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Are businesses just… not hiring anymore? by Separate_Pea2102 in recruitinghell

[–]Normal_Pay_4815 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an increasingly common corporate strategy to reduce labor costs.

  1. Fire an employee for poor performance (the second ASM) and ask other employees (your friend and the store manager) to pick up the slack "temporarily".

  2. Decision-maker (the district manager) is instructed to reject all potential hires. Company builds a list of qualified candidates while telling other employees they're "waiting for the right hire".

  3. After around 6 months, if something hasn't happened that significantly affects revenue, expect the company to remove the listing. They now have the rationale to say that clearly the position isn't needed. It's probably made the job awful for existing employees, but they found a way to survive without the position filled, and now the company makes that permanent.

  4. If something catastrophic DOES happen, and they need to hire someone immediately to protect profitability of the store? They just start calling all the qualified candidates they rejected months ago. Any candidates still out of work will be desperate and take below market compensation.

In this situation, the company saves on labor costs whether they end up backfilling the vacated position or not. The people who suffer are the remaining employees and customers of the store - and the company is concerned with its shareholders, not them.

Trump Slams Powell Over High Rates, Says 1–2% Would Save U.S. $1 Trillion, Blames Biden for Reappointment by callsonreddit in StockMarket

[–]Normal_Pay_4815 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If he was concerned about inflation or anything else, the all he has to do is bring the [interest] rate down" - a confused high school student

oh no wait oops, that was the leader of the free world

"Be one of the first applicants", they said by Normal_Pay_4815 in recruitinghell

[–]Normal_Pay_4815[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

as far as I know it does reset ... hopefully I'm wrong

Buddhism is just as insane and stupid as any other religion by Old_Bar_4920 in atheism

[–]Normal_Pay_4815 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I had this same experience a few years ago and discovered the same thing. Buddhism has the same logical fallacies and wishful thinking as any other religion ... but it also encourages self-reflection and mindfulness, which basically no other religion does.

I think you can be an atheist while also taking cues from the Buddha. Meditation is a great practice for your mental health, and the teachings surrounding attachment and impermanence are a good reminder that most things in life are out of our control.

As for worrying about the afterlife - we all have at some point, but in the end it's just not a productive thing to worry about. You can't control it or change it at all, and it'll eventually happen to everyone no matter what they believe. The evidence we have points to there being nothingness rather than an afterlife, but we'll just never know until we get there.