Posted on 04/19/2010 5:08:59 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
WEST PALM BEACH, FL-- Administrative assistant Vicky Fonseca says she wants to work- but she doesn't want to work just anywhere.
"I want good benefits,"Fonseca said. "I wouldn't want to work somewhere where I didn't feel comfortable."
Some would say beggars shouldn't be choosers.
But when Uncle Sam is paying you $300 a week with virtually no strings attached, job seekers can afford to turn offers down.
And Fonseca has.
"I had an offer but it was in Broward County," Fonseca said. "It is too far for me and the pay rate is not going to be enough."
Career counselor Sue Romanos works her tail off to find the unemployed like Fonseca jobs.
"It is shocking," Romanos said. "I would never have believed it a year ago if you would have told me that people would be turning down jobs."
Romanos has been the CEO of Career Xchange, an award winning career placement agency that serves Broward and Dade Counties- for 21 years.
She says she's never seen unemployment benefits "drag on" as they are now. She says the benefits are crippling many of her candidates.
"The candidates have varying reasons for not wanting the job offered," Romanos said. "It's not the right job or the salary. To tell you the truth I think they are very happy collecting and not wanting to work."
And they are certainly collecting. President Obama signed an $18 billion jobless benefits bill last week. It extends unemployment an additional 99 weeks- averaging $335 a check.
"In the long run staying home so long is going to effect people," Romanos said. "Employers will look at them and see this as a sign of their behavior. Plus they will lose some skills."
Fonsaca- who has been out of work three months- swears that won't be her- as long as the job is a right fit.
"I wouldn't want to take something just to take it," Fonsaca said.
Unemployment, plus food stamps, medicaide and a cash part time job can go a long way. We know one family that is doing this..
Democrats specialize in creating disincentives with our money. What they don’t seem to understand is that it’s not possible for everybody to live off of everybody else.
“Career counselor Sue Romanos works her tail off to find the unemployed like Fonseca jobs. “
Must be the one unemployment office lady that works.
That is why they used to limit unemployment benefits to six months. You had six months to find a good job. If you didn’t, you took what you could get and worked up form there. I think we should go back to that.
Disclaimer: Both my wife and I have been drawing unemployment and COBRA subsidies for 15 months. To the tune of almost 60k annualized. I start a new job on the 26th, a much better job then I had before.
A whole new crowd of welfare recipients living off the gubmint.
We don’t need no steenkin self respect!!!!!!!1
Yes, Mass. is one of those states in series financial trouble.
I have to say that I certainly wasn't making $300 a week... I was getting $200 a week (taxable), which was, IIRC, just enough to pay my COBRA payments.
Mark
We're very screwed.
I know quite a few people that have been unemployed for a long time and are not turning anything down.
“Unemployment benefits may be adding to job seekers laziness”
That’s the whole freaking point. Make them dependent on the government.
Sorry _uck’s!
Duh. If you subsidize something (unemployment), you get more of it.
The only reason Ms. Romanos has a job is because other don’t.
“””I know quite a few people that have been unemployed for a long time and are not turning anything down.”””””””
They are the rare ones, unfortunately.
This looks like a job for Captain Obvious.
The issue isn't getting a "good job", it's getting "any job".
You should be on the employer side of those kinds. Extremely frustrating to see them milking the system when you know they are working under the table but cannot prove it.
Actually after having been layed off for 15 months, I consider myself an expert on the subject.
But of course, let’s blame the people who can’t find a job, can’t pay their mortgage and are in jeopardy of losing their home. Their kids’ college funds are down to nothing, but they’re just loving being out of work.
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