Hi there. I’ve been on this board for several years, but only occasionally post. I wasn’t sure where to put this post, so if this is the wrong place for it and needs to be moved somewhere else, I apologize.

I need a new job. Badly.

I’ve been with my current company for a couple of years. It’s a very small local company. Things started off fine, but earlier this year, ownership began rolling out changes that had a negative financial impact on me.

I’m in a revenue generation type role, so driving results is absolutely key to survival. Problem is - things have been soft financially since early this year and sales have really dried up in the industries I serve. I’m seeing lots of Fortune 500 companies slashing budgets, doing rounds of layoffs, and tightening the belt fiscally, only focusing on the most tactical things possible and trying to do more with their internal staff (rather than hiring from the outside from companies like this one).

At this point, I’ve probably got about two months of runway at the company before things go belly-up. If I’m being honest, it’s a horrible place to work and I’ve lost so much sleep over my job since the beginning of the year. As much as I’ve tried not to let it get to me, it’s dashed my confidence in a big way.

I’ve been looking around within my own network and applying for various job postings online since the beginning of the year - have had a couple of interviews based on my own personal network, but nothing has come through yet. (I’m also convinced that many of the jobs posted online aren’t real. Suspect that many companies are just proactively filling their recruitment pipelines to prepare for whenever the job market starts to bounce back.)

If you’re the praying sort, please pray for me and my family. This recent experience has really crushed my sense of self-worth, as much as I’m trying not to let it get to me. Pray that I find a new role with the right company where I can support my family, flourish professionally, and bless/help others wherever I can along the way.

TLDR: I’m in a really crummy work situation and trying to find a new job. Current employer is asshoe. Please pray for me and my family - that I find a new job with a company and management team that’s a better fit for me.

Thank you, frens. Really appreciate all this board does and what it represents.

Edit: Oh man! Didn’t realize this post had been elevated. Mods, thank you so much for the sticky!

The flu shot that they’re giving out is one of the bivalent shots, I think.

I personally know two people who got the shot on Friday afternoon and got super sick by that evening.

Two data points:

• One person is a friend in her 40s - she got super bad flu symptoms for 24 hours (high fever and all). She said it was the Pfizer one.

-The other is a guy in his 80s. By Friday evening, he was slurring his speech and couldn’t go up stairs. He ended up in the hospital.

Looks like Idalia just got upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane. Mods, can we have a hurricane thread sticky for those of us in FL and the southeast?

Hey folks. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a weather tracking app or site? Someone recommended a good one here in the past (that we used during Hurricane Ian in FL last year), but I can’t recall what it was. Thank you, frens!

Apparently, cash is king right now if you go to the post office. At our post office, they will only accept cash and are saying that all debit and credit card readers are down across the nation. Bizarre!