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Here's a Wednesday earworm...

You're welcome.

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Remember during Covid when the stimulus checks went out? We were all amazed that the government could be so supportive and compassionate in a time of need.

Now, five years later, the government is refusing to fund SNAP, and we're all amazed that it can be so heartless and cruel. 😢

YouTube video by CNBC The Truth About AI And The Mass Layoffs

Efficiency or AI Washing?

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iCIMS Awakes, Amazon Axes, and Monster Shambles On Halloween chaos on The Chad & Cheese Podcast: layoffs, AI audits, Monster’s zombie comeback & Canada poaching U.S. nurses.

The Halloween Show

💀 Amazon, UPS, Target, and General Motors are slashing jobs faster than you can say “AI efficiency.”

💀 iCIMS is AWAKE!

💀 Mercor pivots

💀 FairNow quietly vanishes

💀 BOLD resurrects Monster & CB

🇨🇦 Canada’s Revenge

👉 ENJOY! www.chadcheese.com/post/icims-a...

SNAP runs out of money Nov. 1. States are now figuring out how to feed millions of people As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential laps...

PAY A LIVING WAGE

Walmart and McDonald's lead companies with workers receiving SNAP benefits, plus Amazon, Dollar General, Dollar Tree Stores, Kroger, & Target.

Approx 15.7m workers, or about 10% of workers received SNAP benefits, according to a 2022 analysis.

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/g...

Facebook Jobs Rises While OpenAI Gets Dirty Facebook resurrects its zombie job board while OpenAI launches a browser and dives into AI-powered smut. Tech has lost its mind.

Meta just resurrected Facebook Jobs like a zombie, while OpenAI launches AI smut.

Plus
- Appcast layoffs
- Handshake is slipping into LinkedIn Lite purgatory
- Adzuna reinvented job search by… making it worse
- Metaview's world’s dumbest billboard

www.chadcheese.com/post/faceboo...

It’s All In Your Head w/ Barry Wolfe Barry Wolfe torching HR pseudoscience, killing Myers-Briggs, and demanding real results. Anti-bullshit leadership. Press play.

Barry Wolfe says
Myers-Briggs = HR tarot cards
DISC profiles = Snake oil w/ better branding
AI + bad psychology = Just automated nonsense

We light a match and toss it into the psychology burner. Barry is a former F500 HR leader & author of It’s All In Your Head.

www.chadcheese.com/post/it-s-al...

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

Will LinkedIn Burn Filament AI clones, LinkedIn lawsuits, and Gen X meltdowns — bourbon-fueled chaos on HR’s Most Dangerous Podcast.

Economic chaos, luckily we have bourbon...
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💥 LinkedIn lawyers up
💥 Moody's Analytics' & the “cataclysmic” economy
💥 $AI clones & fractional hustle
😬 Gen X meltdown

It’s bourbon, bad news, and brutal honesty — aka business as usual.

Sooo bad, but freaking hilarious.

Okay, Ethan loves vibecoding and YES, Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor and I will be sparring onstage next week RecFest USA in Nashville.

Next Thursday, Talent Disruption Through the Ages at 11:55 on the DISRUPT STAGE!

also check out Ethan's #AI Labs workshop.

Thanks LinkedIn... 😂

Warmonger gonna warmonger

Juicebox Squirts & Google Gushes Juicebox squirts $36M, Google gushes AI into Chrome, and Chad’s back salty as ever. Buckle up—it’s HR chaos time! 🎙️

Juicebox just splashed $30M into the recruiting world. Meanwhile, Google is gushing AI into Chrome.

👉 Agents everywhere.
👉 Vendors sweating.
👉 next hire will be sourced by a browser extension.

www.chadcheese.com/post/juicebo...

The Chad & Cheese Podcast are coming to LOUSIVILLE. Join us for industry discussions & drinks at Chicken Cock Whiskey's Speakeasy on Mon Oct. 13th from 5-7

If you're in or around LOUISVILLE register here and we'll see you there

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Recfest USA is happening in Nashville and these are the speakers showcased on the Disrupt Stage with The Chad & Cheese Podcast.

RecFest USA is almost here and the following speakers will be showcased on the Disrupt Stage with The Chad & Cheese Podcast.

