Unemployed Discrimination?

I35

I35

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Are you friggin kidding me? First off how does a person prove he didn't get the job because he's unemployed? Obama is trying to force employers to hire unemployed people to help his unemployment number. I understand people get laid off that are truely good employees. But too many times there is a reason someone is unemployed. Now Obama is trying to force the employers to hire the lazy who are really just looking for handouts in the first place. I'm sure that will build a business. Obama is an idiot.
 
Doesn't matter. They take the posting down and open up interviews to all. Do you really think that will change who gets hired? Or if Obama can do anything about it?
 
If you are in my business and nobody will hire you, that is a big red flag. Of course I am in sales and if you can't sell your self and close the deal/job that is a big red flag in my line of work.

I actually have a friend that has a job, she interviewed and was told it was down to the final two. She bumped into the other candidate in the waiting room and learned they were unemployed. Our other friend works for that company, the unemployed took a salary at 50% of what the job was worth.

Desperation has stepped in.
 
The scariest phrase someone who has been out of work for an extended period of time can hear is, "after a routine credit heck, we'll get right back with you."
 
Like I said in a previous thread about this topic, the sky isn't going to fall with this. Just because someone is unemployed doesn't mean you can't refuse to hire them. It just means you can't refuse to hire them on that basis. If they are unemployed because they're lazy (as you mentioned), you can still refuse to hire them because of their laziness.
 
I have a fairly narrow view of unemployment woes, having just gone through 2.5 years of unemployment hell with my partner. But the whole, "the unemployed are just lazy" is crap.

She has a Master's in Architecture, 10 solid years of experience, and glowing references from some of the best-known architects in Denver. Her firm went from an award-winning large firm of 100+ architects to a firm renting space from another construction company for the remaining 35 architects. Of course, it wasn't just her firm - it's the same story across the entire US.

She applied for jobs with any company remotely related to architecture. She was "over-qualified" for a $15/hour job with IKEA, she missed out on a couple of Fed jobs because vets coming back from the Middle East got preferential treatment (I understand it, but it still sucked), and couldn't get kitchen designing/basement remodeling companies to even call her back.

She considered - strongly - changing her field, but with her background, it seemed that employers were wary that she would leave once she was offered an architecture job.

There are a LOT of talented people out there that are out of work because there simply are no jobs.

Our story does have a happy ending - her old boss was at a dinner party and ran into a friend that was looking for a project manager to start right away. He recommended her, and a week and a half later, she had the job.

But it was getting damn scary.

The really interesting part of this? When she updated her online resume to show that she was currently employed, she had three cold calls for interviews for jobs in one month. That's three more calls than she had in the 2.5 years she was out of a job.

The unemployed are absolutely being discriminated against.

And...in the spirit of the weekend...it's 9:40 pm Mountain time and ou still sucks!
 
even the democrats are not voting for obama's job bill so it really doesnt matter. this provision has no chance of passing. if it were to pass, employers would stop hiring completely to avoid the lawsuits because most large employers will receive up to a few hundred to thousand resumes per day. companies have learned through this recession that they can get by with less and it has helped their bottom lines. they do not need to hire people in many cases, some do but there are also other ways to get new employees other than job postings. it will help college students, there will be more on campus recruiting and also hiring through recruiting firms. the guy on the street will have no chance....nice job obama. this is the kind of legislation that tries to get passed by someone who has never had a real job.
 
I'm sorry Mr Deez, I seriously think you didn't understand my points because how you responded does not match anything close to what I was saying. Example you said:

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Oh yeah, all those greedy senior citizens with medical malpractice claims are just looking for a handouts so they wouldn't have to get off their lazy asses and get a job. Their doctors didn't do anything wrong. Granny was just setting them up, so she could hire a lawyer (probably some greedy pig with an ad in the phone book or even worse, a TV commercial), and two weeks later, she and her pig lawyer scam a couple millions in cash. That's how it works, right?
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out of all the medical malpractice claims i defended, none were retired senior citizens, however, about 20% were iillegal aliens. what your post should have stated was something about all those greedy illigal aliens coming over the border for a free handout. that would have made more sense. instead, you sound like a bumbling fool.
 
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