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The factory I work at making food packaging just eliminated the entire 3rd shift. In over 20 years, they have never done this.

I've been trying to land a job for about 5 months now. It's just been 1 rejection after another. 😭😭

I work for a US manufacturer in Texas. Business had been going well for us for quite a while, especially in 2024 and beginning of 2025. We made a huge investment in the construction of a new facility, hired a ton of new employees, consistent quarterly bonuses, life was great. Then liberation day came and it started to slow down. Bonuses stop coming, hiring stopped. A couple weeks ago we had our first round of layoffs, which shocked me because we have never laid off people and I've been here a long time. The 2007 crisis was pretty bad, but we pushed through that without any layoffs. It is extremely frustrating to see people saying that tariffs are good for manufacturing while watching it slowly degrade our company. Tariffs can be a useful tool when they are targeted at specific industries and goods. It has the opposite effect when they are used as a general purpose economic weapon against other countries.

Crazy, those are the unrevised numbers

It's gonna get revised to 150k job losses

Wait until the revision.

I work for a US manufacturer in Texas. Business had been going well for us for quite a while, especially in 2024 and beginning of 2025. We made a huge investment in the construction of a new facility, hired a ton of new employees, consistent quarterly bonuses, life was great. Then liberation day came and it started to slow down. Bonuses stop coming, hiring stopped. A couple weeks ago we had our first round of layoffs, which shocked me because we have never laid off people and I've been here a long time. The 2007 crisis was pretty bad, but we pushed through that without any layoffs. It is extremely frustrating to see people saying that tariffs are good for manufacturing while watching it slowly degrade our company. Tariffs can be a useful tool when they are targeted at specific industries and goods. It has the opposite effect when they are used as a general purpose economic weapon against other countries.

AI job cuts are just a scape goat for low demand.

Tarrifs have ruined everything

I work for a US manufacturer in Texas. Business had been going well for us for quite a while, especially in 2024 and beginning of 2025. We made a huge investment in the construction of a new facility, hired a ton of new employees, consistent quarterly bonuses, life was great. Then liberation day came and it started to slow down. Bonuses stop coming, hiring stopped. A couple weeks ago we had our first round of layoffs, which shocked me because we have never laid off people and I've been here a long time. The 2007 crisis was pretty bad, but we pushed through that without any layoffs. It is extremely frustrating to see people saying that tariffs are good for manufacturing while watching it slowly degrade our company. Tariffs can be a useful tool when they are targeted at specific industries and goods. It has the opposite effect when they are used as a general purpose economic weapon against other countries.

Wait until oil prices soar because of a war of choice

Illegal Wars and illegal tariffs have consequences

Remember when they criticized Biden for adding 170,000 in a month.

Great job Dumpy.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

When GOP fired thousands of employees, they served trickle down unemployment. Add tariffs and ICE- GOP is bad for business.

AI job cuts are just a scape goat for low demand.

The thing about AI is that it will decrease the number of people hired over time, more than it will cause layoffs right now. In white collar world, this started a long time ago with computers and everything that's developed since the 80s or thereabouts. We used to have people who filled roles like "clerk", or who spent a lot of time taking dictation, typing and formatting documents, managing hard copy files, going to court houses and post offices and things like that. I've worked in law firms that had their own copy departments with full time staff. Those tasks are almost entirely gone. We still have people like secretaries and paralegals in law firms, but we don't have file clerks. And we don't need as many secretaries or paralegals now as we did 20 years ago when there was a lot more hard copy work done. The whole production process is so much faster when everything is prepared, stored and transmitted electronically, that fewer people are needed to do the same work. It will be the same kind of thing. Fewer people will be hired as we go forward. But I think it will happen a lot faster with AI. And of course I'm just addressing one industry, law, in which I work, but the equivalents are happening everywhere. And the thing is, the work sucks a lot more. It is much harder on the human body and psyche to sit still in front of a computer all day. We used to have far more reason to get up from our desks, to stop staring at a blue-lit monitors, to talk to other humans, to go outside, to walk around. So we are far more drained from doing our work than we used to be. I know I am, and I think most people are. Of course, for "blue collar" jobs, this started happening with industrialization, when machines started replacing humans for all kinds of physical jobs. All of this development brings some great advantages, but it causes a lot of harm too. It started eliminating large swaths of viable job opportunities decades ago. We use to have a lot more people who could work some artisan-craft type jobs, and those are almost all gone. Personally, I believe AI is going to take us way over the tipping point into nightmare land.

