NYT highlights funemployment in Democratic recession

This may be a radical thought but don’t the unemployed need to be putting on a clean suit and going out and finding employment?

highhopes on September 8, 2009 at 11:22 AM

I’ve worn everything short of a tuxedo and applied at enough stores to cover most of the alphabet.

For the idiot die-hard capitalists and the obtuse: There. Are. No. Jobs. Left.

Dark-Star on September 8, 2009 at 12:27 PM

Could it possibly be you or your approach that is the problem? Could it be that you are unrealistic in what you want to be doing, where you want to be working or some other factor?

Could it be that you are as dense as a lead block?

The good jobs – the career type jobs – are all claimed already, outsourced, or have a mile-long list of applicants with qualifications my generation can’t possibly hope to match.

I’ve already had to give up on having a good job, probably for the rest of my life, as well as marriage and family. (Can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed em) I discovered the hard way that I stank at computer programming (so much for following in father’s footsteps) and nearly all the techie jobs are long since spoken for, if the greedy pigs in suits haven’t already shipped them to Ching-Ling-Ding-Land.

This leaves the less-desirable jobs. There are literally foot-high stacks of applications from people ranging to those like me to displaced experts trying to pay the mortgage and their food bills. You could crawl in on your hands and knees and spin the biggest sob story ever (I have once or twice), and the competition would still be horrendous.

Dark-Star on September 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM

If you are willing to work there is a job out there for you.

Tell that to someone who

lived through the Great Depression.

Places that put out ‘now hiring’ signs (specifically fast-food chains and big-box stores) have become notorious for collecting applications with a smile, promising applicants a callback*, sorting out the couple most desperate applicants to see who grovels the most and hiring him/her.

The only people who should be sucking on Uncle Sam’s Teet are those who are physically or mentally crippled.

Well, guess I’ll have to tell that to my severely physically deformed friend who is fighting the cheapskate suits for his apartment subsidy, that he is ‘sucking on the teet’. Badly malformed arms since birth and they’re trying to shaft him b/c the city budget is tight.

End of discussion.

That was ended long ago by your pig-headedness.

Now go out, swallow your F*&^%$# pride, and get a d*&^n job.

How about you go out and swallow a lit firecracker?

I lost my pride after about the dozenth time I acted like a good little office-drone wannabe in an attempt to get a Dilbert-type job.

unless by career-type job you mean one of those union jobs where people without skills are paid in excess of $75/hour (salary and benefits) to turn bolts on an assembly line.

I have yet to see someone in RL with such a job. Assembly-line jobs especially; those have become prime candidates for automation, displacing thousands of lower-middle and lower-class people from honest labor. It’s hurting organizations trying to turn young outlaws around – without them, crime pays a lot well than a burger-flipping job and you don’t have to take all manner of BS from your customers.

*Only two places have kept this promise – a family-owned restaurant and a Pizza Hut. This out of ALL places I’ve applied.

Dark-Star on September 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM

Dark-Star, are you still young enough to join the military, or the National Guard in your state?

Being sent to get shot at in some foreign desert for a corrupt government doesn’t exactly appeal to me. The military is most in need of cannon fodder right now, and that’s what I’ll be used for.

Dark-Star on September 8, 2009 at 1:19 PM