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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Much of it isn’t laziness. Do you know how difficult it is to find a job?

Today it’s insane.

And unemployment insurance pays a whopping $295/week, only for 12 weeks. You read that right, it’s enough to cover food and that’s it.

I have LinkedIn premium and there can be over 100 applicants to a job less than a minute after it’s posted.

I’ve applied to jobs paying $16/hr to $230k/year and after 7 months crickets.

I have too much and too little experience having being in the workforce for half a century.

Employers are absolutely ridiculous in their demands.


36 posted on 07/06/2026 7:08:45 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Employers are absolutely ridiculous in their demands.

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That’s what I’ve been hearing in the recent years, at family reunions from the younger people in the family. The days of showing up at an employer and wanting an application & job, is now met with “go online” or “here’s a temp agency number.”

This needs to change if capital is serious about having and training a labor force for the future.


50 posted on 07/06/2026 7:53:34 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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