http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2840181Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-09-08 04:57 PM
Original message
Does anyone in Atlanta want to work???
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We have a clerical/administrative job open at work. We've been trying to recruit for 3 weeks and not one nibble. Not one. We aren't asking much. Just basic skills. Word, Excel, answer about 30 calls an hour, learn our database (VERY EASY) - all it requires is a high school education, emotional maturity and the willingness to, you know, actually come to work on time every day with a half positive attitude. We are paying a bit over $30,000 and really great fully paid bennies in a business that is ALMOST recession proof.
I'll grant you $30,000 isn't the moon and the sky, but I can't believe how hard it is to drum up interest. I come into DU everyday and read about how bookoos of people have been looking for a job so long they just plain gave up. What part of America is that in, because obviously, it isn't in Atlanta.
Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-09-08 05:28 PM
Response to Reply #17
19. The ad doesn't say where we are.
It describes the job and the pay. We haven't gotten enough of a nibble to even get far enough to be rejected for location -- AND you'd think if the economy is so bad that millions of people have supposedly given up looking for any sort of job at all they would at least APPLY and come for an interview before deciding they can't take a job because they might bet carjacked.
Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-09-08 06:09 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. Another example.
is the legal firm we work with. They are offering over $40 a year for someone to basically sit out front, answer a few incoming calls, sort a little mail, greet visitors etc. They are right in the thick of downtown Atlanta. Last year they spent 7 weeks looking on their own, finally signed with a recruiter and then have gone through 4 people. I know the culture of this company and these folks aren't calling in sick every Monday and Friday because the work or the company is so brutal.
A vending business we work with is begging for delivery drivers. Yes, it's 10 hr days, physical work and hourly pay, but they average $50 a year plus bennies - weekends off, all holidays, 2 weeks vacation first year, full paid health, dental, vision for the whole family and life, disability insurance and matching 401K funds up to 10% gross salary for the employee. People go to work there and never leave so to speak. One of their guys retired and they've had an awful time getting someone dependable to replace him.
Myself and my fellow HR people in Atlanta are all scratching our collective heads.
Interesting thread,pretty tame but a few of the usual suspects show up.
pitohui (1000+ posts) Sat Feb-09-08 07:45 PM
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28. lincoln freed the slaves, hon
you couldn't live on $30K a year, well, guess what, neither can anyone else, and you expect the person to be skilled and have a positive attitude when you're raping them up the never-mind?
Cleita (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-10-08 02:22 PM
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45. Maybe it's the thirty calls an hour, if you are also expected to
Edited on Sun Feb-10-08 02:23 PM by Cleita
do Word and Excel as well in your spare time. Just sayn' it looks like two jobs there to me. Maybe someone would be interested for $60,000 or you could split it into two $30,000 jobs.
As usual a DUmmie that has no comprehension of how a business works,just thinks $60,000 (in reality at least $90,000 with SS,benefits,unemployment ins,workmans comp) materializes out of nowhere.
Most are completely befuddled by the issue,guessing that thing in their minds which prevents them from accepting as reality anything they don`t like is kicking in.
