Job Openings Now Exceed Number of Americans Looking for Work

The U.S. had more job openings this spring than unemployed Americans.
For the first time since such record-keeping began in 2000, the number of available positions exceeded the number of job seekers, the Labor Department said Tuesday, a shift that is rippling across the economy and affecting the behavior of employers and workers.
U.S. job openings rose to a seasonally adjusted 6.7 million at the end of April, a record high, and more than the 6.3 million Americans who were unemployed during the month. Openings had exceeded the available labor pool beginning in March, according to revised figures released Tuesday.
The figures are the latest sign the U.S. is facing a historically tight labor market....

The last time the rate was lower was in 1969, when young men were being drafted into the Vietnam War.
The labor market is forcing employers to rethink their approach to hiring, said Terri Greeno, owner of an Express Employment Professionals office in Crystal Lake, Ill. She is asking clients if they are being realistic in their demands for workers with clean criminal histories and higher levels of education.

So you're saying I have a chance.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:56 PM

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Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at June 05, 2018 05:47 PM (5jVnA)

2 Thank you Sir Robin

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 05, 2018 05:47 PM (eASYU)

3 you know what this means? Time for more illegals.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:48 PM (FOPyv)

4 Resist we much.

Posted by: The Rev. at June 05, 2018 05:48 PM (K3B2k)

5 Depends. Are we including all the healthy young men who feel no need to have a job?

Posted by: pep at June 05, 2018 05:49 PM (LAe3v)

6 they need to keep the lid on H-1Bs

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2018 05:49 PM (bUjCl)

7 I do so love when reality so vehemently opposes the leftists that they actually need to notice it.

Posted by: Flyguy at June 05, 2018 05:49 PM (v30M8)

8 Globohomo Media: "we must impeach trump"

Narrator "They would not impeach the increasingly popular and successful President Trump"

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:49 PM (FOPyv)

9 awesome!

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (hMwEB)

10 A downturn can't be too far ahead.

Posted by: Former Enron Consultant Paul Krugman at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (vDqXW)

11 Sir Robin has become the new Willow

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (m45I2)

12 Can't wait for Pelosi's comment on this.

Posted by: Guam tipper at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (/DvFd)

13 She is asking clients if they are being realistic in their demands for
workers with clean criminal histories and higher levels of education.
Sure, he used an axe to murder his family, and he can't read, but he's, you know, motivated.

Posted by: pep at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (LAe3v)

14 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: Deplorable Chick at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (4A7Uz)

15 And the Democrats are out arguing jobs, income, and freedom are mere fig leaves covering the real problems of ... something. Something really serious. Not sure what, but it's out there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (LISuA)

16
The winning, it is hard. Like the Paolo, yes?

Posted by: The Paolo at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (r+sAi)

17 As Mike Rowe has pointed out, the number of jobs has long outnumbered the people willing to work. We have a serious problem in the US of people just not willing to do jobs, like Mr "I have three degrees, lovey, and I won't do those sort of jobs"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (39g3+)

18 Crumbs.

Posted by: Pelosi Galore at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (7AOc2)

19 Thank you President Obama. All your hard work is finally coming to fruition. Shame it had to happen so long after you left office following two terms of selfless and thoughtful job creation. Now this idiot Trump is going to want to claim credit just because he had everything to do with it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (VgKNm)

20 So you're saying I have a chance.

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You? Nah.

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (Enq6K)

21 In that case, maybe the places hiring can start having job fairs at homeless camps. How fun!

Posted by: Jabroni at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (TcM5G)

22 So much winning you'll get tired of all the [victories]!

Posted by: .87c at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (NNCwH)

23 Funny,
The guy who owns the local mini-mart that i frequent was working the register last night because all of his employees have been leaving for better job opportunities. He usually only comes in on Saturdays to check in and to count the money.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (h1jJh)

24 Look everyone! A Russian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (lFBwl)

25 i don't quite believe that the openings exceed unemployed, may be a method that they always used to say , "hey, look! not enough skilled workers, let's bring from abroad ! temporary !"

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (bUjCl)

26 Democrats are out arguing jobs, income, and freedom are mere fig leaves covering the real problems of ... something.

"Injustice! My tranny friend cannot shower with your little girl!"
--Leftists

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (39g3+)

27 Ace, I'm pretty sure that if you want to enter the job market, you will be required to both bathe and shave. And stay off the Valu-Rite in the morning, at least.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (7UW64)

28 Damn that Trump! He's ruining the economy!*

*If by "economy" you mean Democrats' squawks about how awful the economy is.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (vbAL5)

29 Pelosi - "What about the artists? how will they create if they are working?"

Posted by: DanMan at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (XTiHL)

30 Well, this is encouraging.

My company is laying people off. How they are doing so in a hot economy boggles me, but they are.

Hopefully people laid off will be able to be back to work very quickly.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (G8hDY)

31 Maybe if MILLIONS of millennials hadn't majored in basket weaving, they'd have people to fill those jobs.

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (Enq6K)

32 BTW, black unemployment is the lowest since 1972.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (VgKNm)

33 But... Trump kicked some basketball players out of the white house!!

Posted by: Bosk at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (fjMEv)

34 Sooo, what is the labor participation rate? I suspect there is still quite a pool of folks that had given up looking for a job under Barky. Are they deciding that a simpler life on just one income or a limited retirement income or whatever is not all that and a bag of chips and coming back into the labor pool?

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (eASYU)

35 My husband is having trouble finding qualified employees. And a criminal background is a YUGE NO-NO due to the security issues he deals with.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (ptqGC)

36 " Now this idiot Trump is going to want to claim credit just because he had everything to do with it."

It is unfair that people will credit policies that help create jobs instead of feel good efforts and burdensome regulations at manipulating society that kills jobs.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (FOPyv)

37 "who will rhyme if they don't have any time?"

Posted by: DanMan at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (XTiHL)

38 guess what I overheard from a family member that's a Dem- Trump's tax cuts are just temporary - in 15 or 20 years we will be so scrood by the taxes then!

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (hMwEB)

39 I will not do those jobs for a lacky's wages!

Posted by: Archer at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (gmo/4)

40 I'm hoping this creates a new situation where more qualified, capable people are being hired. I went to the bank today and the teller was tatted up, the bankers were all millenial women who looked like they were just out of college.

I mean, is it so much to ask that a banker look, you know, like a banker?? This is my money I'm putting in your trust, I'd rather you didn't give off a Jeff Spicoli vibe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (39g3+)

41 Stealing good employees from other employers for more money should be just around the corner.

Posted by: Lester at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (LfJIn)

42 All you grads from Evergreen State...not so fast.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (0tfLf)

43 It's a good thing Obumbles paved the way for this to happen.

Posted by: Bosk at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (fjMEv)

44 5 Depends. Are we including all the healthy young men who feel no need to have a job?
Posted by: pep at June 05, 2018 05:49 PM (LAe3v)

Like the deadbeat shithead whose parents kicked him out of the house.

I'd have rolled up the newspaper that had this article in it and hit him over the head with it.

After putting a pipe inside the newspaper, of course.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (vbAL5)

45 And I had such a lovely post for the Star Wars thread lied up. Ah well.

Against an economy this hot, you'd have to be Al Gore to fuck it up. The GOP will try, obviously, but then they run the risk of being primaried. And they can't Roy Moore them all... Not without risking voter apathy...

Posted by: trev006 at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (X2App)

46 Of course the problem is finding people that can pass a piss test. I found out that where my mom works they no longer require it as part of starting a job. I used to work there. I had to do the drug test then.

Posted by: buzzion at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (lKs2v)

47 How 'bout we kick a few able-bodied freeloaders off the SS dole? Seems a few of them are not, actually, disabled enough to NOT work. At least as desk jockeys and the like.

Of course, very few of them have any particular skills beyond lying to the government, but....

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (7UW64)

48 Obama - "Okay you shit head, enough with the magic wand already!"

Posted by: DanMan at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (XTiHL)

49 "record low Funemployment is forcing people to work rather than enjoy leisure activities in the Trump economy"
--Washington Post, Vox, NYT, CNN, etc

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (39g3+)

50 I'm assuming this means that a lot of those people who stopped being included in the numbers because they stopped looking can fill some of these job openings?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (W+vEI)

51 " Now this idiot Trump is going to want to claim credit just because he had everything to do with it."

It is unfair that people will credit policies that help create jobs
instead of feel good efforts and burdensome regulations at manipulating
society that kills jobs.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (FOPyv)

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I remember how the federal reserve didn't even wait until Trump had his phone number memorized before they started raising rates. They were either trying to f*ck him (which is what I suspect), or they knew exactly what was going to happen and never bothered trying to explain it to the smartest black president ever.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (VgKNm)

52
I call the Trump economy The Paolo. Because it pleasures all, like The Paolo.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (r+sAi)

53 Crumbs, crumbs, crumbs

Posted by: Nancy Palsi at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (EzdLW)

54 Newt was on The View today trying to put some knowledge to the hags about how PDT has grown the economy and how black unemployment is at its lowest ever.

Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin were having none of it. "It's all due to Obama!!!!"

And no, I didn't watch it. Caught it at Newsbusters, who watches that crap so that no one else has to.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (ptqGC)

55 maybe now people can afford all the mcmansions that were built 10 years ago before the real estate crash

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (FOPyv)

56
I demand Wii girl!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (8O3HH)

57 May was a good month for me, too.
Bought a gun and got a new job. So...you're welcome.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (xJa6I)

58 Most of the youngins we interview at a FI have more tattoos than a circus performer.

Posted by: Archer at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (gmo/4)

59 JT Marlin is shorting Cowboy Poetry

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (5jVnA)

60 Had one new-hire millennial tell me in six months he was going to take over and be managing the facility.

I never dawned on the lad that you have to show up every day, on time, before you can endeavor to be running with the big dogs.

Posted by: Fritz at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (J7XgW)

61 12
Can't wait for Pelosi's comment on this.
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jobs are bad because the cause so many people to lose their freedom to play video games

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (h1jJh)

62 Fast food kiosks and ATMs hardest hit?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (W+vEI)

63 For the first time since such record-keeping began in 2000, the number of available positions exceeded the number of job seekers, the Labor Department said Tuesday, a shift that is rippling across the economy and affecting the behavior of employers and workers.

U.S. job openings rose to a seasonally adjusted 6.7 million at the end of April, a record high, and more than the 6.3 million Americans who were unemployed during the month.

Trump you magnificent bastard!

