I was listening to the town hall and couldn’t tell whether Ric Ransom was saying layoffs are happening or not. Some of my coworkers thought he meant no, while others took it as a yes.
There's no recording of the meeting that I know of. Anyone else know?
Before I start, I know this is petty, but it's not coming from a place of having lots of money and not wanting to spend it. My husband and I make slightly below the average income for our state. We live comfortable enough and modest enough--we rent, drive used cars (mine is 2 decades old), have debt we want to pay down, etc.
I'm definitely a fence sitter on the OAD front but leaning toward being OAD purely for the financial stuff and not wanting to do newborn trenches again.
Having said that, I swear everyone we know has 3+ kids--family, friends--all have over 3 kids. And some part of me feels bitter having to buy Christmas/birthday presents for multiple children and getting one gift for our one child. We have a family member that has 6 kids that we buy for during Christmas. You'd think/hope their parents would at least buy something slightly nicer for our kid knowing we're buying for a half dozen gifts for their kids, but our daughter ended up with some teethers for Christmas from them and Temu crap from another family member with 4 kids.
I try to remind myself that they have their own kids to pay for, but they all are more well off than we are. (Which is fine. This is how they are able to have more kids lol. I just say that to say their lack of gifting to our daughter isn't coming from a place of financial insecurity.)
I know the logical step is for me to either stop being bitter about it or not buy gifts for all of them, but it's not like it's the kids' faults.
Last year I attempted to do a gift basket to circumvent this issue but it ended up being about as expensive as getting them all gifts and way more work.
What prompted this was a friend of mine sent me an invite to a big birthday party for her 3 kids where I'm sure I'm expected to buy 3 different gifts. Will she buy for my kid? Yes. Will it be the same money and effort? No.
Like I said I know I sound petty AF but it really bugs me if I think too hard about it.