Cabela's: Nearly 1,000 apply for 40 jobs at Glendale store

[bergie321]

Source: AZCentral.com

The early birds arrived by at least 5:30 this morning.

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By afternoon, store spokeswoman Pat Zeman estimated they had hit 800 to 1,000 job applications and would interview 500 people. Zeman said the remaining job applicants may be called in next week for interviews, if needed. The store is continuing to accept applications online at www.cabelas.jobs.

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The hunting, fishing and camping goods store in Glendale wants to fill 40 full- and part-time jobs in preparation for hunting season that kicks off next month. Jobs included cashiers, sales people, deli clerks and warehouse workers.

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An operating engineer, Slaughter, 51, of Phoenix was laid off two years ago. Now he hopes to be a camping associate, although he would be happy to land any job.






Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/07/16/20100716glendale-cabelas-hiring-jobs.html

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1000 people showed up for 40 full and part time seasonal jobs that paid around $9 per hour in Jon Kyl's home state. But we can't extend unemployment because it "encourages laziness"?

[azmouse]

1. I'm surprised it was only 1000.

I wonder how many drove to the store, saw the long lines to apply and didn't even try.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Heartbreaking.

[MountainLaurel]

3. But I thought the unemployed were lazy

And just didn't want to work?

[kurtzapril4]

4. I'm currently jobless

I've always been poor. Not well educated, but I'm working on that.

Has anyone else noticed that for most job applications, you're subjected to a credit check? Hellllo...I want a job, not a credit card.

Oh, and then there's the psychological tests....these things, and the credit checks, should be outlawed.

It's really sad out here. I'm not on the dole either, I'm not costing anyone but my DH any money, LOL!

[LittleGirl]

9. got a rejection letter today that was unique

I applied for a technical project manager position about 6 months ago. The letter today was a first for me. They said they weren't going to fill the position.

It was at Wellpoint. I really don't want to work for them but back then, I was applying for anything that I was qualified for.

[Bozita]

5. So I guess we've got 40 "pull up on bootstraps" winners and 960 lazy, shiftless welfare ...

... kings and queens.

Those 960 should have tried harder.

:sarcasm:

GOPers are truly scary.

[bulloney]

6. I wonder if this news made it to Sharron Angle's campaign?

I'm regularly in contact with unemployed workers who tell me they're competing against dozens, if not hundreds of workers for the job openings around here. And they're getting discouraged. Too qualified for some jobs; underqualified for others. Bottom line--they're still unemployed and they're attending college to give them a better chance in the job market.

[burnsei sensei]

7. No different from the dynamic described

in The Grapes of Wrath.
No difference at all, except for the nature of the work.

[Jakes Progress]

8. The neocon dream is coming true all over the place.

Endless wars, privatized education system, upside down tax system.

But no where is their plan more fulfilled than the high unemployment situation. Those with money will be able to laugh at the poor people as they scramble for survival. Employers won't have to worry about unions or minimum wage guidelines or OSHA rules or sexual harassment laws. Their workers will be so desperate for jobs that they will put up with anything. The age of the robber barons brought back to life.

Sounds like torch and pitchfork time to me.

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. I wonder how Cabela's doing...

...their target market is one that the recession will have deeply affected.

[bergie321]

11. They sell

A lot of guns and ammo and are located in Arizona, so...

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. The Cabela's up heah has guns, to be sure...

...but I see a lot of boats, ATV's, snow machines in people's front yards for sale, and the state's biggest RV dealer folded last year, so I'm wondering how that side of their business fares.

The real gun people do what they do through shows, private-party sales, and one- or two-man gunsmithing shops, near as I can tell.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. 111 degrees today in Glendale

I looked it up.

[taught_me_patience]

13. Why are they interviewing 500 people for 40 jobs?

Damn what a waste of time for the 460 that interview and don't get a job. They should pre-screen and interview 200 max.

[Kat45]

20. I was wondering the same thing. n/t

[alp227]

14. Perhaps there aren't 960 more jobs near this area. Sucks.

I bet this little exchange occurred among some of the rejected:

Some reject: "I betcha them dirtay ol' Mexican illegals done took most these there jarbs."

Reject #2: "They took our jobs!"

Reject #3: "Dey dukur jerbs!"

Reject #4: "Derka derp!"

Reject #5: "I can't wait for SB1070 to take effect so that we can get back to work agin!"

I'm having trouble finding work too. I'm currently in college, and everywhere I've applied never called me back either because they weren't hiring to begin with or I probably did something bad (conservatives say that people deserve whatever bad happens to them...so incompassionate)

[druidity33]

17. takeourjobs.org

The United Farm Workers have set up a website to see if anyone would put their money where their mouths are. So far only 4 people have taken them up on it.

But farm work is HARD, and people know it.....


:shrug:

[JoeyT]

19. Ah. More of the "Murrkins R lazie!" talking points.

It isn't that farm work is hard. It's that farm work doesn't pay shit.
If jobs don't pay enough to live on, people aren't going to do them.

[druidity33]

23. that's bullshit.

How much would it take for an American to do farm labor? $10 an hour? $15? You want your lettuce to be $10 a head? You're looking at an economy where people are being forced by circumstances to take anything they can. I work part time in a kitchen, even though i have a Bachelors Degree. I've done farm work. It's the hardest job i've ever had (and i've done roofing in the summer)... and you're right, the pay isn't worth it. But who's going to pay more?