You ended unemployment!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (nMj2X)

64 Another feature at the bank: no dudes. I was the only man in the building. Even the customers were all women. I was also the oldest person in the building other than the two old ladies in line ahead of me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (39g3+)

65 Obama's sane and sensible policies are finally kicking in.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (vbAL5)

66 42 All you grads from Evergreen State...not so fast.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (0tfLf)

I was unaware that anyone actually graduated from that atrocity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (7UW64)

67 This is most definitely worthy of the Flaming Blago Skull

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly known as MrCaniac at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (fdTrp)

68 If we just taxed the rich more, we wouldn't need jobs

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (h1jJh)

69 23 Funny,
The guy who owns the local mini-mart that i frequent was working the register last night because all of his employees have been leaving for better job opportunities. He usually only comes in on Saturdays to check in and to count the money.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM

That is what you do. I noticed a young woman who used to work at the local convenience store working in the phone order department of our local huge grocery store. More money, better hours, safer so why would she not get head-hunted.

Posted by: Lester at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (LfJIn)

70 Funny, ace.

Yep, I don't think the labor participation rate has gone up much.

But I wonder what a "normal" ("full employment") rate would like, today. Societies change, ours is radically different (and more wealthy) than in even the recent past. Demo profiles change (relative size of age cohorts). All of this and more needs to be taken into account, I would think, in looking at the LPR.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (QDnY+)

71 It's gonna be a cold day in hell before I watch or attend ANY sporting events. #fuckthem

Posted by: REDACTED at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (iOL28)

72 44 5 Depends. Are we including all the healthy young men who feel no need to have a job?
Posted by: pep at June 05, 2018 05:49 PM (LAe3v)

Like the deadbeat shithead whose parents kicked him out of the house.

I'd have rolled up the newspaper that had this article in it and hit him over the head with it.

After putting a pipe inside the newspaper, of course.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (vbAL5)

I like the way you think.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (xJa6I)

73 61 12
Can't wait for Pelosi's comment on this.
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jobs are bad because the cause so many people to lose their freedom to play video games
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (h1jJh)

"They're all just McJobs paying minimum wage."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (vbAL5)

74 My husband has every single one of his employees drug tested regularly. His customers include some very secure....environments.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (ptqGC)

75
Nazi Pelousi hardest hit.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (HaL55)

76 The U.S. had more job openings this spring than unemployed Americans.

The Republican Establishment hates this news just as much as the Democrat Establishment.

Establishment Republicans see this as a commodity they can't do without that's just too fucking expensive to rent by the hour. Establishment Democrats see this as a commodity they can't do without that's just too fucking expensive to buy by the vote.

Neither Ruling Class wants to see My Class prosper a whit more than absolutely necessary to keep our Face Colanders put away. As if we really should be entitled to own a Face Colander anyway.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (TNfJu)

77 maybe now people can afford all the mcmansions that were built 10 years ago before the real estate crash

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (FOPyv)

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I think I read or heard that the housing market has reached the point it was in 2006 right before the bubble burst. Good thing nobody is loaning money to people who overextend themselves anymore.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (VgKNm)

78 Most of the youngins we interview at a FI have more tattoos than a circus performer.

Yeah that's a real problem. How do you hire a respectable looking person when they all have piercings, gauges, and tats everywhere?

And how the heck do they afford all that?? They aren't cheap. Who the heck is throwing them cash to buy a new eagle tattoo on their dong?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (39g3+)

79 I'm thinking that a possible business model could entail setting up shop as an upscale coffee shop near a Starbucks in an urban area frequented by White female herd animals and White soy boys. You could use MMA bouncers, provide snooty waiters dressed like British butlers and waitresses dressed like French maids. You would be the "discriminating" alternative to the nearby homeless, crack whore Starbucks. And best of all, your costs would be minimal because you could get your coffee by collecting the used grounds from the dumpsters at the nearby Starbucks. It's not like any of Starbuck's clients know what a good cup of coffee takes like, anyway.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (9BLnV)

80 She is asking clients if they are being realistic in their demands for workers with clean criminal histories and higher levels of education.

As for the second part of that "and", they're not.

Posted by: Hands at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (EzdLW)

81 58 Most of the youngins we interview at a FI have more tattoos than a circus performer.

Posted by: Archer at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (gmo/4)

No money for rent, but by heaven, plenty for new tats.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (7UW64)

82 66 42 All you grads from Evergreen State...not so fast.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 05:53 PM (0tfLf)

I was unaware that anyone actually graduated from that atrocity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM

Well, all those Seattle protests aren't going to have themselves.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (0tfLf)

83 Another Trump teaching moment.

Posted by: 13times at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (K3B2k)

84 Our sales took off the day after the election and never ce back down.

Posted by: Chappaqua Wine and Liquor at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (E/U1b)

85 More jobs that people looking for work.
Dems unanimously oppose a work requirement for the food stamp program.

Posted by: Guam tipper at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (/DvFd)

86 Remember when Nancy told us record numbers of people being on food stamps were great for the economy?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (ptqGC)

87 My company is laying people off. How they are doing so in a hot economy boggles me, but they are.

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So is mine. Our last reported numbers were shit except for some made-up diversity ranking, and of course everyone's just thrilled. We can't keep the college kids. I'm going to have to work forever.

Posted by: jhawk90 at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (IBK57)

88 Last night I got a call from the campaign for Beto, the dem running against Ted Cruz. The lady was very nice and told me that she is for Beto because he believes every Texas should be able to have a job.
I said "Oh good. So he supports President Trump's tax cuts and jobs agenda?" She was sort of shaken and stuttered a bit repeating he was for jobs, and asked if she could count on my vote. I said "Bless your heart, but I'm all in for Senator Cruz."
I felt like a real Texan!!!

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (Z48ZB)

89 The worst thing is when you see cops with tats.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (4ErVI)

90 17 As Mike Rowe has pointed out, the number of jobs has long outnumbered the people willing to work. We have a serious problem in the US of people just not willing to do jobs, like Mr "I have three degrees, lovey, and I won't do those sort of jobs"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (39g3+)

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At our small manufacturing facility (70 employees but owned by a large company) we have a really hard time finding and keeping people, especially on night shift.

Posted by: MAGA at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (A+HbK)

91 Yeah that's a real problem. How do you hire a respectable looking person when they all have piercings, gauges, and tats everywhere?

And how the heck do they afford all that?? They aren't cheap. Who the heck is throwing them cash to buy a new eagle tattoo on their dong?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (39g3+)

I think there are issues about hiring when you are made to know about the particulars of the hire's dong.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (7UW64)

92 They were either trying to f*ck him (which is what I suspect), or they knew exactly what was going to happen and never bothered trying to explain it to the smartest black president ever.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 05:54 PM (VgKNm)

It can be both. Amazing how a little pro-business, pro-America sentiment can unleash eight years of stifled economic interest and activity.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (5jVnA)

93 Who the heck is throwing them cash to buy a new eagle tattoo on their dong?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (39g3+)

Must be some microscopic eagles.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (9BLnV)

94 74 My husband has every single one of his employees drug tested regularly. His customers include some very secure....environments.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM

And then there are jobs that require polygraphs. I watched three people quit when that came up as part of a restructure when I was working in DC.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM (0tfLf)

95
Its not mcjobs for sure, fast food places are seriously understaffed although summer jobs for teens should help.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM (r+sAi)

96 I think there are issues about hiring when you are made to know about the particulars of the hire's dong./i]

The interview is very exhaustive. No stones left unturned

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM (39g3+)

97 "My company is laying people off. How they are doing so in a hot economy boggles me, but they are. "

how is work at ABC?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM (FOPyv)

98 You must see April Ryan (feckless reporter c^*t) non-question to that funny little, earnest economist at today's press briefing: "Do your growth numbers take into account the fact that Obama inherited a recession." ?!? WTF do you say to that? Uh. Yeah? 10 years ago the economy was shitty. 8 years later, it was STILL shitty.
But WAIT! There's MORE!

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM (ty7RM)

99 Night shift is the absolute best. Leave when the boss comes in AND get paid more per hour? Yes, please.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM (VgKNm)

100 Who the heck is throwing them cash to buy a new eagle tattoo on their dong?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (39g3+)

Why start so ambitious ? Maybe a small hummingbird. See how it goes.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (TNfJu)

101 >>She is asking clients if they are being realistic in their demands for
workers with clean criminal histories and higher levels of education.

Or they could, I don't know, offer more money. Crazy I know, I know, just forget I said anything. Filling those positions with criminal retards makes a lot more sense.

Posted by: bananaDream at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (yRBj9)

102 I had to stifle a chuckle recently. A friend told us her woke son-in-law was one of 100 let go a couple of weeks ago by Cox Communications, owner of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.

He and his woke buddies are *furious* (picture angry little fists of rage).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (ptqGC)

103 I read an AP piece today attacking Trump for lying about the greatest economy in history using lame shit like in 1952 the unemployment rate was lower by one point, and labour participation rate was better in the mid '70s IIRC (ignoring the US population base was alot younger then than today) but "Trump lied!"

Posted by: andycanuck at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (Evws/)

104 Like I said, I had the economy set up pretty good for Trump.

Posted by: Low Information Ex-President at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (9vQJW)

105 FBN: Breaking...Press aide Kelly Sadler out at WH following McCain comments.

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (Enq6K)

106 "Its not mcjobs for sure, fast food places are seriously understaffed although summer jobs for teens should help."

I wonder how these worse than millenial teens feel about doing jobs that many people used to do as teens?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (FOPyv)

107
Pelosi - "What about the artists? how will they create if they are working?"

"Ahh, but they'll be creating wealth. Not just for themselves and their families, but for many others too. It's good for everyone."

- said no Republican ever

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (HaL55)

108 You read my mind, Christopher Taylor. Funemployment over. Sad. Work injuries soar!
Nevertheless, California voters will screw it up and vote for socialists today.

Posted by: PJ at June 05, 2018 06:02 PM (qlTN9)

109 I love how these numbers never reflect my reality. I'm sure it's industry specific, since I'm in marketing, but I've applied for hundreds of jobs to no avail.

I'm thinking it's because I don't have a vagina and don't wear a faded ImWithHer t-shirt, since those of the female persuasion just breeze in and out of similar jobs as easy as you please.

From now on I will self identify as a Xer pansexual trannie vagina worshipper and see if that nets me better results.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 05, 2018 06:02 PM (+dsLj)

110 Filling those positions with criminal retards makes a lot more sense.

Posted by: bananaDream at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (yRBj9)

You rang?

