Talking the (workplace) talk
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
“Act your wage,” “coffee badging,” “ghost jobs” — the internet is always vomiting up new workplace phrases. You may even use some of them to describe the bizarre job market of the past few years. So when popular work slang shifts from silly — “lazy girl jobs” — to grim — “quiet cutting” — are there hints about where the labor market is headed? Also in this episode: Tech firms ditch user counts, car sales motor on despite high costs and educators get educated about jobs at the Port of Baltimore.
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| 0:37.0 | 22. |
| 0:38.0 | All right, give me two words not having to do with politics that you might see in a headline. |
| 0:45.1 | We'll see if we match. |
| 0:47.0 | From American public media, this is market plans. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl Tuesday, today the 23rd of July. |
| 1:05.0 | Good as always to have you along everybody. |
| 1:07.0 | All right, here is a couple of words, not getting a whole lot of play in news feeds of late, |
| 1:11.6 | corporate profits. |
| 1:13.6 | Not, one readily admits, especially this week, |
| 1:16.6 | the most attention grabbing of phrases, |
| 1:18.8 | but we on this program are going to stick |
| 1:21.2 | with our bread and butter. |
| 1:23.0 | Alphabet reported earnings today, $84 billion in revenue last quarter. |
| 1:28.0 | 64 billion of that from ads. |
| 1:31.0 | Tesla had a bump in revenue last quarter two two, but car sales were off 7% |
| 1:35.4 | from the same quarter a year ago. And elsewhere in automotive, general motors. |
| 1:39.8 | Cars are in theory, what economists call interest rate sensitive right when rates go up |
| 1:45.1 | auto loans get more expensive car sales go down maybe not general motors said in |
| 1:50.3 | its announcement today it sold more cars and trucks in North America last quarter than it did a year ago and |
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