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"The interviewer tried to convince me to lowball myself after I said what I’d accept as a minimum salary. 'If we pay you that, you wouldn’t get a bonus at the end of the year, and you’d be really upset when everyone else got one.'"
- The Telegraph
Force wealthy back to work by slashing pension tax-free lump sum, says IFS
The tax-free limit on total retirement savings should be radically overhauled to stop successful older professionals quitting the workforce in droves, a prominent think-tank has demanded.
- Business Insider
A laid-off Google engineer describes losing his 'only career' 16 years after starting as an intern
Joel Leitch wrote in a LinkedIn post that 'Google has been my one and only career' after he was among the 12,000 staff laid off.
- The Telegraph
‘I’ve got cold feet about our lifetime dream – I daren’t tell my husband’
We were in our late 20s when we first started planning our big adventure, and I actually started it. We had a huge mortgage, two sleepless toddlers, boring jobs and no prospect of anything changing any time soon, but we’d both cheer up as we danced around the living room clutching a giggling child each as we loudly sang along to the Specials: “You’re married with a kid when you should be having fun with me…”
- TheStreet.com
Kroger Merger Is Good for You (and Maybe Bad for Walmart, Costco, and Amazon)
A consumer group has sued to block the Kroger and Albertsons merger, but it's missing the obvious.
- GOBankingRates
More Than Half of U.S. Adults Are ‘Jeopardizing’ Retirement Preparedness With Poor Life Expectancy Knowledge, Report Says
One of the keys to a comfortable retirement is building enough wealth to ensure you don't run out of money while you're still alive. This requires familiarity with average life expectancies, but not...
- Yahoo Finance
Here's how to delay taking required withdrawals from retirement accounts
While a new law increases the age you must withdraw from certain retirement accounts, there are two ways to delay that requirement even longer.
- TheStreet.com
Southwest Airlines Pushes Back Against a Common Criticism
The airline has faced a lot of criticism since its holiday meltdown and it's pushing back in one key way.
- Associated Press
FACT FOCUS: Egg shortage breeds chicken-feed conspiracies
The theory gained steam on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter in recent weeks, with some users reporting that their hens stopped laying eggs and speculating that common chicken feed products were the cause. “One of the largest egg producers in the country cut a deal with one of the largest feed producers in the country to change their feed formula so it no longer contains enough protein and minerals for your chickens to produce eggs,” one Facebook user wrote in a post shared more than 2,000 times. CLAIM: Chicken feed companies have altered their products to stop backyard hens from laying eggs and drive up demand for commercial eggs.
- American City Business Journals
Tech companies fueled development in Bellevue, but now the future is murky
Bellevue's fortunes seem tethered to the growth of tech giants and right now, uncertainty reigns as those companies are shedding jobs and office space.
- INSIDER
Big Tech reshaped immigration policy to recruit global talent. The newest wave of layoffs have left those immigrant workers stranded.
Outdated immigration policy and tech company layoffs have led to many H-1B visa holders scrambling to find new employment or face deportation.
- GOBankingRates
5 Easy Side Gigs That Pay Well
If you're angling to open a second income stream, the first thing you probably want to know about any side hustle you're considering is what it pays -- but what you should be asking is how hard the...
- GOBankingRates
14 Retirement Secrets You Should Know
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- MoneyWise
Laid-off Silicon Valley workers are panic-selling their start-up shares as valuations plunge — here are 3 top tech stocks for 2023 that actually make money
It's a tech-astrophe out there. But you have options.
- Bloomberg
Oil Market Faces Production Issue in 2024, Goldman’s Currie Says
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- Fortune
They shared their layoff heartbreak on LinkedIn. Then it went viral.
Laid-off workers take us inside the pseudo-confessional world of the LinkedIn Layoff post: "It’s cringe, but it’s effective."
- Reuters
EV startup Vinfast to cut U.S. jobs amid restructuring
(Reuters) -Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast is cutting its workforce in the United States, the company said on Monday, amid a restructuring in its major overseas market as the startup grapples with a stalled shipment of its first cars and prepares for a potential stock listing. The Vietnamese company, a subsidiary of conglomerate Vingroup JSC, has been moving to expand in the United States, where it hopes to compete with existing automakers. It was not immediately clear how many jobs would be affected by the U.S. restructuring.
- Business Insider
Kanye West's ex-lawyers finally found him after months of trying to tell him they quit
Ye's lawyers at Greenberg Traurig quit after his antisemitic tirades in October, but a judge made them tell him personally before they could withdraw.
- Detroit Free Press
2 Michigan-based companies score Top 10s in a national workplace survey
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