re: Unemployed Americans Endure Longer Job Searches in a Cooling Market

SBA is horseshite.

GSA wastes more money than any agency in history.

Ethical government procurement officials that aren't as dumb as a stick horse, and as lazy AF are rarer than hen's teeth.

Maybe have to get through it? Or allow those near the finish line to proceed? I don’t know. But to me it isn’t right to outsource to India, etc. when these are our jobs. To spend money and time earning engineering credentials here then companies outsourcing for pennies and now jobs aren’t available here is just wrong.

Skip college kids. It’s nothing more than a debt trap. Welders, Electricians, Plumbers and HVAC work is where it’s at.

Before the Reagan economy took off it took me from November graduation until late August to get any professional employment with a BS in Marketing. The starting pay was also terribly low and I had to relocate 100 miles away.

The long job search did have its own exciting moments though. Like the time my dad the purchasing manager for the entire Citgo corporation called early afternoon to come use the office to make more copies of my resume (everything was done on paper back then in ‘88-‘89 and the few with a home PC rarely had a printer)

Ended up in the IT office and when I popped my 3.5” hard disk in my DOS replaced the corporation mainframe DOS (my DOS was much newer). In seconds every line into IT was lit up flashing.

Every cash register and gas pump shutdown, a joint drilling venture in Russia shutdown, their refineries were scrambling to figure out what was happening, the corporate headquarters computers were unusable. Pretty much the entire company worldwide was shutdown.

The IT manager at one point looked over and stated the obvious, “I shouldn’t have put you on a network terminal “. He took the blame like a man though and never tried to throw me under the bus.

A couple of years later I was in Shreveport on the way to my grandparents and stopped at the Citgo station I grew up using and had to go in to pay. I was audibly chuckling remembering the incident and the clerk asked me why so I related the story. Turns out he was the clerk on duty when it happened and remembered having to lock up the station with a couple of people inside. Said it took about 10 minutes to fire back up.

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Plenty of high paying skilled blue collar jobs available

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No it ain’t… this the slowest we’ve ever been…

This year price of all building materials damn near doubled… the Amigos now charge damn near double…

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if you hired someone that needs that much supervision that’s a knock on your hiring standards.

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This is so true. If you need to babysit adults, either you're hiring some really immature people (and it's on you) or it's just an excuse to micro-manage those adults (which decreases job satisfaction).

I find I actually get less done around the office than I do at home, where I don't have coworkers coming to my office to chit chat and where I don't have to hear distracting small talk outside of my office.

WTH is all that corporate blather?


Did you read a buzzword handbook?

I will agree there is a lot of fuggin' off with WFH.

The party's over, though.

Just got an offer on Friday, 8/1, after being unemployed since January. Had never been unemployed since graduating college in 2004.

Boomers; a firm handshake and a smile will get you a job

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This is probably why my company felt comfortable to recently tell my division we're back to 4 days a week in the office, despite zero actual need to do so.

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Companies that are doing this are doing it for one of two reasons:

WFH led to lower productivity
Workforce reduction without layoffs