80 Professionals In Different Fields Spill The Tea About Various Signs Telling That Crisis Is Coming

Liquor Store - Rumors of suppliers having trouble with resources, glass bottles etc. Aluminum cans getting more expensive. Customers are splitting up purchases on two cards. Seeing a big increase in coin usage.

I’m a labor and delivery nurse. Our birth numbers are down significantly.

Working in video games - folks are pushing for unions more, corporations are firing more people each fiscale year, multiple decades well known studios culture are going down the sink and we are asked to do more with way less.

If you love a studio or a game, please support them, and don't be toxic to the devs.

Edit : thanks for award, first one !

Heating oil/diesel fuel delivery dispatcher: People cannot afford the price of heating oil to heat their homes currently. They can't afford to buy it, but at the same time, without the business, we won't be able to purchase the fuel from the supplier soon.

The bar is busy during the day with retirees and is d**d in the evening when young people are supposed to be out.

I work for a large software development company, and among other things direct data center purchases for our development organization (we do scientifc computing / HPC - no LLM building - please don't stone me).

One - costs on ordinary server hardware has gone through the roof. "Regular" servers (not exotic GPU) that we would have bought two years ago are sometimes 2-3x more expensive than it was a couple of years ago for equivalent gen hardware. What started as a GPU shortage became a memory shortage, and now it seems like many common components are way more expensive or have way more lead time. This is with a company that should have huge leverages with the scale we buy at. This has to be throwing the balance off in the industry somehow, and considering the growth wall street expects out of the tech sector...

Also, budgets are tightening even though sales are up. We are literally choosing not to buy hardware that we need to optimize our software (so customers want to buy the software) because of larger corporate budget constraints. Product Management up to the VP level have made business cases that we will lose new and recurring business because of this, but it's falling on deaf ears.

I work in the supermarket supply chain for a broker. 

I see all the price changes 1-4 months before everyone. I did a ton of them june/July

Im getting more now. 

It s***s.

There are much, much fewer full time nanny jobs. The UHNW families are still getting nannies of course, but most of them are 50-60+ hours a week or 24/7 ROTA roles.

The upper middle class families who used to hire nannies are choosing daycare instead to save money and a lot of WFH parents are coordinating their work schedules to avoid having to pay for childcare at all/as much.

Hospitals are so under-staffed that when you search for a new doc, their websites now list all the residents, physicians assistants, and even some of the interns, just to "pad the stats".

*Where are all the doctors?*

Probably taking the Private Equity Buy-out and f*****g off to greener pastures, where they don't have to deal with indignant morons who refuse to take the simplest precautions to prevent communicable diseases and societal decay.

Unemployment claims are up. In my state, unemployment claims have to be sent to all employers a person worked for during the last 12-18 months. A lot of people who left my employer for other jobs are filing for unemployment, meaning they’ve been let go from these other jobs. By June, we’d already received twice as many claims as the average.

I teach part time. Students have been absent because their parents can't afford gas for their cars to bring them. They've also been looking for afterschool work but their main competition for those jobs is usually their own parents.

Recruiter here. I haven’t made a placement in 12 months.

Decrease in motor coach charter business nationwide. Things like transport from hotels to weddings, bars going to ball games, school field trips etc.

I do wrongful termination at my law firm. My intakes have doubled in the past month.

Stay at home dad.
-All leftovers get eaten
-More e-bikes in the school pick up/drop off.

I'm the grocery Getter in the family. I'm noticing very busy gas stations. My theory is that folks are just buying enough to get through and not filling up necessitating more frequent visits.

Lease signs are going up on warehouses in my port community.

Entertainment nobody's buying tickets to shows. They call it blue dot feaver.

Insurance claims being denied much for frequently for folks with mental health problems. Changing laws/standards for insurance companies in my state that makes mental healthcare harder to access.

It's a sign that the insurance companies can't afford to pay for everyone's therapy. At least not without dipping into the CEOs profits.

I run an art gallery. We sell original art at price points from $40 to $100k+. Only rich people are buying now. We used to sell to a lot of middle/upper middle class folks and the best selling points were $500-$5k per piece. Now it’s $10k+ and very little below. It’s a little wild to me that $100 paintings will sit on the walls and I’ll talk to people who wish they could afford them, and the next day I’ll have a guy look at a $12k piece for 5 minutes before whipping out his Amex. Ten years ago both of those price points were selling well.

The K shape is hardcore in the art world right now.