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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on July 02, 2009, 04:33:02 PM
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BobRossi (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 04:45 PM
Original message
I became a statistic today.
I am now one of the unemployed. Thanks for the stimulus Mr. President.
Ouch.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5974317
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Don't sell yourself short BobRossi, you became a statistic the day you started posting on DU.
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BobRossi (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 04:45 PM
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I became a statistic today.
I am now one of the unemployed. Thanks for the stimulus Mr. President.
**** off and die, DUmbass. Courtesy of you DUmbasses and Lord Øbama, I haven't logged a single billable hour in 6 months. I've gone from owning my own home, to renting a 2 bedroom apartment and it's getting to the point that even that will be "living beyond my means" soon. Unless things change for me relatively soon, it looks like my family will be living in a tent in the Rocky Mountains this winter.
So forgive me, if hearing that McDonalds finally fired your ass for smoking one to many joints on company time doesn't illicit the desired response.
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What? They just started keeping statistics on the mentally ill today? It's about time.
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Well dang. This not the statistic I anticipated...being the start of a holiiday weekend and all. Normally the ony statistic we hear about is highway fatalities. :fuelfire:
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Well dang. This not the statistic I anticipated...being the start of a holiiday weekend and all. Normally the ony statistic we hear about is highway fatalities. :fuelfire:
If that's what it takes to rid the country of a few more DUmbasses... :fuelfire:
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DUmmies crack me up
DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 04:46 PM
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1. What Kind Of Work Do You Do?
My business is in the toilet but I don't blame the president. I don't know who to blame.
I am just working hard and praying things improve...
BobRossi (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 04:48 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. Engineer.
Love seeing my job either going to India or seeing Indians coming here to do my job.
Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:12 PM
Response to Reply #3
14. Maybe it's just me but
should I find myself in the same situation, I think the intensity of my pissed-offness would not be affected by my substitute's ethnicity.
Keep thinking that way CPD
TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:17 PM
Response to Reply #14
16. Perhaps it has to do with nationality and political enfranchisement?
How does any people achieve political self-determination without respecting nationality?
But thanks for playing the race card.
Spoken by a DUmmie who has a good card game.
Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:19 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. *I* played the race card?
Uh-huh.
BobRossi (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:19 PM
Response to Reply #16
19. No race card, Just the truth.
One only needs to open their eyes.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:24 PM
Response to Reply #3
22. While you feel very legitimate resentment
it might help if you refined your targets a little better. It's not India or Indians who are your problem. Your problem is a bunch of brash young rover boys in the corporate head office who decided you were earning too much money and it was time to oust you in favor of some cheaper hands.
It's even worse if you're over 40.
It's certainly not a president who's been in office for six months and inherited the conditions that favored the rover boys in the head office and kept labor laws from being enforced, especially the laws against ageism.
Corporations go by actuarial tables that tell them when the break even point between an experienced employee and a green kid right out of school is, whether the kid is from the US or India.
You have a choice: you can keep resenting the wrong people or you can adapt to a world made by people who hate labor, either by opening a consulting firm or by lowering your sights. Once you reach your corporate expiration date, that's about all there is.
You don't have to like it. However, until laws are changed and the economy improves, that's the way it is.
Mass unemployment at the DUmp
Autumn (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 04:49 PM
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4. I am so sorry ,I've been a statistic for a while now
but you have a hell of a lot of company for what its worth..
evlbstrd (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 04:51 PM
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7. Welcome to the crowd.
Very sorry to hear it, too.
undeterred (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:10 PM
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13. Welcome to the herd.
waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:42 PM
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24. I hear your sentiments - was laid off late March.
All the best to you in your job search
Hydra (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:42 PM
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25. Happy to meet a fellow statistic
I'm sorry you're in the same boat with me, though. It's kinda cramped and doesn't pay well.
Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:44 PM
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27. I don't count in the statistics, despite being unemployed. nt
Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 06:09 PM
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30. Sorry to hear. I've been out since March
I thought "The One" was gonna take care of you all ?
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As I have written before, thanks to the far left wing california legislature and now obamanomics I have been forced to make three people statistics. In about four-five months we will have fulfilled the last contracts and I will completely close the shop making four more statistics. Just no reason to fight the power anymore it is not worth it.
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-02-09 05:24 PM
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...It's certainly not a president who's been in office for six months and inherited the conditions that favored the rover boys in the head office and kept labor laws from being enforced, especially the laws against ageism...
