Layoffs

Brandon's Amerika

That sucks man, but that's why they pay you the big bucks.

I'm sorry. The Biden economy is destroying lives, futures, everything. It's a disaster.

Worst time to be living in society today

Life is still good but the outlook has never been worse. Our standard of living is much higher than our forefathers but the cost of maintaining it has become much harder and almost soul-crushing. Upward mobility and the stability of a white collar career are becoming a thing of the past.

Firing someone is a lot easier than laying someone off. When someone gets fired it's typically 95% their fault. When you have have to lay someone off its typically not their fault, especially when you get into the 2nd and 3rd round of layoffs. At that point you are laying off your friends and people you've typically known for years, some that you have worked side by side with.

What is production staff for housing? I’m assuming not builders

Sucks. Hope they all find work soon. They getting decent severance?

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Life is still good but the outlook has never been worse.

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I think the outlook appears a little better now than it must have seemed in 1930.

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Life is still good but the outlook has never been worse. Our standard of living is much higher than our forefathers but the cost of maintaining it has become much harder and almost soul-crushing. Upward mobility and the stability of a white collar career are becoming a thing of the past.

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This is the rub. Our standard of living is ridiculously higher than it was just 20 years ago. Our first home, bought in 1987 and built in the 1950s, was just under 900 square feet. 2 BR, 1 BA. 1/10th of an acre lot on a septic tank (yeah, imagine THAT). When we bought it there had been 3 prior owners, all of whom were solidly middle class (it was a Lockheed Mill House where Lockheed employees lived in Cobb County Georgia). Those 3 families had at least 2 kids each before they moved out of that house. We bought a "starter" home 5 years after buying this one, outside of Athens Georgia. 3 BR, 2.5BA, 2100 square feet. We sold that one in 5 years and bought another starter home outside Augusta. 4 BR 3 BA, 3100 square feet. We then moved all over the world and the US and bought bigger and bigger "starter" houses each time...finally in our current home in a neighborhood of first time home owners where our house, at a little over 5000 square feet and 5 BRs and 4 BAs is on the smaller size. In 41 years a "starter" home has increased in size nearly 600%. Couple that with $60k automobiles, boats, campers, massive TVs in every room and on the porch....the standard of living in the US has far outpaced our needs and salaries. You could not GIVE a 23 year old couple in Georgia a 2 BR 2 BA 900 square foot house today without them selling it immediately and buying a 3000 square foot house. They also would not dream of driving a 10 year old car and changing their own oil. The cost of living is soul crushing because we make bad decisions like buying $60k automobiles and 5000 square foot houses.....not because of anything other than our own desires.