Few party-goers will leave with even an interview
Posted on 03/14/2009 1:08:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono
It is a bit like speed-dating for America's jobhunters. Attendees at a "pink slip party" in Los Angeles, California Few party-goers will leave with even an interview At a trendy bar in Los Angeles, they queue to get in - smartly-dressed professionals, all looking for the right connection. "The best thing I could come out with is a job offer," a young woman says hopefully. An older man laments: "Opportunity has always come knocking on my door. For the first time in my life, no-one's knocking." "You have to try and stay upbeat," says another man, unemployed since his own company went bust last year. "Sometimes a margarita helps."
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Few party-goers will leave with even an interview
At a bar?? You could come out with 'job offers' but you might not like the work lady.
“what would you do for a job little lady? Can I see your pink slip?”
It looks to me like a lot of these people were overpaid. No wonder they were laid off. It’s like what happened to all the little web-brats in 2000/2001.
Since Obama gave the IRS 7 billion extra dollars over 5 years, that is the place to apply. They wont make 300,000 a year there but the fringe benefit will be the fun of auditing all the others making 300k.
There’s always prostitution, or maybe politics, which is much the same minus the morals.
They have these parties in DC now.
That's the dark secret of the American economy over the past few years - a lot of grossly overemployed mid-level functionaries are never going to make anything like that kind of money again at a "job". They'll have to do something entrepreneurial, instead - a transition which Obama is hell-bent on punishing.
A recession is basically a period of reorganization and reallocation. The bandwidth revolution will tend to make recessions shorter.
Unfortunately, our throwback 1930s Communist President will do all he can to make this recession permanent.
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