Posted on 04/21/2015 4:07:10 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Since the end of the recession in June 2009, the number of job openings in the private sector has steadily climbed — just as one would expect to happen as the economy recovered.
But over those same years, the share of 25- to 54-year-olds who are active in the labor market has steadily fallen...
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You are spot on.
I am currently on unemployment (former employers, small business owners decided-suddenly!-to retire. As they liked to travel a lot, I literally had a “key to the store” and ran the place in their absence. For 12 years. The job before that, I ran I store inventories (almost 6 years). Before and during the inventory job, I was also a real estate agent.
Here in PA, you MUST apply for 2 jobs per week on line (via their career link portal). So with experience you would think I could at least get a call back for a customer service desk or lead cashier/asst lead cashier position? No.
Minimum wage mall jobs only .No more than 24 hrs per week (except during holiday season).
Also, many online apps include DATE OF BIRTH. So they weed out those who they think can’t climb a stockroom ladder or move a box sweaters.
Yes it’s THAT depressing.
(And I do have a job lined up...but they hire only as seasonal so in the late fall ill be unemployed again.)
Employers have taken to out right lying on their ads.
I have interviewed several jobs whose comp plan was more than dishonest.
I have interviewed for jobs that advertised salary plus commission only to learn the job was striclty commission and expenses are paid as well many benefits would come direclty out your check and deducted from commission
Others disclose you are required to work at headquarters for 2 months before being released to work in your territory, which near your home 2.5 hours to the south.
Theh need to more honest about the job requirements
“Since the end of the recession in June 2009 and the beginning of the depression...”
Fixed it
And they don't to pay someone who needs a full-time job and wants a living salary. US workers are being squeezed by illegals for the lower tier of jobs and unnecessary green-card workers for jobs that require skills.
I sent out 100 resumes to jobs and head hunters during the first two weeks of March. Zero, nada, nothing.
I owned my own business for 12 years after being a senior level executive in a nationally known bank. I am applying for managers jobs ( don’t need a lot of $$ nor do I want the headaches.). These are jobs three levels on the org chart than where I was when I was forty.
I simply sit back and laugh when I get the email saying they found a “better fit.” Better fit = “you are a 50+ year old white man, and you don’t fit our diversity needs.”
My daughters were turned down for fast-food jobs.
Because they didn’t speak SPANISH. . .
“I will never get an interview because I’m not a member of any of the favored racial, lifestyle, or transgendered groups.”
Dirty little secret....many businesses unfortunately will not hire someone who has run their own business. Afraid that they are too independent, won’t take orders, and will stray off the reservation.
It’s B.S. but I’ve heard it too many times.
Yeah, but I was such a corporate robot before. You would think that would count for something. Ha ha.
The bigger issue is that my business (Sports Photography for Colleges) was so different than my other “professional” experience that people look at a VP application and say to themselves, “Why would I hire a photographer?”
It will happen. Probably through a networking thing with an old co-worker.
The recession was over in June of 2009. Who’da thunk it?
‘cuz they can still eat, drive, watch movies and talk on their cell phones without working.
They do expect you to be honest but somehow they never seem to think that they should be honest and that is not new, it has been that way as long as I can recall although it does seem to be worse now. It is amazing how many want you to give them all kinds of information before they even reveal what the job is.
Funny, because one company flew me to their headquarters for the final interview.
I assessed that while they are liars, I could probably live with it and sell for them anyway.
The commission structure was such that it paid over $150K and the percentage of commission was actually relative to the revenue/commission structure of sales.
My research indicated that I would probably be able to earn at least another 50-100%.
Their commission structure was 2 points higher than you would earn on Salary plus commission but, in the end, they were not forthright in their offer.
So, who knows? Maybe I would have been very successful nevertheless but, that they were outright dishonest in their advertisement and the application which stated it was salary plus.
In the end, I could smell boo chit and decided the job would be one where I am always guessing about their pay schedule.
This is what I learned from your post, in a nutshell:
You were (are) capable of working, didn’t like what the real world had to offer (i.e., a low paying part-time job which would require you to get a second or third job to make ends meet), and *decided* to stay on disability because you’d be “better off”.
Is that what you’re admitting? Because it sure sounds like it.
How is this different from the “welfare queens” and “gibmedats” that Conservatives rant and rave about? I’m genuinely curious.
I’ve been asked to give out my Social Security number, Mother’s maiden name, references and where I was born.
No problem, after you present your final offer.
Why work when you can stay home, have some cash deposited into your account automatically every month, drink beer on the front porch and watch the rest of us go to work to support ya?
And buy beer!
Um....no...
You made some assumptions that aren’t true. I forget that not everyone here knows my situation. So perhaps I should clarify.
I have a pile of health issues which I won’t go into, but early on, I was reluctant to accept that I couldn’t work, so I looked for a job. You see, I was raised by parents who instilled in my brother and me a strong work ethic. In my parents’ home, being a slacker and living on public assistance was unacceptable. I viewed disability benefits as charity and in our family we don’t take charity.
Fact is, with my health issues, I can’t work. Took me some time to accept that. It also took me some time to accept SSD and other benefits until a caseworker at a state bureau for the visually impaired (yes I have bad eyesight) told me it wasn’t charity. My tax dollars from 35 years working paid for these benefits.
There is a difference between accepting benefits you paid for through payroll taxes and collecting benefits you never worked for. The latter is what I object to. Why should I pay taxes to support some able bodied slob who spends his/her days smoking dope and producing children he”she can’t support?
America! Is this a GREAT country, or what!!??
And your general beliefs about disability and welfare are:
Generally, people on disability have earned it, so it's deserved.
Generally, people on welfare haven't earned it, so it's not deserved.
Is that right?
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