It sounds like FreeRepublic needs a job board.
“For years Microsoft (MSFT) has been an avid user of temporary-staffing firms such as Volt Information Sciences (VOL) for a variety of short-term projects, including writing chunks of software, says Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos. “Our contingent workforce fluctuates wildly depending on the different projects that are going on,” Gellos says. “Somebody does just part of a project. They’re experts in it. Boom, boom, they’re finished.”
*** Well, that explains Windows 8.
BTW, Americans do not want to work? If so, then how come we read of places where say a Walmart or such opens and 20,000 applicants apply for 200 or so openings?
More a case of just no jobs.
Otherwise the unemployment numbers would be far worse when hundreds of thousands give up looking for a job. Why? Discouragement. You can fish in a fishless pond, but you are not going to catch any fish.