When I was a younger boomer and shopping for work, admittedly vastly easier than today's work scene, we would see many bullet points pushed out by HR (oh wait, it was called employment or personnel back in the day) as a list of features for working at some place. As time went on we would notice more bullet points like 5% of your time can be research (Ha), flex time (Ha) and a whole lot of bullet points churned out by corporate boilerplate marketing HRs.

The point being semantically words change yet the effect remains. Overused but true: ‘If it sounds too good to be true’

Selling jobs is always telling applicants a list of what they want to hear, (American politics anybody?). The reality should be some kind of ‘buyer beware’ exercise.

The conversation involving today’s job prospects are new bullet points but the same underlying ‘sins of omission’ or what you never hear from employers. The tip of the dangerous iceberg hides in this huge sin of omission.

“this pandemic has just heightened that sense.”

—> Or maybe made the case.

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In the future, near future, all these news stories about people refusing to work, workers have too much free money from the government (that’s fresh huh?) snowflakes are commies, blah blah blah. Amazingly this could evolve into a kind of class war, say, company towns vs. the wokes*, or some such tripe, point is the 1% will sit on the sidelines watching the citizens all get screwed. Hey, it’s the capitalist way, late stage or regular rampant capitalism. Wealth control is their care or fear.

* much of Texas is like a big company town, fossil fuels-ville.