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[Leafsnail]

Well it's clearly an advertising piece that the advertisers managed to screw up the formatting on (or maybe Yahoo copied and pasted it wrongly somehow).

[scriver]

I think I shall, too.

'well, you see, he should have gathered that money by legal means then distributed it to the lazy basta-'
*punch to the face*

You need to stop listening to MaxO, greatorder.

[MonkeyHead]

So, my department building got hit by lightning. At that very moment a large number of staff laptops were having windows service pack 1 installed and a few other software and hardware specific updates installed. The resulting power surge/outage did something wierd to this very one I am typing off, and it required a fresh installation of Windows 7. It took almost 3 days to perform for one reason or another, and resulted in the loss of some useful (if not massivley important, hence the reason whi it wasnt backed up) stuff, including a saved Lets Play, notes for my RTD and a bundle of photos/notes/presentations.

3 days. Bah.

[Urist Imiknorris]

3 days. Bah.

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[penguinofhonor]

"That position has been filled."

I'm 0 for 4 now, I believe.

[RedKing]

"That position has been filled."

I'm 0 for 4 now, I believe.

I'm 0 for 35+ on Federal jobs.

[penguinofhonor]

Well considering you're twice my age and therefore probably a significantly more appealing worker (having this "experience" I keep hearing about but am unable to obtain) this does not bode well for me.

[nenjin]

Well considering you're twice my age and therefore probably a significantly more appealing worker (having this "experience" I keep hearing about but am unable to obtain) this does not bode well for me.

The reverse is probably true. Sure they may want people with experience, but younger workers have lower expectations, are willing to sacrifice more to keep their jobs and generally expect lower pay than older people with families, mortgages and what not.

[MonkeyHead]

Ah, but I keep on getting passed over for jobs as experience costs money. Why take me on with my many years of proven success when a newbie who will do as they are told and not start bossing chumps around is less than half the cost?

[penguinofhonor]

So they tell old people they want younger people and they tell young people they want older people?

I give up trying to understand this.

[MonkeyHead]

Yea, as long as they give you a reason why you aint getting the job, it doesnt really matter how real it is as long as it sounds plausible.

[da_nang]

Well considering you're twice my age and therefore probably a significantly more appealing worker (having this "experience" I keep hearing about but am unable to obtain) this does not bode well for me.

Catch-22 of unemployment. You're not alone in that regard. Here's my business card for the BEMAC, Beneath Existential Minimum Austerity Club.

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Please, take a seat. Hope you don't mind the lack of a backrest. Here at BEMAC, we can't afford to repair a chair. We're lucky to even have found that one on the scrap yard. Are you hungry? Don't worry, I'm sure I have some leftover tuna sauce & macaroni around here somewhere... If you don't mind it being five days old.

/rant

[Aqizzar]

I fell really bad now, browsing this forum on paid work time as I do jack squat, but believe me I feel your pain folks.  I kicked around with a college degree and existing employment for over a year before I was finally tapped for an internship that turned into a paying position only after paying a recruiter to find the guy for me, and then only by picking up a new skill as a hobby and bullshitting my way through the interview, leaving my diploma to gather dust.

There are a million fucking reasons why you won't be hired from any particular job, and there's no getting away from it all boiling down to too much competition for the same position.  If you're young, there's a guy with ten years experience who just got laid off and is desperate enough to take the same starting pay you would have.  If you're older, there's a young guy they can train to their specifications instead of having to retrain you and worry about your more expensive health insurance.  Now everywhere it's a competition between laid-off experience and fresh potential with useless degrees, both willing to work for peanuts.  And it's not going to change until the whole damn economy improves, and the economy isn't going to improve so long as nobody has any spending power because they have shitty income and a load of debt.

So yeah, rage the fuck out, and know that your old friend Aqizzar is still there with you, even as I get paid to sit on my ass and rant about bullshit.  Because the greatest joke of all is, when you finally get that stable paying job and pull yourself up out of the doldrums, you remember what mankind has known since the dawn of time.

All jobs blow moosecock.  Sometimes, enough to find yourself wondering if that bohemian non-existence was really all that bad.  At least you had plenty of free time.

[penguinofhonor]

All jobs blow moosecock.  Sometimes, enough to find yourself wondering if that bohemian non-existence was really all that bad.  At least you had plenty of free time.

these are words to live by

[nenjin]

All jobs blow moosecock.  Sometimes, enough to find yourself wondering if that bohemian non-existence was really all that bad.  At least you had plenty of free time.

these are words to live by

Or not, when you're dumpster diving for your next meal. Bohemian to me translates to "has a family willing to put up with your unemployment." Otherwise, you're just poor.