OhFunny posted:

The article says Robert Lighthizer's wants to do Plaza Accords 2.0. Threaten tariffs to bring other countries to the table to negotiate a rebalancing of exchange rates.

triple sulk posted:

his net worth is likely 20-30 million dollars. maybe more if he was really responsible and invested well.

triple sulk posted:

director is level 66 or 67 so his base salary is probably about 350-450k plus another 50-60k a year in stocks and a 40-60k cash bonus for hitting performance targets along with stock refreshers.

he also probably gets 60 days severance plus an extra 5-6 months' worth for all the years he's been there

his net worth is likely 20-30 million dollars. maybe more if he was really responsible and invested well.

triple sulk posted:

director is level 66 or 67 so his base salary is probably about 350-450k plus another 50-60k a year in stocks and a 40-60k cash bonus for hitting performance targets along with stock refreshers.

he also probably gets 60 days severance plus an extra 5-6 months' worth for all the years he's been there

his net worth is likely 20-30 million dollars. maybe more if he was really responsible and invested well.

anime was right posted:

hed need to be a director for like twice as long as he actually worked to be in the 30 milly range and thats before taxes

dude probably has a house and a few milly laying around if he wasnt a complete moron, sure.

Vox Nihili posted:

Older guy working at Microsoft gets laid off after 33 years, immediately spouts praise for the company that shitcanned him

ikanreed posted:

Do you think haurispex had anywhere near as much freedom to make up whatever answer the elites wanted as economists do?

post hole digger posted:

derek guy wrote a pretty good article on this a while back https://putthison.com/is-it-classist-to-be-against-fast-fashion/

this is true too

SKULL.GIF posted:

this is the absolute worst genre of tweet

Vox Nihili posted:

Older guy working at Microsoft gets laid off after 33 years, immediately spouts praise for the company that shitcanned him

SKULL.GIF posted:

this is the absolute worst genre of tweet

https://twitter.com/yubaba_yaga/status/1556391412752678912

article was good tho

SKULL.GIF posted:

Can he say that?

https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1780031019241881921

Scarabrae posted:

Hey Now You’re an R-STAR

Vox Nihili posted:

Older guy working at Microsoft gets laid off after 33 years, immediately spouts praise for the company that shitcanned him

Xaris posted:

we call them wreckers, or liberals if you prefer.

i used to really like uniqlo for beefy reliable, well-fitting-off-the-shelf, clothing at a good price, but things there suck rear end now too. oh well

biceps crimes posted:

My tees were all from Uniqlo. I bought them back in 2015, they’re great and cheap but now they’re getting worn out. idk what to replace them with, people recommend like 60 dollar tees which is ridiculous to me. the tees I bought were $10 each but now they’re $25 each. I bought one new recently just to try and it sucks now. can’t find a plain, inexpensive and decent tee that fits well and isn’t immediately bacon collared after a couple of washes

biceps crimes posted:

My tees were all from Uniqlo. I bought them back in 2015, they’re great and cheap but now they’re getting worn out. idk what to replace them with, people recommend like 60 dollar tees which is ridiculous to me. the tees I bought were $10 each but now they’re $25 each. I bought one new recently just to try and it sucks now. can’t find a plain, inexpensive and decent tee that fits well and isn’t immediately bacon collared after a couple of washes

SKULL.GIF posted:

quote:

Vocal frustration with more expensive gas and food, rent-raising landlords and premium-raising insurance companies still animates small talk among friends. Home prices have soared, a blessing for homeowners but a curse for those seeking to join their ranks. Child care and elder care costs, rising before the pandemic, are still ascending. (And beyond needs like auto insurance, there is annoyance with the $4 bag of chips in the checkout aisle, or a $10 pint of beer that used to be $7.)

The most popular measure of national consumer sentiment, tracked by the University of Michigan since 1978, has reached its highest level since July 2021, before the worst of inflation hit. But sentiment hasn’t fully recovered. It remains suspended halfway between its all-time low in June 2022 — when inflation topped at 9 percent — and its peak in the 21st century, around New Year’s Eve 2019.