Posted by: The DNC at June 05, 2018 06:02 PM (7UW64)

111 FBN: Breaking...Press aide Kelly Sadler out at WH following McCain comments.

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (Enq6K)

One career dead, yet McCain still lives.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:02 PM (ptqGC)

112 85 More jobs that people looking for work.
Dems unanimously oppose a work requirement for the food stamp program.
Posted by: Guam tipper at June 05, 2018 05:58 PM (/DvFd)

People have a right to be useless layabouts and live parasitically off of others. It's right there in the Constitution, right next to the right to abortions, free contraceptives, and free pho's.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (vbAL5)

113 64 Another feature at the bank: no dudes. I was the only man in the building. Even the customers were all women. I was also the oldest person in the building other than the two old ladies in line ahead of me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:56 PM (39g3+)

I rarely if ever go into the bank. Other than dealing with my mortgage and cashing coins I do my best to avoid it. My checks are direct deposited and I have an atm card and online banking to deal with getting cash. Why would I spend time inside the bank.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (lKs2v)

114 Companies go by arrests and not convictions. This is wrong on many different levels.

People do get arrested, overcharged, have charges dropped, and are even found innocent in the end.

Arrests don't equal convictions.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (z4k8L)

115 The worst thing is when you see cops with tats.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 05, 2018 05:59 PM (4ErVI)

I'm thinking I'd rather see a cop with tats than an MS-13, Russian mob, or Japanese Yakuza members with tats. Just a little.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (9BLnV)

116 57 May was a good month for me, too.
Bought a gun and got a new job. So...you're welcome.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (xJa6I)

There's a reverse country song in there somewhere.

Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (+lOpA)

117 hmm. OT

lead Mueller coup ringleader is famous for destroying 302's, did so with Enron case.

wow.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (FOPyv)

118 Ambiguous job recommendations:

"Darryl filled a much needed void at our company last year."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (m45I2)

119 I wonder how these worse than millenial teens feel about doing jobs that many people used to do as teens?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (FOPyv)

They are welcome to come on up and do the jobs I did as a teen. Slime line, Kenai Cannery. The first eight hours the pay is crap, but after that it's time and half and that's when the money rolls in.

Yeah, lots of fun.

Or not.

Posted by: The DNC at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (7UW64)

120 I wonder how these worse than millenial teens feel about doing jobs that many people used to do as teens?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (FOPyv)

Looking back three decades when I worked in one of those joints, it was pretty fun. I boned a couple of the girls who worked there and making food was fun. Also free eats and a lot of times a pizza joint would call and offer to trade food so we'd make a bunch of stuff for them and then get a dozen pizzas out of it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (4ErVI)

121 "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?"

Posted by: OCBill at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (df+Zi)

122 116 57 May was a good month for me, too.
Bought a gun and got a new job. So...you're welcome.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 05:55 PM (xJa6I)

There's a reverse country song in there somewhere.
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:03 PM (+lOpA)

LOL

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (xJa6I)

123 Don't blame me. I suggested a Negative Income Tax Rate for the lowest bracket ... and no other welfare.

Of course - it also frosted my ass that Progressives gave Classical Liberals a bad name.

*gives middle finger*

Posted by: Milton Friedman at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (TNfJu)

124 I've noticed this anecdotally, and I think it's an amazing thing.

It solves many of the problems the left has, doesn't it?

This drives up wages, lowers barriers to the labor market (criminal background checks, drug tests, education levels, etc), and is overall a very good thing for people at the lower end of the labor market.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (F5+ro)

125 Companies should be pointing the finger at those in HR in charge of the hiring. Kick out the commies/feminists/SJWs and their employees that they hire will improve.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (z4k8L)

126 And how the heck do they afford all that?? They aren't cheap. Who the
heck is throwing them cash to buy a new eagle tattoo on their dong?
---
When I interviewed for my current company back in 2009, they never even looked at my dong.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (h1jJh)

127 105 FBN: Breaking...Press aide Kelly Sadler out at WH following McCain comments.

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (Enq6K)

Can't they just give him/her some disciplinary action?

Does everything always have to be a firing?

Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (+lOpA)

128 17 As Mike Rowe has pointed out, the number of jobs has long outnumbered the people willing to work. We have a serious problem in the US of people just not willing to do jobs, like Mr "I have three degrees, lovey, and I won't do those sort of jobs"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (39g3+)

-------

Daughter's BFFis now almost 4 years out of college and still no real job. Initially BFF thought she was above being a food worker or working retail, and as time passed, her resume looks more and more lame so now she can't even get an interview. She should have done what my daughter did and take any job, prove you can learn OTJl (for my daughterr, making smoothies and then keeping the books at a small retailer) and then move up.

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (Z48ZB)

129 The worst thing is when you see cops with tats.

Yeah it makes me kind of sad. I'm hoping that in my lifetime we'll see a cultural backlash against tats and all the piercings. Young people who declare it lame and whatever the latest term for uncool turns out to be. Tired of seeing grandpa's saggy arm with a blurry indistinct sleeve tat he got in his midlife crisis.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (39g3+)

130 maybe now people can afford all the mcmansions that were built 10 years ago before the real estate crash
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast

Property taxes still outpace salaries.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (nMj2X)

131 Ambiguous job recommendations:

"Darryl has always been high in my opinion."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (m45I2)

132 I saw Cops With Tats open for Men Without Hats at Folsom Prison in '84

Posted by: Hands at June 05, 2018 06:06 PM (EzdLW)

133 "120 I wonder how these worse than millenial teens feel about doing jobs that many people used to do as teens?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (FOPyv)

Looking back three decades when I worked in one of those joints, it was pretty fun. I boned a couple of the girls who worked there and making food was fun. Also free eats and a lot of times a pizza joint would call and offer to trade food so we'd make a bunch of stuff for them and then get a dozen pizzas out of it."

right?

but the kids think they are royalty and this makes them poors.

also, "boning" girls? Who would want to do that it this era of #metoo soyness? j/k.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:06 PM (FOPyv)

134 Our son has a yuge USMC tat. Got it at Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, MO. I went up to watch his MOS graduation, and you couldn't sling dead road kill outside the gate without hitting a half-dozen tattoo parlors.

And bars.

Alcohol + young Marines = tats

I wept, but I'm over it now. He's well groomed and smart as all get out, and working this summer for his dad (he knows the business inside and out). Finishes college this fall.

Husband has always wished our son would want to take over the company, but I don't see that happening.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:06 PM (ptqGC)

135 103 I read an AP piece today attacking Trump for lying about the greatest economy in history using lame shit like in 1952 the unemployment rate was lower by one point, and labour participation rate was better in the mid '70s IIRC (ignoring the US population base was alot younger then than today) but "Trump lied!"

Posted by: andycanuck at June 05, 2018 06:01 PM (Evws/)

Also ignoring the number of women who were never in the workforce back then....

Posted by: The DNC at June 05, 2018 06:06 PM (7UW64)

136 Kick out the commies/feminists/SJWs and their employees that they hire will improve.

************************

Have to agree, I've seen absolute proof that some SJW HR departments only hire females. One recruiter specifically said male applicants will not be considered for a particular large company. How they aren't getting sued to death is beyond me. These people are out of control.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (+dsLj)

137 Moar Cowbell !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (GNCPT)

138 "The worst thing is when you see cops with tats. "

meh, the worst thing is seeing some muz or first gen FOB type in charge of immigration...and when they decide to give trump the finger by expelling old Russians.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (FOPyv)

139 "You will be very fortunate if Darryl comes to work at your company."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (m45I2)

140 Stupid feckless c^*t reporter carries on: "The black unemployment rate has come down, however, what is Trump admin. doing to specifically target black unemployment?" What? He responds: "We're concentrating on growth in the product production and construction sectors..."
Feckless, racist reporter: 'Well, yeah, construction benefits hispanics."
Trump really IS driving the left bat-shit crazy.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (ty7RM)

141 Can someone refresh my memory? Didn't govt limit worker's age and number of hours per week. Also, didn't they limit farm kids from working due to age limits?

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (V7FDw)

142 131 Ambiguous job recommendations:

"Darryl has always been high in my opinion."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (m45I2)

What about his other brother Darryl?

Posted by: The DNC at June 05, 2018 06:08 PM (7UW64)

143 There's a reverse country song in there somewhere.

What's the opposite of a country song? A city song?

City and Eastern?

Posted by: musical genres at June 05, 2018 06:08 PM (7gYla)

144
Daughter's BFFis now almost 4 years out of college and still no real job. Initially BFF thought she was above being a food worker or working retail, and as time passed, her resume looks more and more lame so now she can't even get an interview. She should have done what my daughter did and take any job, prove you can learn OTJl (for my daughterr, making smoothies and then keeping the books at a small retailer) and then move up.

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM

This.
A good friend is an out of work attorney with an additional masters. Hasn't worked in years because she just can't get past the idea that she might have to take a job just to get income, and then work her way into the industry she likes.
Dumb.
Sweet lady, but dumb.
Oh...and hates Trump, loved Obama.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:08 PM (0tfLf)

145 "103 I read an AP piece today attacking Trump for lying about the greatest economy in history using lame shit like in 1952 the unemployment rate was lower by one point, and labour participation rate was better in the mid '70s IIRC (ignoring the US population base was alot younger then than today) but "Trump lied!" |"""

lol.

1. the audience for this is who?

2. so they're saying America used to be great and trump is approaching that again?

3. another missing factor...no illegals back then.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:08 PM (FOPyv)

146 139 "You will be very fortunate if Darryl comes to work at your company."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:07 PM (m45I2)

"Signed, Darryl's Mom."

Posted by: The DNC at June 05, 2018 06:09 PM (7UW64)

147 Darryl has been out standing in his field for as long as I can remember.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:09 PM (m45I2)

148 As of April all 3 of my 20-something children have full-time jobs. Grateful to God for that.

Posted by: Guam tipper at June 05, 2018 06:09 PM (/DvFd)

149 I'm seeing the spillover at my house.

Number of jobs to be done around the house and yard is greatly exceeding the number of individuals willing to do them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 05, 2018 06:09 PM (VwIFX)

150 News burnout? More like general pop culture burnout.

One of the hallmarks of elite American political behavior seems to be an almost obsessive belief in the "need to protect the mob from itself."