This is just the beginning. AI is going to layoff everyone.

Tough times are coming folks

Trust me we are doomed, this is gonna be worst than 2008 recession

We are heading into some bad times

Living costs keep rising while wages barely move. With the way the economy is managed, financial education isn’t optional anymore.

Consumer debt in the U.S. hit a record $18.8 trillion at the end of 2025. What's really is going on is people are buying their groceries and everything else using their credit cards.

Fixed income seniors are struggling while our government continues to spend Billions 😐

I am the CFO of a manufacturing company. I don’t know why more people aren’t talking about this, but many major corporate loans renew every five years. My company last renewed in 2021 and is due for renewal in 2026. If you look at interest rates in 2021–2022 and compare them to where they are today, the difference is significant. Many companies will have millions or even billions of dollars in loans that must be refinanced at potentially double the interest cost. In addition, in my opinion, the value of collateral for many businesses may be lower today than it was five years ago (potentially may lead to more down payment at renewal) Our company is already expecting cash shortages due to the spike in interest expenses and is considering laying off about 10% of employees to preserve cash. I believe 2026 and 2027 will be a critical period as large volumes of commercial loans come up for renewal. In my opinion, AI is becoming a convenient explanation for layoffs. It sounds much better to say that layoffs are due to productivity improvements from AI rather than admitting that companies are facing cash shortages caused by higher interest expenses.

I work in international freight forwarding, have been for 21 years. This is by far the worst I've seen this industry. The financial close for 2025 was rough to say the least. Now, from a corporate level, we are being told 2026 will be "challenging". Which means, prepare to be let go. There are already larger forwarders that have begun their layoffs or are on hiring freezes. If our industry goes down the unemployment will skyrocket because it's not just forwarders, it's truckers, cfs's, steamship lines, co-loaders, ports, airlines that are all affected.

Keep in mind these are rates right now before AI is good enough to lay off the majority of workers and on top of that the national debt going up several trillion potentially more because of this war. The US now has a trillion dollar hole in it's economy and the billionaires want to lay off all their workers while not paying taxes. Haemorrhaging money is not an economic strategy unless the end goal is bankruptcy. Can anyone guess how that'll turn out for the boarder economy, it doesn't take a mathematician to figure this out...

I am the CFO of a manufacturing company. I don’t know why more people aren’t talking about this, but many major corporate loans renew every five years. My company last renewed in 2021 and is due for renewal in 2026. If you look at interest rates in 2021–2022 and compare them to where they are today, the difference is significant. Many companies will have millions or even billions of dollars in loans that must be refinanced at potentially double the interest cost. In addition, in my opinion, the value of collateral for many businesses may be lower today than it was five years ago (potentially may lead to more down payment at renewal) Our company is already expecting cash shortages due to the spike in interest expenses and is considering laying off about 10% of employees to preserve cash. I believe 2026 and 2027 will be a critical period as large volumes of commercial loans come up for renewal. In my opinion, AI is becoming a convenient explanation for layoffs. It sounds much better to say that layoffs are due to productivity improvements from AI rather than admitting that companies are facing cash shortages caused by higher interest expenses.

I work in international freight forwarding, have been for 21 years. This is by far the worst I've seen this industry. The financial close for 2025 was rough to say the least. Now, from a corporate level, we are being told 2026 will be "challenging". Which means, prepare to be let go. There are already larger forwarders that have begun their layoffs or are on hiring freezes. If our industry goes down the unemployment will skyrocket because it's not just forwarders, it's truckers, cfs's, steamship lines, co-loaders, ports, airlines that are all affected.

Keep in mind these are rates right now before AI is good enough to lay off the majority of workers and on top of that the national debt going up several trillion potentially more because of this war. The US now has a trillion dollar hole in it's economy and the billionaires want to lay off all their workers while not paying taxes. Haemorrhaging money is not an economic strategy unless the end goal is bankruptcy. Can anyone guess how that'll turn out for the boarder economy, it doesn't take a mathematician to figure this out...