Posted on 09/26/2011 11:29:43 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Oh, barefoot boy with cheeks of tan
Someday you’ll be a barefoot man
You’re elders are out on a spree
Bankrupting their posterity.
My guess is that Obama could not even DEFINE “free enterprise.”
He and his voters would say that it means you don’t have to pay for Enterprise. It’s free!!!
Picture of the Decade, as far as I’m concerned. Should be a bumper sticker gracing the front AND rear of every VRWC member’s car...
Actually, there will be no open positions. Failing to interview unemployed persons for an open position could open you to being sued under this act. If this passes, there will be no job openings until it is repealed.
The Working Man wrote:
Every time I see this proposal I am struck at just how d*mn dumb it is. You might as well title it the “If you aren’t employed now you never will be again” Bill.
No Business is going to risk interviewing ANY unemployed person for any position.
Single women were given questions and told that based upon their answers they are compatible with and shown a picture of an attractive guy who they are told is single - when asked if they wanted this single attractive guy who they are compatible with to call her - only 60% of women wanted him to call.
If they were told he was “in a relationship” - 90% of the women wanted him to call.
Somewhat counter-intuitive until you use a “woman's intuition” and figure it out. Why not hire someone who already has a job and is doing well there?
I feel honored to be in the same class as the Snail Darter.
I do run across a lot of technical people that refuse to take a pay cut, so they remain unemployed.
I do run across a lot of technical people that refuse to take a pay cut, so they remain unemployed.
Our president is smoking more than tobacco.
Look for a 9.5% unemployment rate coming soon to a business near you.
And he will make sure that there are as many unemployed as possible.
The only way around this is to have such a structured hiring process that looks at skill levels only, and what is required to do the job. Have a score card, if you get XX score, you move to the next step, less than XX score you are out, each step would have a threshold. Each position would have to have the exact requirements, nothing more, nothing less. Creating that becomes a nightmare, then adhering to it becomes another nightmare, because once you have strayed from the plan for one person, you have to stray from the plan for them all, especially if someone realizes you've strayed. (sigh)
Sorry headstamp, none of this is directed at you, I'm just venting.
We were hiring a part-time front office/admin person. The job was approximately 30 hours a week, $12-15/hour depending on experience and eligible for group bonuses when sales numbers were met. Tuition reimbursement of up to 1000 per year based on grades. It was an 8-4 role, no nights, no weekend.
I had a woman tell me that if it was only 30 hours per week, then we'd have to increase the rate to cover her 40 hour a week salary demands. That wasn't the position. I had another tell me that she only wanted to work nights and weekends so as not to interfere with her full-time job.
It took me a month to find a nice person, who met the qualifications (typing, phone work, ability to learn, ability to speak proper english), that didn't look like a freak (front desk, remember) and hire her.
What really got me where the people that called up and said, "You half ta hire me" (intentionally left in phonetics)... Umm, no I don't.
So, the structured hiring process, I use it a lot when I have to tell some one that they are not it. Why not? You can't type. You don't know basic Word or Excel. You can't follow simple directions and fill out the application (which is required by the government), or my favorite lately.. You lied on your application. That's a deal breaker.
I know HR people catch a lot of flack here, but sometimes we're boxed in trying to keep the sue happy people out of the company, we're a small company, but no one likes the sue happy. We actually had a person, about a year and half ago, flat out told the rest of the staff that if we ever fired her, she would sue us. We had to document everything in triplicate to get rid of her and be prepared for the claim she tried to level against us.
And I am still looking for an inside phone sales person. And that is hard too, certain types don't want to sit at a desk and dial the phone. They want X, Y and Z and we only offer X, because that is the type of role it is. The frustration is on both sides.
But in trying to make the unemployed a protected class, the government is just begging them to be discriminated against, especially if it is going to be "you're not selected because you are not qualified, or you are not hired because you flat out said in the interview you hate doing the work, or as I had one gentleman ask me "I don't want to be in the office all day, can you change the job description?" and they go file a lawsuit?
So what then, the government will mandate what my job descriptions are now? That means they can take over our business model and adjust it as they see fit? This is just bad for small business, and it will further automate the larger businesses HR departments to avoid it altogether,
Epic stupidity knows no bounds.
What? are you effing SERIOUS??? This nation is 14 trillion in debt and THIS is Oblidiots focus?
Damn, just when I thought it couldn’t get any dumber....
Yep! All part of the plan.
What OTHER ‘special interest group’ is he going to exploit????
But “the plan” is working perfectly.
This is the first step towards making being unemployed the new normal.
Yeah right. Even if the dems still had a super majority they wouldn’t do this. It’s all show. They don’t care.
By September of next year, he’ll be agitating for a bill to give every family a free crack pipe.
“The only people in America that do NOT belong to an Obama “Protected Class” are native-born, employed, non-obese, non-union, straight, White males.”
Add under 40 to that. If you are over 40 you are protected against ageism.
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