Laid-off workers eye the abyss

hoppeee late-Per day!:)

uh, she's had OVER A YEAR to figure out plan B.

more "truth in posting"

iria, you suck!

I guess hooker is out of the question...

carey529 wrote:

uh, she's had OVER A YEAR to figure out plan B.
more "truth in posting"
iria, you suck!

Your compassion is underwhelming.
There is no Plan B.
As long as you have yours. Right?

Where are the F-IN Jobs Obama?

She's had 38 years to work on "plan B". Had she put away only $10/week for the 'proverbial''rainy-day', she'd have a boat-load of money today. I feel sorry for her situation ... but maybe others reading this post can see the importance of preparing for their proverbial rainy-day, so they don't end up like her.

Duh wrote:

She's had 38 years to work on "plan B". Had she put away only $10/week for the 'proverbial''rainy-day', she'd have a boat-load of money today. I feel sorry for her situation ... but maybe others reading this post can see the importance of preparing for their proverbial rainy-day, so they don't end up like her.

Most people do not have the option of a rainy day fund they are living paycheck to pay check and become the endorsers of the Dems that are supposedly in their corner. I do agree that individual responsibility is the key to success but many fall through the cracks....

carey529 wrote:

uh, she's had OVER A YEAR to figure out plan B.
more "truth in posting"
iria, you suck!

Agreed! I know of a few people who are collecting unemployment comp. And riding it out for everything its worth while working under the table. Glad they were just an aquiantance. But people loose the will to work with all the extension! And some haven't worked as long as they've been collecting. Crazy!

The REAL question.... is what kind of skill does a "58-year-old divorcee" have that an employer would want to hire her for?

thingy wrote:

<quoted text>Your compassion is underwhelming.
There is no Plan B.
As long as you have yours. Right?

as underwhelming as your intelligence ... the article SAYS she has 3 weeks to come up with a plan B after losing her job in 2008 ....
uh, unless i'm mistaken, 2008 was LAST YEAR!
i have what i have because i DID come up with a plan B WHEN i lost my job, NOT 18 months later!@sshole!

Danny_Livewire wrote:

The REAL question.... is what kind of skill does a "58-year-old divorcee" have that an employer would want to hire her for?

why not ask her what she did BEFORE she lost her job ...
MAYBE she worked at GM!

There are no jobs. For most people plan B would be to go into another field, work part time, work for a lower wage. But even those jobs are not out there. I am nearing 8 months laid off myself. I did have money saved up. My house is almost paid off. I have no other loans. I have an education. I have a solid outstanding work history. BUT THERE ARE NO JOBS. This government has allowed outsourcing such that now for every crap job that opens there are 100,000 people applying for that one crap position.

GBA wrote:

There are no jobs. For most people plan B would be to go into another field, work part time, work for a lower wage. But even those jobs are not out there. I am nearing 8 months laid off myself. I did have money saved up. My house is almost paid off. I have no other loans. I have an education. I have a solid outstanding work history. BUT THERE ARE NO JOBS. This government has allowed outsourcing such that now for every crap job that opens there are 100,000 people applying for that one crap position.

The goverment created outsourcing by taxing and regualating the crap out of business. And the union demands finished them off.

Wheres all the stimulas jobs?? The banks wont loan business nothing.

carey529 wrote:

<quoted text>
as underwhelming as your intelligence ... the article SAYS she has 3 weeks to come up with a plan B after losing her job in 2008 ....
uh, unless i'm mistaken, 2008 was LAST YEAR!
i have what i have because i DID come up with a plan B WHEN i lost my job, NOT 18 months later!@sshole!

If you'd get your head out of your ass, you'd see that there are no jobs, especially for a woman her age.
Plans are great when there are options.
I'm going to guess that your job is not in any academic field.
That's okay. I'm sure you make a fine sandwich.

So the recession is coming to an end they say, that is until the other shoe drops, wait until the people currently unemployed exhaust their benefits and they lose their homes, wind up on the street or welfare...I know people that have been unemployed for 10 months or longer and have applied for over a hundred jobs, they are told "we aren't hiring we are laying people off", there simply isn't any jobs...When the next months unemployment figures come out they will look better only because people have exhausted their benefits and are no longer being counted...The bottom is getting ready to drop out...At least I'm still working and I have a plan "B" and a plan "C" just in case...

thingy wrote:

<quoted text>If you'd get your head out of your ass, you'd see that there are no jobs, especially for a woman her age.
Plans are great when there are options.
I'm going to guess that your job is not in any academic field.
That's okay. I'm sure you make a fine sandwich.

I'd like a Ham On Rye.
Think he could handle that?

I was reorganizing my computer files a few days ago (I'm a geek, don't tell anyone) and I right-clicked on the folder that contains all the resumes I have sent out since I got laid off for no reason in February of this year.

There were 653 resumes in the folder.

I have applied to 653 jobs, each with a customized resume, and cover letter, and I am still unemployed. BTW I have a B.S. and half of a Master's degree. I am 38 years old.

So to you unsympathetic aholes out there, it doesn't matter how hard you try, how much you "plan", it is total luck at this point.

I applied to a job last week, had an interview for what I thought would be a decent job, only to be told it only paid $10 an hour and had no benefits. I thanked them and left. What good is $10 an hour and no benefits? I wouldn't even be able to pay my mortgage on such a tiny salary.

With the cost of living in the US anything under $25 an hour isn't even worth giving up your unemployment check for. The problem is, what do you do when the unemployment checks run out? How long can you live on your savings? I had $30G saved up but I will burn through it in no time once the unemployment runs out.

Unbelievable.

The American society is being set back to wages before unions. Unions have extorted higher and higher pay for their members and thus driven the cost of living up to a point that even minimum wage is ridiculously low. A college education in these soft fields such as computer science are being taken over by foreign countries due to the high wages in the US. Jimbo, you may have to swallow your pride and take a lower paying job because unemployment will not continue to support you - it has to come from somewhere too.

I hear contracts on politicians and lawyers are really booming!