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Millennial Boss Will Never Hire A Boomer Again

Millennial Boss Will Never Hire A Boomer Again

Published by Jenni Sidey

Millennial boss Sara Holcomb admitted she’s never hiring a boomer again because they are “too old to work” and don’t understand technology. While it’s possible the new hire wasn’t qualified, her sweeping generalizations about an entire generation were ageist. If you’ve worked in a corporate setting, or really any workplace environment, you’ve definitely been around a “bad employee.” From poor customer service to bad attitudes, there are many things that can lead to a “bad employee” label. Instead of simply chalking up a new hire as the wrong fit, however, Holcomb made her displeasure a generational issue, sharing her experience onboarding a new “boomer employee” whom she said was “unqualified” simply because of her age. A millennial boss said she’s never hiring a boomer again because they don’t understand technology.  “I hired this 65-year-old lady,” Holcomb said, “and I told her several times that we’re closed on Friday. If she has any questions she needs to discuss with me, she needs to call my cell phone.”  Holcomb explained that she had just finished a shower on her day off …

How Two Zoomers Created RentAHuman, the First Marketplace for Bots to Hire Humans

How Two Zoomers Created RentAHuman, the First Marketplace for Bots to Hire Humans

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The grifters, according to RentAHuman, are fading. “We’re taking safety extremely seriously,” Liteplo says. But the duo also acknowledge that there are “footguns” (features that often lead to pesky bugs) and have implemented paid verification (at $10 a month), inspired by Elon Musk’s strategy of letting users pay $8 to get a “verified” badge on X. “He’s my entrepreneur hero,” Liteplo says, unabashedly. “For Twitter, they had a bot problem and they still have it, but he mitigated it a lot by making it pay-to-play. The unit economics of scammers disappears,” he continues. (Musk tweeted in 2023 that “paid verification increases bot cost by ~10,000% & makes it much easier to identify bots by phone & CC clustering.” No official data exists on a reduction in bots since the introduction of the $8 blue tick, but X’s subsequent purge of 1.7 million bots in late 2025 suggests that the site was not purged by paid verification.) For now, any major pitfalls seem to be mitigated by the relatively small number of tasks being commissioned on …

Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat

Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat

Published by Jenni Sidey

From its offices on the 57th floor of 1 World Trade Center, employees at Masterworks hawk fractional ownership of blue-chip artworks, promising retail investors hefty returns. Reporting in both ARTnews in 2022 and the New York Times in 2024 has revealed a freewheeling atmosphere in which the company has played fast and loose with legal and ethical guidelines. An initial funding round valued the company at more than $1 billion, and by early 2022, the company had traded more than 100 paintings, to the tune of $450 million, ARTnews reported. Now, former chief product officer Hai Min Tran is threatening to sue, according to Masterworks. A December letter he sent the company via his New York attorneys, Giskan Solotaroff & Anderson, says he was illegally terminated upon returning to work from paternity leave. (ARTnews has not been able to review the letter.) The company has since called this claim “wholly meritless” and filed a legal complaint on February 5 in New York state court, saying Tran resigned before going on leave and then tried to …

IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI

IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI

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While the artificial intelligence industry touts that AI will replace entry-level jobs, not every company is scaling back hiring these positions. In IBM’s case, it’s going all in. Hardware giant IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according to reporting from Bloomberg. Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s chief human resource officer, announced the initiative at Charter’s Leading with AI Summit on Tuesday. “And yes, it’s for all these jobs that we’re being told AI can do,” LaMoreaux said. These jobs will look different than the entry-level jobs IBM used to offer, she explained. According to LaMoreaux, she went through and changed the descriptions for these entry-level jobs so they were less focused on areas AI can actually automate — like coding — and more focused on people-forward areas like engaging with customers. This strategy makes sense. Even if an enterprise like IBM doesn’t necessarily need the same amount of entry-level talent that it did before, fostering less experienced workers helps ensure these employees have the skills needed for the higher-level roles down the …

CEO Refuses To Hire Job Candidates Who Have This Response To When Can You Start Interview Question

CEO Refuses To Hire Job Candidates Who Have This Response To When Can You Start Interview Question

Published by Jenni Sidey

CEO Gary Shapiro said that he won’t hire anyone who has a particular response to the common interview question that asks how soon they can start in the new role. Even if you spend all of your time prepping for a job interview and crafting the perfect response to every possible question, there’s still no guarantee of a job offer. Between a difficult job market and the fact that every CEO and hiring manager seems to have a different set of criteria for what they want and what they think will make a perfect candidate, the odds seem forever stacked against the candidates.  A CEO refuses to hire job candidates who claim that they can start right away. Gary Shapiro, the chief executive officer of the U.S. trade association Consumer Technology Association (CTA), spoke with CNBC about what he considers to be “red flags” from job candidates during interviews. Controversially, Shapiro said that when a candidate is asked how soon they can start, responding right away or within two weeks is not a good answer …

