Add this one to the insult file seeing as its a business feature.
"Easing the pain of a shutdown; Company is called a model as it helps laid-off workers find jobs" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | August 28, 2009
BILLERICA - .... Ken Messina, director of the state’s Rapid Response team, which provides services to employees affected by plant closings and mass layoffs, said the partnership between Jabil, Raytheon, and the state shows how to “take a bad situation and turn it around to make it a good situation.’’
Yeah, peacenik Massachusetts, right.
Related: Meet Your Antiwar New England Liberals
.... Michele Lemos, a Raytheon spokeswoman, said the recruiting session made perfect sense.
“We’re on the upswing,’’ she said, “and it’s a great opportunity to have a set of people who you know have the skills you’re looking for.’’
Linda Steer, 49, worked at Jabil for seven years. She, too, admitted to worrying. But yesterday, sitting at a table with a half-dozen friends before her interview, she said she felt better.
“It has something to do with Raytheon needing people,’’ she said.
In addition, it’s a comfortable, supportive atmosphere in which they see friends and colleagues.
Other workers agreed. They said the onsite career center has made it easier to look for work: There are no lines for computers, as there can be at busy state career centers.
It looks like SOME WORKERS and EMPLOYERS are MORE IMPORTANT than OTHERS to the GREAT LIBERAL PEACENIKS of Massachusetts, huh?
Paul Mitchell is one of them....
But since his employer of 10 years, Jabil Circuit Inc., said earlier this year that it was shutting its plant here and laying off more than 300 workers, Mitchell has had a far different experience. He has had access to a state career center set up at the plant. He has polished his resume with computers and printers donated by Jabil. He has gotten advice from counselors staffing the Jabil center.
And yesterday, dressed in a gray pinstripe suit usually reserved for weddings and funerals, Mitchell, 59, interviewed with Raytheon Corp., which sent 14 recruiters to the Jabil career center as it tries to fill up to 50 skilled manufacturing jobs....
Is he going to wear same said suit to the funerals of our soldiers?
Jabil, labor officials say, is a model for employers dealing with plant shutdowns and mass layoffs, demonstrating how they can partner with the state and other employers to help their workers.
Yeah, SERVE the WAR MACHINE!
Jabil earlier this year gained national attention when it advertised its plant closing and urged other companies to hire its “exceptionally skilled and experienced workers.’’
It has continued to follow through, working with the state to match its workers to training programs, and to job openings. The recruiting session with Raytheon was the latest example, state officials said....
The state doesn't show the same interest in me.
I guess that's because I can't help make bombs, huh?
The important thing, of course, was finding people jobs.
Actually, I question that assertion coming from the paper now because they couldn't give a s***. They have proved through their one-sided, biased, insulting coverage that they don't give a crap about American workers -- except these that serve the agenda.
And in this case, the state Division of Career Services was able to serve as matchmaker.
Raytheon, growing because of a resurgence in its Patriot missile program, needed skilled manufacturing workers fast.
The electronics manufacturing done at Jabil was similar to what is done at Raytheon. The Jabil plant, in fact, had done contract work for the Waltham defense giant.
And many of Jabil’s employees had worked at the company in the past, some on Patriot missiles....
Oh, so they ALREADY HAD an IN, huh?
Un-friikin-real!!
And the Globe presented this as a pull-up-your-bootstraps, the state-helped-you story?
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Meanwhile, up north:
"Thousands race to N.H. speedway for job fair; 170 employers, groups turn out" by Holly Ramer, Associated Press | August 28, 2009
LOUDON, N.H. - .... In April, more than 10,000 job seekers overwhelmed a similar event in Manchester, forcing organizers to cut off admission after just two hours. But that was not a problem at the speedway, which has a crowd capacity of 100,000. Several thousand people had arrived by noon yesterday and were efficiently directed into multiple parking lots and delivered by shuttle buses to the infield.
With Miss New Hampshire strolling around in her tiara and vendors selling fried dough and other treats, the atmosphere at times was more county fair than job fair.
I can't take the insults anymore. I really, really can't.
Yeah, BEING OUT of WORK while BANKS and WAR PROFITEERS LOOT the hell out of us is FUN TIMES!!!!!
But there were plenty of business suits and briefcases, as well....
Oh, are those the ONLY REAL WORKERS, you elitist s***s?
Then again, the elitists would be running into an American, would they?
"illegal immigrants, who mow the lawns, trim the hedges, clean the swimming pools, park the cars, serve the hors d'oeuvres, tidy up the mansions, and do many of the other things that make life so enjoyable for the rich."
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Sunday Insult Series: The AmeriKan Worker
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There are so many more I could link, but that should be enough for now.
