A Senior Software Quality Engineer with 25 years at Adobe has gone viral after announcing he is starting over as a school bus driver after a year of being ghosted, filtered out, and discriminated against by the tech industry he gave his career to.
A viral Reddit post suggesting unemployed job seekers should stop applying and start a company together has struck a nerve, and the comments range from deadpan humour to a genuinely thoughtful proposal for decentralised worker organisations.
A Reddit post arguing that younger workers aren't lazy but are simply doing math that no longer adds up has resonated widely — with mid-career workers adding that the promised rewards of hard work have vanished for multiple generations, not just the youngest.
A job seeker who asked for a sign-on bonus after seeing a disappointing benefits package has been shamed by their recruiter for bad timing, and Reddit says the recruiter is wrong on every count.
People with years of experience say they are now applying for entry-level roles alongside recent graduates, making an already difficult first step into the workforce even harder.
The US national debt has reached about $39.9 trillion.
Another applicant with 15 years of experience said only three of 200 applications resulted in interviews.
German energy company RWE has agreed to abandon its US offshore wind projects in exchange for a $1.2 billion payout from the Trump administration, with the funds being redirected into an LNG export terminal in Louisiana.
The US unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, but the decline was partly driven by people leaving the workforce.