Hire us and get applications free, says recruiter

Hire us and get applications free, says recruiter

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More from this theme Recent articles A recruitment agency is reviewing its adverts after coming under fire for offering schools free outsourced applications for education, health and care plans (EHCP) if they then hire its staff to support the pupils. Leaflets from Qualiteach Education Group said schools can “outsource the most time-intensive elements” of the EHCP application process to “experienced specialists, without incurring long-term costs”. Under the deal, schools would pay £450 to its partner, the consultancy Innovate Create Educate, which collects “evidence and documentation” to apply to the council within 30 days. The leaflet added that once EHCP funding is agreed, the school “engages a suitable agency professional through Qualiteach”.  After they complete the 30 days in post, the agency would refund the £450 to the school.  ‘Troubling commodification’ Lacey Cousins, headteacher at Hawley Primary School in Camden, said the offer “appears to target overstretched and vulnerable schools, exploiting systemic failures rather than addressing them”. She added it “reflects a troubling commodification of statutory SEND processes at a time when schools are already overwhelmed …

Rent-a-Human wants AI Agents to hire you

Rent-a-Human wants AI Agents to hire you

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Based on the weekend’s viral hype around AI agents, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’re inching closer to a Cyberpunk future once reserved for sci-fi books and video games. And while that trajectory may be real, we’re also nowhere near full-blown cyber-dystopia just yet. Still, the tech world has found something new to fixate on. As of now, it’s a website called Rentahuman.ai, where humans can quite literally sell their labor to AI agents. The Rent-a-Human platform was created by crypto software engineer Alexander Liteplo after the sudden success of OpenClaw and Moltbook, and it proudly bills itself as “the meatspace layer for AI.” (Mashable reached out to Liteplo for comment but did not receive a response.) Think TaskRabbit, but for autonomous agents that need humans to do physical-world tasks they can’t. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Rent-a-Human launched quietly over the weekend before exploding in visibility after Liteplo began aggressively promoting it on X. According to the site, more than 81,000 “rentable humans” have already signed …

CEO Warns Employers Not To Hire Anyone Who Mentions Work-Life Balance During An Interview

CEO Warns Employers Not To Hire Anyone Who Mentions Work-Life Balance During An Interview

Published by Jenni Sidey

Scott Kuru, who is listed on LinkedIn as the Founder and CEO of Freedom Property Investors, recently shared his opinion about whether companies should hire workers who admit that they want their employer to support a healthy balance between their professional and personal lives. In an age of burnout and workers desperately seeking to move away from our current live-to-work culture in order to find enjoyment in their lives, Kuru is pushing back against workers’ wants. His attitude certainly fits our employer market, where workers are at the mercy of their bosses’ whims because the job market is so bad. A CEO wrote a LinkedIn post telling employers not to hire anyone who mentions work-life balance in an interview. Kuru started his post with a strong stance, stating, “Never hire anyone who’s looking for work-life balance.” He went on to clarify that he is not entirely against it and agrees that all aspects of a person’s life must be in harmony for them to reach their full potential. LinkedIn The CEO further explained that his …

Malaysia’s ‘aggressive’ move to double minimum expatriate salaries sends ‘strong’ signal to hire local

Malaysia’s ‘aggressive’ move to double minimum expatriate salaries sends ‘strong’ signal to hire local

Published by Sam Flores

But economist Geoffrey Williams, director of Williams Business Consultancy, said the claim that expatriates are taking jobs from locals is not true. “Firstly, there are too few expatriates to make that claim meaningful. Secondly, it is already costly to pay for visas, so they are not competitive in a cost sense,” he wrote in a post on LinkedIn. “Thirdly, expatriates are employed for very specific reasons based on experience and expertise. This will not change.” The Malaysian Immigration Department issued 180,812 EPs – including new applications and renewals – in 2025, up from 160,380 passes in 2024. Malaysia had 17.06 million employed people in October 2025. Williams told CNA it is not so much the comparison to regional countries that counts, but the way it has been communicated – “that Malaysia does not want expats somehow”. These changes have sparked fears among the expatriate community of being forced to leave once their contracts end, despite past contributions to local jobs and the economy. In its clarification document, the Home Affairs Ministry said contract extensions will …

Titans Agree to Hire Robert Saleh as Coach as They Seek to Speed up Rebuild, AP Source Says

Titans Agree to Hire Robert Saleh as Coach as They Seek to Speed up Rebuild, AP Source Says

Published by Sam Flores

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans agreed to hire Robert Saleh as their coach on Monday night, hoping he can speed up their rebuild and end the franchise’s skid of four straight losing seasons, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced. Saleh spent this season as the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive coordinator, his second stint in that job after spending three-plus seasons as coach of the New York Jets. He did not have a winning season with the Jets and was fired after a 2-3 start in 2024, going 20-36 overall. But the 46-year-old Saleh still had a strong reputation around the league and was a sought-after candidate in this busy coaching cycle. “Playing for him was such a blessing. He’s a defensive mastermind,” 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir said earlier Monday. “I think he’s one of the best to do it.” Tennessee went 19-49 over the past four seasons under Mike Vrabel — who was fired after …