800k Layoffs in 2025 | AI Blocking Job Candidates | LeeLee Joins! | Nobody Wants to Work Anymore #17 w/ Indie and Snow Himbo

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Nobody Wants to Work Anymore - 2025 Edition! LeeLee joins to talk HR in healthcare

Tonight’s possible topics:

• Hiring/firing/job searching

• Insane work culture / Work From Home / Return to Office policy

• Union leadership vs rank and file labor struggles

• Messed up stuff companies do to workers

• AI & new tools

• Actual practical stuff too

Links:

Funny Stuff

• Star Trek killed the capitalists

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1mrxig0/when_do_we_get_to_this_stage_of_capitalism/

• Craziest Way You’ve Seen Someone Quit

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/work/comments/1mo9yhj/craziest_way_youve_seen_someone_quit/

• Tide Talking Stain - Super Bowl Ad

• Everything is Urgent

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• Filling Out Resumes Redundantly is So Much Fun!

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• “Anonymous” Surveys too!

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• Always Give 100% at Work!

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• Why Are You So Quiet at Work?

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• “How Was Work?”

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• Russell Nailing His Interview

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• Burnout can be real

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• Scott Seiss “We’re a Family”

  • https://youtube.com/watch?v=E_o2X-y4nQg?feature=shared

The Job Market Is In the Toilet - Shadow Jobs and 800k+ Layoffs in 2025

• The 2025 midyear HR checkup: Layoffs, DEI pivots and a ‘tricky’ AI future: Ryan Golden HR DeepDive

  • https://www.hrdive.com/news/2025-midyear-hr-checkup-layoffs-dei-pivots-ai-future/758545/

• Four in 10 Companies Posting Fake Job Listings: More Perfect Union

  • https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1963312455049953669

• Job Market is an Absolute Dumpster Fire

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromthejob/comments/1n7if6r/is_it_just_me_or_is_the_job_market_an_absolute/

• 806,000 Layoffs in 2025 as of August 15

  • https://www.whatjobs.com/news/2025-us-jobs-report/

• Salesforce Laid off 44% of Support Staff: Sam Illingworth

• ‘I’ve applied for more than 5,000 jobs – it’s brutal out there’: Joe Emery, The Telegraph via Yahoo News

  • https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ve-applied-over-5-000-060000449.html

• Expect Tech Layoffs to Continue: NYU Grad

• Conoco-Phillips laying off 20-25% of workforce

  • https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/conocophillips-lay-offs-21031616.php?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=68ba449d6f38f1000197c9a0&fbclid=IwZnRzaAMod7tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvZvtydULk2DIwpj6yF6FYVdn6Lb0RpJqiFgxE_vYeouqkOEPGEhdVXYO5qr_aem_OP8n3wsoH2oOSgys-ximxA

AI and the Job Market in 2025

• 17 Year Olds Programming AI to take our jobs

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/1n8c03j/theyre_going_to_take_your_job/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

• AI Interviewers? Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley

  • https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/06/ai_job_interview_experience/

• Using AI to Find a Job

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Skydance Takes Over Paramount, Forces 5 Day a Week Return to Office Starting in January

• Paramount’s new CEO tells employees to return to office full-time or quit ahead of layoffs: Marco Quiroz-Guttierez, Fortune

  • https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/paramount-skydance-ceo-david-ellison-return-to-office-mandate

Hyundai/LG Battery Plant Raided by ICE

• 450 Detained by ICE at Hyundai Georgia Plant, Where 3 Workers Were Killed Previously: Mike Elk, Payday Report

  • https://paydayreport.com/450-napped-by-ice-at-hyundai-georgia-plant-where-3-workers-were-killed-previously/?ref=payday-report-newsletter

Closing it out

• Why wouldn’t we want to go back to the office? Everyone Needs This

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Find the hosts everywhere!

Indie:

• LinkTree: https://indieleft.media

• Substack: https://substack.com/@indiemediatoday

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@indleftnews

Snow Himbo:

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• Substack: https://substack.com/@snowhimbo

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SnowHimbo

LeeLee:

• Telegram: https://t.me/leelee631

• Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/leelee631

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