Thread: Unemployment, and your thoughts on this

Quote: Originally Posted by pippee_pl money has no conscience. I think as a society we need to look at what we really need and what we desire. A cell phone, internet, car or ipod is not a right- it is a privledge ---for those who have earned it. Priority needs to be put back on to things like the environment and healthy living--does walmart have any "green living" incentives? Why do people feel as though they need to have...

Quote: Originally Posted by jimzmum What is with the "they" again? Not all people are unwilling to work for minimum wage. Not all people are "they" already. Not all teens are unwilling to work for minimum wage. Not all teens are "they" already. I hope we can stop with it. Sweeping generalizations are really not necessary. I thought we had gotten ourselves all lathered about it.

Quote: Originally Posted by 127becca Jimzmum - I went back trying to find what you were referring to about the "they"......and wasn't seeing it, sorry for the mis-assumption.... No problem! It's the weekend.

Jimzmum - I went back trying to find what you were referring to about the "they"......and wasn't seeing it, sorry for the mis-assumption....

Quote: What example are they seeing in their home life to instill a strong work ethic And on the other hand, I know a couple of kids who had a home life with a strong work ethic and now prefer to do as little as possible. Sometimes not having a teacher pushes you to teach yourself.

Okay, to try to bring it back around a little... Consumers buying cheaper is a related topic, but it isn't exactly where I was going with this one. Corporations hiring cheaper is more like it--not just cheaper wages, like Walmart OR many small businesses pay (it's not necessarily true that you make more at the local shoe store or sandwich shop than at Walmart or Subway, and it is probably true that you will pay more to shop at the...

Quote: Originally Posted by jimzmum I think it is the chain bookstores (Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc.) that hurt the locally owned stores. Why do you blame chain stores and not amazon? Often Amazon is even cheaper than Barnes and Noble.

Quote: Originally Posted by chickypea Also in many places, full time employees at Walmart are entitled to food stamps. Jeez, put in an honest week's labor, and still needing public assistance- that is repugnant! Exactly. Which is another reason your point about WalMart is such an important one. Americans decry "sending jobs overseas" yet they enable both that and the impoverishment of working people at the same time --...

Quote: Originally Posted by chickypea Nerak...where do you live, Podunk? Yeppers. Rural South Dakota. Which is redundant. Every place in South dakota is rural. Unless you Count Sioux Falls. Which isn't really even a city. It has less than 200,000 people. And is the biggest city in our state.

I write technical documentation. If you ever had to deal with one of those off-shore technical assistance concerns , you just KNOW that none of them are going to get MY job!