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In the latest sign of weakness in Louisville-area employment, about 10,000 people applied over three days for 90 jobs building washing machines at General Electric for about $27,000 per year and hefty benefits.
“In this recession, there are lot of people who are just about to run out of unemployment benefits,” said Richard Hurd, a labor relations professor at Cornell University. The national average of time unemployment benefits collected now stands at 26 weeks, Indiana University Southeast Professor of Business Uric Dufrene said.
That’s about a third of the maximum that can currently be collected.
Larissa Roos, 38, never worked in a factory, but was one of the thousands who bid on jobs assembling appliances.
Until she was laid off from Bank of America in February, Roos said she made $18 per hour fielding calls, often from irritated merchants, about credit card glitches. Roos took that job just out of high school. But severance payments end this month, and Roos said she is looking everywhere to try to replace the income.
I need something so I can live day to day. The job market is horrible,” Roos said Thursday, adding the family relies on her husband’s job as a printer to pay the mortgage on their Fern Creek home as well as utility, fuel and other bills.
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Retard troll says: This was an accounting error. It was only 100 applicants. Things are improving fast.
ReplyDeleteWe put an ad in the paper for a IT support person. We did the same two years ago and got a dozen responses based on what we wanted. We ran close to the same ad and had to shunt off the email address we used. We got over 900 emails and the DID number we assigned got so many calls we were forced to disable that also.
ReplyDeleteNothing sadder than so many people desperate for work.
I know a master craftsman who is now working for $11/hr part time sanding and painting shelves. Gotta do what you gotta do. A lot of desperate folks getting a dose of reality in the current collapse.
The joke is that Kentucky was the first state whose voting results were announced for John McCain in Election Night. Plus Kentucky re-elected Mitch McConnell, although most of his campaign money comes from outside Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteMitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, was George W Bush's Labor Secretary. She was the longest serving member of Bush's cabinet. Bush and Chao missed their jobs creation target nearly every month for 8 years, proof that Republican tax cuts do not work to create jobs. The labor available in India and China is way too large.
Right wing news eh? Things are getting really stupid around here. How about more Glen Beck and Rick Santelli, lets get really stupid!
ReplyDeleteHow about going back to Eric Holder's desk and tell him you were caught?
ReplyDeleteAstroturfing? So that means spamming blog posts with a lot of left wing ideas? Well hey hey hey---we already got that here. We just did not invent the new word!
ReplyDeleteThat's 9,910 people who weren't so lucky and will need to lower the bar. At least they are trying to find a job.
ReplyDeleteThe company should charge a application fee
ReplyDeleteJob market Limbo
ReplyDeleteLower the bar so far
it's 6 feet under
ground
That's the sound
of what's coming round
the powers that be
soliloquy
'get a job you fucking slob'
and that's just the way it is
doo doo doo
doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo
7:25 - LOL. Geezus Christ, that was great. Knowing the corporate mentality ...
ReplyDeleteA new hardware store opened in my area. They received 800 applications for 18 positions. Over half of the applicants were over qualified for the job. I keep hoping things will begin to turn around, but I just don't know that it's going to happen anytime soon.
ReplyDeletethere is a thin line between hope and delusion....
ReplyDeleteIt is very simple to see what is happening. The media is owned by five gigantic corporations that want to sell shit and keep the lemmings in line (at the mall).
ReplyDeleteTherefore, every time you see some talking head on TV telling you it is getting better it is a lie.
It is not going to get any better. They may be able to make the stock market appear healthly but that is it.
Obama is just another in a long line of banker puppets out to look out for his corporate masters, not you.
It can't get better. We are obliterated in debt and we can't make anything as well as other countries.
Depression - currency collapse from even more dramatic printing = Problem-Reaction-Solution from our owners.
The solution will be a global currency and at a minimum, the NAU and no borders, centralized control.
Solution: Take everything away from us 100%, scare the living daylights out of us with another false flag or H1N1 type scenario; leave us broken, naked and whipped.
ReplyDeleteThen, they will extend a small cracker and a gas of water in exchange for undying loyalty. This is the type of solution they will offer. A much, much lower standard of living, but better than torment and death. So, the sheeple will actually thank their Oligarch owners for the cracker. They same owners that caused the fall in the first place.
This is how it works. They love doing it this way. It is their MO. 1000 times over. Never fails.
They will make sure to have a scape goat all lined up. Actually, this is already a done deal, but us lemmings don't know the plans.
ReplyDeleteIt may or not be blamed on Middle East people this time, who knows. The Oligarch bankers like a two for one. So most likely it will be the poor bastards again. Then, the puppet with the giant club - that's us - can go rushing in to kill more brown people for profit and kicks.
No crackers this time around. too many know what is going on and will revolt, it will get ugly but it will have to before it gets better
ReplyDelete11:12....AGREE. too much information available to the masses in this day....when its gets "bad" that will be the opening in the flood gates for it to get really bad..."shtf bad"... you know what i mean....it ain't gonna be pretty. no one with half a brain and weaponry and ammo will be rolling over and sliding in line to get crackers and gas.... i see things happening that scare even me........ you better be prepping is the advice i give to my circle of influence.... not many are listening.
ReplyDeleteYou can't explain what's going on in a soundbite, though. People have a general idea that Goldman Sachs might be the enemy, but don't know much more than that.
ReplyDeletePurging anyone associated with the Trilateral Commission, Council for Foreign Relations, Pilgrims Society and Royal Institute for International Affairs from government would be a good start, and dismantling the Fed and fractional reserve banking system for an encore would get us a lot of the way there. But how do you explain that to the masses in 30 seconds?
Well this is just retarded. Thanks for the right wing paranoid view point. But if you think your site is important enough for Obama-maniacs to inflect their left-wing agenda into for the good of the cause then you need to WTFU.
ReplyDeleteEh? What you on about 9:23? Obama is a puppet of the oligarchs, not an opposition to them; both political sides are. Left versus right has nothing to do with it; it's debt enslaved versus not debt enslaved.
ReplyDeleteObama is a tool, not necessarily a puppet though. What am I on about? The silliness of this post. F-ing wacked out right wing paranoia.
ReplyDelete1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
ReplyDelete2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage'
If you think it's radicals upset with the coming depression then you need to read the new book, A Time To Stand by Oliver, cause these days it's the conservatives. It was the conservatives who were supporting the American Revolution.
The book is insightful cause it parallels today's Americans with the colonist who had to stand up to govt. tyranny. Read it, it's great. Got 1 for a friend.
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