Walmart Slumps, Workday Jumps & Indeed Marketing Chumps

Live from a Portuguese bar annex, Chad and Joel crack open a cold cider and fire up "HR's Most Dangerous Podcast" to roast the absolute state of modern recruiting. Before tackling the tech industry's worst ideas, the boys review hostage-style movie clips, swap obscure band recommendations, and pitch a Spaceballs 2 sponsorship.

The SaaS-pocalypse Comes for Workday: Private equity behemoth Silver Lake is eyeing a $51B buyout of Workday.

Google's Resume Garbage Can: Leaked documents show Google DeepMind's AI screening tool is rejecting qualified applicants at random, forcing frustrated hiring managers to set up illegal human-only shortcuts around their own TA department.

Gen Z's AI Penalty: Stanford research shows a 19% drop in entry-level hiring for AI-exposed roles.

Babysitting the Machine at Walmart: Store associates are now tasked with cleaning up after Walmart's AI.

Indeed's Desperate Marketing Pivot: Indeed's CMO claims targeting passive job seekers at soccer matches is a "revolutionary" new strategy. Really?

Chapters

00:00 - Intro and Episode Overview

03:45 - Review of the Odyssey and movie expectations

07:43 - Changes in media consumption and radio

09:54 - New music discoveries and bands

11:21 - Music show segment and shout outs