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reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 08:22 AM by havok
reply to post by Nucleardiver


Very nice!
Jobs are hard to come by these days.


But Randy, I do appreciate your threads and this one especially hits me.
You need to outline your situation accordingly and find a better solution.
Relocate if need be! Find a job and move to a better location.
I know it's easier said than done, but it may be what is needed.
In this day and age, we must do what we have to in order to survive.

There are ways to recover from most situations, the only thing needed is a strong mind.
You can overcome any obstacle in your path, no questions asked.
Just put all worries aside and take care of you! (and those you love of course)

We are human beings.
And humans are resilient...able to bounce back from the hardest hits.


I know you and yours are especially so.
Keep your head up.
Better things will come your way.


I'm with My.mind. too...anything you need man I'll help with.
Be it a bill, late payment, etc...I can paypal anything to help.

DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK. I'm serious.
U2U me if need be.
No problem at all.







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reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 08:32 AM by LittleBlackEagle
very thought provoking article i read last night and it really ties in with what you wrote OP.

for anyone interested it can be found here. www.zerohedge.com...

Are You Seeing What I'm Seeing?

Is it just me, or are the signs of consumer collapse as clear as a Lowes parking lot on a Saturday afternoon? Sometimes I wonder if I’m just seeing the world through my pessimistic lens, skewing my point of view. My daily commute through West Philadelphia is not very enlightening, as the squalor, filth and lack of legal commerce remain consistent from year to year. This community is sustained by taxpayer subsidized low income housing, taxpayer subsidized food stamps, welfare payments, and illegal drug dealing. The dependency attitude, lifestyles of slothfulness and total lack of commerce has remained constant for decades in West Philly. It is on the weekends, cruising around a once thriving suburbia, where you perceive the persistent deterioration and decay of our debt fixated consumer spending based society.


that is just a snippet of the beginning so give it a read because although it's sobering at least it's real and true.

The powers that be are desperately attempting to keep this unsustainable, dysfunctional debt choked scheme from disintegrating by doling out more subprime auto debt, subprime student loan debt, low down payment mortgages, and good old credit card debt. It won’t work. The consumer is tapped out. Last week’s horrific retail sales report for August confirmed this fact. Declining household income and rising costs for energy, food, clothing, tuition, taxes, health insurance, and the other things needed to survive in the real world, have broken the spirit of Middle America. The protracted implosion of our consumer society has only just begun. There are thousands of retail outlets to be closed, hundreds of thousands of jobs to be eliminated, thousands of malls to be demolished, and billions of loan losses to be incurred by the criminal Wall Street banks.


that part hit home the most for me and i can honestly say i have seen and felt the very same thing the author of this article has so well put into words and facts no one can deny, just look around and you will see the truth in your neighborhood as well.


reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 09:22 AM by ExPostFacto
reply to post by MrWendal


Many employers will terminate someone to protect themselves from a potential liability or any other reasons. However, the employee themselves may be entirely innocent, but may have done something wrong without really knowing it. I'll give you one example I had:

As a manager I told an employee not to go to his lunch break until the other employee had come back from lunch. Before the other employee had returned from lunch, this particular employee went to the lunch room and waited for the exact moment the other employee was about to clock back in and was getting up to leave the lunch room. The time clock was right outside the lunch room. During this time I had no coverage for customers, as both employees were now at lunch or transitioning back from lunch. Later I reviewed the camera footage and saw both employees at the lunch room together. This employee that I told not to go to lunch until the other returned, advised me he did exactly as I instructed and did not clock out for lunch until the other employee had clocked in. Technically, he did as I asked. He did not go to lunch until the other employee returned from lunch. However, I decided that my instructions were pretty straight forward and this employee directly disobeyed. I sent that employee home for a suspension lasting the remainder of the day. I had no intention to fire this person. I felt like he was just a kid pushing the boundaries of his boss and I intended to set him straight. However, the boss above me wasn't so nice and altered his suspension to an immediate termination for insubordination.

