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JP Morgan Chase is not interested in their associate’s opinions about the company’s return to office mandate

January 14th, 2025

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January 14, 2025

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January 14th, 2025

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JP Morgan Chase is not interested in their associate’s opinions about the company’s return to office mandate

 Our take: JP Morgan Chase is one of the largest banks in the world. They are famous for long hours and a churn-and-burn approach to entry-level and middle management associates. During Covid, they were forced to relax their attendance policies, allowing many to work entirely from home and many to work hybrid schedules with some time in the office and some time from home.

Due to their (well-earned by most accounts) reputation for poor treatment of employees, it should not come as a surprise how they chose to handle associate complaints after they mandated all associates return to the office full time.

With the ridiculous hysteria about Covid largely in the past, JP Morgan Chase joined many other companies in forcing their workers back into the office full time. When associates decided to complain on the company message board, JP Morgan had several options to handle the situation. They could have conducted a survey to hear what people had to say. They could have chosen to hold town hall meetings and give people a chance to voice their concerns. They could have simply remained silent and weathered the storm. Instead, they decided to shut the internal message board down.

Oof. Talk about a bad look. It’s one thing to ignore the voices of your workers. It’s another entirely different thing to actively suppress their ability to voice those opinions and communicate with their co-workers. Not only is it a terrible look and a huge morale killer, it is most likely illegal.

Entry-level and middle management workers have rights under the National Labor Relations Board to communicate with their co-workers about working conditions. Removing a platform on which they communicate is almost certainly a violation of these rights.

A company as big as JPMC is not only a target for lawsuits but also a huge target for organized labor to attempt to unionize areas of the company. We would be shocked if we do not see both legal and union activity increase after this shortsighted and foolish decision by the leadership team. They will likely get what is coming to them one way or another.

COURTESY: MSN

LA Mayor Karen Bass swore not to take any trips abroad if she was elected mayor

Our take: When I was a kid, I heard a lot about quicksand and how dangerous it was. I thought it would be a much bigger issue to deal with as an adult. As of today, I have never encountered quicksand. Not once.

Unfortunately for her political career (and millions of LA residents), Mayor Karen Bass appears to have fallen deep into quicksand and continues to sink. If you recall, we shared an article last week that showed how she chose to take a “diplomatic” trip to Ghana despite multiple warnings about high Santa Ana winds coming and a huge fire risk associated with them. While she attended an inauguration halfway around the world, several fires erupted across the city, quickly spiraling out of control, killing over 20 people, and causing billions of dollars of damage.

Despite being in “constant communication” during her trip back, she was caught completely flat-footed upon her return, staring blankly ahead as reporters hammered her with questions about why the city (and her) were so unprepared for the situation despite multiple warnings.

To add insult to injury, a campaign promise that Bass made before her election has now surfaced. Bass served in Congress for 10 years before being elected mayor. During her tenure in Congress, she traveled extensively across the globe. One of her challengers questioned her commitment to the city, asking her if she would be present if she were elected mayor.

She stated emphatically that she would not travel internationally if she were elected. Then she promptly broke that promise at the worst possible time and under the worst possible circumstances.

This whole episode is turning into an unfunny version of the Keystone Cops. To date, over 20 people have died, billions of dollars of damage have been wrought, and thousands of firefighters continue to risk their lives battling fires that spun out of control in no small part due to categorical failures by the government responsible for being prepared for exactly this event.

We will be glad when these fires are contained for at least 2 reasons. First, we want people to stop dying and homes and lives to stop being destroyed. Second, we better see some accountability coming out the back side of this debacle. President Trump criticized Joe Biden during their one and only presidential debate for not firing anyone after the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Love him or hate him, he was 100% correct about that criticism, and there should be multiple people unceremoniously shown the door for their utter incompetence at managing this situation.

COURTESY: MSN

MSNBC plans to run back playbook that drove network off a cliff

Our take: MSNBC has seen ratings deteriorate over the past several years. Between the maniacal coverage of Trump, a significant amount of it untrue (Russia, Russia, Russia; Joe Biden has never been more mentally sharp; the Southern Border is secure; Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation, etc.), and the ridiculous attempts to make everything from freeways to anything Joy Reid says about racism, viewers stopped taking the channel seriously long ago.

Knowing they need to win back people’s trust and regain viewership, they came up with a can't-miss plan: do more of the same shit that dragged them into the abyss.

Rachel Maddow will ride into the rescue, anchoring her show for 5 nights a week upon Trump’s inauguration. That means you can count on her mental gymnastics looking to make any story a referendum on how Trump is evil, a fascist, a racist, a misogynist, Hitler, and probably the kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby and a participant in the assassination of JFK.

What could go wrong here? Good lord—some people cannot get out of their own way. The only reason we are happy about this decision is it should provide us a lot of things to make fun of over the next several months. We always look for the silver lining in any cloud.

COURTESY: MSN

TIP OF THE DAY

Telling the truth may not get you a lot of friends, but it will get you the right ones.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Most people fail not because of a lack of desire, but because of a lack of commitment.” - Vince Lombardi

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