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The heavy hand of the do-gooder
myself | 7/11/2008 | steve8714

Posted on 07/11/2008 3:06:01 PM PDT by steve8714

I own a startup staffing service here in the St. Louis metro area. Wednesday a kid came in to apply for assignment with us, and he brings a woman with him. It turns out she is his "work coach". What this means is that every time he goes looking for a job, she's with him, injecting herself into the proceedings, talking about him like he isn't there, using terms like "high-functioning" as if the guy were retarded. The poor bastard would do much better on his own. Has anybody else encountered anything like this?


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To: Veto!
Very narrow focus

Sounds loaded. Look, if I'm high, you don't want me to paint your bedroom. Play guitar, yes. Paint a room, no.

21 posted on 07/11/2008 4:22:24 PM PDT by budwiesest (Barack is going to lose by 37 states. He'll only take 20.)
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To: steve8714
No, but hell no.

Then don't hire him. Next!

22 posted on 07/11/2008 4:26:57 PM PDT by budwiesest (Barack is going to lose by 37 states. He'll only take 20.)
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To: steve8714

Work coaches usually come armed with tax credits if you can see your way clear to hiring the person in question. Lets face it some jobs are just to boring for the sharpest tool in the shed why not let the “strong back weak mind” do the job if he/she can.


23 posted on 07/11/2008 4:54:03 PM PDT by scottteng (Proud parent of a Life scout.)
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To: usflagwaver
I have been helping my boss's son try to find a job.

With your boss's employer, right?

24 posted on 07/11/2008 4:56:19 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: steve8714

Imagine! I wouldn’t want a Work Coach in an interview that I was doing. Who would hire someone who brought a WC to an interview? It IS like bringing his mom. haha.


25 posted on 07/11/2008 5:10:15 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Walrus

I’m with you. You hire someone to help YOU.


26 posted on 07/11/2008 5:15:00 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: steve8714

that’s a good one!

lol!


27 posted on 08/06/2008 10:01:15 AM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: steve8714
Work coach?

Democrats have these.

They are called the MSM.

28 posted on 08/06/2008 10:11:38 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: usflagwaver

I might have hired him for something, but she really creeped me out.


29 posted on 08/06/2008 11:50:02 AM PDT by steve8714 (Curtis Strange ruined a man better than himself.)
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To: steve8714

That’s good. They are just looking or a “chance”.


30 posted on 08/06/2008 12:57:45 PM PDT by usflagwaver
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