86
An increasing number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, BofA says
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
86 points (93.9% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
9756 readers
1158 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not surprising. I lost my job and am on cobra now. Went through to figure out the amount I would need to make to just barely get by as single income with a sickly spouse. it ends up being about 1/3 medical costs, 1/3 houseing, 1/3 everything else. 80k a year. If I can't get that I have to eat into savings. Its effing nuts now.
It seems like companies are increasingly posting ads for jobs they don't intend to fill, merely to scrape the data from applicants.
So they're exploiting the vulnerable, who just want to work- and have healthcare- and selling off their information for a few bucks.
Meanwhile ATS systems have made the application processes themselves an absolute nightmare in redundant tedium.
A resume and a cover letter are ALL any functional business should need. If you can't make hiring decisions from those documents, fire your CEO.
Oh man I was filling out a system today and had a hiccup on the page and lost everything I wrote. Reminded me when doing long things I need to cut and paste everything into a text doc just in case.