The continued dip in the stock market today wasn’t blamed on the sub-prime mortgage lending crisis or the escalating price of a barrel of oil Today’s stock market nemesis is the rising rate of unemployment in the United States. If somebody doesn’t pay attention and quickly we will be on some third world country shit where people are ferried around the places in taxicab bicycles.
Oh.
The shit I am finding interesting is how many people are reportedly not even showing up for job interviews. WTF?!? That ain’t cool, unless you are really rich and your job interview is at some philanthropy organization you established in order to give away your money. That makes no sense right? Well that’s my point.
Employers increasingly jilted by job seekers
One of the biggest reasons I can imagine for people to juke a job interview is because the position being offered is straight up trash. But even then I wonder why people applied in the first place? Do unemployment benefits remain available for people that only schedule job interviews? It’s difficult for me to take a stand and bitch about corporate greed and outsourcing when more Americans are blowing off the initial stage of the hiring process.
I think companies need to review their benefit packages in order to make their businesses more attractive to people who might otherwise just stay in the parent’s basements. Consider some of these provisions…
^”Casual Mondays – flip flops and sweatpants are all good
24-hr Cable TV Feeds – I’m predicting tremendous productivity during the commercial breaks
3-Day Work Week – Send them home after 72 straight hours because they stink like ass
Free McDonald’s Lunch – No lunch for you if you work at McDonald’s
Nude Fridays – What is more casual than nothing at all?”
Co-sign on all the above my dude.
Extended lunch time so you can run all of your personal errands?
Cause I need to go to the bank, hit the dentist and pick up my dry cleaning right now….DAMN WORK.
I’ve been working on and off now for about eight months and there comes a point, an incredibly low ebb, when you just apply for any sort of position, not because you care for that kind of work – you may be overqualified, as is this the case for many – but rather for just a self esteem boost.
Hearing middle managers asking you out to an interview can be a real confidence boost.
Plus, applying for jobs is so easy; you register for a job board/website and set up an automatic search agent to your preferences. After a week or so you have ten or twelve matches and say you apply to all, you may, as in my case, receive five or six callbacks. What do you do? Obviously, turn up to the highest paying job/s and forget about the rest.
Well that’s what I do, but I’ve been working on and off for eight months now.
And there comes a point when….
Dallas, if and when you own your own business that requires an office staff…
I’m applying to work for you.
BIG OL’ YES TO CASUAL MONDAYS.
I think that makes more sense than a casual Friday, come to think of it.
If McDallas’ offers affirmative action hiring then my lilly ass is ready for a name tag and visor.
dallas always come with the heat. We need your $.02 on the Vivica jumpoff though
The reason for the downturn in the economy is simple. George Bush’s policies of keeping wealth to the wealthy, the poor at war, and everyone in between in the shitter. Look no further than your beloved Republican brethren, Mr. Penn.