Got the FOMO and wanna go? Here's a discount code IHEARTRECFEST to use at recfest.com, no excuses :)

See you there!

LinkedIn's cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you're 'not committed to winning’ | Fortune Reid Hoffman, the visionary behind LinkedIn, says he even expects employees at startups to constantly be working—with the exception of taking time out for dinner

The real RED FLAG...
Any Founder and/or CEO who wants you to work yourself to death for them.

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Indeed Strips Agency Cash Indeed slashes commissions, agencies bleed out, Randstad wins awards, Trump taxes visas & IBM does the boomerang.

When the Indeed says “pay up”, do employers and agencies have a choice?

Indeed just rolled out its latest commission-slashing, API-pushing, agency-castrating scheme.

We’ve seen this movie before Monster, CareerBuilder… now it’s Indeed’s turn to play the bully.

www.chadcheese.com/post/indeed-...

The Chad & Cheese Podcast are coming to LOUISVILLE, so if you're in HR or TA register for a few hours of shop talk and whiskey - thanks to our friends over at Havas People... fromage.lpages.co/louisville-e...

Add Stephen McGrath and it's a party...

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

YouTube video by The Chad & Cheese Podcast Visage and Rolebot Merge | Rolebot Trust Issue | AI Agents | Joss Leufrancois

Joss talks us through the Visage.Jobs + Rolebot merger.

Check it out - youtu.be/gLjquFjzHyA?...

Workday Shopping Spree & iCIMS' Panic Buy AI shopping sprees, layoffs, Meta glasses, and revenge quitting—HR’s most dangerous podcast is back.

Workday’s shopping spree. 🛒 $1.1B here, $500M there… Meanwhile, it feels like iCIMS just made a panic buy.

👉 Are these big bets brilliant moves… or just carts full of expensive bots that may never play nice together?

www.chadcheese.com/post/workday...

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Dates and times of Rock the Riviera party

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ROCK THE RIVIERA is happening after day 1 of RecFest USA on Oct 15th...

Register to win party access - luma.com/fbmfy4jm

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Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up Workday said on Tuesday it would buy AI firm Sana for about $1.1 billion, underscoring growing consolidation in the HR software sector while companies look to integrate the booming technology into their products in response to evolving customer demands.

Workday triples down on AI with Sana acquisition.

HiredScore + Paradox + Sana

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AI Won’t Save Recruiting with Matt Charney AI isn’t magic, it’s duct tape in a hoodie. Matt Charney joins Chad & Cheese to roast HR’s AI hype.

Matt Charney shreds with:
⚡️ Why “cutting edge” usually means “you’re bleeding”
⚡️ How vendors are rebranding 20-year-old tech as “AI”
⚡️ Why HR’s “seat at the table” is still cold and lonely
⚡️ Candidates getting rejection emails… 2 min after applying
Listen www.chadcheese.com/post/ai-won-...

Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is yanking the company back to its roots, from RTO to monitoring employee phone use

Amazon's reset...
GARBAGE CANS FOR EVERYONE!!! 🗑️

www.businessinsider.com/inside-amazo...

The recipe to hyler-awareness and acquisition? Ask Paradox or SmartRecruiters.

Full ep - www.chadcheese.com/post/workday...

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.

Why did Meta stop poaching AI researchers?

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/z...

We don't need Corporate Welfare, we need companies like @apple, @meta, @google, @palantir.ai and many others to INVEST in their people, communities, and the USA.

Come on U.S. Department of Labor, be best...

full ep - www.chadcheese.com/post/upwork-...

EUROPE: Upwork’s €20M Bupty Bet Upwork buys Bupty, Denmark bans deepfakes, UK drops Fridays—Europe gets snarky with Chad, Lieven & Stephen.

Hot topics on the Euro menu:
💶 upwork’s €20M “Bubty” buy—ever heard of it? Neither had Lieven.

🎭 Denmark bans deepfakes—Nic Cage won’t be stealing Viggo’s face.

🍻 The UK makes Fridays optional

It’s snarky
It’s sarcastic
It’s dangerous
It’s Europe, baby

👉 www.chadcheese.com/post/europe-...

YouTube video by Economy Media How AI Became the New Dot-Com Bubble

If you weren't around when the DotCom burst, or maybe you'd like a refresher.

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