Posted on 10/24/2010 4:41:44 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Airing right now...said the real unemployment is at 17.5%...showing tons of people with masters, bachelors, phd's, you name it...unemployed for 2 years...can't even get jobs at Target.
That's true, but they think they can have the jobs without actually doing the work. Some of them actually think people who have jobs do nothing to hold them and get paid anyway.
As I said, it’s awful for people unemployed and trapped there in this economy. That it angers you and sounds unjust does not make it any less true.
Ask any human resource professional or even anyone who’s ever been in a position to hire subordinates. It’s there, and it’s why so many professionals with degrees are hurting so badly right now. Call me names all you want, it won’t change reality.
And, just so you know, I was desperate for a job two years ago. It hit here in NC earlier than in some other areas. I had to shut my company down, customers went bankrupt and left me holding the bag to the tune of mid-five figures, no new business could be found. I was denied unemployment benefits by the state ESC, despite having paid unemployment “insurance” on myself for thirteen ****ing years, because there was still a pittance of income coming in every month, never mind the thousands of dollars in equipment financed, office leases, etcetera going out.
This went on for eight months and there were several of those months that I was so low, if I could have curled up into a ball and just disappeared, I would have. I wouldn’t have minded just not waking up some morning, either. I got through it by rediscovering my faith in God and by praying to Him. I got a job with a former customer, in a field only tangentially related, and at a third of what I’d been making on my own. For that I literally thank God. It was the answer to my prayers.
So, you know what you can do with your misdirected keyboard warrior bravado, now don’t you?
...and now we're in the Fall of Prosperity
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“We are not even considering them because we know that as soon as the economy turns around, they will leave us to take another job but it’s pretty incredible nevertheless.”
If I was at the top of your company, I’d question that things will bounce back strongly enough for you to lose their services anytime soon.
And I’d question how your company is stronger without them versus with them.
You want to ‘see it’? Check this graph out Mr. K.
Geography of a Recession
http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html
I hope it doesn't because it is a slice of reality in these trying times.
Best of luck to you, and thanks for speaking your mind.
“The Democratic Party is going to be destroyed in 9 days long before they can try this madness.”
We can hope, but they’ve admitted to working on it in committee.
My CPA wonk went to a Confab of which they would not hand out booklets or allow copies of the PDF to get out by the Comp-Troller type. Michigan hit s a brick wall next yr with Porkulus running out and Medicaid/Medicare cost increasing and a former state employee retirement bubble hitting. His analysis they can't cut enough and it will have to be done and more taxes....
If I lost my job right now and had no other option than to work at a fast food restaurant to put food on the table, I wouldn't dare put on the application that I'm an IT professional with a degree. That would be totally stupid. I'd say I worked at a family restaurant somewhere that went out of business, and have a few friends lined up as 'references'. You gotta know how to survive. A degree and an impressive resume doesn't always help you in certain situations.
Wow. And 9 days before the election. Bambi and the rats are gonna be all weee weeed.
And 3 1/2 years ago, many here were saying, "No way can a man named Barack Hussein Obama ever be elected president of the United States, especially after 9/11."
Nothing is unsalable in this lunatic asylum.
>Some of them actually think people who have jobs do nothing to hold them and get paid anyway.<
Are you talking public or private sector? ;)
Very good post, completely agree with your scenario.
Well, it gave me the opportunity to tag it for recording at 7 PDT.
Say, you're not one of the clowns who had a hissy fit when it was revealed that many foreclosures were being invalidated for sloppy or fraudulent foreclosure documents, are you?
Called us all a bunch of ignorant hicks for believing the initial reports... ?
Seen that story too many times. I’m a technical guy, too, but considerably younger (42). Ten years ago I saw the writing on the wall - lifetime employment, or even the good chance of getting a new job quickly - was disappearing for tech workers.
I started my own consulting business, had a tight few years, but am not reaping the rewards. Yeah, I traded away 5-6 years of my prime earning years (mid-late 30s) but I now have a career, a large stable of current and past clients, and am the one who signs my own check.
Best thing for you or your friend in Germany to do: get a website, write 3-4 pages of technical/impressive fluff, pump up the 1 page resume mightily, then walk in to any potential employer and tell them you’ll consider working on project X/Y/Z (scour the tech journals for their new projects) for only $100-$200 (choose a number at least double, if not triple a typical salary) per hour. You’d be surprised how many companies will take you VERY seriously, and give you shorter (4-8 week) contracts just because of your experience AND confidence.
But it takes big, brass, clanging, shiny balls to do it! Puff and bravado will get you 90% of the way there, so they will look at your abilities and experience and seal the deal.
Good luck, and if you can ever manage it, never, ever let another man sign your paycheck!
Good and let it serve notice to every voter and increase the size of their defeat. If they try to even pass that bill in committee just watch about 150 million Americans withdraw their funds from their 401K’s and see what it does to the economy and the Rats will get the blame. The country will then split apart.
And the biggest problem the GOP has is that:
1. They have no clue how to fix the financial sector.
2. They have no clue how to increase employment (and just implementing “more tax cuts” and “slashing regulations” isn’t going to do it).
3. They have no plan on how to deal with China.
4. They have no real intent on repealing Obamacare.
5. They have no credible plan on how to deal with the entitlement train wreck.
And on and on and on. I can pretty much write the script for the next two years from here if the GOP takes control of both houses of Congress: Forward and down.
The GOP newbies are well intentioned... but if wishes were dollars, we’d all be millionaires.
” Some of them actually think people who have jobs do nothing to hold them and get paid anyway. “
Have you seen any Cellular commercials lately?? Their message is exactly what you describe....
The people with degrees could also be good prospects for promotions to the next level. You are foregoing talent. What is the average length of employment anyway? Bet it’s short enough that the concern of them leaving in a turnaround doesn’t matter as much as foregoing the immediate talent. What is going to bring the turnaround anyway? A miquetoast like Romney? Hillary beating Obama in the primary and winning the Presidency? We don’t have many outs left as a country . . . and the hard left flopped Aces at the end of the tournament with the reaction against Bush just as Obama won. Betcha Soros is making a killing betting against the dollar.
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