Monday, November 9, 2009

Slow Saturday Special: He's Got High Hopes

"told unemployed workers attending a career seminar that they will need to be patient and persistent"

Yeah, even though there are MORE PEOPLE LOOKING for LESS JOBS -- and it is INCREASING ALL the TIME!!!!


Related:
Economic Recovery Missing Massachusetts

Not Making It in Massachusetts

The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Jobs Gone Forever

Jobbed By the Boston Globe

Yeah, I AM SICK of MSM INSULTS, how did you know?

"Job seekers urged to be persistent; Outlook grim as US unemployment rate reaches 10.2%" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | November 7, 2009

Competition for jobs in Massachusetts will remain fierce well into next year, the state’s top labor official said yesterday, as the national unemployment rate soared above 10 percent for the first time in more than 26 years....

US employers cut jobs for the 22d consecutive month in October, shedding another 190,000 positions and bringing total job losses in the recession to 7.3 million. In Boston, Suzanne Bump, state secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, told unemployed workers attending a career seminar that they will need to be patient and persistent, as well as willing to retrain, as they search for jobs....

For what? The call centers are off-shore, the green industries are moving, I mean, TRAIN FOR WHAT? SWABBING TOILETS?

The state will report October employment figures in about two weeks. In September, the Massachusetts jobless rate rose to 9.3 percent, the highest since 1976. Massachusetts employers cut more than 9,000 jobs in September, reversing a trend of diminishing job losses, which had slipped to 700 in August. The October report, Bump said, will show “whether the job losses in September were a temporary setback, or whether it signals an even tougher climb out of the hole.’’

Even though the US economy has begun to recover, many economists forecast that unemployment will continue to rise into 2010 as employers remain cautious, preferring to meet growing demand by increasing hours for existing workers rather than hiring new ones....

Then there IS NO RECOVERY and you guys are ALL LIARS, constantly lying with your agenda-pushing garbage!

Bump said the long and deep recession has tested the unemployment system as never before. For example, a state fund that helps unemployed workers pay for health insurance is expected to be exhausted by the end of the year as more people lose jobs and remain unemployed longer.

“The system was not designed for this kind of economic crisis,’’ she said....

Actually, IT WAS! I mean, LOOK WHO IS and HAS BEEN RUNNING IT for the LAST 50 YEARS or so and LOOK at what has happened!!!!!!

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As for me:

"New study suggests older employment seekers have unrealistic expectations" by Humberto Cruz, Globe Correspondent | November 7, 2009

.... More than 60 percent of Americans 55 to 70 who are working or seeking work have less than $250,000 saved for retirement, the study found.

That is a BONUS for WALL STREET THIS YEAR!

Not surprisingly, half plan to retire later than originally expected, while only 6 percent plan to retire earlier. But as the study amply demonstrates, the expectations many have of continued work “are often painfully unrealistic.’’

I figure there isn't going to be a retirement -- if I can ever find a job again.

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The reality:

I'm certainly not going to find that in an AmeriKan newspaper. I know that now.

Aging boomers who assume they’re going to continue on their career paths in new full-time roles are likely to be shocked. Younger hiring managers look at them skeptically for a variety of reasons, and the skills needed in the new job have probably evolved since they took on their last role.

That explains a lot. I had no idea. I'm fucked.

Another reality: Wishful thinking is not a job search method....

Nor a way to report on the economy!

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