Posted on 04/14/2002 1:56:04 PM PDT by SpyderTim
I suggest those out of work or needing a part-time job consider security guard work.We just cancelled our security guard service where I work. It cost too much to have the old guy walk around the building til 11pm and turn off lights and coffee pots. No one ever realizes they are the last person in the building so the lights are frequently left on. I wonder if we're saving as much on the security guard as we are spending on the lights, now?
What's that phrase, "Illigemitae, non carborumdum est" sorta!!!
I am convinced that we would all have jobs tomorrow if all the foreigners on H-1B visa's were sent home and the bill that increased the H-1B visa allotment to 200,000 per year was revoked by Congress. The real question is how to get Congress to do this. They do not appear to be interested in helping Americans.
If every laid off American called their representative every day and demanded this type of action we may have a chance of getting our jobs back.
The unemployment problem is a direct result of our representatives increasing the work force in America via the H-1B visa program.
Unemployed Freepers?I rushed to open this topic; I thought maybe someone wanted to hire a Freeper, lol.
I'm a "me too". I was a professional musician for over 25 years, but I was getting too old to rock'n'roll and I turned to computers in the early 90's. I was a computer hardware techinian with half a dozen certifications and I ended up as an independent contractor with my own company until 2000 when the bottom fell out and the contracts disappeared along with the companies negotiating them. I helped build the Internet - a router at a time, but the Internet is built now and computer techs are delivering pizzas.
Recently I've been working a couple of days a week doing admin. or reception or whatever the temp agencies can dig up and the rest of the time I look for a new "career". When there's no admin. I do "whatever" they have, so far: housekeeping at a ski resort, unloading trucks and a box packer at the end of a conveyor belt at a litho plant (and I have delivered pizzas). No one wants to hire an "overqualified" 47 year-old that ran his own business for half a decade. I've been asked to "dumb-down" my resume repeatedly.
Maybe we shouldn't have done such a good job fixing Y2k, we could have let it all crash and burn, and then we would have had job security rebuilding it all.
Good luck Kalashnikov_68, Da_Shrimp, bandlength, Jaidyn, RonPaulLives, Alabama_Wild_Man, SERE_DOC, blueriver, southern rock, Dinsdale, Young Werther and anyone I missed or who hasn't arrived yet. Never Give Up!
I might be able to refuse to withhold but the employer half of FICA is a tax on the employer and would still have to be paid...It's not the withholding, it's the employer half that is one of the reasons for not hiring.
That is because the govt. can tax whatever it wants and can borrow whatever it wants. Furthermore, if you don't want to pay your taxes, they will take everything you have to pay and if you resist, you will go to jail and if you resist going to jail, they will kill you.
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