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Claire*, 42, was always told: “Follow your dreams and the money will follow.” So that’s what she did. At 24, she opened a retail store with a friend in downtown Ottawa, Canada. She’d managed to save enough from a part-time government job during university to start the business without taking out a loan.

For many years, the store did well – they even opened a second location. Claire started to feel financially secure. “A few years ago I was like, wow, I actually might be able to do this until I retire,” she told me. “I’ll never be rich, but I have a really wonderful work-life balance and I’ll have enough.”

But in midlife, she can’t afford to buy a house, and she’s increasingly worried about what retirement would look like, or if it would even be possible. “Was I foolish to think this could work?” she now wonders.

She’s one of many millennials who, in their 40s, are panicking about the realities of midlife: financial precarity, housing insecurity, job instability and difficulty saving for the future. It’s a different kind of midlife crisis – less impulsive sports car purchase and more “will I ever retire?” In fact, a new survey of 1,000 millennials showed that 81% feel they can’t afford to have a midlife crisis. Our generation is the first to be downwardly mobile, at least in the US, and do less well than our parents financially. What will the next 40 years will look like?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (6 children)

My wife has a job with an awesome pension and as a result there is basically no situation she will ever leave. I pointed out to her that the golden handcuffs are still golden.

One day some MBAs are going to learn that if you don't want constant turn over you give workers a pension so great they would crawl over their mother's corpse to get it.

What am I saying? MBAs learning? Hahaha I love being silly.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One day some MBAs are going to learn that if you don't want constant turn over you give workers a pension so great they would crawl over their mother's corpse to get it.

Plus, modern MBAs see turnover as a good things because it makes the short-term investors happy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Sociopathy, lack of long term planning skills, drugs (metaphorical and physical). Some combination of those I suspect.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For some, you get the Jack Walsh thinking that some employees are going to be statistically bad performers, so it is good to get rid of them.

You also have other cases where lowering the time to train means you can expand faster since you don't need to find quality staff. The original McDonald's trained its staff to be able to be high output restaurants. The business model changed to needing less worker training to help fuel expansion.

You also have the case where some managers believe some jobs only require a commodity level labor. At that point, there is no value in training.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

So tired of hearing that shitstain's name. I admit there is some wisdom to the up or out approach. You know for very very high level workers. Like C-suite or a rank below. Doing it across the company just promises misery and failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

This is an appropriate reaction, in my opinion. Modern economic philosophy is entirely myopic with no apparent perceived value in anything beyond the next quarter. From that perspective, if your employees have already created value and you've budgeted more than severance would cost (or think you can get away with constructive dismissal), then, for the quarter, getting rid of employees looks like a financial positive.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Wasn’t there a study that said MBAs don’t have object permanence nor a real conscious understanding of the passage of time?

Money today. That’s all these businesses understand.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Just give them a box of crayons to eat so the adults can get some work done for once.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, living in the US, I would not take a job with a pension because the (private) pension system cannot be trusted. I remember the 00s when many company pension accounts went bankrupt, because companies were no longer offering it as a benefit and it was easy enough to screw over retired past employees. Companies would take poorly performing divisions and their pension plans, spin them off as a new company that would quickly file for bankruptcy.

I would not trust a pension without it being insured by an organization like the FDIC. Even then, I would be afraid that my pension would not cover living costs due to inflation.

Luckily there are alternatives. I have a 401k, which should give me a steady flow of inflation proof dividends… until a market downturn wipes it out. If that happens, I can fall back to Social Security. Don't believe the baloney that the government will ever let Social Security go bankrupt. They will just cut down benefits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't deny things like that happened. You heard about them right? So did I. But that's the thing, these are the stories you heard. It's man bites dog, it is observation bias.

Also her pension is insured. And I am pretty sure the bankruptcy thing you mentioned was one particular case with a car part maker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if any specific MBA learns a lesson. Some other douche canoe will swing by and have their single brain cell fire off just this one time and they'll start hacking away at the pensions to make Q3 look better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Boeing style.

No more moon shots, contract out everything, slash pensions, fight a war against your union, move corporate away from production, buy your own stock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I searched what MBA actually means. Fuck that shit. Degree in "Business Administration" sounds like degree in praying. Wait, there is one! Fuck!