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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Jan 12, 2011 7:02:34 GMT -8
California, former auto worker Maria Gregg was out of work five months last year before landing a new job—at a nearly 20% pay cut. In Massachusetts, Kevin Cronan, who lost his $150,000-a-year job as a money manager in early 2009, is now frothing cappuccinos at a Starbucks for $8.85 an hour. In Wisconsin, Dale Szabo, a former manufacturing manager with two master's degrees, has been searching years for a job comparable to the one he lost in 2003. He's now a school janitor. They are among the lucky. There are 14.5 million people on the unemployment rolls, including 6.4 million who have been jobless for more than six months. But the decline in their fortunes points to a signature outcome of the long downturn in the labor market. Even at times of high unemployment in the past, wages have been very slow to fall; economists describe them as "sticky." To an extent rarely seen in recessions since the Great Depression, wages for a swath of the labor force this time have taken a sharp and swift fall. online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304248704575574213897770830.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories |
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Post by Aztec89 on Jan 12, 2011 15:01:43 GMT -8
Yep. I know it all too well. The key is to stay nimble, and be ready to jump into a new opportunity when the economy turns. If you are underemployed, keep your eyes open, and pay attention.
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Post by inocuace on Jan 15, 2011 8:13:12 GMT -8
Yep. I know it all too well. The key is to stay nimble, and be ready to jump into a new opportunity when the economy turns. If you are underemployed, keep your eyes open, and pay attention. Unless you are the wrong age, with the wrong education, been unemployed for a while, or otherwise fail to immediately charm the business idiot making hiring decisions. Stay nimble- my rectum. |
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Jan 15, 2011 8:19:34 GMT -8
Yep. I know it all too well. The key is to stay nimble, and be ready to jump into a new opportunity when the economy turns. If you are underemployed, keep your eyes open, and pay attention. Unless you are the wrong age, with the wrong education, been unemployed for a while, or otherwise fail to immediately charm the business idiot making hiring decisions. Stay nimble- my rectum. You sound angry. The most pervasive discrimination in this country is AGE discrimination. There is a tremendous disproportionate number of people fifty and older out of work who can not even get interviews. When you realize how totally corrupt the hiring arena is out there, all you can do is swear at the system and find a way to make money on your own. |
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Post by inocuace on Jan 15, 2011 8:38:01 GMT -8
Unless you are the wrong age, with the wrong education, been unemployed for a while, or otherwise fail to immediately charm the business idiot making hiring decisions. Stay nimble- my rectum. You sound angry. The most pervasive discrimination in this country is AGE discrimination. There is a tremendous disproportionate number of people fifty and older out of work who can not even get interviews. When you realize how totally corrupt the hiring arena is out there, all you can do is swear at the system and find a way to make money on your own. Bald faced stupidity riles me. There are many stupid people out there Joe. I am absolutely sure you are aware. I read your posts. I have seen older people struggle to find work and I have heard them relate how they gave up, because of some capricious human resource fool. Did you know that head hunters have codes to help them screen undesirables? For example: When a firm requests a receptionist with small hands, they want an attractive female. (then again who of us doesn't? But that is another thread! ) ;D Sometimes, anger is the correct reaction to what is unfair. |
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Post by JOCAZTEC on Jan 15, 2011 9:17:31 GMT -8
Isn't it so nice to take money from people who cannot afford it?
So I am so thankful for my clerical jobs that pay seven bucks an hour and one that pays nine dollars an hour...and I am so thankful that that your government takes fifteen percent of my gross so when I turn seventy five years old (if I live that long with four jobs) I can have taxable income they can tax again...and I am so happy they take eight percent for my free health care except with four jobs and the long line at the Government Medical Coop (yeah, that's GMC), I don't have any time to have that guy with the nice India tan and with that cute accent no one can understand, look at my puss-red, bleeding moles on my back...and I am so happy that I have the lowest income taxes in the world (well, in part of the world which would be the part that holds salt water) and only pay a flat thirty percent to the federal revenue officers, twelve percent to Jerry Brown's re-election guard unions, and five percent to the County of Orange for the County Clerk's Newport Heights villa...and I am so glad that they take out two percent of my gross in case I ever become pregnant (...male's pay this for what?)...and I am beyond words to thank the government for the NET paychecks that always make the liquor store clerk laugh out loud when I get handed a bunch of coin...and I am so good to see when I start to spend my leftover dribbling of a wage on things that the IRS views as excessive, like rent with the Melo Roos tax hit keeping it high, and fuel with its huge fuel tax of fifty cents a gallon before it's hit with a ten percent sales tax on the fuel (gas to you UCLA idiots) tax and the five dollar surcharge for paying with coin tax, and food which is now fully taxed by the State Board of Equalization at a "small" ten percent of every bite (and Forbes wants to save me with a national sales tax...).
Yes I am grateful that I have jobs.