Whatever, oh Warped One. Wipe Lord Ø's semen off your chin and shut the **** up. Before Lord Ø was the rookie President, he was just another egotistical, marxist in the Senate screwing up the economy with the other 534 ****-ups in the Potomac River's biggest whorehouse. It was Comrade Dodd, and his boy Lollipop (that's Bwarney Fwanks, lurkers) among others who were monkeying with national lending policies in order to force banks to offer loans to folks who had absolutely Ø ability to pay it back - not to mention interest in doing the same - just because of their skin color. That's what led to the financial collapse you see coming down around your ears today.
Don't you dare try to wash your hands of this mess and tell me it's all the fault of George W. Bush. He's part of it, but you cocksuckers have been a BIGGER part of it for far longer than President Bush has even considered his political ambitions. FOAD, bitch.
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Oh my.
The warped primitive used the term "Rover Boys."
Which is practically extinct.
I thought I was the only one who ever used the term "Rover Boys."
The warped primitive and franksolich have yet another thing in common.
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Companies have been outsourcing their engineering and software jobs to India for how long now? This DUmmie could have been doing some planning well ahead of the current recession.
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Oh my.
The warped primitive used the term "Rover Boys."
Which is practically extinct.
I thought I was the only one who ever used the term "Rover Boys."
The warped primitive and franksolich have yet another thing in common.
I'm not familiar with the gay vernacular. What does it mean?
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How many CCers have had similar incidents in their lives yet we approach the issue with optomism, determination and no small measure of defiance?
You don't see CC'ers lamenting, "been in that club for a while."
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As far as I know, the Rover boys were the main characters in a Warner Bros cartoon. Dasturdly Dan, (I think that was his name), kidnapped the girl of their dreams and the Rover Boys basically screwed the pooch trying to get her back.
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I'm not familiar with the gay vernacular. What does it mean?
The stories of the Rover Boys were a popular series of children's books circa 1890-1920, about the same time the Bobbsey Twins stories came out.
From wikipedia:
The Rovers were students at a military boarding school: adventurous, prank-playing, flirtatious, and often unchaperoned adolescents who were constantly getting into mischief and running afoul of authority figures as well as criminals.
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Warpy
While you feel very legitimate resentment it might help if you refined your targets a little better. It's not India or Indians who are your problem. Your problem is a bunch of brash young rover boys in the corporate head office who decided you were earning too much money and it was time to oust you in favor of some cheaper hands.
It's even worse if you're over 40.
It's certainly not a president who's been in office for six months...
Instead of addressing the problem this warpy idiot feels the need to protect their own stupid decision in voting for Dear Leader. No wondering off the reservation yesterday, now, or a year from now when things are even worse. The cult is strong in the warpy primitive.
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You voted for higher taxes,heavier regulation and amnesty..
You are an IDIOT
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problem is a bunch of brash young rover boys in the corporate head office who decided you were earning too much money and it was time to oust you in favor of some cheaper hands.
Uh ya 'spose, the "higher ups" see a storm a comin' from your savior?
They won't be able to pay people what they are worth because of the Messiah's policies.
Naturally they are going to try and get the same work done for less money.
Fer cryin' out loud, even you idiots should be able to figure that one out! You DUmpsters are real economic genius' aren't ya?
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I lost my job at the end of February. Not having to commute a hundred miles a day, nor eat in the company cafeteria twice a day leaves me about breaking even on unemployment, possibly even a slight bit ahead compared to when I was working. When my 26 weeks runs out, there is a 33 week federal emergency extension available, and when that runs out, there is a 13 week state emergency extension. There really are no jobs to speak of around here, and I have paid into unemployment insurance for almost three decades, so I have no problem collecting my checks well into next spring if it is necessary.
I still have not touched my 401k, which survived the market turmoils with a gain, having pulled out of the markets in Feb 2007. So if by next spring I still cannot find work, I could scrape by for several more years on that. My property has no debt, nor do my vehicles. I do have a fair amount of CC debt, but I am able to make the payments, pay my other bills, eat, and still have a little money left over (or at least not cut into my savings). I have no dependents except a dog, so I'm doing OK.
I guess you could call me one of the "funemployed". I do my required work searches, as futile as they may be, but I don't stress about it at all. In fact, my blood pressure has reduced remarkably since I stopped working, just from the reduction in daily stress.
My only problem is I spend too much time screwing off on the innernets, and not enough time doing all those things around the homestead that I wished I had the time to do when I was working my ass off.
I feel for those who have multiple mouths to feed, and a mortgage to pay. I'm glad I'm not in that boat. For me, this Obamapacolypse is more of a mandatory extended sabbatical.
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Sorry to hear that, Crockspot. :( Hope things pick up for you.
I've had nothing but pink slips since being laid off from Ford in 2007. I've been lucky so far, to wind up where I am now where business has been brisk. Been there since September and was laid off once (rehired after a few days of "vacation").
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I don't want to talk about it.
Lets just say University of Phoenix and Student Loan....
.. is that enough?