In retrospect, it's kinda funny how Silicon Valley unleashed mass social media across the entire planet in less than a decade without much apparent forethought about how such instantaneous, anonymous, and mostly consequence free communication would impact culture at large and erode generational norms.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (I/iGu)

151 Around here in the SF area, those who are unemployed are purposely, intentionally unemployed. As a lifestyle.

Which I'm perfectly fine with, actually. If you don't want to work, you don't have to -- this isn't the Soviet Union.

But what it means for society at large is that in my area (SF Bay Area) the real unemployment rate is pretty much close to 0%. If you want to have a job, you can get a job. Pretty much everyone who desires to be employed is employed.

THe problem is just how many people choose to remain unemployed. It's not just wealthy people and senior citizens who choose not to work: it's an entire class of professional homeless people, and entire other class of professional welfare recipients. Those two demographics are increasing every day. And finding a way to lessen their numbers has nothing to do with improving the economy. THe issue of unwanted unemployment has been solved. What hasn't been solved is the creation of a vast "intentional underclass."

Posted by: zombie at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (c+2jX)

152 "The labor market is forcing employers to rethink their approach to
hiring, said Terri Greeno, owner of an Express Employment Professionals
office in Crystal Lake, Ill. She is asking clients if they are being
realistic in their demands for workers with clean criminal histories and
higher levels of education."
Time to eradicate useless Human Resources departments that do nothing more than serve as long-term storage for low energy donut-munching meddlers.

Posted by: ElKomandante at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (kwM4p)

153 You must see April Ryan (feckless reporter c^*t) non-question to that funny little, earnest economist at today's press briefing: "Do your growth numbers take into account the fact that Obama inherited a recession." ?!? WTF do you say to that? Uh. Yeah? 10 years ago the economy was shitty. 8 years later, it was STILL shitty.

How many trillions did he throw at the recession? And yet he still couldn't figure out how to make things better. Shovel ready jobs. *snort* More food stamps will kick start the economy. *double snort* He also told us that this "was the new normal."

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (Z48ZB)

154 Anyone want to hire a retired lawyer? Will work for crumbs.

Posted by: RI Red at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (JwlEJ)

155 I think there are issues about hiring when you are made to know about the particulars of the hire's dong.
Posted by: tcn in AK
__________

Oh.

* scribbles on notepad *

Posted by: Anderson Cooper, Baffled at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (9vQJW)

156 Flying pork update:

McConnell cancels August recess - in election year ...... with incumbent Dems at great risk, needing to campaign ....... when House should (damn well better) deliver 12 approps bills to Senate prior to August ..... setting up the perfect, if obvious, situation.

Stay in DC and fight border security and push other wildly unpopular Dem positions ..... or bend and dodge and vote with the GOP on them ..... or go home to campaign, allowing Trump agenda items to pass into law.

Should have done this last cycle, would have had many of the same elements, but in election cycle it's a thing of beauty.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (QDnY+)

157 "Initially BFF thought she was above being a food worker or working retail, and as time passed, her resume looks more and more lame so now she can't even get an interview. "

this is a problem for law grads. You either get job experience and stay employed as a lawyer. or you dont' and you don't.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (FOPyv)

158 My husband hired a guy recommended by a close friend a couple of years ago. Marine veteran who had "seen some shit."

Bottom line, a retired FBI friend of the friend and my husband, showed up at the offices one day and he was tossed out on his ass.

Stolen valor, big time. He sat there in my husband's office, with our son's picture in his dress blues on the console behind my husband, and lied his ass off about being in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had never served one single day in the military, let alone the Corps.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (ptqGC)

159 Arise from thy basement dwellings and get thee to thine own place of employment, as plentiful as fruits on the vine.
Book of Jobs

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (2NqXo)

160 "Darryl has always been high in my opinion."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (m45I2)

What about his other brother Darryl?
Posted by: The DNC at June 05, 2018 06:08 PM

He's a sloth.

Posted by: Larry at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (lFBwl)

161 121 "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?"

Posted by: OCBill at June 05, 2018 06:04 PM (df+Zi)

Convicted? No.

Posted by: Bill N Hill at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (7UW64)

162 Also companies go cheap with background checks. They are very unreliable. If you have a common American name be prepared to get fucked.

Companies are so bad about this. When my lease ran up on my car, the car company said they would just come get it if I paid the towing fee of 50 bucks because I was out of town for a few months. I got back home and the car was still there. Six months later a private investigator calls me up and asks me where the car is. I told him it's been sitting in the driveway waiting to be picked up like the dealship said they would 9 months ago and no I haven't been driving it. He said do you live at this address? I said nope wrong address. He said they have has a tow out at that address for 9 months. I said not my problem come get the car and I'm not paying for their mistake. Car was gone the next day. And I'm not paying for their incompetence.

Dumbasses.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (z4k8L)

163 I don't believe this. I have a good friend with many years experience as an IT field technician and he can't find contracting work. Companies aren't upgrading their equipment. He'd love a full time position but he's hitting the bias of firms who only want to consider long term employees who don't have breaks in their resumes. As a person who could only pick up contracting work over the last few years that's a low blow. Most of the calls he gets from recruiters won't take him on (over qualified/possible age discrimination ) or are scammers looking to steal his identity. Until my friend gets steady work the economy isn't as great as it's reported.

Posted by: Rumalaw at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (Rw65h)

164 ace should start a small business....his own line of greeting cards.

They'd sell like hotcakes!

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (Enq6K)

165 Yeah it makes me kind of sad. I'm hoping that in my lifetime we'll see a cultural backlash against tats and all the piercings.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (39g3+)

I suspect we're nearing Peak Tattoo, and possibly have already passed it. It's such a cliche now that it may well be past its sell-by date.

Now is the time to get in on the ground floor of tattoo removal.

Tattoos are just visible evidence that someone isn't too bright. You've got to pay good money to endure considerable discomfort to impair your employment chances, and then later pay more good money to endure more considerable discomfort to get rid of the damned things.

Makes sense to me!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (vbAL5)

166 The whole idea of "start low and work up" seems alien to today's youth and I think at least part of it is because of the College Effect.

They were sold on COLLEGE because it would open opportunities and make them rich, give them good, well-paying jobs that you hardly had to work on and had lots of paid vacation time! Instead it saddled them with crappy education, several new cars worth of debt, and the same employment opportunities as the guy who stayed home and made webpages.

Even if you have a real degree, instead of Lesbian Soy Basket Weaving Etruscans you are not likely to start out in that 6-figure super job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (39g3+)

167 Number of jobs to be done around the house and yard is greatly exceeding the number of individuals willing to do them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Right? The lawn needs mowing, and I wait and wait, and still it needs mowing.

Posted by: pep at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (LAe3v)

168 BUT THE BAD MAN SAID DOODIE!!!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (FTPVM)

169 >>>She is asking clients if they are being realistic in their demands for workers with clean criminal histories and higher levels of education.

So you're saying I have a chance.
___

I detect Ace-snark. But this line could be a strong Trump-ad line: show a bedraggled formerly out-of-work American starting a new job--shaking the boss's hand, walking into work on the first day--now having a chance.

Posted by: m at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (0bRDi)

170 McConnell cancels August recess - in election year ...... with incumbent Dems at great risk, needing to campaign ....... when House should (damn well better) deliver 12 approps bills to Senate prior to August ..... setting up the perfect, if obvious, situation.

Stay in DC and fight border security and push other wildly unpopular Dem positions ..... or bend and dodge and vote with the GOP on them ..... or go home to campaign, allowing Trump agenda items to pass into law.

---

And hand Trump recess appointments??

No way Jose.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (nMj2X)

171 How many trillions did he throw at the recession? And yet he still couldn't figure out how to make things better. Shovel ready jobs. *snort* More food stamps will kick start the economy. *double snort* He also told us that this "was the new normal."

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (Z48ZB)

Funemployment and the endless recovery summers.

Only a donk could get excited at that.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (5jVnA)

172 maybe it's not that employers want workers with degrees ... maybe they are avoiding the feminist basket weavers that demand starting salary of $45K with auto raises, never can fire, 3 months vacay?

Or for teachers, also auto raises for worthless continuing ed, retiore at 55 on full bennies, and no matter that Johnny can't read, he's still a good lay. /s

Posted by: illiniwek at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (bT8Z4)

173 Some of our DOD accounts have just experienced over 25% growth IN ONE YEAR! The building where I work is running out of desks for employees. At a recent meeting, the suits were talking about letting the secretaries know if you're going on vacation so that someone else could temporarily use your desk. At least my desk is in one of the secure spaces, so I don't have to worry about that but we just did loose our dedicated CAD desk for a new engineer.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:13 PM (5Yee7)

174 My work gave me a pretty good raise, but we're not hiring. And we really need to. We've only got one position out of the three we need even advertised, and can't find suitable applicants for that...

I hope this hits here soon, but with the recent deluge of people moving here, I don't see it happening.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:13 PM (UiRxW)

175 And hand Trump recess appointments??

No way Jose.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM (nMj2X)

Well that is for sure, ain't no way PDT is appointing any Jose. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2018 06:13 PM (SjImc)

176 Until my friend gets steady work the economy isn't as great as it's reported.

Its the Bob effect. This one guy determines the health of the entire economy! Until Bob gets a 7 figure job working 3 days a week with paid vacation, full dental, and paternity leave for his maid's kid, the economy is lousy!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:13 PM (39g3+)

177 rhomboid @156

It is a beautiful thing. PDT will make them win even if they don't want to.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:14 PM (0tfLf)

178 176. Ya know what? Fuck Bob!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 05, 2018 06:14 PM (fA1SL)

179 Daughter's BFFis now almost 4 years out of college and still no real job. Initially BFF thought she was above being a food worker or working retail, and as time passed, her resume looks more and more lame so now she can't even get an interview. "

Someone should tell her, she's sittin' on a gold mine!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 05, 2018 06:14 PM (k1TUh)

180 Some of our DOD accounts have just experienced over 25% growth IN ONE YEAR! The building where I work is running out of desks for employees. At a recent meeting, the suits were talking about letting the secretaries know if you're going on vacation so that someone else could temporarily use your desk. At least my desk is in one of the secure spaces, so I don't have to worry about that but we just did loose our dedicated CAD desk for a new engineer.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:13 PM (5Yee7)

All these enployees have Dental Insurance right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 05, 2018 06:14 PM (SjImc)

181 Starting jobs as a CEO are hard to come by

Posted by: Skip at June 05, 2018 06:15 PM (pHfeF)

182 All of this because -- Obama and Hillary are now unemployed.
Like Reagan, Trump was the right man at the right time. It makes one almost believe in Manifest Destiny ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 05, 2018 06:15 PM (ZPJb6)

183 Stupid feckless c^*t reporter carries on: "The black unemployment rate has come down, however, what is Trump admin. doing to specifically target black unemployment?" What? He responds: "We're concentrating on growth in the product production and construction sectors..."
Feckless, racist reporter: 'Well, yeah, construction benefits hispanics."

