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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
In my area, for some reason, there are a ton of pharmaceutical manufacturers. They are constantly laying people off and re-hiring (sometimes the same people). It's crazy!
If you have an auto plant closing, your local one-stop (I'm not sure of the geography of Michigan, but is the auto plant near Detroit? http://www.detroitsworkplace.org/) should already be working on alternate employment. Nationally, unemployment still isn't as bad as it's been in recent years, so there aren't as many people to back up the agencies. |
I'm putting this nicely so please don't think I'm trying to be a bitch... but you really don't understand. These plants are all around the Detroit Metro area. When they close a plant, 100s of people are losing their jobs--- and I mean in the high hundreds. With all the college graduates right now who are have to work at restaurants and other jobs not using their degrees, you add on all those who didn't go to school and are working the other jobs... then you add on hundreds of people who are getting laid off. There's no way. I'm not sure what kind of unemployment these people get. My ex got fired from one of the biggest liquor distributors in the area, and he was making "ok" money from unemployment, but def not enough to get by like what he was making there.
You just really need to understand... Michigan is in over its head as far as employment goes. Even if someone is receiving unemployment, they can still be going to agencies to try to find jobs.