Posted on 09/22/2013 4:14:03 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
The man who matches companies with workers talks about the skills gap, the harm from ObamaCare, and the incentive not to work. But he'll still find you a job.
Here's something you don't often see in Washington: a businessman trying to repeal a law that helps his company. That's Bob Funk's latest mission in life. He's the president and founder of Express Employment Services, the fifth-largest employment agency in America, with annual sales of $2.5 billion and more than 600 franchises across the country. This year he will place nearly half a million workers in jobs.
"ObamaCare has been an absolute boon for my business," he says as we sit in his new office headquarters near downtown Oklahoma City. "I'm making a lot of money thanks to that law. We're up 8% this year. But it's just terrible for the country. I see that firsthand every day."
Why is the health-care law good for Express but bad for the country? "Firms are just very reluctant to hire full-time workers," Mr. Funk says. "So they are taking on more temporary help, which is what we do." ObamaCare imposes new mandates and penalties on companies with more than 50 full-time employees—and even those working 30 hours a week are considered full-time.
He quickly adds: "The problem isn't just ObamaCare, though. It's the entire regulatory assault on employers coming out of Washington—everything from the EEOC"—the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hits companies hard when employees claim age, race or sex discrimination—"to the Dodd-Frank monstrosity. Employers are living in a state of fear."
Mr. Funk is worth listening to because few people are as intimately connected to the U.S. job market.
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I think it is time for America to bring back American companies to America.
Stop sending US jobs to China and other countries.
Bring US jobs back home.
Raise my taxes. Got it, thanks.
You love income taxes, got it.
This thread is not about me. Take your homoerotic obsession to another website.
In order for that to happen, two critical things are necessary:
1). Abolish the minimum wage.
2). Make Right-to-Work the law in all states.
American companies have no choice but to outsource because of the onerous anti-market regulations typified by the evil minimum wage. And the archaic workrules imposed by union thugs have made profitability nearly impossible in the United States. The purpose, both legal and ethical, of any enterprise is to return maximum value to the investors. The current anti-business climate in America has destroyed ROI.
U.S. jobs are already back.
The only people unemployed are those who are mooching off of relatives, sucking up welfare, and otherwise avoiding at all costs moving to where the jobs are located (with flimsy excuses such as “...but I’ve always lived here and my desk job just needs to come back” or “I’ve got to stay unemployed to live near my mom to take care of her”).
Textile mills in SC have roared back. The U.S. now exports $23 Billion in cotton products from an industry that was dead a decade ago.
Fertilizer and chemical plants are being built as fast as welders and assemblers can be hired along the entire Gulf Coast.
Oilfield fracking jobs are booming in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and all of North Dakota.
The jobs are back.
You don’t need a college degree.
Railroads are running record amounts of trains and cars.
Record numbers of trucking miles are being logged.
The people who aren’t working are the **opposite** of the people in the Grapes of Wrath movie who moved from Oklahoma to California to pick grapes...the biggest job hiring in the Depression.
People who aren’t working today would simply prefer to lower their standard of living to that of their welfare checks or family mooching...instead of moving to where the jobs are located.
They don’t want to work (unless they get their old desk job back, a raise, and their a$$3$ kissed), and that’s not happening.
The simple advice to give *anyone* unemployed is: Move.
Don’t be the guy stuck in Ethiopia eating sand because he doesn’t know enough to move where the food can grow.
-— U.S. jobs are already back. -—
Yes. Happy days are here again.
Just for the non-moochers. The moochers are still depressed and angry.
Classic bit from the late, great Sam Kinison.
"... we just drove 700 miles with your food, and it occurred to us that there wouldn't be world hunger, IF YOU PEOPLE WOULD LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS !!!..."
To land and keep a job isn't hard, he says, but you have to meet three conditions: "First you need integrity; second, a strong work ethic; and, third, you have to be able to pass a drug test." If an applicant can meet those minimal qualifications, he says, "I guarantee I can find employers tomorrow who will hire you."
Sam Kinison aphorism to the starving...
“simply... MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS AT”...
MGD (aka my hubby) works in Manufacturing. His company does random "whiz quizzes". It's amazing how many young folks literally p!ss away good steady jobs by failing drug tests.
Yeah all is well....plenty of good jobs. Take your pick. Take your meds today?
Part-time, minimum-wage, no-benefits bump!
Plenty of jobs in this area:
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?l=76208&rq=1&fromage=last
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=&l=76004&rs=1&fromage=last
http://dallas.craigslist.org/jjj/
You’re in the wrong state.
“Railroads are running record amounts of trains and cars.” And that is a VERY good sign, rail traffic is a reliable “leading economic indicator.” Has been since my Grandmother Stewart observed that during the end of the depression.
Thanks. :D
I’ve got a job, but I see things are not great, and are not improving.
We need to improve the job situation.
If you’re not working down here you’re disabled (like me), really lazy, a druggie or stupid. I know it’s bad in other parts of the country, though.
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