HAM
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Post by inocuace on Jan 15, 2011 9:25:28 GMT -8
Isn't it so nice to take money from people who cannot afford it? So I am so thankful for my clerical jobs that pay seven bucks an hour and one that pays nine dollars an hour...and I am so thankful that that your government takes fifteen percent of my gross so when I turn seventy five years old (if I live that long with four jobs) I can have taxable income they can tax again...and I am so happy they take eight percent for my free health care except with four jobs and the long line at the Government Medical Coop (yeah, that's GMC), I don't have any time to have that guy with the nice India tan and with that cute accent no one can understand, look at my puss-red, bleeding moles on my back...and I am so happy that I have the lowest income taxes in the world (well, in part of the world which would be the part that holds salt water) and only pay a flat thirty percent to the federal revenue officers, twelve percent to Jerry Brown's re-election guard unions, and five percent to the County of Orange for the County Clerk's Newport Heights villa...and I am so glad that they take out two percent of my gross in case I ever become pregnant (...male's pay this for what?)...and I am beyond words to thank the government for the NET paychecks that always make the liquor store clerk laugh out loud when I get handed a bunch of coin...and I am so good to see when I start to spend my leftover dribbling of a wage on things that the IRS views as excessive, like rent with the Melo Roos tax hit keeping it high, and fuel with its huge fuel tax of fifty cents a gallon before it's hit with a ten percent sales tax on the fuel (gas to you UCLA idiots) tax and the five dollar surcharge for paying with coin tax, and food which is now fully taxed by the State Board of Equalization at a "small" ten percent of every bite (and Forbes wants to save me with a national sales tax...). Yes I am grateful that I have jobs. HAM So, you don't like taxes? |
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Post by uwaztec on Jan 15, 2011 10:10:37 GMT -8
When my business got hit hard by the economy two years ago... I had to scrammble back to find fill-in work in a career I had left 20 years ago. I was also coming off some pretty major surgery. I still had some good connections in my old career, but when I looked around everybody seemed so much younger than me (imagine that!). It made me nervous about finding work again, so I admit to taking a trip to the local drug store and taking a bit (actually all)of the gray out of my hair. My wife and daughter got a pretty good laugh out of it. Funny, it must have been a popular color..... when I was in public, I could pick out the guys that used it. Anyway, its good to have something to fall back on and be diverse. I have regular work now and some nice side income going from my photography buis. Not worrying about my gray hair anymore.....
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Post by inocuace on Jan 16, 2011 7:47:12 GMT -8
When my business got hit hard by the economy two years ago... I had to scrammble back to find fill-in work in a career I had left 20 years ago. I was also coming off some pretty major surgery. I still had some good connections in my old career, but when I looked around everybody seemed so much younger than me (imagine that!). It made me nervous about finding work again, so I admit to taking a trip to the local drug store and taking a bit (actually all)of the gray out of my hair. My wife and daughter got a pretty good laugh out of it. Funny, it must have been a popular color..... when I was in public, I could pick out the guys that used it. Anyway, its good to have something to fall back on and be diverse. I have regular work now and some nice side income going from my photography buis. Not worrying about my gray hair anymore..... I am glad you did well. I have done some hiring and training in my time and the people I have talked to have told me that being over 40 is brutal and if you are 55 or over it is over. As to the gray hair, I am probably white headed. But you cannot tell. My wife gets professional dye and only does the roots when she does my hair. My sister in law the cosmetologist taught her. I have very thick hair which helps a great deal when you want to look natural. Irritatingly, my brothers and sisters are near my age and they have no gray hair at all. But they all weigh 250 to 400 lbs. I don't. LOL! Genetics!? ;D |
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Jan 18, 2011 19:24:32 GMT -8
Going on 63 and I have no gray hair, yet. Neither my father or his father had gray hair. It just does not run in the family. I am certain it is a DNA thing.
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Jan 18, 2011 19:29:08 GMT -8
Isn't it so nice to take money from people who cannot afford it? So I am so thankful for my clerical jobs that pay seven bucks an hour and one that pays nine dollars an hour...and I am so thankful that that your government takes fifteen percent of my gross so when I turn seventy five years old (if I live that long with four jobs) I can have taxable income they can tax again...and I am so happy they take eight percent for my free health care except with four jobs and the long line at the Government Medical Coop (yeah, that's GMC), I don't have any time to have that guy with the nice India tan and with that cute accent no one can understand, look at my puss-red, bleeding moles on my back...and I am so happy that I have the lowest income taxes in the world (well, in part of the world which would be the part that holds salt water) and only pay a flat thirty percent to the federal revenue officers, twelve percent to Jerry Brown's re-election guard unions, and five percent to the County of Orange for the County Clerk's Newport Heights villa...and I am so glad that they take out two percent of my gross in case I ever become pregnant (...male's pay this for what?)...and I am beyond words to thank the government for the NET paychecks that always make the liquor store clerk laugh out loud when I get handed a bunch of coin...and I am so good to see when I start to spend my leftover dribbling of a wage on things that the IRS views as excessive, like rent with the Melo Roos tax hit keeping it high, and fuel with its huge fuel tax of fifty cents a gallon before it's hit with a ten percent sales tax on the fuel (gas to you UCLA idiots) tax and the five dollar surcharge for paying with coin tax, and food which is now fully taxed by the State Board of Equalization at a "small" ten percent of every bite (and Forbes wants to save me with a national sales tax...). Yes I am grateful that I have jobs. HAM So, you don't like taxes? I definitely got that impression, too. |
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Post by JOCAZTEC on Feb 3, 2011 23:35:16 GMT -8
Lazy brained...to a tee.
Hai.
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