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Why Are So Many Workers Refusing To Apply For Jobs?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 04/20/2015 | John Merline

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


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To: coop71

“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”  

2 Thessalonians 3 (King James version)


41 posted on 04/21/2015 9:34:37 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: fatnotlazy
I’m better off staying on SSD and Medicare.

Would you object to a public service requirement (in keeping with your ability, of course) being a condition of your receiving the assistance?

42 posted on 04/21/2015 10:44:27 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Just read #38, so you’ve answered my question. You would be willing, but probably not able.


43 posted on 04/21/2015 10:52:08 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: fatnotlazy

A lot of people are making that same decision. In the secretarial/admin. assistant field, technology has made the live helper unnecessary for younger tech-savvy workers. I don’t know much about legal secretaries.


44 posted on 04/21/2015 2:02:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Salgak

In my area many jobs that involve dealing with customers/the public won’t hire you if you don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese in addition to English. It is a national disgrace; the employers are simply reacting to the de facto amnesty (fewer American customers, and masses of illegal Hispanics and Brazilians).


45 posted on 04/21/2015 2:04:13 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: IBD editorial writer

They just want to bang on the drum all day.


46 posted on 04/21/2015 2:06:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: IBD editorial writer

1. because they are druggies
2. because they have learned that if they don’t come to work everyday on time they get fired
3. they have tattoos that are objectionable if they are in public view
4. they are attitudinal and black
5 they texted during the interview


47 posted on 04/21/2015 2:12:23 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: kearnyirish2

It’s true at law firms, at least around my area. My friend, who worked me at my last employer, was let go in January. It had been coming for some time. The employer no longer has secretaries assigned to 2 or 3 attorneys. It has what amounts to a steno pool or word processing department. The attorneys just don’t need that kind of dedicated attention anymore.

Fortunately, for my friend, she is very tech savvy. She managed to secure an IT job. I’m not that sophisticated. I can turn on a computer and type. That’s about it. :)


48 posted on 04/21/2015 2:17:38 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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A lot of my friends who used to have jobs (mostly white males over 40) find it near impossible to find a job in our area and anything with a long drive doesn't pay enough for the gas and the upkeep on the car to travel back and forth to work. So most have went into grey income streams. Buying and selling items for cash or doing odd jobs for cash etc.

Tearing down homes for cash is a big one around here then they rehab the wood into useable needed items to sell for cash.

49 posted on 04/21/2015 2:18:37 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: fatnotlazy
I can turn on a computer and type.

You know how to turn on the computer? Boy, you're a whiz. I type like crazy, but nothing ever shows up on the screen because my wife hasn't turned it on for me.

50 posted on 04/21/2015 2:20:36 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Pachelbel --- The original one-hit wonder.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Because the folks laid off were mid-level workers. The jobs that are open are low wage and the hiring managers don’t want to hire someone who is over qualified.

Vast number of mid-level office jobs that survived even the huge downsizings of the mid-80's have nonetheless been eliminated since 2005.

By Google.

There is simply no need to pay someone 70K+ a year to "know stuff", when a three second Google search can provide a more accurate and in-depth answer.

51 posted on 04/21/2015 2:23:46 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: BlueLancer

LOL

I guess that’s why you married her, right? :)


52 posted on 04/21/2015 2:31:50 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: fatnotlazy
That's right ... she has it all together.

Now if I can just figure out where there carriage return is on this &#^!% keyboard. I keep having to type one long sentence because there's no *#&^&@^! return.

53 posted on 04/21/2015 2:41:52 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Pachelbel --- The original one-hit wonder.)
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To: BlueLancer
Thank you FRiend! I needed the laugh today. :)
54 posted on 04/21/2015 2:56:49 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Vermont Lt

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.”


I know exactly what you mean.

I’ve always thought that given both the number and basic character of Freepers that are looking for work, we could come together and create a very successful business.

There is a wide variety of skill sets and availability that seem to be looking for a home.


55 posted on 04/21/2015 3:01:15 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: fatnotlazy

Who knows, something might turn up.


56 posted on 04/22/2015 4:14:42 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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