Posted on 07/26/2012 4:42:06 AM PDT by RealTeen
Well, maybe. What you doing about the 20% unemployment rate during the Great Obama Recession?
Well...aren’t you S P E C I A L ???!!!
Some people are unable to work in retail or restaurant due to physical issues. I have trained to work in an office setting because of physical limitations. I have been looking for work for 2 years now after being laid off. Some of the job openings I have found require you to turn in your application and resume to the business during regular business hours.
I just had an interview today and the company now wants me to go in for a 4 hour observation to see if I am interested in working in a fast paced office. (I am interested regardless of pace...I actually prefer a fast pace so I’m not bored, but they insist). That is 4 hours, during business hours, without pay.
Not all managers interview like you do. Most interviews I have had, have been during business hours. Not to mention, in my opinion it is better to “pound the pavement” while looking for work. It shows you are interested in going the extra mile to find work. It’s harder to tell someone no face to face than it is to just ignore an online application/resume.
When searching online and you find a company you want to work for, it's always good advice to do research on that company and then put together a introductory letter to send directly to the hiring manager stating how you feel your skills will be a good fit for their company (following up with a phone call). BTW, nothing wrong with being persistent but keep it confined to phone calls and email.
I strongly advise against showing up in person unannounced. I consider that bad form as we are very busy and it is disconcerting to have a job-seeker showing up unannounced in the lobby. Many other hiring managers feel the same way in larger corporations. Although in a smaller, slower paced company, this might not be a bad tactic.
They don't think about that...people on benefits are scum sucking leeches, unworthy of living among the elite, nose in the air snobs. They would like nothing better than to put all the unemployed, benefit accepting 'people' in one large concentration camp, fed rice, stale bread and water.
...and if you come across a job listing that specifically says “apply in person to ‘address’”, then what are you suppose to do? When the listing says “do not call in reply to this listing”. Call anyway and tell them you’ve been told it’s bad form to go in person so you felt a call was better suited? Do you think I would get a job if I didn’t that? Do you think the employer would appreciate me not following their rules for applying?
Your company has a specific way they want it done. Other companies have other ways. I want to get a job, so I am versatile in how I am willing to apply.
Yes, by all means, follow the guidelines for each job posting. In my industry, most recruiting is done online and bringing the candidates in is usually one of the final steps. I work in high tech so it might be different in other fields.
I've been working since I was 14, served in the military and never once sat idle collecting taxpayer money. I delivered newspapers, washed dishes in restaurants, shagged grocery carts in supermarket parking lots, stocked shelves in retail stores, emptied lavs on airplanes, unloaded and loaded cargo and baggage on airplanes, etc., etc.
I do okay for myself now but I never had the attitude that any job was beneath my dignity. If I got laid off tomorrow, I'd be working again by next Friday, even if I had to cashier late-night at a convenience store. I've been around long enough to know that anybody willing to work hard with a positive attitude will never want for work. Employers are DESPERATE for those kind of employees.
When a country has 20% of its available workforce unemployed the employers are just waiting ~ and waiting ~ and waiting.
Your thinking on this subject represents a rot that I see infecting conservatism, especially here on FR. I don’t when exactly the change began to occur, but somewhere along the line the attitude that someone has to suffer entered into the picture. 90% of replies to almost any subject can be summed up with, “someone has to pay (not financially) for this.” An ideology that is at its heart about improving life, has lost its way. Now it’s about who has to suffer for the wrongs we see around us.
Actually getting off welfare and food stamps is all about improving life. Allowing people to make a lifestyle of government assistance does far more harm to them than it does to "help" them. It is a very degrading way to live and they suffer far more than the rest of us.
I absolutely agree with this post.
These supposedly small gov't "conservatives" suggest crazy things like meal tents or directly mailing food without giving a second thought to the logistical nightmares and even higher costs and gov't intrusions their "SHAME THEM" "solutions" would entail.
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