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The Big Freeze on hiring
Washington Post ^ | 06/17/2014 | Catherine Rampell

Posted on 06/17/2014 4:55:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/17/2014 4:55:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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But they’re 30 hours a week jobs so you’re going to have to get a second job....and your own insurance.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 4:56:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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No kidding. My son was told by a couple of HR managers they are taking applications and doing interviews but hiring will wait.

The WH has so gummed up the commerce and business of the United States by its incredibly inept regulations and policies, no one wants to wade into the mire.

He started his own business and THAT is another long, long process with the Soviet-style nomenklatura one must navigate in Amerika.

Can we turn this disaster around? Sure. The Civil War was the very worst thing that happened or could happen.

This too will pass.


3 posted on 06/17/2014 5:09:10 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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Maybe it's taking so long because they cannot find Graduates from
HS or College who can read and do math. Not taking into the account the
entitlement mentality.
4 posted on 06/17/2014 5:10:03 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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Son started putting job applications in several months ago. Just got hired for a full-time seasonal job as a park ranger at a local state park. No benefits, of course. He’s going to have to start putting in applications for a full-time job NOW to start in September when the seasonal job is over. He wants to work a part-time job as soon as he can find one to work around his seasonal hours. He has a wife and newborn daughter to support. They moved close to us. We’re trying to help them as much as we can. I’d hate to be looking for a job now.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 5:12:43 AM PDT by sneakers
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My hubby had 2 jobs for years....a full time one and part time one. That’s the way it was. I also worked part-time at home.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 5:14:48 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: OpusatFR
Once a business hires a single person the dynamics change drastically.
There are so many laws on the books that I suspect every employer in
the USA is guilty of at least one infraction. Even thought crime.

Some people ask why I do not have employees and accept my answer about over regulation.
Others see me as a greedy billionaire who refuses to spread the wealth. Eventually
I will have extra work but it will not be done by Employees, it will
be done by contractors. Any who seek work will be required to get a business license
so that they can become one of those most hated people in America too.

7 posted on 06/17/2014 5:18:13 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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RE: But they’re 30 hours a week jobs so you’re going to have to get a second job....and your own insurance.

The latter is taken care of by .... Obamacare.


8 posted on 06/17/2014 5:23:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Yep. Daughter-in-law wants to work part time as well but baby is just two months old. My son said he knows we had it hard, but we always worked and always managed to pay the bills and put food on the table. He and wife both saw parents that worked hard to make ends meet. We never asked for help. I’m glad they both picked up that work ethic.


9 posted on 06/17/2014 5:26:01 AM PDT by sneakers
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In the meantime, bosses can just dump more work on their staff, since even the most beleaguered workers are still too afraid to quit.

There's your explanation right there.

10 posted on 06/17/2014 5:32:00 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Could also be the sheer volume of applicants and interviews.


11 posted on 06/17/2014 6:12:01 AM PDT by huldah1776
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I used to work for a company that had some token outposts in Europe (Netherlands and France). It was almost impossible to fire an employee there, so they were always very careful about adding any staff.

This article sort of seems like it fits the regime’s “Europeanization” of America.


12 posted on 06/17/2014 6:19:16 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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My hubby had 2 jobs for years.”

I remember when I was a child my father worked two full-time jobs. His day job was as a policeman and he worked the Midnight shift at a plant that made fiberglass. Had different days off at each which he would spend working on our small farm. My mom also worked full-time from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. as a manager of a women’s clothing store. War was going on and times were really tough.

My older sister and I milked our two cows each day, fed the chickens, took care of the garden and she did much of the cooking and cleaning. Just what you did back then.


13 posted on 06/17/2014 6:20:24 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Sacajaweau

My hubby had 2 jobs for years....a full time one and part time one. That’s the way it was.


Yep, you live on the first job, you get ahead with the 2nd job.


14 posted on 06/17/2014 6:23:57 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Where is your thinking cap? The one you were issued in elementary school.)
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YOUR post explains both the situation and your attitude. You don’t refer to the prospective “employer” but scornfully use the word “bosses”. Employees are not people working and earning a living, but are “beleagured workers”, trapped in a terrible bind so they can feed a family.
I am in dire need to hire a “beleagured worker”, but there are so many like you, I’ll do the work myself.
You can create laws and regulations to harass “awful employers”, but you CANNOT require anyone to become an employer.


15 posted on 06/17/2014 6:24:17 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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Many applicants cannot pass the drug or physical testing for many jobs.
16 posted on 06/17/2014 6:24:23 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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and the Affirmative Action hires in HR are getting EVEN LAZIER!


17 posted on 06/17/2014 6:26:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Many applicants cannot pass the drug or physical testing for many jobs.

I spoke with someone from a small manufacturing company in a town about an hour from here who says their applicant drug test failure rate is 65%.


18 posted on 06/17/2014 6:27:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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YOUR post explains both the situation and your attitude. You don’t refer to the prospective “employer” but scornfully use the word “bosses”. Employees are not people working and earning a living, but are “beleagured workers”, trapped in a terrible bind so they can feed a family.

Had you read the article you would have seen that I was quoting from it and the words were not my own.

19 posted on 06/17/2014 6:37:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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It's a shame. Now men are told they should be doing housework so their wives can be fulfilled. Women are busting their as**** because society says it's the only way to get fulfilled.

What a load of crap.

Women are working for money just like the men.

In the end...It's still all about family.

20 posted on 06/17/2014 6:46:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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