Weekly, What recent changes are going on at your work / local businesses?
Posted by AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 21 comments
This could be, but not limited to:
- Local business observations.
- Shortages / Surpluses.
- Work slow downs / much overtime.
- Order cancellations / massive orders.
- Economic Rumors within your industry.
- Layoffs and hiring.
- New tools / expansion.
- Wage issues / working conditions.
- Boss changing work strategy.
- Quality changes.
- New rules.
- Personal view of how you see your job in the near future.
- Bonus points if you have some proof or news, we like that around here.
- News from close friends about their work.
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Thank you all, -Mod Anti
lm1670@reddit
I work in personal care ingredients, specifically surfactants. We are extending our third price increase in two months. There are a lot of raw material shortages for alcohols that are used to make ingredients which is forcing us to go on allocation for our customers. This is in addition to tariffs and increased energy costs. Everyone is 100% certain to be paying even more for their shampoos and soaps in a few months.
VariousFalcon7466@reddit
So we’re all going to be poor and smelly!?
Correct-Avocado5426@reddit
I'm already half way there!
StarlightLifter@reddit
This is the second shock.
Part I was the gas shock. We saw a bit of that in the first month or so of this whatever the fuck it is in Iran.
Now we just saw the full brunt of that start to hit like yesterday. Trumps bluster and Wall Street manipulation is bending to the abject reality of the situation now that reserves are running low and tankers aren’t coming in.
Part II will be manufacturing shock. Now that gas prices are well on their way upward, the cost of manufacturing and transport will steadily rise. This will take on average from what I’m told, 30-60 days depending on the product to be manufactured at a higher cost, and that (even further) inflation/shrinkflation to be passed down to the consumer.
Part III is the food shock. That’ll come after harvest season this fall, as a result of the above in addition to fertilizer shortages leading to less yields - also the El Niño we have coming could damage crop yields even further.
This shit is just getting started. If it was the goal of this administration to absolutely destroy this country - they are doing a great job and as an added bonus, taking the world with it.
splat-y-chila@reddit
There's always some sort of soft skills presentation series being put together by HR/employee relations. Think, how to exercise so you have less stress, or how to juggle kids and work (this one went out around RTO). This week it's how to budget and live off of your paycheck.
Careless-Clock-9928@reddit
Same at my company. Being talked to about personal budgeting in a corporate meeting is unreal.
VariousFalcon7466@reddit
Consistent-Risk-7802@reddit
This is the only response to that kind of fuckery. Isn't it wonderful that there's a Schitts Creek gif for literally any response needed!
VariousFalcon7466@reddit
There’s a lot of weird Craigslist job ads. They either pay illegally low($50 a week for 7 hours a day 5 days a week) or unrealistically high ($100,000+ for a part time house painter).
reedmanisback@reddit
Well that sounds suspicious.
bikumz@reddit
Second one definitely sounds sketchy, but the first one sounds like a dude looking for cheap labor who can no longer find dudes to work at his usual spots.
Repulsive-Exercise-4@reddit
High end hospitality. Hours cut across the board for FOH, dramatically lower sales this week, and a salaried manager working tipped shifts taken from service staff (afaik illegal, too)
MilkTop7064@reddit
Residential roofing materials had a 9-12% increase a couple of months ago. Got notified of another 9% increase in effect June 1st.
Special_Geologist758@reddit
I guess that is the US? Here in Thailand construction is looking bleak. So far, since the Iran war, we have had:
20% concrete price increase 15-25% Rebar increase 50% pu steel roof increase
And are looking at further increased starting next month.
MilkTop7064@reddit
Yes, northeast US
Ok-Web-2657@reddit
UK; the company our household gets its organic meat boxes from has emailed all customers announcing price rises. This is long overdue, as their beef has been cheaper than supermarket beef for some time.
Pirate-Andy@reddit
US Foods is adding a $5 fuel surcharge to every delivery. This is in place until diesel is under $5 again. So this will be in place for a long time.
VariousFalcon7466@reddit
If they’re doing it then I assume Sysco will do the same
Round-Medicine2507@reddit
Due to racism my coworker who had the most experience in our medical office didnt have their work visa renewed and so now thousands of white US citizens are receiving slower and worse medical care because the replacement employees are not as qualified or experienced with the mess that is EPIC and our company. Way to shoot yourself in the foot USA....
Pontiacsentinel@reddit
HHS changed the indirect cost rules for NIH grants. This is a big deal. Indirect costs, to simplify things, are the funds that cover overhead not attributable directly to a grant (think rent, utilities, trash pick up).
Excellent breakdown on this here: https://www.awardadvisors.com/a-major-hhs-agency-quietly-tightens-indirect-cost-rulesand-almost-no-one-noticed
Open5esames@reddit
I used to work at a grant office (dealing with exactly this stuff on behalf of the org), and the changes here, but all the changes together, really, are going to gut a lot of the programs.
People think of the endowments as big bags of money that can be tapped, but they are actually big collections of restricted funds with different people in charge of each.
Can professor A tie her research to the fund for the class of 1979 bench project? And then contact the class representative or fund rep from the class of 1979 who gets to recommend when and how that fund gets spent?
Some of the money is unrestricted, but a lot of donations are for specific things, and cant be spent. Also grant funded equipment may not be owned by the college/ research org. It may be owned by the NIH.