The similarity between Northern Soul and ‘wasn’t ‘88 great’ bores doesn’t go unnoticed
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Online retailers asking for a review of whatever product was purchased without providing any incentive to do so
Just be grateful I haven’t returned the item, or make it worth my time
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I’m sure it’s only so they can claim to offer a review service and then post fake ones. Pretty much every advert on FB has the first comment as ‘I received mine yesterday and it amazing etc’. Utter bs.
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Don’t forget companies like Trustpilot allow companies to challenge reviews and have them removed. We do it all the time.
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Yep same here that deeply worries me. “ The road to fascism is paved with people telling you to stop overreacting.“ 
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in the attention economy we’ve repeatedly been told to ignore edgelord chud troll behavior because those fucks are happy with any response they get, good or bad. but by ignoring it, we’re also allowing it to normalize.
so now, here we are. and i hate it here.
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The bar I was playing has new ownership and as a result a new musical direction, which is fine it happens. They don’t want disco, balearic or whatever anymore but in their words, “house remixes of Charlie xcx and other music our clients know”. Not me so I’m bowing out. All good.
Here comes the fun bit though, another DJ who is taking this as his chance to get more work - fair enough - got a list of tracks that the management would like to hear in the place and they’re all SoundCloud bootlegs that aren’t available on vinyl, and it’s whole thing is that it’s a vinyl listening bar.
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How AI is going to ‘take my job’ - the irony here being that the company where I work (comms, brand, advertising etc) announced lay offs last week.
Up to 26 people are going to get the boot out of 90, fingers crossed I survive. Of course there are more reasons behind this than ‘AI is making us redundant’, but it’s definitely part of it. For production work I kinda get it, some things can be made more efficient when it comes to post-production for example, but for design and creative work? Naaah.
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‘clients’ charlie xcx remixes…ooooffff…sounds like your best out of it tbh
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Haha ridiculous, sounds like you’re better off out of it
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Sorry to hear that, where are you based, I have some contacts in that world and if the worst happens, might be able to help.
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Has there been any backlash in the UK yet? Haven’t read about anything but would’ve thought most are generally too apathetic or unaware of the bigger picture.
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Not sure…
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That sounds like classic Boston to me…
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Ah that’s lovely, appreciate the sentiment. I’ll be in touch
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i share this with kindness in my heart - it’s headline is pretty doom and gloom, but there’s interesting stuff in here, obvs from a younger software engineers’ perspective (which has some similarities with creative, but not a ton of overlap).
my team experienced about 10-15% layoffs about a year and a half ago, and i lost a couple of people who could do things nobody else on the teams could cover. we still miss them. we’re still mad about it all. and in that, i’ve really changed my perspective on what i am and am not willing to do for this company.
it’s an arbitrary milestone, but i decided that if in 2025 i really want to battle situational depression with any tangible results, i need to separate my work value from my non-work value - and for me that means investing a lot more time into creating the things that i’m proud of, the things that make me feel comfort while creating them, and learning more, for me - not for my marketable attributes. it also means investing less in this dumb job and giving them just enough to worry about the adverse effects if i was let go or left. anything more than a strictly transactional relationship with work only does me a disservice.
if there’s two things in the world i hate doing, it’s buying/selling cars and looking for work/interviewing for jobs. i need to do both this year. but more importantly, i need to get into the habit of playing employment roles off of each other - i need to make this company worry about the other company’s offer. so, that’s part of the 2025 goal - be ready, and not in a smarmy linkedin sort of way, but able to sleep at night knowing there’s hope should this company get capricious and “belt tighten” again.
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Yep. It is what it is though.
I unknowingly found myself out of a job the day I went back to work recently in January. The role was sponsorship and digital marketing manager for a community radio station (albeit one that has existed for 40 years) and after only 12 months in the role it was deemed by the board of directors that in the current economy, they could only afford one full time staff member, not two.
Annoyingly I was headhunted for this role from another station, one that I had been at for 4 years and so I now find myself looking for work for the first time in a long time. @deepconcentration 's aforementioned ethos of the “need to separate my work value from my non-work value” is something I also firmly believe is so important the older we get. Despite having two kids and a mortgage, I’ve learned through experience that you need to put your own needs well above living for the company, especially from a mental health perspective.
I see myself as an asset and in 2025, despite the job market dwindling, I still believe that if you’re good at what you do, any employer should feel lucky to have somebody with not only experience, but an open mind - a trait displayed by many in this forum.
I learned a trick years ago when going for a job interview - that it’s my role to interview them, not vice versa - I need to know if I want to invest my time in a company or organisation worth my efforts. Try it, you’ll lose any nerves you have about interviews, I promise you. Also getting them to talk about themselves is the old psychological trick that created a good impression on an employer as they associate you with them stroking their own ego and the endorphins that creates.
I’m not sure if this response was just a way for me to put my feelings down in print, but for anybody reading this in a similar situation, I hope something resonates.
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You could always become a car salesman and kill both those birds with one stone 
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Happened to me a year ago and I’m still shaken. I had 12 direct reports. No performance issues, I was my boss’s succession plan, etc. In the end, I was just a number on a spreadsheet. It took me a bit to get over it. Exercise, networking, friends, all were key in helping to move beyond the breach.
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