Fox News host Glenn Beck: Some unemployed 99ers should be ashamed to call themselves American

New York Daily News ^ | 8/17/10 | Aliyah Shahid

[Nachum]

Glenn Beck has a message for the chronically unemployed: You're a bunch of un-American losers. The Fox News host thinks some 99ers — those who have used up their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits—should be embarrassed to call themselves Americans (Snip) "Go out and get a job," said Beck. "You may not want the job. Work at McDonald's. Work two jobs. There has been plenty of times in my life I've done jobs I hated, but I had no choice. Two years is plenty of time to have lived off your neighbor's wallet."

[caww]

Managers don’t like it when their underlings are more qualified for their job then they are.

Well then quit tooting your horn...just do the job hired for and stop stepping on the toes of those who have been tested and tried. I'm an underling now and yes it is an adjustment....but the people I am working with are now telling the managers how much they are learning from me...that makes me valuable to those managers...and I can live with letting some of my skills be copied...it's good for us all. The point is you have to adapt to the informnment you are in and step back some.

[itssme]

Rush Limbaugh suggesed to a lawn service owner, who lost a lot of business, to pitch the banks who own foreclosed homes. He suggested that the owner pitch the banks, at very reasonable rates, to maintain the landscaping of these homes at a service level that suits them. The more banks he can contract with, the more he gains.

[freedumb2003]

>>Clueless and arrogant, a nasty combination.<<

As opposed to clueless and lazy, a tragic combination.

Even as I waste time with yahoos like you I am reading articles about how to best apply certain codification techniques to enable some Time and Labor metrics. Tomorrow I will brief the T & L team and suggest ways we can re-evaluate how we are approaching some of our profiles. The result will save about somewhere between 60 and 120 hours. Real world hours that represent a huge savings to our client and my company. I am also reviewing how best to integrate Application Packages with ORACLE stored procedures to create an effective packaging methodology that can take the load off of the migration team while externalizing the code, thus rendering the baseline code a bit more modular.

As I said — I work hard to make myself as indispensable as possible. It ain’t arrogance, it is hard work.

What have you done today to make yourself a marketable commodity? Posted on FR about what a loser you are? Good plan.

[Tolsti2]

He should recommend ‘cat litter cleaning service’ for only the filthiest of cats too. If that doesn’t work, go be an astronaut.

I’m no good at landscaping, how does this help me?

[Tolsti2]

Aww, such hard work doing Oracle and T&L. Gee, that’s just such harrrddd work. I’ve never done anything like that before!

You don’t know what hard work is.

[freedumb2003]

>>I’m no good at landscaping, how does this help me?<<

There is no such thing as “no good at landscaping.” There is only “too good/lazy to do manual labor.”

[caww]

No you risk being fired for facing down your boss...no matter what his age is or how much you know..he is your boss...his title will outweigh your experience no matter how much you try to show him up. Stand down and you’ll save your means of income.

[Tolsti2]

With your awful attitude, hopefully some indian will take your job and you can be out mowing lawns before long. Would certainly serve you right for the ivory tower nonsense you’re spewing.

[freedumb2003]

>>You don’t know what hard work is.<<
Clearly I do, since I am employed. Maybe you should try it.

[GonzoGOP]

had to accept a job in a cafeteria making 8.00 per hr. She’s a single mother with 2 kids. How do they expect anyone to live off of that?

Please understand that I'm not trying to be rude, but where is the Dad? One person can live on 16k a year with no frills. Two might survive absolute bare bones. Three no way, it won't even keep you in food. But the father should be kicking in for the kids. Heck if my wife dumped me and then needed cash to keep the kids fed I'd still kick in. Even if i wasn't legally obligated to do it. They are my kids after all and I wouldn't let them starve or end up in the streets. I guess that makes me kind of a fossil these days.

[Tolsti2]

Like most on UI now, that doesn’t matter. It’s the economy, not individuals when it’s this bad. I’ve worked in the field for 11 out of the last 13 years and done very well. Right now, the market is garbage across the board and industries.

Clearly you don’t know this or don’t care. If it’s the first, I highly doubt all your blovating.

[freedumb2003]

>>With your awful attitude, hopefully some indian will take your job and you can be out mowing lawns before long. Would certainly serve you right for the ivory tower nonsense you’re spewing.<<

I am managing a shop of 30 or so Indians to do the build work on the current project. I did it with Chinese on 3 or 4 projects before but I have been happily surprised at how easy it is to work with my new resources in Mumbai. But I need to do my homework to use them effectively.

As I said — hard work pays off. Clearly not a concept you are familiar with. I think whining and sucking the gummit teat is a strategy for the lazy amongst us.

[Tolsti2]

You have no class or tact and you’re an outsourcer too?

I refuse to talk to such types.

[freedumb2003]

>>I’ve worked in the field for 11 out of the last 13 years and done very well.<<

I guess not very well. If you have been in the field (whatever that is — it sure as heck isn’t IT) and have no contacts and no prospects you must have been quite the backlsiding drone.

I have seen your kind for 30+ years. Lazy, working 1 year 11 times, never does the hard work needed to make yourself useful or desired.

No wonder you are such a whiner.

[chooseascreennamepat]

“Well, to be fair, I could have kept my job at a decrease in pay if I was willing to abandon my children and move across the country.”

Doesn’t the duty to your kids include providing the best you can for them. Why would you have had to “abandon” them. When I moved to NY, my wife and daughter came with me. Your family was unable to move?

[Tolsti2]

Certainly is IT and my average is 5 years which is normal for the industry.

You wouldn’t be saying this stuff to me in person, that’s for damn sure. Badass keyboard commander here though. Idiot.

[freedumb2003]

>>You have no class or tact and you’re an outsourcer too?

I refuse to talk to such types.<<

I manage resources. It takes talent and hard work. Anyone who doesn’t understand how to utilize offshore resources is dumber than dirt and destined to die in today’s global market (you know that is a reality, not an option, right?).

[caww]

A man I know with vast experience finally took a job pumping gas at a 7-Eleven. He formally had designed and sold a business plan...bought and sold real-estate..worked as a project manager...but there he was pumping gas.
for six months...and he hated it. But what he found once his ego leveled out, was having a job while your looking for a job keeps your sanity and when his new employeer learned he was willing to pump gas with all his experinece..he hired him on the spot....something to be said for a man who will do whatever it takes to make money...even if his ego goes down for a time...employers see that as honorable.

[itssme]

I’m responding to your comment about landscaping.

It was something I heard and I’m passing the idea on, in the hopes it MAY help someone out there.

I know what my spouse and I are doing to survive. We are doing the work and are coping with a standard of living that we thought we would not have to endure. Good luck to you.

[libertarian27]

Do you have Aspergers?

.....characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.