OMG. He should have asked what sector the reporter would thinks he should focus on to specifically benefit blacks.

and then sit back.

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:15 PM (Z48ZB)

184 3 you know what this means? Time for more illegals.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 05:48 PM (FOPyv)

That's exactly what it sounds like to me.

The number of people who are not in the labor force has not come down at all. See the second chart here:

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=233577

Posted by: rickl at June 05, 2018 06:15 PM (sdi6R)

185 Number of jobs to be done around the house and yard is greatly exceeding the number of individuals willing to do them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 05, 2018 06:09 PM (VwIFX)

This becomes an issue when you don't procreate enough "helpers." One kid, but he whines like he was a dozen.

Posted by: Bill N Hill at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (7UW64)

186 Right? The lawn needs mowing, and I wait and wait, and still it needs mowing.

Posted by: pep at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM

.....

I should've had more kids.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (VwIFX)

187 There was an article I read the other day defending the loser piece of shit who had to get evicted from Mommy's basement. It was a legit attempt at defending that pile of goo. The problem I see is that there's a huge group of millennials that are convinced they don't need to start somewhere and work their way up. They went to college you know, so they should automatically start earning six figures right away. Entitled little shits. BTW, this is how you negate the "livable wage" crowd. If the labor market is that tight, companies have to pay more. Supply and demand, whoda thunk?

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (lFBwl)

188 181 continued
But if Bob keeps looking he will find one

Posted by: Skip at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (pHfeF)

189 Ew. Stinky old sock.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (7UW64)

190 131 Ambiguous job recommendations:

"Darryl has always been high in my opinion."
Posted by: Muldoon at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (m45I2)

"Darryl's mind is as tidy as his desk."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (vbAL5)

191 162 Also companies go cheap with background checks. They are very unreliable. If you have a common American name be prepared to get fucked.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:11 PM (z4k8L)

I'm surprised that Pickles is a common American name.

Posted by: m at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM (0bRDi)

192 "Its the Bob effect. This one guy determines the health of the entire economy! Until Bob gets a 7 figure job working 3 days a week with paid vacation, full dental, and paternity leave for his maid's kid, the economy is lousy!"

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It's not that. As long as the pay is so low that only illegals would take the job it's not good enough.

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (/3+Sg)

193 My friend at a local wine and spirits store (manager) just quit. They are having a hell of a time finding a replacement. The firm doesn't do a good job of hiring from within, and they aren't finding a lot of applicants in the local area.
Management lefties, are really slow to pick up on the trends.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (0tfLf)

194 To be fair, why mow your lawn weekly when you can just do one controlled burn come autumn?

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (I/iGu)

195 I suspect we're nearing Peak Tattoo, and possibly have already passed it. It's such a cliche now that it may well be past its sell-by date.
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It was 20 years ago. When I was growing up in the whole punk rock scene - back when that still existed - I definitely stood out from the crowd, because I couldn't get a tattoo of any kind.

At that point, the tattoos aren't rebellious and cool anymore. They're conformist...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (UiRxW)

196 Some SJW at the White House Military Appreciation ceremony thought when they said "Old Glory", he heard "gloryhole" and immediately got on his knees.

Posted by: REDACTED at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (iOL28)

197
What's the opposite of a country song? A city song?

City and Eastern?

"Well hell, no wonder you didn't like it. You picked the ugliest one."

...just the punchline

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (HaL55)

198 House of Bourbon

Posted by: Bard Men at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (WX+x0)

199 In my part of Jersey, employment continues to lag behind the nation, and we still havn't cleared the zombie foreclosures from the real estate inventory. Mexicans have the construction gigs and the human roaches, Indian H1B's have the tech gigs.

Not that I care, I have enough FU money to carry me to retirement, and my kids have bailed this 3rd world state to greener pastures.

Posted by: BluesFish at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (W/w0Y)

200 Jeez, I'd forgotten about the "new normal" proclamation.

Let me be clear, there are those who say those jobs aren't coming back.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM (VgKNm)

201 House of Bourbon
Posted by: Bard Men at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM

Go on...

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM (lFBwl)

202 As Mike Rowe has pointed out, the number of jobs has long outnumbered the people willing to work. We have a serious problem in the US of people just not willing to do jobs, like Mr "I have three degrees, lovey, and I won't do those sort of jobs"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:50 PM (39g3+)

That's because the U.S. pays people to not work. Now, if you had to get a basic physical before receiving welfare and if you're able-bodied you don't get welfare, that problem would probably change. "Oh, you just don't want to work? I guess you're going to starve. Sad!"

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM (5Yee7)

203 Good news because I need a job.

Posted by: Wildcat72 at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM (yiAMj)

204 Let me be clear, there are those who say those jobs aren't coming back.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM

Calling Bruce Springsteeen.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:19 PM (lFBwl)

205 181 Starting jobs as a CEO are hard to come by

Posted by: Skip at June 05, 2018 06:15 PM (pHfeF)

Well, let's see. First you need a line of credit and a business plan. Then, having identified your niche, you need to go after it like a honey badger after a snake. Should only take up about 85 to 90 hours a week.

But hey, what else were you working on?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:19 PM (7UW64)

206
Its the Bob effect. This one guy determines the health of the entire economy! Until Bob gets a 7 figure job working 3 days a week with paid vacation, full dental, and paternity leave for his maid's kid, the economy is lousy!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Is that Bob Enzyte?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 05, 2018 06:19 PM (IqV8l)

207 Maybe if MILLIONS of millennials hadn't majored in basket weaving, they'd have people to fill those jobs.
Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (Enq6K)

Communications degree. With an emphasis on social media.

Seriously.

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:19 PM (Z48ZB)

208 ''And I had such a lovely post for the Star Wars thread lied up. Ah well. ''

I'm still 2 threads back trying to compose a limerick

Posted by: Tuna at June 05, 2018 06:20 PM (jm1YL)

209 How many trillions did he throw at the recession?
And yet he still couldn't figure out how to make things better. Shovel
ready jobs. *snort* More food stamps will kick start the economy.
*double snort* He also told us that this "was the new normal."

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:10 PM (Z48ZB)

Funemployment and the endless recovery summers.

Only a donk could get excited at that.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at June 05, 2018 06:12 PM

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Don 't forget the 2 years of no questions asked unemployment checks.

I had a buddy that was a truck driver and he didn't even look for work because he could stay home and collect those sweet Federal/State unemployment $$$$ for 2 years and not have to be away from home 5 days out of 7.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 05, 2018 06:20 PM (+Dllb)

210 (183) Lotto Scratching Tech.

Posted by: ro-man at June 05, 2018 06:21 PM (RuIsu)

211 207. As I said back in those dark days, 'Aspiring app developers driving each other around for Uber is no basis for a national economy.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 05, 2018 06:21 PM (fA1SL)

212 202
That's because the U.S. pays people to not work.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM (5Yee7)

Yep, that which you subsidize you get more of.

Posted by: rickl at June 05, 2018 06:21 PM (sdi6R)

213 Have you ever been convicted of a felony?

A felony? No.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:21 PM (0tfLf)

214 I had a buddy that was a truck driver and he didn't even look for work because he could stay home and collect those sweet Federal/State unemployment $$$$ for 2 years and not have to be away from home 5 days out of 7.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 05, 2018 06:20 PM

I know people like that, they are no longer my buddies. Fuck them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM (lFBwl)

215 Communications degree. With an emphasis on social media.

Seriously.

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:19 PM (Z48ZB)

What the hell IS "Communications," anyway? They go to college to learn how to talk?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM (vbAL5)

216 Yes they do, but I think the commute might be a bit too much. You live on the East Coast, correct?

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM (5Yee7)

217 "i don't quite believe that the openings exceed unemployed, may be a method that they always used to say , "hey, look! not enough skilled workers, let's bring from abroad ! temporary !"
Posted by: runner at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (bUjCl)"

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And thus keep the wages depressed. Pay better and you will have applicants lined up around the block.

The economy improves when everyone has more money to spend.

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM (/3+Sg)

218 suspect we're nearing Peak Tattoo, and possibly have already passed it. It's such a cliche now that it may well be past its sell-by date.
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It was 20 years ago. When I was growing up in the whole punk rock scene - back when that still existed - I definitely stood out from the crowd, because I couldn't get a tattoo of any kind.

At that point, the tattoos aren't rebellious and cool anymore. They're conformist...
Posted by: Yudhishthira

And Nurses, EMT etc are having a hard time finding veins on people that have the sleeve tattoos.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM (dKiJG)

219 Wait, you mean my art major that I and my parents spent 150K on isn't marketable? Eff you man!

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (lFBwl)

220

Kelly Sadler, the Trump administration communications aide who came under fire for a flippant comment about Sen. John McCain's health, no longer works in the White House, according to two administration officials.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (IqV8l)

221 Job Openings Now Exceed Number of Americans Looking for Work
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This is just terrible. Now single moms are going to have to work two and three jobs. What about the CHIIIIIIIIIILDREN!!

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (h1jJh)

222 At that point, the tattoos aren't rebellious and cool anymore. They're conformist...

Yeah when soccer moms and 50 year old guys are getting tats you know its lost its edge. Its tough to be rebel these days; the only real way to stand out and shock society is to be conservative church going square and nobody who wants to rebel will walk that road.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (39g3+)

223 218. Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (fA1SL)

224 Now, if I could only get some work at my JOB, dammit.

I spend all day posting here, while collecting that state money paycheck.

And they wonder why this state has no money right now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (7UW64)

225 I'm still 2 threads back trying to compose a limerick
Posted by: Tuna at June 05, 2018 06:20 PM

Thats why I am impressed what Muldoon does

Posted by: Skip at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (pHfeF)

226 134 Our son has a yuge USMC tat. Got it at Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, MO. I went up to watch his MOS graduation, and you couldn't sling dead road kill outside the gate without hitting a half-dozen tattoo parlors.

And bars.

Alcohol + young Marines = tats

I wept, but I'm over it now. He's well groomed and smart as all get out, and working this summer for his dad (he knows the business inside and out). Finishes college this fall.

Husband has always wished our son would want to take over the company, but I don't see that happening.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:06 PM (ptqGC)

Jah, Marines get tats. They're one of the few folks who are entitled to, in my opinion.

