Posted on 11/09/2012 7:23:35 PM PST by Hojczyk
About 3,000 people lined up for the city’s first-ever jobs fair on Friday – some of them waiting in line for up to six hours – hoping to apply for work with the city, but many left frustrated after learning the only way to apply for a job was to go online.
WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports Mayor Rahm Emanuel stopped by the job fair, expecting a warm welcome from job seekers, but instead ran into lots of ticked-off people.
Anthony Rodgers was the first person in line at Kennedy-King College on Friday, showing up at 3 a.m. for a job fair that didn’t open until 9 a.m. By the time it started, a line of people hoping to land a job with the city, or one of its sister agencies, had snaked around the block.
“I need a job. I need a job, that’s the bottom line. … The best way to get a job? Be there before your employer’s there,” Rodgers said.
His goal was the same as everyone else in line – to get a job. But many said the job fair wasn’t what they were expecting – a chance to sit down and apply for or interview for a job, not simply meet a few city officials and be told they had to apply online.
Cherrie Moore said, “They just got fliers of resources, things we could have got on the Internet, things we probably already know about.”
“Excuse me Mr. Mayor, I have a question. I came down here, I stood in line for four hours, expecting to get a job interview, or fill out an application. And I stood in line for four hours to get a flyer telling me to go online,” one woman in line complained.
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“They are not looking for REAL jobs. They are trying to get work with the city.”
That’s right; misleading title. Should read: “workfare lottery”...
“Be that as it may, we’re always going to have government jobs. Having said that, most of them are overpaid and under worked.”
We’ve lost a lot of them over the past few years due to our property tax freeze in NJ; a lot of people looking to get on the gubmint gravy train are either still unemployed or have moved to another state.
“Many people there want jobs.”
One reason I’m puzzled so MANY of the parasites voted Dem this election is that life on the dole would be crushing for anyone with a semblance of dignity or independence. I agree that many people aren’t having as much fun on “funemployment” as the media would have us believe.
There is something to be said for providing for yourself (and a family in some cases) with wages that are notably better than a welfare check. One of the reasons the permanent urban underclass doesn’t want to work is the fact that the wages they could earn are probably not much better than the monthly check (and they don’t even have to get out of their pajamas).
This just confirms, IMO, that they vote on the color of the skin and are clueless about government and how it works. We can blame our wonderful educational institutes for this.
SUCKERS!!!
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