Oct 25 2008
Don’t ya just love it?
Unemployed or is it underemployed, seems to me America is seeing its share of hard times. I have had the distinct pleasure of ‘hunting’ a job a few times in my life.
But now it’s a whole new ballgame, resumes and cover letters, thank you cards and call backs. Gone are the days of a hand shake and off to break your back; now employers want you to spend money to impress them.
Who are they kidding? I’m supposed to send a thank you note for ignoring me for 20 minutes, no thanks! I visited one large local manufacturing facility the other day, there were several people filling out applications and two people in the office. I filled out the paper work and after 30 minutes finally had to ask “what’s next?”
I answered that one myself, several days of phone tag followed by several unreturned phone calls later.
Another nameless company indeed needed employees, seems not very badly, the person who is supposed to call me to fill out the application (I hadn’t even made it that far) forgot to call.
Do they run their companies the same way? Maybe they wonder why profits are down and that client never called back…
I sat in a fast indigestion joint 45 minutes one night, trying to get a number one, yup a real tough one to remember. Instead I got a talk with the manager, seems I had been hiding in plain sight and they missed my order… since I saw many number ones go out the drive through with my own eyes I took my four bucks and went home hungry!
Actually I had to wait ten more minutes for the same manager to refund what I had already paid, it seems you can only become invisible after you pay. Pretty sad, the ‘high paid counter help’ and their ‘high tech registers’, with pictures where the keys should be…
Truth be told, how can someone six foot five, head and shoulders above the crowd be invisible? I know what you’re thinkin, nope I was smilin’, I enjoy watching people do ignorant things. I didn’t even bat an eye when she told me how busy they were. ”they’ being one severly overworked young lady with five other employees watching to be sure she got it right.
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2008-10-24
Thomas H. Forthe
