Unpopular Jobs Are Becoming Desirable & Communal Dining Makes a Comeback
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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, the latest trend in dining, sitting next to complete strangers.
Then Jeffrey Bezos is back in the arena, this time with a new AI startup. It's Tuesday, November 18th. Let's ride.
May I meet you? In four words, Bill Ackman just changed the dating game forever. In a viral ex post over the weekend that was apparently not satire, the hedge fund billionaire offered advice to young single men who were finding it difficult to meet women in public. Just walk up to them and say, may I meet you before advancing the conversation. Ackman said he used this pickup line in his younger years and almost never got a no. After his post went nuclear online, Ackman followed up, writing that May I Meet You works much more effectively when you are in motion, so be sure to use it in places like subways, elevators, airplanes, buses, and even walking down the street. Toby, would you have used this in your single days?
No, but a lot were very quick to point out that, hey, Bill, maybe the approach was working because your 6'3 went to Harvard and were super rich, but the general thesis does feel right here. If the two options are A, you don't go up to someone, or B, go up to someone and say, may I meet you? I do think option B is preferable, but it also has me thinking maybe a new tagline for the show, no more let's ride, it's all may we ride. Let us know what you think about that. All right, now a word from our sponsor, U.S. Bank. Picture this, your favorite band just announced they're heading on a big tour for their new album. They're stopping by your city in just a few short months, but you didn't budget for concert tickets this month.
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When jobs are hard to come by, flagging down traffic, being a prison guard, or dealing with a bunch of middle school brats doesn't sound all that bad. According to a Bloomberg report... Rolls that are physically demanding and offer low pay have been drowning in applications in today's chilly labor market, a reversal from the worker shortages that typically plague these industries. Take the Georgia Department of Corrections, for example, which operates in a notoriously high turnover industry. It said that it received more than 1,000 applications in each of the last three months for all rolls, up 40% from a year ago. Or Waste Management, which said on an earnings call last month that turnover among garbage truck driver and technician rolls
was at an all-time company low, something echoed by its competitors in garbage collection. The flocking to what micro called dirty jobs comes as Americans are finding it hard to land a new gig long after they lost their old one. According to the most recent government data, more than a quarter of unemployed workers have been out of work for more than six months, which is among the highest rate in decades. Toby, typically these kind of companies hardly turn away any applicants. Now they can be more selective than Princeton.
Right. You're seeing this headline and saying, oh, people are getting jobs. That's a good thing, but it's actually not a bullet signal at all. These are the jobs that get filled when there's no other jobs out there. One to look at is the military, which is typically a hard job to fill because you have to separate from your family and go back to 2022.
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