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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 25, 2019 9:50:50 GMT -5
I worked as an attorney for a judge in a mortgage foreclosure courtroom for 5 years in Chicago. At its peak we had in excess of 100,000 open foreclosure cases. Even in 2017 we still had 20-30 thousand. You see a lot of people on their worst days in a job like that, and I have no doubt that there are that many people in bad situations.
And once you get kicked down, the kicks just seem to keep coming.
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Post by Dub H on Apr 25, 2019 9:54:18 GMT -5
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Post by Malcolm on Apr 25, 2019 10:03:38 GMT -5
I'm baffled that some people still don't understand this. It's one thing to have job openings, it's another for the people looking for work to have the required qualifications. It's a problem over here in France as well; in fact, it might be even worse considering how obsessed with diplomas we are, yet companies value the diplomas they require less and less and keep asking for more. The other big part of the problem is that said companies usually require X amount of years of experience in a field, which immediately disqualifies thousands even if they do have all the qualifications. So people are trying to find jobs, even low-paying ones, to gain experience, but they can't because they need experience to get these jobs. Another thing to keep in mind is turnover. Modern industries are incapable of thinking on anything but short-term. As a result, it's almost impossible to find indefinite duration employment and when you do, companies will do everything in their power to make you quit, and won't hesitate to resort to psychological harassment. This means that jobs last, what? 2-3 years tops? And typically less than a year (in my company alone, I think I can count the number of colleagues whom are still there form when I started on my fingers). So yeah, there's technically a lot of jobs open at any given time, but that's not new jobs, let alone new career opportunities, it's the same garbage health-ruining, social life-destroying, minimum-wage jobs being refilled and put back on the market over, and over, and over, and over again. And of course, due to this cycle, it's also the same people ending up unemployed over and over again. They've basically created a system where all work is interim work but they get to say it's not. Oh and make no mistake, in spite of there being job openings, companies still make sure to hire as little as possible. There's a reason why no service company ever seems to have enough people on staff to actually accommodate the amount of customers, and why said staff looks constantly overworked (subtle hint: it's because they are). If a company needs 10 employees, you can be sure they'll hire two tops. Or they'll push other employees out. And yeah, as I just alluded to, finding a job doesn't mean finding a career opportunity. Since major companies now refuse to promote actual workers to management positions and would rather have people who have no idea what they're talking about (but they sure have diplomas saying that they're the best at everything forever, as validated by people who know even less what they're talking about) come form outside and tell people who have been working for years how to do their job. Again, this just further encourages to quit. After all, if your company just makes you miserable, doesn't pay for shit and it's being made clear that the sacrifices you've made will at leats pay off eventually, then why stay? So yes, there are that many unemployed people at any given time, though most of them just keep cycling between periods of work and unemployment, which is even more f'ed up since it highlights the broken state of modern capitalism, where the lowest people on the ladder are kept in a constant state of financial and social insecurity, all so the greediest, most exploitative elements of society can make an extra quick buck and never have to give anything back, even if it means the inevitable fall of their companies. But who cares because the people running these companies have their golden parachutes and are taking no personal risks? They get rewarded for destroying their companies through sheer greed and incompetence and destroying thousands of jobs in the process! This is how big companies think, nowadays: everyone owes them everything they want, and they are owed it NOW. Meanwhile, they don't owe anyone anything, and paying someone means buying them. I remember getting into an argument over this with some asshole on a bus when trying to say that getting a decent job isn't all that easy and that it's really hard for some people to escape poverty. Especially here in Vegas where some job require certain licenses and cards which cost money.
He just called these "excuses".
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