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03-09-2010, 01:07 PM
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03-09-2010, 02:19 PM
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I think what irritates me is the only person I know who is unemployed is just totally using the system. She found out she's losing her house and just said "oh well they won't take it for at least a year so whatever." She was offered a job and didn't take it because she couldn't ride her bike there even though she drives her car everyday to the barn where she has a horse. Since I know no one else who's unemployed that colors my opinion and could make me think most people just are misusing the system. I know that's not true because of things other people have said but I can see how people could have bad opinions about people who are unemployed/on welfare.
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03-09-2010, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by sceniczip
I think what irritates me is the only person I know who is unemployed is just totally using the system. She found out she's losing her house and just said "oh well they won't take it for at least a year so whatever." She was offered a job and didn't take it because she couldn't ride her bike there even though she drives her car everyday to the barn where she has a horse. Since I know no one else who's unemployed that colors my opinion and could make me think most people just are misusing the system. I know that's not true because of things other people have said but I can see how people could have bad opinions about people who are unemployed/on welfare.
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But there is a maturity & intelligence that one must have to recognize that the ONE person on unemployment you know, doesn't represent the millions (?) that are currently unemployed.
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03-09-2010, 06:24 PM
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If I really needed to, I could go out and get a job today. It might not be anything I want, but at least something. Is this not true for everyone (save the mentally and physically handicapped)?
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03-09-2010, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Ggirl617
If I really needed to, I could go out and get a job today. It might not be anything I want, but at least something. Is this not true for everyone (save the mentally and physically handicapped)?
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Go out and try it.
If you are like many of the (overqualified) people looking, I'm betting you won't.
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03-09-2010, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Go out and try it.
If you are like many of the (overqualified) people looking, I'm betting you won't.
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Yep.
Also, in areas with colleges and universities, some employers save the more menial and low wage jobs for the collegiates (or the noncollegiate equivalent).
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I think I told my story of short term unemployment that happened many years ago when the country was NOT in a recession. I was between graduate degrees and I wanted a summer job to tie me over instead of getting unemployment checks. I thought I found an excellent option for something that was just "good enough for now." I was the only person in the applicant pool with more than a high school diploma (they discovered that in the background checks). They let me sit through the interview presentation and called me in the back room to tell me they thought hiring me would be torturous for me and challenging to them. They said this isn't the job for me because it requires a HUNGER that someone with education and career/salary potential is ASSUMED not to have.
Thank God I just needed it for the SUMMER. Had I needed it for the longterm or to support a family, that would've really sucked. I ended up getting unemployment checks.
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03-09-2010, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Ggirl617
If I really needed to, I could go out and get a job today. It might not be anything I want, but at least something. Is this not true for everyone (save the mentally and physically handicapped)?
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Tell us what jobs you could get TODAY (even if it's not something you really want).
Let us know what you can ABSOLUTELY find so that others can do the same without having to compete with other unemployed people.
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03-09-2010, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Ggirl617
If I really needed to, I could go out and get a job today. It might not be anything I want, but at least something. Is this not true for everyone (save the mentally and physically handicapped)?
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You could get a job, but you might only be offered 10 hours a week. That isn't enough for anyone (save college student home for break living with parents) to live on.
Part time work used inappropriately is one of the things that's killing this country.
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