Your boy sounds like a good man.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (xJa6I)

227 211 207. As I said back in those dark days, 'Aspiring app developers driving each other around for Uber is no basis for a national economy.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 05, 2018 06:21 PM (fA1SL)

Speaking of Uber, remember the guy whining about having three degrees and only get minimum wage offers from pet shops?

It occurred to me later that he also mentioned that the alternative was driving for Uber. But don't you need a late model car to do that?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (vbAL5)

228 Working inside the food and beverage industry, specifically in training individuals, this is a reality.

I have restaurants and bars calling for people that complete our training quicker than I can get them trained.

They are offering twice the hourly of what I was seeing just two years ago.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (VwIFX)

229 Downside?

All those idiot grievance studies grads may actually find work.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (E9SYS)

230 I found some pretty good money putting my ass to work.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (FTPVM)

231 And Nurses, EMT etc are having a hard time finding veins on people that have the sleeve tattoos.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM

Never been a problem for me man!

Posted by: Keith Richards at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (lFBwl)

232 Man...all these jobs created...definitely voting D this fall

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (CDETr)

233 Jah, Marines get tats. They're one of the few folks who are entitled to, in my opinion.

Your boy sounds like a good man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (xJa6I)

Same here, on both counts.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:24 PM (vbAL5)

234 >>They were sold on COLLEGE because it would open opportunities and make them rich, give them good, well-paying jobs that you hardly had to work on and had lots of paid vacation time! I

Yeah, one thing OWS made clear was that these kids were somehow led to believe that getting a degree(s) = paying their dues. They expect to be rewarded for graduating with their dream job.
How/when did that happen?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 05, 2018 06:25 PM (W+vEI)

235 OMG. He should have asked what sector the reporter would thinks he should focus on to specifically benefit blacks.

and then sit back.

Posted by: LASue

Malt likker distributor.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:25 PM (nMj2X)

236 rickb223, you misread what I said. McConnell *cancelling* recess, in his words, to force action on urgent business (which damn well better include whole slates of Trump appointees).

So, no, of course no recess appointments, cuz, no recess.

Which puts incumbents Dems who are vulnerable (quite a few, beyond the 4 or 5 one always hears about) need to choose between campaigning, or staying in DC and (for many of them) walking the plank on Dem positions that are unpopular back home.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:25 PM (QDnY+)

237 "Mexicans have the construction gigs and the human roaches, Indian H1B's have the tech gigs."

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There's the cause for you. Normal people priced out of the job market by foreigners, in their own country.

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (/3+Sg)

238 Which puts incumbents Dems who are vulnerable (quite a few, beyond the 4 or 5 one always hears about) need to choose between campaigning, or staying in DC and (for many of them) walking the plank on Dem positions that are unpopular back home.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:25 PM

Good, you mean Mitch the bitch was able to dig his sack out of his shell?

Posted by: Keith Richards at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (lFBwl)

239 217 "i don't quite believe that the openings exceed unemployed, may be a method that they always used to say , "hey, look! not enough skilled workers, let's bring from abroad ! temporary !"
Posted by: runner at June 05, 2018 05:51 PM (bUjCl)"

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And thus keep the wages depressed. Pay better and you will have applicants lined up around the block.

The economy improves when everyone has more money to spend.
Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:22 PM (/3+Sg)

Yup.... EMPLOYMENT numbers are very slightly up.

Wage growth is supposed to be at a 4.56% yearly increase...

Inflation is supposed to be at 2.5%.

But the Bob effect, and personal experience... seems to show me otherwise.

Posted by: Don Q. at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (NgKpN)

240 Communications degree. With an emphasis on social media.

Seriously.
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Oh no. Tell her to forget about it.

It's not a very useful thing to begin with. But, big social media companies change their standards and practices practically on a quarterly basis. If you're not doing it all the time, you're behind.

And there's a metric fuckton of these kids applying at every media company and marketing department.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (UiRxW)

241 off Keith Richards sock!

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (lFBwl)

242 Don 't forget the 2 years of no questions asked unemployment checks.

Where? Wife has worked all her adult life. Only qualified for 6 months of Texas state unemployment benefits.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (nMj2X)

243 My friendsh, I will cling to power until my infirmity creates a totes collapse of all control of my bodily functions.

*hic* *shart* *cackle*

Posted by: Slappy McCain at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (J7XgW)

244 Yeah I'm fine with sailors and marines getting tats. Punk kid begging change on the corner so he can afford to finish the unicorn with wings on his shoulderblades? Not so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (39g3+)

245 The problem is not the jobs, it's the devaluation of the dollar since the 1970's. That and all the 2nd tier (2nd chance) jobs, manufacturing, have been sent overseas since the 1970's as well.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (z4k8L)

246 Central Park glory holes could always use another hungry mouth.

Posted by: honest cloud at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (VsxXz)

247 My wife had a new graduate nurse that had two degrees, I remember one being Art History the other I can't remember but it was useless and she was over a hundred grand in debt and she had to go back to school to get her nursing degree.

I blame the damn schools for steering these kids to useless degrees.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (dKiJG)

248 There's the cause for you. Normal people priced out of the job market by foreigners, in their own country.
Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM

Courtesy of all the H1B cheerleaders in both parties. Fuck them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (lFBwl)

249 When my husband bought the small, struggling company he owns now, it had three employees, and moi (doing administrative crap).

He has expanded his business since TRUMP to IL, IA, SC, and LA. Has grown from the three employees to nearly 20, and needs more.

MAGA.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (ptqGC)

250 237 "Mexicans have the construction gigs and the human roaches, Indian H1B's have the tech gigs."

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There's the cause for you. Normal people priced out of the job market by foreigners, in their own country.
Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:27 PM (/3+Sg)

CEO of Microsoft... President of Google...

Both and raised in India...

Enlightening...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (NgKpN)

251 REPORTER: So Coach, lets talk about your record....
COACH: What the hell you wanna talk about my record for? Man, I DONE MY TIME..... I PAID MY DEBT TO SOCIETY !!!!! How the hell I know she was 13 - she looked 15 anyway.....

Posted by: OCBill at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (df+Zi)

252 "Mexicans have the construction gigs and the human roaches, Indian H1B's have the tech gigs."

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bb-b-b-b-but it's raycisst to prefer americans (who tend to be white) over non-americans who by definition are not americans.

a hawaiian judge will clear this up and declare america illegal.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (FOPyv)

253 I wish Trump would crack down on H1-B abuse

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (hMwEB)

254 I'm unclear on the not working thing. I worked as an architect for more years than my current 29 year old self is going to admit, but when we adopted the kid, I stayed home. No travel meant no architect job. So, onto the mommy track for me.

I haven't worked as an architect for more than a decade. I'm considering getting back into it, but I'm not sure I'm ready for the 60 hours per week runaround.

I've had jobs, working in a soap factory, teaching religious ed, now administering the plans room at the DOT, but none of those required extra hours or travel.

I may have to wait until the boy clears the house.

It's not a bad thing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (7UW64)

255 "Don 't forget the 2 years of no questions asked unemployment checks.

I had a buddy that was a truck driver and he didn't even look for work because he could stay home and collect those sweet Federal/State unemployment $$$$ for 2 years and not have to be away from home 5 days out of 7.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 05, 2018 06:20 PM (+Dllb)"

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As long as benefits are greater than the lowest pay it's only logical to go for the higher money, dignity be damned.

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (/3+Sg)

256 Kelly Sadler, the Trump administration communications aide who came under fire for a flippant comment about Sen. John McCain's health, no longer works in the White House, according to two administration officials.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM

And there's another job opening right there!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (0tfLf)

257 35 My husband is having trouble finding qualified employees. And a criminal background is a YUGE NO-NO due to the security issues he deals with.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 05:52 PM (ptqGC)
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Jane, have hubby call me! I can pass a piss test like nobody's business!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (JxMDl)

258 The problem I see is that there's a huge group of millennials that are convinced they don't need to start somewhere and work their way up.
Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:16 PM

They've never worked a day in their lives. Zero experience in retail, fast food, and the other starter jobs teenagers used to do that are all done by illegals now. Heck, they probably never had a lemonade stand, a paper route, mowed lawns, or babysat, either. They don't have to work their way through college, either, because the Feds pick up the tab.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (2NqXo)

259 My parents in the 1970's were amongst a group that could have a middle income job with one providor and a nice home.

This is impossible today. The purchasing power of the dollar has been destroyed.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (z4k8L)

260 @255: "... dignity be damned."

Dignity? Such a quaint notion in 2018.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (I/iGu)

261 ["CEO of Microsoft... President of Google...

Both and raised in India...

Enlightening..."]

yes, well, the problem with globohomo's great anti-white diversity drive is that they had to import a lot of it.

so is it a mystery we now have CEO's who aren't really american and now companies don't really act like American companies?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (FOPyv)

262 I do suspect that the economic info we're getting is somewhat less than completely accurate, as usual, because the government lies. However, since it tends to lie in favor of the left, its probably not as much a lie as usual.

And I can see around me definite signs of the economy doing better. Five houses in my neighborhood are getting renos done. Help Wanted and Now Hiring signs everywhere. New businesses opening, existing ones expanding. This was not happening 2 years ago.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (39g3+)

263 MAGA.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (ptqGC)

So, when does he expand up here?

**taps foot**

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (7UW64)

264 I have my "double up" theory of welfare. Every dollar a person receives on the dole is actually worth twice as much to that person. That's because the person now has free time that would otherwise have been spent working to earn the money.

Time is money after all.

Posted by: MAGA at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (A+HbK)

265 >> If the labor market is that tight, companies have to pay more. Supply and demand, whoda thunk?
That'll never work. Me and the Professionals at Professional Express Employment Professionals suggest handling staffing problems with:

* hiring criminal retards as suggested above

* training medium sized mammals to do the job. How do you know a racoon can't collate? Have you tried?

* hoping the elves from the shoemaker story come at night to complete unfinished tasks.

Posted by: Terri Greeno at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (yRBj9)

266 One other thing, e-Verify is a law yet completely ignored and unenforced. It's there to be used now so why isn't it?

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (/3+Sg)

267 "The U.S. had more job openings this spring than unemployed Americans."

Sounds nice and that's desirable, but the caveat is how many of those job openings are for actual positions for a pay commensurate with the task?

I haven't read the article, but if it's to the WSJ, then this will be them blowing the trumpet for more immigration, legal or otherwise (but hopefully illegal because that drives down wages the fastest and the mostest), to correct this imbalance of labor.

