My brother-in-law texted me Monday morning at quarter-to-seven asking if I could dog-sit for him. He’s having all the windows in his house replaced this week while the weather is accommodating.
Regular readers of American View will remember that my team was eliminated in a corporate restructuring shortly after New Years. This wasn’t my first layoff and probably won’t be my last.
This week’s column marks a significant anniversary for me on this site. I’d like to explain why I’m still here, still posting, but that’ll take some context, so … bear with me while I embarrass myself in a true (but eyerolling-ly silly) story
Well, heck … this last week has been a blast! If you somehow missed it, a fellow identified as Chamel Abdulkarim (allegedly) set fire to a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse packed full of bog roll pallets last Tuesday.
This promises to be a strange week for me. If you haven’t already read my column from 13th January, the executive summary is that my partner and I got laid off in a mundane corporate restructuring.
The fourth calendar quarter has been absolutely awful this year in the USA. Amidst the insane “trade war” the American government launched on its own people, the deployment of military forces to our own city centres, our economy struggling like a crippled airliner, and a petulantly pointless government shutdown, most everyone I know is frazzled.
I finally closed a browser window this morning. I’ve been keeping this particular window open for two years. It was an online obituary. My father’s obituary, specifically, from 2023. I’m not sure why I was so averse to closing the window.
Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services’ decision to cut over 12,000 jobs signals the start of a broader AI-fueled trend that could end up eliminating around half a million jobs over the next two to three years from the $283 billion sector, experts said.
I’ve long suspected that leaders cement their understanding of the rules, mores, and expectations of the workspace during their first leadership experience.