Unemployment benefits story (sympathy or sob)

Why?

It's not like employees, by way of their employers, haven't been paying into this system for years and years.

 

Turn all UE money back to employers, cut off all UE deductions, and just think of all the new workers that could be hired.

 

To do what? Hand out pink slips to the other workers?

The machine parts business in Canton didn't fail because of Unemployment Insurance.

 

Or yacht payments that could be made.

 

I freelanced for newspapers a lot. I'm going to start my own paper.

 

I think a lot of people here are underestimating how hard it is to get a job in this country right now, particularly for someone who's either experienced or a college graduate (depending on the industry).

I graduated in May, and trust me, it's hard to find a job. Many entry level positions are being filled by people with much more experience who are willing to work for cheap. Many low-level positions -- restaurants, fast food places, etc. -- won't hire people with degrees because they're "overqualified," and they don't want to train someone only for them to leave after two weeks if a better job comes along.

I bet I've applied for 100 jobs since I got out of school. I've had four interviews.

 

About a year ago, I applied to work at a big, nationally known company and I was called in for the cattle call interview.

There were about 20 of us there. I was in a suit and another woman there was dressed very professionally in a pantsuit.

The other 18 were in jeans or worse and at least a handful were wearing T-shirts.

They called us into this room where we had to fill out a questionnaire about our education. Before we did anything else, a manager came in and waved the woman and I into another room. The other 18 sat there.

I sat in the room with this woman and she said, "Do you have your college degree?" I told her I did and she said she thought they separated us because we were the only two in there with degrees and that we'd be up for different jobs than the other 18.

Then, a manager came in and told us we were free to go.

We were both dumbfounded. The woman said, "Is this because we're overqualified?"

He just looked at both of us and said, "You both are not what we're looking for."

 

Through half of this story, you had a great porn plot on your hands.

 

I wish you could tell us the name of the company, because I would never, EVER, do business with that company again. That kinda stuff chaps me to no end.

 

The manager knows that they people dressed in suits will keep looking for a better job and bolt the first chance they get. For the rest of the crew, it might be the best job they can ever hope to get.

BTW, has anyone watched "Downsized"? My wife and I play a game counting how many Under Armour shirts the guy has. If he claims to be a manager, he should invest in a polo shirt and some khakis.

 

I'd be a hair's breadth from building a business empire... If only I could get on at Subway.

 

For want of a ham sandwich a kingdom was lost.