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Want Ad: Unemployed Need Not Apply (Sony)
WKMG ^ | 6/1/10

Posted on 06/03/2010 2:49:45 AM PDT by Daisyjane69

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Job hunters are facing a new trend: businesses asking recruitment companies to keep unemployed people out of their job pools.

Peter May, of Atlanta, said he was hoping Orlando-based recruiter "The People Place" would help him find a job with Sony Ericsson. The company is moving its headquarters to Buckhead, which is located outside Atlanta.

May said he was mortified when he read the message on the website. In all caps, and bold type, it said, "No unemployed candidates will be considered at all."

(Excerpt) Read more at clickorlando.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blametheunemployed; blamethevictim; boycottsony; dumpsony; economy; jobsearch; sonysucks; unemployed; whoneedssony
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To: apillar

I think you’d be better off enrolling in a night school or trade school and calling yourself a student.


21 posted on 06/03/2010 3:55:19 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: Psalm 144

Part of it is that people do lose their edge. So if you’re unemployed I think its important to stay involved in different activities to stay sharp.


22 posted on 06/03/2010 3:56:57 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Daisyjane69

why take somebody off teh street when you can take somebody from your competition, thereby weakening them, and giving you access to their way of doing business?


23 posted on 06/03/2010 3:59:05 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour; apillar

Those techniques are pretty transparent but do show an effort and realization that its important.

Its the people that have been unemployed and on the golf course for 6 months that they are trying to weed out.


24 posted on 06/03/2010 4:02:58 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: apillar

Or you could be doing “consulting” work.


25 posted on 06/03/2010 4:11:42 AM PDT by joelt
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To: Daisyjane69

I am working now in my chosen field. But that has not always been the case. Previously, when I have been involuntarily out-of-work, I would spend a couple of days feeling sorry for myself and then I would take a job, any job, just to keep working.

No matter how bad the job market, there is always some kind of job available. It might be at a quarter of what you were making before, but it is a job. And if it is a job, it is a job you can do well.

And when you are sitting in that interview, for your next “real job”, and the guy-with-the-tie asks what you have been up to recently, you can say that you are doing a great job at a really lousy job, and you would really like to get back in the game. That will sound a heck of a lot better to the interviewer than telling him that you are sitting on your couch watching Oprah.


26 posted on 06/03/2010 4:14:09 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: Haiku Guy

Bingo!
Its way better to be under-employed than seen as a slacker on the govt dole for 12+ months. You’ll come across as a go getter, self reliant, self starter.


27 posted on 06/03/2010 4:22:35 AM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: Reeses
You can save time by randomly dividing the stack into two piles then toss one into the trash. That will weed out the unlucky ones.

Brilliant!


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

28 posted on 06/03/2010 4:24:39 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: camle
Back in the early 90's Sony hired recovering addicts and trained them to do repairs on circuit boards etc. Sony re-located the new employees in the suburbs. I was lucky enough to get recovering Meth addicts for neighbors. Reagan left the economy is such good shape, Sony had no choice.
29 posted on 06/03/2010 4:38:32 AM PDT by Chronically aghast in Florida (November can NOT get here fast enough!)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

“One example is not a trend.”

Welcome to the new media. Hyperbole is the new black dress of journalism.


30 posted on 06/03/2010 4:47:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Daisyjane69

Interestingly enough, the old HQ for Sony is here in Research Triangle Park. I commute by there daily.

The Yankees who worked there are now manning cash registers in Trader Joe’s in Cary. Lots of New York’s and New Jersey’s finest...

...finest unemployed...

Sony wants new college grads to replace them. Most of those kids are still living with mommy, and will work cheap.


31 posted on 06/03/2010 5:16:10 AM PDT by warchild9
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

The unemployed will never lash out as long as there’s sports, sports, and more sports to keep them stupid.

There’s nothing new about this situation. It’s occured many, many times in history, and people haven’t essentially changed.


32 posted on 06/03/2010 5:18:41 AM PDT by warchild9
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Oh, the sweet justice of the authors of this policy finding themselves out of work and becoming the deserving victims of their own callousness.
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They will. It is only a matter of time.

In the future,the only jobs will be either governmental or government approved.

To get one, one must be a member of the right political Party,i.e., Democrat a non White, non Christian,and probaly a sexual pervert.

Why? Because on November 4, 2008, America went to the polls and a majority of those that voted said, via their votes, that they wanted to be ruled and governed by perverts.


33 posted on 06/03/2010 5:40:36 AM PDT by sport
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To: Chronically aghast in Florida

recovering addicts aren’t really a problem - as long as they’re “recovering”, and not “lapsing”.


34 posted on 06/03/2010 6:37:12 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: warchild9
The unemployed will never lash out as long as there’s sports, sports, and more sports to keep them stupid.

Medical marijuana, food stamps, socialized housing/cell phones/internet/cable TV keep the new leisure class pacified. The evolutionary purpose of sports is practice tribal warfare.

35 posted on 06/03/2010 6:41:11 AM PDT by Reeses (I would rather fail with honor than win as a Democrat)
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To: dennisw
When a country weakens itself the outsiders come in for the kill. I know I’m being dramatic but I speak the truth. Say someone is a veteran of our military, is unemployed, and applies to Sony-Erikson. Are you dumb enough to think they care?

In addition, for many years now (at least back to a point in the 1990's) companies have advertised tech (programming, engineering, science, math) jobs for guest workers (e.g. H-1B's) only; contrary to popular opinion it has been perfectly legal.

In fact, the bean counters have mandated that the mangers in charge of getting the actual work done, hire x number of guest workers or off shore workers... again totally legal.

Who needs Americans whose salary requirements include onerous levels of taxation, when you can hire guest workers (who often pay no or partial taxes) or off shore workers who can live on the handsome sum of $5,000 or $10,000 per year?
36 posted on 06/03/2010 6:45:52 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: Daisyjane69
A company can hire whoever they like, using any standards they like. So what?

Should we make it the government's job to dictate to a business who they must hire?

Get over it. Private individuals and companies have the right to make decisions you don't like.

37 posted on 06/03/2010 6:51:11 AM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: codercpc

“Exactly. If I have one job opening, and receive 500 resumes, I need a way to weed them out.”

Helped my GF do that a couple of years go sitting on the couch drinking beer one night. Took an hour to weed the stack down to three resumes.


38 posted on 06/03/2010 6:52:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: TChris

I’m not complaining. I merely posted an article I thought would interest people.

Save your hostility for someone else, Sparky.


39 posted on 06/03/2010 6:56:27 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Daisyjane69
What hostility? I'm responding to the general tone of the posts on the thread, and you are the poster of the thread. It comes with the territory that you will get some posts that aren't directed to you personally, but to the thread in general.

No hostility here, FRiend.

40 posted on 06/03/2010 7:02:07 AM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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