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   ConserveGov said, 3 months ago

   Good idea, but like most dishonest things, only if you don’t get caught,
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   Oscar54 said, 3 months ago

   As usual Ted hits the nail on the head. Business has set the tone since Reagan. Showing not a care for anything but money but expecting everyone else to be moral and loyal. If you want economic Darwinism then people will do what is necessary to survive.
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   omQ R said, 3 months ago

   Do you think employers buy the line “stay at home parent” for the past x months/years?
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Thank God for the current occupier of the white house. No job required anymore because welfare is the norm insted of the exception.
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   NebulousRikulau said, 3 months ago

   There are no H.R. Douches any more. It’s all done by computerized questionnaire. 10 questions, if the applicant answers any ONE of the questions outside of the application criteria they are rejected.
   “What pay scale do you expect?”
   if the answer is anything above what they are planning to pay, you’re rejected.
   Anecdote: Engineering job, 29000 applications, NONE made it through that simple questionnaire. And Management didn’t even have to pay for a Human Resources Department to look at their resumes either. Win!!
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   Ima must be a “legacy baby”. She got hers the old-fashioned way, inherited or married into money. No concern for those who have a different upbringing/station in life.
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   There is no loyalty in business. But it IS expected from the employee!
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   jrmerm said, 3 months ago

   I miss “Mo” already
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   The Wolf In Your Midst said, 3 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Like Paris Hilton! She was smart enough to be born rich!
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    Fourcrows said, 3 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    Only true some of the time, Howie. Who chooses to get sick? Who chooses to get “downsized”? Who chooses to have the company they work for fold? It’s not always easy to get back to work at the pay you may have had before, and the process can lead to maxing out credit cards or using up savings to get by.
    Add bankruptcy to the mix and it gets worse. After a bone marrow transplant left us with over $500k in medical bills, the bankruptcy lowered our credit score so much that I couldn’t work an engineering job in this country for almost a decade, and even retail employers couldn’t promote me past asst. manager without having to fire me after the credit check.
    So which choice did I make that was wrong? College education? Engineering job? I guess I should have divorced my wife as soon as she got sick.
    You, sir, are one sorry excuse for a human being if you believe your post.
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    echoraven said, 3 months ago

    Well done Ted.
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    Anarcissie said, 3 months ago

    An acquaintance of yesteryear ran a fake company for a long time which provided unemployed people with fake jobs in order to make it possible for them to get real ones, because, as you note, employers don’t like to hire people who need jobs. The fake company had an ‘office’ (basically, a live answering service), a postal address, stationery with letterheads, business cards, a glossy but ambiguous brochure, the whole megillah. The proprietor ran the service pretty much at cost, a few hundred dollars per case for stuff like business cards, because he had other uses for his shadow corporation which the ‘jobs’ activity helped to obscure. Dozens of people were helped. No one was ever caught. I am sure there are plenty of other people doing the same thing today. Wherever there is prejudice and irrationality, there there is an opportunity to exploit.
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @edinbaltimore

    said (ima) is a legacy baby"
    Nah, she’s either a troll or an Erick Erickson wannabe. Besides, I bet she believes that as a true believer Jesus Christ will supply all her needs, but not anyone who doesn’t meet her standards…
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @Fourcrows

    I hope your wife is in complete remission, fourcrow. As for Howie, don’t expect any sympathy beyond the obligatory "bummer’ followed by the libertarian “don’t really care enough blahblahblah”.
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    edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

    Next door neighbor WAS a truck driver, Same company for years. Medical issues forced him off the road, so according to his company’s plan, he no longer qualifies for health insurance. Guess who’s paying? Yeah, us taxpayers! Company policy will not even allow for light duty/in office work. Can’t do THAT job? See Ya!
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