Now let's let this phenomenon percolate for a few years first and let the proper skillsets (and the concomitant wage pressure) readjust to the openings before allowing the reflexive Larry Kudlow/WSJ-esque push for immediate, expansive immigration policy.

Further, or should I say first, consider if the actual numbers are real or some perversion of economic data using government-speak, too.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (H8S+R)

268 247
I blame the damn schools for steering these kids to useless degrees.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (dKiJG)

Yes, others have suggested that the schools should be on the hook if the students can't pay back their loans.

Government financial aid is basically a taxpayer subsidy of Marxist professors and SJW courses. Eliminate it, and the problem will fix itself.

Posted by: rickl at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (sdi6R)

269 Youre welcome.

Posted by: SCOAMF at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (BRpqW)

270 He has expanded his business since TRUMP to IL, IA, SC, and LA. Has grown from the three employees to nearly 20, and needs more.

MAGA.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (ptqGC)

Woot! Congratulations to Mr. D'oh!!

What the MFM and wall street reporters (also MFM) don't get is that despite all of their gloom and doom talk about tariffs and stock market crashes based on Trump's tweets, these mean nothing when you know in your gut that things are getting better

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (Z48ZB)

271 Yep, H1B and other kinds of labor visas are still something the Hill GOP will push, lie about, hide, and push some more. Not sure how the WH is on this. But it's the never discussed 800-lb elephant in the room when it comes to immigration/admissions policies and employment.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (QDnY+)

272 I wish Trump would crack down on H1-B abuse
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM

Same here. It's almost worse than someone willing to pick lettuce. We heard for years that these positions are just too hard to fill. So we had to have all the H1B shit. No, it's because Google, Disney, Amazon etc. wanted cheap and their congress critters dance.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (lFBwl)

273 At that point, the tattoos aren't rebellious and cool anymore. They're conformist...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM (UiRxW)

I think another part is that the early "look how rebellious I am!" people getting covered in tats are now aging...and people are realizing that tats don't age well, especially when that tat that was once cool isn't any longer. See: barbed wire and "tribal" tats.

Posted by: Bert G at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (yzxic)

274 I blame the damn schools for steering these kids to useless degrees.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 05, 2018 06:28 PM (dKiJG)

I blame the schools for not charging more for those degrees. If you can afford to fart around like an aristo of old, by all means go ahead, but you'll be subsidizing the degrees of others who are doing something worthwhile.

I've had arguments with arts colleagues who maintained that university should not be providing training for jobs, but instead be producing "rounded individuals."

I replied that that might have flown for the British upper class who lived in manors, and who would never have to work in their lives, but everyone else, nowadays, has to develop marketable skills, and do the cultural enrichment thing on their own time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (vbAL5)

275 Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (7UW64)
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I've known about a hundred architects. You're only the second one I've encountered who wasn't a raging leftist. I don't know what it is with that industry.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (UiRxW)

276 My parents in the 1970's were amongst a group that could have a middle income job with one providor and a nice home.

Well, what you say is basically true about the dollar's power being lower but there are other factors.

In the 1970s nobody felt like they had to get 3 8-dollar coffees a day to work. Nobody had a cell phone plan to pay for. Nobody had a 200 dollar cable/internet bill every month. We've heaped expenses on ourselves voluntarily that they never had to or would consider paying. And that eats up the income pretty steadily.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:33 PM (39g3+)

277 Remember the movie Green Card with Gerard Depardieu and Andy McDowell? That movie is a comedy now but for different reasons.

Who needs a Green Card? Just cross the border or overstay your visa and the Dems will give you everything.

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:33 PM (/3+Sg)

278 it warms my evil heart that the great diversity push is going to kill a lot of these feckless boomers who started the madness.

a lot of their doctors, you may learn soon enough, got medical degrees from overseas. Basically, they bought their med degree from a russian or whatever barely legal university. They bounce around american hospitals for a few years as a resident until the great big sucking vacuum cleaner of diversity looks the other way and hires them.

and let's not get started on who are nurses now.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:33 PM (FOPyv)

279 While I have no doubt Israel does spy on us, because all nations spy on each other. I also have no doubt that whatever group Mueller is persecuting will coincidentally be idealogically aligned with Bibi rather than say Haaretz.

Obama wouldn't have it any other way. Or did the left forget when Obama tried to collude and interfere for real in their elections?

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at June 05, 2018 06:33 PM (+O40h)

280 I hope it helps my son. He is going to be laid off on June 21

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 05, 2018 06:34 PM (jn7FC)

281 201 House of Bourbon
Posted by: Bard Men at June 05, 2018 06:17 PM

Go on...
Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:18 PM (lFBwl)

D'accord!

Posted by: Louis XVIII 'The Desired' at June 05, 2018 06:34 PM (E/U1b)

282
This story is crazy, another con woman running for congress:

https://tinyurl.com/ ydh3xrz5

Take out the space before the y. Minnesota Peeps pass this around.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 05, 2018 06:34 PM (r+sAi)

283 I haven't read the article, but if it's to the WSJ, then this will be them blowing the trumpet for more immigration, legal or otherwise (but hopefully illegal because that drives down wages the fastest and the mostest), to correct this imbalance of labor.

=

yes, good point

Posted by: runner at June 05, 2018 06:34 PM (bUjCl)

284 Double OT

Been away all day. Are we doing Eagles and WH thing? Wild-a**ed guess based on very little: moar winning.

Iran announces a "new centrifuge assembly center at the Natanz nuclear site". Pro tip: do NOT volunteer for the graveyard shift at the Natanz nuclear site. Trust me on this.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:34 PM (QDnY+)

285 ["CEO of Microsoft... President of Google...

Both and raised in India...

Enlightening..."]

You left out the anti-American CEO of Pepsi.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:34 PM (vbAL5)

286 Fuck you. At least I had a job!

Posted by: zombie Soy-Basket-Weaving Etruscan Lesbian at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (Evws/)

287 [|272 I wish Trump would crack down on H1-B abuse
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM

Same here. It's almost worse than someone willing to pick lettuce. |]

the problem is, USA's immigration laws are written and enforced by traitors.

a sane nation would have a guest worker program with no welfare and no anchor babies and keep track of them.

instead, we get 11 million illegals...right? It's still 11 million, right? No change since 2001.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (FOPyv)

288 They've never worked a day in their lives. Zero experience in retail, fast food, and the other starter jobs teenagers used to do that are all done by illegals now. Heck, they probably never had a lemonade stand, a paper route, mowed lawns, or babysat, either. They don't have to work their way through college, either, because the Feds pick up the tab.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (2NqXo)

Some of those jobs would get your kids taken away and you thrown in jail.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (dKiJG)

289 Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:29 PM (7UW64)
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I've known about a hundred architects. You're only the second one I've encountered who wasn't a raging leftist. I don't know what it is with that industry.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (UiRxW)

I tried to be an architect, and worked really hard at it my first year in college. It was so hard and I don't the the brain for it. I truly admire anyone who can do it. I had to settle for law school.

Posted by: LASue at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (Z48ZB)

290 They've never worked a day in their lives. Zero experience in retail, fast food, and the other starter jobs teenagers used to do that are all done by illegals now. Heck, they probably never had a lemonade stand, a paper route, mowed lawns, or babysat, either. They don't have to work their way through college, either, because the Feds pick up the tab.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM

Yep. That's why my kids are handed nothing. I think everyone should work a shitty job like fast food etc. Then decide if it's the station you want to be at the rest of your life. I worked some really shitty jobs when I was young. All of them taught me to be better, work harder and get ahead so I wasn't stuck in said shitty job.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (lFBwl)

291 Jane, have hubby call me! I can pass a piss test like nobody's business!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM

Now this is interesting...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (0tfLf)

292 One other thing, e-Verify is a law yet completely ignored and unenforced. It's there to be used now so why isn't it?

Posted by: Decaf at June 05, 2018 06:31 PM (/3+Sg)

....

I'm not so sure of that.

The Paula Deen's restaurant in our area recently fired about a dozen illegals when the government returned a finding on them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (VwIFX)

293 people are realizing that tats don't age well, especially when that tat that was once cool isn't any longer.
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Yeah. Unless it's a military unit or street-gang insignia, nobody looks edgy and badass with a tattoo at 60.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (UiRxW)

294 So what's up with the new Space Wars movie? Blockbuster? Flop?

Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (MVjcR)

295 "My parents in the 1970's were amongst a group that could have a middle income job with one providor and a nice home. "

hmmm, what was different back then?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (FOPyv)

296 We are having a heck of a time trying to recruit engineering graduates; the smart ones want to be in Texas and we get stuck with the lazy CA millennial.

Posted by: IC at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (a0IVu)

297 Charles Payne just reported that employers are so desperate for employees, they're foregoing background checks and drug testing.

I'm sure that'll work out well....

Posted by: Tami at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (Enq6K)

298 rickb223, you misread what I said. McConnell
*cancelling* recess, in his words, to force action on urgent business
(which damn well better include whole slates of Trump appointees).

So, no, of course no recess appointments, cuz, no recess.

Which puts incumbents Dems who are vulnerable (quite a few, beyond
the 4 or 5 one always hears about) need to choose between campaigning,
or staying in DC and (for many of them) walking the plank on Dem
positions that are unpopular back home.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:25 PM

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Yep especially those extremely vulnerable Red State dems who don't dare vote against Trumps picks in an election year.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (+Dllb)

299 By 2020, All McDonald's will be equipped with ordering kiosks

https://tinyurl.com/yco5xnkv

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (jn7FC)

300 276 My parents in the 1970's were amongst a group that could have a middle income job with one providor and a nice home.

Well, what you say is basically true about the dollar's power being lower but there are other factors.

In the 1970s nobody felt like they had to get 3 8-dollar coffees a day to work. Nobody had a cell phone plan to pay for. Nobody had a 200 dollar cable/internet bill every month. We've heaped expenses on ourselves voluntarily that they never had to or would consider paying. And that eats up the income pretty steadily.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:33 PM (39g3+)

Both your and Pickles' comments are correct.

Posted by: rickl at June 05, 2018 06:37 PM (sdi6R)

301 Night shift is the absolute best. Leave when the boss comes in AND get paid more per hour? Yes, please.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 05, 2018 06:00 PM

No rush hour to contend with, either.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 05, 2018 06:37 PM (2NqXo)

302 Yep. That's why my kids are handed nothing. I think
everyone should work a shitty job like fast food etc. Then decide if
it's the station you want to be at the rest of your life. I worked some
really shitty jobs when I was young. All of them taught me to be better,
work harder and get ahead so I wasn't stuck in said shitty job.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:35 PM (lFBwl)
Amen!

