Not Going Down Without a Fight

An=merican Thinker ^ | October 31, 2009 | Maryann Michaels

[bogusname]

I, for one, will not go down without a fight, nor will I go quietly. Last January, I lost my middle-management position in an importer which sold goods to television networks.

I had to apply for state aid by going to the New York State Department of Labor to collect unemployment insurance. My weekly benefits were approved, but I frowned at the fact that they would be less than one third of my regular salary. I began my job search two days after being let go.

Fast forward to March. After submitting close to fifty résumés and not receiving even one bite, a friend of mine suggested I dumb it down. He felt this was the age of "less," and my resume needed to reflect that. I did so, and the calls began for interviews. However, once I sat opposite people who were going to lead me, it was quite apparent that my résumé was misleading. I was never called back, and rightly so, for being dishonest...so back-to-the-truth résumé and once again, no calls. I wanted to explain to them that I dumbed down simply to try to get my foot in the door. I need a job...

[bogusname]

Things are going to get rough.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I can sympathize. You have to do things to survive. You hate to dumb down the resume, but do it, and don’t apologize for it, and don’t admit that you did it.

Personnel departments and the whole interview/hiring process are a real pain in the you know where. If you can get a lesser paying job that meets your needs, by dumbing down the resume, is that illegal or immoral? Is it immoral if you really need the job to provide for your family????????

If the economy has shifted, due to circumstances beyond your control, and the type of job you used to have no longer exists, why would anyone fault you for dumbing down the resume to take a lower level job that gets your foot in the door at another employer??????

Good luck to you.

[Darnright]

So the state of New York tells unemployed people they dare not start their own businesses? And, heaven forbid a person start a home business that makes something for kids, without 3rd party testing to make sure if it’s “safe”. The horrors!

[QBFimi]

We don’t have too much of a problem with Gummn’t in Miauba (Miami) with the exception of Florida’s version of the EPA Nazis; they are continually raising hell in Hialeah.

The system works this way: 1/Cash is King, and 2/”What law?”. Just like it was in the old country. The Gummn’t and their rules are simply ignored. The underground economy is huge!

[TChad]

Sure, it may be a pretty blue dress, and cloth is exempt (as if cotton ever had lead in it to begin with), but once a crafter adds a zipper, a snap, and elastic, and wants to sell it for a child under 12, it becomes a potentially lead-infested, phthalic item. She who creates the item automatically becomes a manufacturer, so it must be tested by a lab to assure that it meets the new requirements before it can be sold.

Repeal the overreaching Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.

Hugh Hewitt interviews the president of the National Association of Manufacturers on the CPSIA:

http://www.shopfloor.org/wp-content/uploads/hugh-hewitt-interview-john-engler-on-cpsia.pdf

[Hugin]

I heard the other day about a case in MI where a woman owns a house right in front of a school bus stop. She made a deal with some of the local parents that they could drop their kids off on the way to work, and she would let them stay safe and warm in her house for a half an hour or so until the bus came, for which they paid her a few dollars a day. So of course some busybody neighbor calls and complains, and the state fines her for running an unlicensed “day care center”, insisting that she get certified as a day care provider, have Health Department inspections, etc. So now the kids get to wait outside again, and she is out the little bit of extra income she was getting. Another shining example of government protecting us from ourselves.

What a shame we are no longer the land of the free nor the home of the brave, and have chosen to be a nation of veal calves instead.

[Leisler]

The incident provided work for government hacks, police, social service, tax, town inspectors. You, she have to look at it though the gob’ment workers eyes.

[Cricket24]

Back in the 60’s my parents moved to a rural part of PA but my Dad kept his job near Philly. He got sick of the travel and decided to apply for a job in a factory where we were living. He was told he was “over qualified” for the job! He was more than willing to take a pay cut to be closer to home. I’d rather have someone over qualified! He just kept traveling back and forth until he found a job in his field.
Ridiculous!

[Guenevere]

bttt

[skipper18]

“I had to apply for state aid by going to the New York State Department of Labor to collect”

i stopped reading right there.

i do not care what an immoral woman with her hand in my pocket has to say.

i want that hand that hand chopped off.

coming in 2010, NO MORE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS. this welfare program nonesense is in it’s last months.

deadbeats, enjoy your last bit of free ride.

[Zippo44]

The usual translation of “over qualified” is “you are too likely to replace me”.

[Uncle Sham]

A better way to fight.....

We The People through a Ballot Initiative Can PROTECT ourselves NOW