“Trying to make yourself happy is difficult,” said Lindsay Danella, an Altoona, Pa., native.

At 39, she recently left a job making over $70,000 as a general manager at a hotel where she said executives dealt with understaffing during and after the pandemic by asking managers like her to do more of everything without offering more flexibility or pay.

Now, as a server at Levity Brewing in downtown Altoona, she makes the legal subminimum wage for tipped workers in the state, about $3, but says she has found ways to “love it” despite that low base. Business is good, so tips are plentiful on weekends. And the taproom, which opened in 2022 in a remodeled space with floor-to-ceiling windows, is part of a district that has been revitalizing since 2021.

After feeling overworked and burned out since 2020, she has been able to step back in her new job and spend more time with her daughter, sharing parental duties with her ex-husband.

It also helps that, like most of the 70 percent of Pennsylvanians who are homeowners, Ms. Danella has been protected against rent inflation thanks to her low-cost, fixed-rate home mortgage payment. But many family members and friends in her network, who consider themselves relatively fortunate as she does, have been feeling somewhat unmoored since the pandemic.

So many, she explained, have had “a midlife crisis” — a spate of people changing jobs, shifting relationships, managing children through “Zoom school,” adjusting to a move or being unable to afford one because of higher interest rates, all while facing a whirl of new expenses.

“It feels like someone put us in a long rinse cycle in a washing machine,” she said, “and forgot to take us out.”

quote:

Some of these effects may sound similar to the years after the 2008 housing crash, when a different problem — underwater mortgages — trapped many people in homes they wanted to leave. But today’s challenge may be more lasting. That’s because 30-year mortgage rates get locked in for, well, 30 years, and because rates below 3 percent are unlikely to be seen again anytime soon.

Smythe posted:

dont put shirts in the dryer you fool

Smythe posted:

back then you could practically light a cigarette while parkign your car and put it out in the ashtray by the boarding ramp. very nice. long gone. i blame the shoe bomber for this.

PoundSand posted:

The best part is poo poo is p much just as expensive as the good stuff was before. Had a bonding moment with my mom the other day where I was looking for a simple kitchen gadget, a can opener, and it's like there's no amount of money I can offer to get a good one. There's branding that moves the pricepoint up and down but there's not a single one you can find online that doesn't have a bajillion 1 star reviews for a lemon falling apart after two uses. Clothing feels largely the same, like you can spend more money for a "better" brand but it's all made in the same place with the same methods and materials.

I have the money and preference to get nice stuff rather than treat everything as disposable but there's not really a good method to do so, I dunno where you'd even start for most things outside of like, hiring a specific individual carpenter with a 10 year wait list to make you a nice table or such.

Precambrian Video Games posted:

Interesting that someone would quit a $70k/year "manager" role for a $3/hr + tips service job; that hotel manager job must have been terribad or something else is going on.

biceps crimes posted:

I line dry all of my shirts

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm glad I was able to come up to the cockpit and talk to the pilots and gawk at the instrument panel in the middle of a transpacific flight, as a kid, before 9/11

Shear Modulus posted:

joe biden made chocolate too expensive

Shear Modulus posted:

the kirkland signature protein bars are now chocolate and peanut butter flavor instead of chocolate flavor because joe biden made chocolate too expensive

gradenko_2000 posted:

TRUMP!!!

Scarabrae posted:

Hey Now You’re an R-STAR

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Hospitality is insanely worse since the pandemic due to increased physical and verbal abuse from customers. I wouldn't want to work as a hotel manager either.

Smythe posted:

lol my first job at the theatre was working box office and house management. i still cover these duties if people are out kuz whatever. but this is For Real. my box office lady was out last week at a conference for her day job and picking up the phone / working the window it was surprising how mean & miserable people were.