10. “Private equity and consultants that are paid to tell you to just lay off workers.” —RiverParty442 “Funily enough, private equity and private credit are in trouble now, and they are cheesing their numbers so hard that it’s borderline fraud. Turns out you can only do the buy extract profits load with debts sell cycle on companies so much before they go under…

Being a furloughed employee is a unique kind of limbo, because it’s not a vacation. Kerksick feels like she is “being held on a leash right now” because she is technically still employed and can be recalled back to work any day, which limits her travel. During her days, she trains for a 5K race, crochets stuffed animals and watches true crime…