I'm really not surprised; not with the pro-corporate spew I have observed all these years.
Related: Lazy New-Englanders
The Boston Globe Insults the Unemployed
It's the kind of "reporting" -- if you can call it that -- that is really turning me off to the papers.
"Survey finds rise in US workplace tardiness" by Reuters | February 26, 2009
NEW YORK - One in five US workers say they are late to work at least once a week, according to a survey released yesterday.
The most common excuse is traffic, followed by a lack of sleep and getting children ready for school or day care, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder .com, an online job site. Other frequent excuses are problems with public transportation, wardrobe issues, or dealing with pets, it said.... The poll also collected outrageous excuses for being late. One person reported having to take a second shower after walking into a spider web. Someone else claimed his car's left-turn signal was broken so he had to make all right turns to drive to work....
Sort of REMINDS me of POLITICIANS and their (broken) PROMISES, (broken) PROMISES, (broken) PROMISES!
Or the PAPER'S (agenda-pushing) LIES, (agenda-pushing) LIES, (agenda-pushing) LIES!!!!!
One in 10 workers said they are late to their jobs at least twice a week.
Did you ever think that that is the employees subtle way of saying F*** YOU!?
It was always MY WAY and MY FORM of PROTEST!
Tardiness is on the rise, the survey said. In this poll, 20 percent said they were late at least once a week. In a similar poll taken a year earlier, 15 percent said so. The nationwide online survey was taken among 3,259 full-time hiring managers and human resource professionals and 8,038 full-time employees from Nov. 12 to Dec. 1 last year. One-third of the managers surveyed said they have terminated an employee for being late, it said.
Well, if THEY WANT TO GET RID OF YOU, they will ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING!
Isn't that a scam site?
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FLASHBACK:
"Job search firms draw attention, but not all see their benefit" by Nicole C. Wong, Globe Staff | February 1, 2009
In this tight labor market, some people are paying for the inside track.
With thousands of Massachusetts residents being laid off each week, some companies that help job hunters land work - after they shell out fees ranging from $10 to more than $6,900 - are benefiting from an influx of customers. But the companies, whose services range from providing simple job listings to the phone numbers of hiring managers, are getting mixed reviews from human resources professionals and clients....
WTF? I can't afford that!
Some HR specialists and customers say the services these companies offer aren't worth the money. In fact, the number of complaints customers filed with the Better Business Bureau against job listing and advisory services has nearly doubled in the past four years....
Some HR specialists say many of the resources that companies provide can be found for a lot less money - or even free. Job seekers can often get free help with resume writing and other components of job hunting from counselors at government-funded community centers. And much of the advice and services these companies offer is available at public libraries or online.
"Most often when people get jobs through networking, they're getting jobs through their own personal connections," who will vouch for their character and work, said Kathy Robinson, a Boston career counselor who previously worked in HR at an Internet start-up, a software company, and Gillette Co. "It's usually a friend of a friend."
Yeah, like it HAS ALWAYS BEEN!
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So monster.com, et al, are RIP-OFF OUTFITS, huh? Just as I suspected (and I hate their commercials).
