Who is going to give up full-time TANF, SNAP, WICs, EITC, Section 8, et al (TAX FREE) for a piddling part time job?
That article was about as content-less as could be done without simply printing nothing at all. After finishing it and wondering just which one of the many questions I wanted to ask...I noted that the author was associated with the Obamadork Felon/Cretin group and quite probably had never taken a university course requiring any intellectual rigor.
Ah, no reason to ask questions. There would be no rational answer.
Who’s going to give up $45,000 to $65,000 in Federal Subsidies for a lousy part-time Retail job?
Because these conceited kids coming out of college are not willing to start at the bottom and work their way up, like my generation had to do.
They want to immediately afford their new apartments, beemers, all their iGadgets, on top of their already high student loan debt.
They post the openings so they can go and whine to Congress about letting in more H1-Bs because they can’t find any “qualified” candidates.
The lifestyle of not working is better than working, considering:
Foodstamps
0bamaPhone
Section 8 Housing
Medicaid
Food pantries
Drugs
Drinking
Dealing Drugs
Impregnating the next generation of Baby Mommas
Who’d want to work? It’s so much ..... WORK!
I think they are taking advantage of the job market situation. I saw an ad for a power Electrical Engineer where the company wanted an Engineer with an MS in EE . Come on, let’s get real.
Folks:
In one word: Discouragement.
The gospel is the answer. And with God putting the squeeze on America, it might WELL see a revival.
What does a hiring manager do when there are no jobs? He interviews for jobs that aren’t actually available, justifying his continued employment by stating that ‘in case an opening comes available, or we have a temporary need to increase personnel, I’ve got a stable of people ready to go.’
For quite a while there, I’d have to let the interview process go quite a ways before I had to ask: Are you hiring immediately, or is this for a position opening up later... Almost every interview I went to, it was for a position yet to be available.
This is where the proliferation of masters programs in human resource management screwed the american job market. These jerks either intentionally over state the qualifications to something no person has as anexcuse to import an H1B iindentured servant or they do foolish things disqualifying any applicant that doesn’t already have a job.
A list of the current part-time openings on craigslist is always informative. A few weeks ago I offered commentary on each entry and found that a guy off the street — and I mean somebody like me, with job experience, who can read cursive and do a little math now and then — qualifies for maybe three or four out of a hundred.
Any talk of recent college graduates thinking they’re too good for an entry-level clerk job at the mall is not informed by the facts: most of those jobs, which used to be something you could indeed just walk into, require experience now, simply because the economy is so bad that these stores can pick and choose first from unemployed people with experience before they need to lower themselves to considering people that they’d have to spend a damn dollar on training.
The answer is simple: They are looking for the perfect candidate. Thing is, the “perfect” candidate does not exist.
Period.
Other reason is HR.
HR is staffed to the gills with bims that never worked a real job, don’t understand job requirements, can’t recognize transferable skills, use software that is spotty (at best) when it comes to pre-screening candidates.
I’ve seen all of this when employed with a major contractor.
-—When I was retiring from the Air Force, I had a 20-something HR bim tell me I had “no major corporate experience” (Really? The USAF at that time had around 600,000 people in it), that while I was a retiring officer I had no leadership experience because I ordered people to do things.
Propaganda from a former Obama official. He is pushing the importation of more cheap, foreign labor. There are 100 million Americans of working age (16-64) not in the workforce. We have a surplus of labor, which is driving down wages. Given government benefits, it is not worth going to work in these jobs. And most of the jobs created are part time.
Answer in one word: Øbamacare
Hiring: 28 hours a week for free, as interns, until such time as you even mention being paid, then you are downsized.
Hiring: 28 hours a week for minimum wage, with zero chance of ever getting a salaried position. With mandatory union dues.
Hiring: Cash only, no W-2 form, paid less than minimum wage but making more money because it is tax and FICA free.
Hiring: Petty criminals. $50k/yr tax free, smuggling heroin for Oxy-junkies. Employers until arrested.
One reason is the employers are offering salaries sharply lower than what the same job paid only five or six years ago — and people are turning them down! This is especially true for professional positions. Some pay no more and sometimes less than what secretaries earn. Thus, people could find ways to earn more money doing something else.
There’s just not enough people who know how to flip a burger or ring up a cash register.
Who’s going to hire with increasing taxes, Obamacare, and bigger regulatory burdens?