Right off this kid now has a record of being insubordinate, all because some A-hole boss had a directive from corporate to scale back payroll. My boss above me saw an opportunity to slash expenses. The problem of course, is that this kid will probably have a very hard time finding jobs in the future.

Just because one company fires you for any reason does not mean that what you have done was all that bad. Hell I was fired once because I "wasn't a good fit" and now finding a job after that is extremely hard. Even though my firing was through no fault of my own and was a business decision.


reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 09:48 AM by AtcGod
reply to post by randyvs


A quick google search found a job for you in arkansas.


jonesboro.craigslist.org...

Good luck.


reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 10:07 AM by Sinny
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reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 10:55 AM by palg1
Originally posted by MDDoxs
What happened to the Amierican dream?

I am sorry your stuck in your position. I truly hate how it seems like the honest and hard working families are the first to get shafted.

I am sure everyone feels the strain from time to time, but when you work your butts off only to come home to find you are still at financial risk, makes you wonder why things are the way they are...

Why try at fix pointless situations abroad, when domestic issues are becoming ever more grave

Thanks for sharing. S+F


The American dream was sold to China so we all could get cheaper merchandise. Honestly, who could blame the corporate community for moving to where people are paid pennies on the dollar for the same work your factory workers were doing. While we were all chomping at the bit for better wages, our greed fueled their need for lower overhead. We litterally sold our jobs to the lowest bidders. The unions that helped us get the rightfully safer and fairer workplaces, are now just self serving entities that would rather shut down a plant than accept pay reductions. They are killing your once great nation and mine too.

But in the end we vote in our unions so in reality it is our own damned fault. We as a whole were just to greedy. If your old enough try to remember the days when our parents struggled for 375 dollars a month to feed a large family. Everyone worked hard and nobody really cried over a lack of a TV (I remember). We just played outside instead. Today our greed has made it a necessity to own a 52" Blueray everything and a Kindle to go with our Blackberries. Where is the day of simple pleasures we enjoyed then. This means we need more money which means we are willing to bankrupt the companies we work for to get it. How dare they want to make a profit!

We need to reflect on what we realy need to get along today. But no one I speak to is willing to give up their toys for more simple pleasure. Certainly not the spoiled children we endure then placate with new games every week. Time to say maybe we don't need to make 65 thousand a year to get by. Maybe we should all live within our means and not borrow so much that we need to be bailed out buy a bankrupt governement. Do I really need a 300thousand house whenwe know we can only aford the 100thousand dollar one 9 blocks away. Lets plant a community garden with your neibours, buy a used car, recycle as much as possible before throwing stuff away. Let's go back to the basics and rebuild a democratic, free market society where it's not about what you can get but about what we need.

But I digress. My gream of simpler times is but that. No one wants to here that they should give up anything to make it all work. (ironic isn't it)


reply posted on 18-9-2012 @ 10:57 AM by morethanyou
Originally posted by ezekielken
reply to post by randyvs


Sorry to hear that man! I am a single dad of three beautiful girls, the oldest is ten. I only have them half time, and though I am no angel, I would let mom be a weekend mom in a heartbeat. This would be a far better place for them to spend the majority of their time, the less mom to rub off on them the better. I am up in Canada here, am a struggling subcontractor. we just had a seven cent gas increase on a litre. thats about 30 cents on a gallon, about a five % increase in a day. milk is 4.50 a gallon and food seems to jump a bit every time i hit walmart. I wouldn't shop there if I didn't have to but I get the most bang for my buck there. Hang in there man, I feel for the working class in the states, you have definitely been done wrong by rampant corporatism. I see this happenoing in Canada sooner than later too. Hopefully there is a golden age around the corner, 2012, and there will be a global reset, and all the starving and sufferring and bloodshed will stop. Keep the peace and hold strong my brother, I will say a prayer of abundance for you and yours right now



Hang in there Randy, things will change soon. They have to.

Ken in Canada. - Save on Foods, first tuesday of the month. Thats when you NEED to buy your months worth of basic foods supply. ONLY augment with wall mart when you need milk or the off thing. SObeys has the best bread prices, get the four loaf bag for 5$

Just saying.
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