Everyone knows the economy is in the crapper. A lot of companies are having no choice but to down size. I work for a plumbing company that employed at least twenty some employees back in May of 2007 and currently has had to cut back to seven employees. We expected to see it get slow but never thought we would have to lay off employees that have been working for the company since they opened the doors in 1997. We get at least twenty or so calls a week from plumbers seeing if there are any job openings.
With people getting laid off left and right, and not being able to find a job they have to choice but to file for unemployment. I never thought I would have to get put on unemployment but with the way things are looking and it seems impossible for me to be able to find another job I too will be another person on unemployment. Though I would rather work, it seems like it is only going to get worse before it will start getting better. Someone very close to me is on unemployment and they are really feeling down and depressed because they have nothing to do and haven’t found a job(s) that can pay for all the bills and expenses they have. I hope that everyone will soon realize that this is not a time to slake off at your job or to quit your job because it make take you a good portion of your time to find another job.
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I recently had a research about rising unemployment and heard Obama said economy would not recover, meaning the recession would continue until 2010 before it begins to get any better. Although the official unemployment rate is 8.5%, the "real" unemployment has reached up to 15.6%, counting the women who had to decide to leave the market after having hard times competing with male co-workers for their positions, those who got exhausted finding jobs, and those who had to be forced into part-time with no additional incentives, but with cutdown salaries. For every job out there, more than four people are competing for it, according to Catherine Holahan from MSN Money. My best friend who had just graduated from 4-yr college with financial economics major has filed applications to many different jobs, but now she is helping her dad's shop, considering going back to her homecountry to get a job teaching English. Although living in these economic conditions got to be hard for anyone, I think until the economy gets better the best and only things we can do are to think positively and keep filing applications to numerous different companies -- not just several. I have read the blog talking about unemployment recently and one person had wrote that he finally succeeded getting a job after filing over 500 applications. I know it may sound ridiculous, but his experience tells that getting a job may not be totally "impossible." If you work on seeking a job as if you are still on the shift, you can be one of the lucky people who won competing. :D
ReplyDeleteI’m sure I’m not the only one that is often confused by the actions or lack thereof by the government. I don’t see why the government doesn’t require companies to hire the outsourced work that could be done here to actually take place here. One example would be phone services. More often than not now a day the people on the other end of that telemarketing call are in another country. Why not require all of those companies to hire people from that increasing unemployment list. The government could also require better severance packages for those companies, big and small, that need to let go of employees. While on that pathway, they could also limit unemployment to not take place until that severance has or is going to end. That money from unemployment should be given to those who are truly trying to find a job.
ReplyDeleteI had a friend that was laid off from her job last year. She spent 10 months on unemployment not making any real attempts to get a job. For six of those ten months she was also receiving a decent severance check. She spent her time taking short trips and catching up on her tan. It royally pissed me off that all she had to do tell them that she was filling out applications and they checked her off for a couple more weeks.
There are too many hard working people out there right now that deserve to earn unemployment money while others just deserve to be smacked. My friend is one of those that deserves the smack.
I have been working part-time at two different jobs and with the latest recession I have seen cutbacks up close. It’s a sad thing to be working with someone that you know and grow to working unit, get cut from the rest of the team. I think we need to rally support for our new president, no matter what your politics may be. He is trying to make things better with a situation that was created before he got into office. With so many issues on the table it will be a hard enough task for anyone to effectively cause a miracle overnight. I think people at this time should come together to help and support one another. A lot of people faced difficulties in the past couple of months with home foreclosures, loss of jobs, etc. You hear every week in the news of one business or another laying off x-amount of employees. Let’s be there for one another.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a statement made in the report that forn several years, manufacturing continued to be among the weakest sectors, cutting a total of 34,000 workers in the past month. The unployment rate is rapidly increasing. People are lossing their jobs everyday,due to the high economic. Companies are laying people, before the companies are running out of business. my sister used to work at one of the hotel, had just lose her job because of some stupid reason. Her boss said that he found pills under the bed of one of the room she clean, so he blamed her for not cleaning the room properly.
ReplyDeleteUnemployment is one of the major problems we have in this economic crisis. Employers are cutting jobs because there is no business in todays market. We are going through tough times today but the rain will stop and the sun will shine again. Our economic will get better once more and employment will rise once again. There will once more be lots of jobs everywhere and everyone will be happy once more.
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