.

Who's in?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/another-tech-bubble-bursts-2022-brutal-silicon-valley-workers-rcna56435

 

Long list of tech layovers over the 2nd half of 2022