Posted by: IC at June 05, 2018 06:37 PM (a0IVu)

303
In the 1970s nobody felt like they had to get 3 8-dollar coffees a day to work. Nobody had a cell phone plan to pay for. Nobody had a 200 dollar cable/internet bill every month. We've heaped expenses on ourselves voluntarily that they never had to or would consider paying. And that eats up the income pretty steadily.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 06:33 PM (39g3+)

I remember when cable first started to get big and my father saying who the hell pays that kind of money to watch TV.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (10vO4)

304 I've known about a hundred architects. You're only the second one I've encountered who wasn't a raging leftist. I don't know what it is with that industry.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (UiRxW)

I've known enough architects to realize that the ones who think they are God's gift to world are raging leftists, but if they can sell their particular brand of bullshit, they get on just fine.

I also have known enough of us to know that those are NOT the folks doing the actual work.

It isn't all pretty watercolors and crazy jargon. At some point, you have to produce product. That's what the rest of us do. And we aren't the flakes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (7UW64)

305 I replied that that might have flown for the British upper class who lived in manors, and who would never have to work in their lives, but everyone else, nowadays, has to develop marketable skills, and do the cultural enrichment thing on their own time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (vbAL5)

This Guevera guy needs a dang newsletter.

Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

306 Nood, Tingles.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (xQfPr)

307 By 2020, All McDonald's will be equipped with ordering kiosks

https://tinyurl.com/yco5xnkv
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (jn7FC)
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By 2026, Medicare will be bankrupt.

Posted by: Axeman at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (vDqXW)

308 NOOD

Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

309 293. My mother has a cool one. She calls iy her 'chest-piece, ' as the young lady at the parlor told her it was called.
Bold Arial typeface, it reads ' DO NOT RESUSCITATE.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 05, 2018 06:39 PM (/TdOk)

310 Pretty convoluted, and a whole genre of its own, but the Awan/House IT/Wassershultz/likely massive intel scandal continues to look verrry squirrelly.

Luke Rosiak on the twatters seems to be the only one following it seriously, and his revelations of tidbits along the way point to an outrageous cover-up still going on, with DOJ connivance. "Point", don't prove.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 05, 2018 06:39 PM (QDnY+)

311 294 So what's up with the new Space Wars movie? Blockbuster? Flop?
Posted by: Weasel at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (MVjcR)

Flopbuster.

Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:39 PM (+lOpA)

312 nood?
is it about Soy Wars?

Posted by: Hands at June 05, 2018 06:40 PM (EzdLW)

313 My parents in the 1970's were amongst a group that could have a middle income job with one providor and a nice home.

This is impossible today. The purchasing power of the dollar has been destroyed.

Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:30 PM (z4k8L)

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I'd say there's a one-two punch going on.

Dollar buys you less now than then, PLUS there are so many other "must-have" monthly utility bills (Internet access, cellular, monitored home security) that didn't exist back then.

We cut corners wherever we can. One car paid off, still needs maintenance, cut the cable TV cord, but you still need Internet, nipped and tucked on the cell service where possible.

Posted by: reason at June 05, 2018 06:40 PM (l2max)

314 Yep. That's why my kids are handed nothing. I think
everyone should work a shitty job like fast food etc. Then decide if
it's the station you want to be at the rest of your life. I worked some
really shitty jobs when I was young. All of them taught me to be better,
work harder and get ahead so I wasn't stuck in said shitty job.

Posted by: Minnfidel

Mow lawns. Shovel snow off sidewalks. Bale hay. Sling molds & slip in a ceramics factory. Fill coke machines.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:41 PM (nMj2X)

315 305 I replied that that might have flown for the British upper class who lived in manors, and who would never have to work in their lives, but everyone else, nowadays, has to develop marketable skills, and do the cultural enrichment thing on their own time.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:32 PM (vbAL5)

This Guevera guy needs a dang newsletter.
Posted by: eleven at June 05, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

Thank you. Needless to say, the arts types did not appreciate my viewpoint.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:42 PM (vbAL5)

316 Mow lawns. Shovel snow off sidewalks. Bale hay. Sling molds & slip in a ceramics factory. Fill coke machines.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 05, 2018 06:41 PM

Funny. I did all those except the ceramics factory. I worked in restaurants as a dishwasher, that was fun.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 05, 2018 06:43 PM (lFBwl)

317 Companies should be pointing the finger at those in HR in charge of the hiring. Kick out the commies/feminists/SJWs and their employees that they hire will improve.
Posted by: Pickles at June 05, 2018 06:05 PM (z4k8L)

The place where I work doesn't rely on the HR drones to make hiring decisions. Program managers and engineers (such as myself) interview candidates. HR pretty much keeps the paperwork straight around here. Hence, we hire good people that usually hit the ground running.

Contrast that to a place that I contacted during a job fair right after I got my engineering degree. This was for a company that manufactures seats for Honda and does crash testing on them. Tell the HR drone that I have a pretty unique skill set (traffic crash reconstruction as a police officer for 8 years) that would be very useful to them. She looks at my resume and says, "You don't have any real world experience." I reply that she doesn't know what she's talking about because I'm certain I have more experience than any engineer at her firm in dealing with uncontrolled collisions; snatch my resume out of her hand and walk away. It ultimately worked out but it really frosted me at the time.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:44 PM (5Yee7)

318 299 By 2020, All McDonald's will be equipped with ordering kiosks

https://tinyurl.com/yco5xnkv
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 05, 2018 06:36 PM (jn7FC)

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The one I tried at McDonalds worked flawlessly. I'm OT sure why they are waiting so long.

Posted by: MAGA at June 05, 2018 06:45 PM (LnOh3)

319 225 I'm still 2 threads back trying to compose a limerick
Posted by: Tuna at June 05, 2018 06:20 PM

Thats why I am impressed what Muldoon does
Posted by: Skip at June 05, 2018 06:23 PM (pHfeF)

There once was a man from Dallas
Who sported an exceptionally large ... callus
When chasin' the Wimminz
Much to his chagrine-ins
It wasn't a plus ... but a malus.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 05, 2018 06:46 PM (Gzt/W)

320 In the 1970s nobody felt like they had to get 3 8-dollar coffees a day to work.
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I still can't except as an occasional treat. For my mother, it darn near causes physical distress to order a $3.50 java.

When I go home to visit I like to get a cuppa joe at a hipster joint where the bearded barista pours the coffee through what I think is a multiphase interoseter. At first I took her along so we could enjoy some brew and chat, but now I like to do it because it's fun to watch Mom squirm in agony at the prices and rococo combinations. Because I'm a bad person.

"Can I just get a regular cup of plain coffee?!"

"That will be four dollars, ma'am."

*spasms*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 05, 2018 06:46 PM (JxMDl)

321 Dollar buys you less now than then, PLUS there are so many other "must-have" monthly utility bills (Internet access, cellular, monitored home security) that didn't exist back then.

We cut corners wherever we can. One car paid off, still needs maintenance, cut the cable TV cord, but you still need Internet, nipped and tucked on the cell service where possible.
Posted by: reason at June 05, 2018 06:40 PM (l2max)

I'm stunned by people who have to have the last Apple phone (at what, $700 a pop?) and the fastest unlimited cell phone programs (at what, maybe $200 a month?), and of course premium cable (maybe another $200 a month?), slug down $8 coffees a couple times a day, have late model cars (bought new, to be paid over 500 months or something), and max out their credit cards, only paying the minimum each month.

Then they can't figure out why they're broke. It's a mystery.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 05, 2018 06:47 PM (vbAL5)

322 NOOD - Chris Matthews criticizes donks

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 05, 2018 06:48 PM (5Yee7)

323 Yeah. Unless it's a military unit or street-gang insignia, nobody looks edgy and badass with a tattoo at 60.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Hair up on the back of your neck confidence when stopped by a cop with sleeve tats.

Posted by: gNewt at June 05, 2018 06:49 PM (dJdQf)

324 268 Government financial aid is basically a taxpayer subsidy of Marxist professors and SJW courses. Eliminate it, and the problem will fix itself.

Government is who we choose to subsidize together.

Posted by: Stuff Wossname Said at June 05, 2018 06:54 PM (NmR1a)

325
Yeah. Unless it's a military unit or street-gang insignia, nobody looks edgy and badass with a tattoo at 60.

But on the bright side, "Guess What That Tattoo Used To Be Night" at the retirement home should be a hoot.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 05, 2018 06:59 PM (HaL55)

326 @127

This enrages me.

This was not some twitter or social media clusterfuck, what she said was said in a private metting with the communications team and was leaked by someone in that meeting.

This rewards the leaker.

This sucks.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 05, 2018 07:05 PM (UfMVm)

327 How do you hire a respectable looking person when they all have piercings, gauges, and tats everywhere?

And how the heck do they afford all that?? They aren't cheap. Who
the heck is throwing them cash to buy a new eagle tattoo on their dong?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 05, 2018 05:57 PM (39g3+)

What kind of job interview turns up such oddities?

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 05, 2018 07:18 PM (iTpm7)

328 I had (and have) a worthless nephew. My sister put him through NYU with a fine arts degree. He came back home to California and wasn't much interested in working--the jobs he was offered bellhop in a San Francisco hotel, assistant manager at a Kinko's copy place (he did work at that for a while) were, in his mother's opinion "beneath him". Now for the last five years or so he's been sponging off girlfriend on the East Coast. He was married for a while, had a son who's about halfway through college now.

But basically the little jerk (who will hit 50 this year) hasn't really been active in the work force for most of his life. To some extent I suppose growing up in the San Francisco Bay area with a sense of entitlement made him not worth a flying meadow muffin. But boy is he a fan of progressive politics!

Posted by: Comanche Voter at June 05, 2018 07:29 PM (Sda6L)

329 Back in late 90's (1990s), the IT job market was booming. You quit your job on Friday and have a higher paying job by Tuesday. Man those were the days! Of course you actually had to have some amount of IT skill, but not much.

Posted by: Zogger at June 05, 2018 07:29 PM (SKahJ)

330 The way things are going, we're going to have to increase immigration.

Posted by: Bob at June 05, 2018 08:13 PM (3n/RG)

331 I don't think so... Start looking for a job and, after a while, you'll definitely find something - https://resume101.org/

Posted by: Milla at June 28, 2018 07:33 AM (iYu5M)

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