u/gentlesandwich

This isn't a bad thing, either. Think of how many people have been made miserable through feeling pressured to have kids. Those who shouldn't have had kids wind up divorcing and leaving the family anyways.

Now, we know better than to even try a fucked up "family experiment" phase.

Obviously all the other socio economic factors are important too, but I think the margins for that have been expanding at the same rate for decades now. Meanwhile, the new increasing dataset are those who could afford kids but literally don't care to deal with it.

This is probably my favorite coded language at an interview for an attorney position.

When they say they don't deal with drama, that is a reactive statement addressing prior incidences of "drama." We all know we're too busy to start "drama" at a firm: no shade, but it's the support staff that start all the drama.

So, when they say that to you at an interview, that means you better not stand up for yourself when we try absolutely taking advantage of you and your time.

I'm gonna rant. Fuck it.

Any boss who says you have to work double overtime because "we can't hire anyone" is a fucking liar who deserves to lose their business.

There is a surplus of hireable lawyers out there. The problem is you only got paid $60k starting out in the 90s, and you have no true grasp of how serious inflation has been ruining lives all over the place since then. Meanwhile, you are so egotistical that you can't even fathom offering more money to new associates.

You think it's too painful to hire a new attorney at ~$120,000? Well imagine how painful it is for a lawyer to deal with the high stress and demand of the job just to make enough to barely pay for rocketing groceries, rent, student loans, cars, etc. And the problem is you're too fucking egotistical to admit that you're wrong.

No, no. That's not the narrative. The narrative is: "you current employees will be made to suffer like slaves to make up for the labor deficit, because I'm too fucking greedy to just pay people consistent with the changing market." Oh and guess what, you'll have trouble finding a different job, because almost every single employer in the country is out of touch with the exponentially growing disconnect between rising GDP and stagnant wages.