primitives discuss job applications

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6726840

Oh my.

Wasn't Bo supposed to have this handled by 11:01 a.m. January 20, 2009?

The primitives promised us he would.

Craftsman (683 posts)      Thu Oct-08-09 12:48 PM
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GE: 10,000 applications for 90 factory jobs
 
Job seekers filed 10,000 applications over three days with General Electric for 90 openings paying about $27,000 a year building washing machines, General Electric spokeswoman Kim Freeman said Thursday.

GE advertised the jobs Sunday, and began accepting applications and resumes solely via a company website Monday. Wednesday was the deadline, she said.

GE announced last week it would hire additional workers in a new second shift later this fall to assemble Energy Star washing machines in Building 1 at the historic Louisville complex.

Union president Jerry Carney, of IUE-CWA Local 761, representing Appliance Park workers, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/...

The blue primitive, who's okay with rampant promiscuous political corruption and graft, just so long as the blue primitive gets free medical care out of it:

bluestateguy  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 12:51 PM
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1. Kind of like a job opening for a tenure-track faculty position in the humanities

n2doc  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:02 PM
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4. Funny how different fields are 

In Oceanography, we have done several searches, including 2 in the past year. We rarely get more than 12 applicants. These aren't super-specialized either. I have never in my career (20 years) seen a search with more than 50 applicants.

kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:28 PM
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5. That's what my niece tells me. She just got her MFA from U Iowa's graduate writer's program, and had this crazy idea about a college/university teachiing position, tenure-track. She can't even find P/T burger-flipper-grade work. I feel awful for her.

Craftsman (683 posts)      Thu Oct-08-09 01:38 PM
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6. My wife was an adjunct instructor at a local junior college until our daughters were born. They would rather bleed through eyes then hire someone full time with benefits.

DollyM  (527 posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:47 PM
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8. we feel her pain . . . 

My husband has taught Psychology and sociology at a community college for 7 years as an adjunct. He worked as a counselor on a grant part time and taught part time, until 2 years ago when the college lost it's grant. He has excellent student evaluations and excellent references but can't get a full time teaching position for anything. Colleges love to hire adjuncts though, low pay and no benefits or security.

No standard in quality either but the college education system seems to have become more interested in hiring and paying big bucks to administrators or building show off buildings. After my husband lost his job due to the grant cut, the college said they couldn't afford to keep the program going yet they turned around and built a clock tower in the middle of the campus. I am sure the students were terribly impressed with a clock tower when they realized they lost a whole program.

It's a matter of priorities and I am afraid that many colleges have lost sight of this being about the students

Enrique  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-08-09 12:54 PM
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2. no wonder stock prices are going up

whoever is lucky enough to get those jobs will do whatever they have to to keep them. And workers who aren't protected by a union will do even more. Literally risking their lives in many cases, working off the clock, putting up with all kinds of other abuse.

stray cat  (1000+ posts)     Thu Oct-08-09 12:54 PM
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3. Those are good odds in my profession

Blackhatjack (1000+ posts)     Thu Oct-08-09 01:46 PM
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7. Kinda shoots down the forecast that a job could be found in 9 mos of searching...

ON a recent talk show, there was a guest with experience in placing recent college graduates, who predicted this year's college graduates would need about 9 months of intensive searching to find a job.

That sounds optimistic with what we are seeing...

And if I heard her correctly, that would include finding 'a job' --not necessarily a job in the student's major field of study.

[jukin]

As far as I can tell these NINETY jobs are the only private sector ones the great Obama has actually created.

[thundley4]

$27K/Yr/52wks/40hrs = @ $13/hour. Those are some high quality union jobs that Lord Zero has helped create.

[DumbAss Tanker]

kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:28 PM
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5. That's what my niece tells me. She just got her MFA from U Iowa's graduate writer's program, and had this crazy idea about a college/university teaching position, tenure-track. She can't even find P/T burger-flipper-grade work. I feel awful for her.

 

With that degree, I would think it's fairly obvious that nobody would hire her to teach in the field until she has some actual cred as a writer!

[GOBUCKS]

kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-08-09 01:28 PM
5. That's what my niece tells me. She just got her MFA from U Iowa's 
graduate writer's program, and had this crazy idea about a college/university teachiing position,
tenure-track. She can't even find P/T burger-flipper-grade work. I feel awful for her.

 
Well, then, that is truly a sign of hard times.

During the W prosperity, and for decades before, nearly all Fine Arts graduates found employment
as part-time burger flippers.

I will never understand what possesses someone to pursue for years a course of study that culminates
in utter unemployability. Freshmen are still children, and look for fun courses of study that are easy,
without requirements for those pesky math subjects. But they should become adults sometime before
graduate school, and should at least have had adult guidance somewhere along the line. The Fine Arts
are best left to children whose family circumstances make their future unemployability a matter of
no concern.

Speaking of utter unemployability, we have not heard from the little chinless Alabama butterball in a long time.
One would hope that's not an indication of anything sinister or tragic in her orientation to the urban hellhole of NYC.

[The Village Idiot]

As far as I can tell these NINETY jobs are the only private sector ones the great Obama has actually created.

Wait until the Energy Star stimulus comes to an end

[JohnnyReb]

Job Application.

Name: Rainbow Moon Waters.
Age: It's only a thing.
Sex M/F: Lots and undecided
Address: Moms basement
Telephone: Changes daily
Education level: Masters Degree in Useless Shit
List last three jobs: None                               
                            None
                           None
List any previous experiences and if none why not? LSD, pot, heroin, meth and Couldn't afford any other drugs.

Why do you want to work for the XYZ Widget company? I don't want to work but like I need the money....and future unemployment when you fire me.

Do you have any special traits or talents? It would be better if we discussed those in private.

At what wage do you expect to start? $150,000 and not a penny less.

Thank you for applying at XYZ Widget Co.. We like to waste paper.