{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Across The Bar Podcast","title":"Across the Bar Podcast, Episode 62 - Snowplow Parents Go Corporate, Tenure Under Siege, AI Comes for HR, and LinkedIn's Top Colleges List","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1843,"description":"Peter's joining from Sardinia this week, which means the vibe is loose but the topics are not. First up: Gen-Z parents have entered the chat at work, showing up to job interviews and calling managers to contest their kid's firing. Peter and Laura's rule is simple — unless your child is in a literal coma, hang up the phone. From there, we turn to HR, a department that's had a rough couple of years and is now watching AI quietly take over its job. Peter, of all people, makes the case that this isn't entirely bad news — right before explaining exactly how it goes horribly wrong. Then: tenure, the thing every professor was told was untouchable, turns out to be very touchable. A West Point professor challenges a gag rule and wins; a tenured economics professor at the New School gets laid off anyway, and the whole academic world is having a small crisis about what \"lifetime job security\" actually means. We close things out with LinkedIn's new ranking of top colleges for career success — Princeton's #1, feelings were had about alma maters — and a real conversation about whether the rankings measure anything a 17-year-old should actually care about. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/h68Ux-68tZkpTFe8el3O0Db6g5OoDRotoszirBUrbeo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MmZi/NDkwZDdkNDcxZjAy/ODhhZjUzNzkxZjBl/NDA3NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}