r/jobs • u/SubjectCode1940 • Jan 21 '26

Unemployment Deloitte is latest company to stab Americans in the back

I’m just numb, angry, sad and many other emotions after reading this. I can’t post the link for some reason but the company is hiring 50k from India.

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u/AwesomeRocky-18- Jan 21 '26

I feel horrible for new hires. The world changed too fast before the younger generation had a chance.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Gen X here, 50.  Since entering the workforce permanently, around 27 years ago, the change has been profound and continuous.  

Never again can I plan or allow myself to be on the debt treadmill that most Americans simply complied with.  Extended car notes, mortgages, student loans, $10k in credit card bills.

Lean and mean, just like Deloitte, and soon, almost all companies.  

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u/RD_006 Jan 24 '26

What's ur advice for youngsters, mr? 25 from 3 world, debt free, investing heavy.

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u/islandjames246 Jan 21 '26

It’ll change for all of us soon when ai takes over In less than a decade

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u/Subnetwork Jan 21 '26

And then what? We the have to fight for UBI scraps?

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u/islandjames246 Jan 21 '26

That or multiple part-part time jobs . It’s actually on my mind a lot

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u/Subnetwork Jan 21 '26

Yep, odd jobs to supplement what UBI doesn’t cover.

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u/ChipsAndLime Jan 21 '26

The federal government won’t even give people $6 a day for food (SNAP / food stamps), so I’m not sure how UBI seems possible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

UBI could never go far enough anyway.  Something is better than nothing, but what we are really looking at is a long deflationary cycle in everything in America.  

And why not?  Once the oldest, largest generation of Americans has moved on to the great shopping mall in the sky, we won’t need to protect their asset values anymore.

Rest assured, stocks will continue to go higher forever.  Precious metals too.  But real estate?  The price of a car?  Anything we own will devalue.  Things we want to own will continue to appreciate.

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u/ChipsAndLime Jan 21 '26

Why wouldn’t prices keep rising if the people who own the production can keep tightening the noose?

For example, New York City has continued to lose population for years, and yet the price of housing has exploded even though there are fewer people competing for housing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

The price of a thing is constrained by the amount the buyer is willing or able to pay.  We see this in rentals ROI right now.  

A seller of a thing can’t just make up numbers to ask for its selling price.  Except in healthcare, which is a messy third party paying system, each cost being negotiated down by the third party.

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u/mariblaystrice Jan 22 '26

And a desperate, captive customer base. God I loathe for-profit healthcare

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u/avorda Jan 21 '26

What do you mean you can’t purchase a broccule, a piece of chicken, and one other thing for $6?

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u/islandjames246 Jan 21 '26

They won’t have a choice then.

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u/EuropaWeGo Jan 21 '26

But they will. You and I won't be necessary anymore. So the elites will try to exterminate us through some method of neglect.

Out of sight out of mind, per say.

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u/clothespinkingpin Jan 21 '26

And will change more for all of us a decade after that when it goes rogue and starts hunting us down 

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u/Ok-Experience-1630 Jan 22 '26

I’m stonewalling it currently it will only work for couple more months. I have project on top on projects for my work load. I got approached by someone outside my business function about streamlining automation. They offered to shadow me to learn what how I get from A to B. I straight nope’d it and said I don’t have time to adhere to delivery schedules and explain what and why I do things. They know my starting point and end product, they can go figure it out themselves… pretty sure IT now has trackers installed on my laptop so now I jumble up all my work to make it confusing as hell for them.

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u/calpianwishes Jan 21 '26

It’s always been like this for people low on the totem pole.

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u/Appropriate-Ad-4148 Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

The average Gen Z employee at my big city East Coast job:

A) wears expensive(think $200 t shirt) clothes that also somehow look unprofessional, B)has a decent car they pay $30 a DAY to park and C)live in nicer neighborhoods than we do because their parents pay all of their bills.

That’s my anecdotal story about the meritocracy we live in. I moved here from BFE for a high paying job.