Thank you, all you wonderful folks !!!
Could you all pray the same thing for me for SATURDAY ???
Today was okay. I made up for the deficit of the past few days, saved
my $125 commission from last Sunday thereby, and made about $40 commission today.
If I can make $50 or $75 tomorrow, it will have been a decent week.
You guys are terrific.
Lilsheep, I’m 51. I sent my resume out to many people, without even an AUTOMATED
acknowledgement of receipt of it. It is a very GOOD resume, too.
But they can see I’m 51, with 22 years professional office experience, and today’s employers, though ungodly wealthy most of them (yes, even in this recession), take one look at that resume and go, we don’t want this, we want an $8.00 an hour “girl” who will make our coffee, vacuum our floors, work like a dog, and has a tight fanny and big breasts. Seriously, I really believe that. AND, to work like a dog for a mere $8.00 an hour (about $250 take home a week after taxes), they have the CHUTZPAH to demand a 4 YEAR COLLEGE DEGREE!!!
In this economy, I dare not quit this job to go job-hunting. I’m still looking, but outside of retail (where the sales floor pay is criminally low since the companies themselves BRAG that they are raking in BILLIONS annually in PROFITS, not income, but NET PROFITS),
no one is really hiring still.
The 8.3% unemployment figure is a government and media falsehood designed to get our Current Prez reelected. It is totally false. What happened is, from that over 12% figure, millions were on extended unemployment compensation, which has since run completely OUT, so those millions whose benefits ran out were dropped from the unemployment numbers (though they are STILL without work),and, PRESTO!!! unemployment has “dropped” to 8.3% with “millions of new jobs ((allegedly!!!)) added”. I’m in the workforce, and let me tell you: what a crock. Wonder why? Ask the rich folks, whom Prez Bush II gave HUGE TAX BREAKS (which are STILL in force, by the way) so that they would create MORE AMERICAN JOBS. They didn’t. They OUTSOURCED nearly ALL manufacturing and service jobs, taking away tens of millions of good paying American jobs. EVERYTHING you buy today, read the box, is MADE IN CHINA. That’s absolutely intentional and was well-planned for YEARS. To fix a CASH REGISTER in my store, I no longer call my local I.T. team that works for our ((BILLIONS IN NET PROFIT A YEAR)) company, no, I have to call “our” tech service number, which is answered in INDIA by someone whose accent I can barely understand. They are paid 1/16th what an American worker would RIGHTLY be paid and USED TO BE PAID, and thanks to the Bush Tax Cuts on the Wealthy and the Corporations, SHOULD ALL STILL BE DOING AND GETTING PAID THAT MUCH TO DO. Instead, these jobs were, 90% of them, sent overseas where the workers are paid a slave-labor wage by comparison. And the tax breaks? Right into the fatcats’s pockets, who whine and holler every time the minimum wage (which is NOT a living wage amount) goes up, or a rise in it is even floated for debate.