Oh and there are a ridiculous amount of jobs that don't pay enough to live on. That's why people are forced to get 2 or 3 of them!

:eyes:

[JoeyT]

24. I grew up on a farm.

It's actually nowhere close to the hardest work I've ever done. (Shoveling several hundred degree asphalt in July in Alabama wins that prize.) Take a look at the profit margins of the ag corps sometime. They're where most food comes from. What isn't imported, anyway.

This is the exact same argument people use for keeping cheap Chinese crap flowing. The prices wouldn't have to go up that much if it were made in the US at a livable wage. The billion dollar profit margins of corporations would just have to go down a little. Which makes me a sad panda, I assure you.

[druidity33]

28. bullshit again

How do you propose forcing Ag companies to pay a living wage or accepting less profit? As far as hardest work, do you really think other people have the same experiences as you and i? Growing up on a farm is different from farm worker labor too. Were you really in the fields for 12 hours a day picking lettuce... six days a week? I've done that. I've also spent a week baling hay, sunup to sundown. I tell you, the only folk i've ever met who were willing to do that for $8 an hour were the desperate and the clueless. Not to mention that Big Ag farmers DON"T WANT American workers who will complain about the conditions of their employment.

It's a conundrum, i admit. I like the www.takeourjobs.org website because it challenges people to picture what it's like at these jobs. Its intention is to get regular people working at farm jobs so they can see how hard and poorly paid it is. Awareness is key to changing perceptions.

Personally, i would love to see a National Strike of all immigrant labor. For a month. We'll see soon enough how much we "need" their labor, and how much prices go up or not.

:shrug:

[JoeyT]

31. I want ag companies to pay better wages/accept less profits

even if they keep using migrant labor. I don't like the idea of ANYONE doing that sort of work for that kind of pay.
But yeah, baling hay is awful. Not the hard work so much as the "Throw a bale/scream and brush the fire ants off/" loop you get into. My dad still sells hay, so I still do it on weekends for free.

Really there aren't any easy answers to any of these questions. I readily admit that anyone demanding a one-step solution is full of shit. What I'd really love to see happen is some cracking down on free trade, so the manufacturing jobs return here, unions become strong again, and it drives up the cost of labor. Along with that I'd love to see the minimum wage increase, and force them to pay at least minimum wage to their workers.

Like you said, Americans regularly work two-three jobs to stay afloat. We're not lazy, which was my original point. We're just beaten down by people with amounts of money so large we can't even fathom it, even in the context of a *country* having that much in assets, much less a single group or individual. When $0.25 an hour may mean the difference between eviction and making it, it's hard to grasp the concept of someone with billions of dollars and exactly how much power they wield.

[druidity33]

32. i agree with everything you just said

I guess i was stuck on a particular point. Which is that most people really don't understand where their food comes from and what it takes to produce it. I don't know ANYONE who would be willing to do that work for that pay... and very few people who could physically handle it. I'll admit, i don't have any solutions. I just hope for more open minds and clearer understandings...

Cheers.

:hi:

[U4ikLefty]

30. $10 lettuce my ass.

[jody]

15. IMO these United States were built one small business at a time and recovery will occur one small

business at a time.

Funny thing is Cabela's customers include far right and far left customers and from the the political center.

Cabela customers cares about profits, and from those profits flow expansion and more jobs. That's much more likely than a $40 million dollars spent in stimulus for fish food or a few hundred thousand dollars to study the flight of hummingbirds.

[The Magistrate]

18. And Your Opinion, Sir, Is Dreck, With No Relevance To Fact Or The Present Situation

[canoeist52]

22. Cabela's is not a small business.

They are a large national corporation which does a huge mail order business.

The also received many government subsidies.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=4983

http://www.bainvestor.com/Free-Lunch-David-Cay-Johnson.html

Surprisingly, Johnson says a bigger recipient of direct corporate welfare (per company size) than Wal-mart is Cabela's, the outdoor-sporting-goods store. Cabela's convinces local governments that its stores are "destinations" which will benefit the local economy by serving as tourist attractions (a claim Johnson smashes). Cabela's then seeks tax benefits and other compensation to build its stores.

Johnson writes: "The tribute Cabela's demanded from Hamburg amounted to roughly $8,000 for each man, woman, and child in town." Johnson points out that between 2004 and 2006, Cabela's earned $223.4 million. During those years, it collected at least $293.7 million in subsidies, more than its reported profits. Meanwhile a family business selling fishing and hunting gear was driven out of business in Hamburg.

[jody]

26. I know but Cabela's sells thousands of products produced in the US. It is those small

businesses that are slowly increasing output and it is to them that I referred. Mea culpa for not making that point clear.

Cabela's is the final step between production and US customers, a necessary step whether production is domestic or foreign although I would not be surprised if a large proportion of that inventory is produced overseas.

[Paladin]

29. I Am Familiar With Cabela's.

The truly unfortunate part of your initial post was your sliming of government research and related expenditures. "The flight of hummingbirds"? That's low-grade conservative spewing, strictly George Will/Pat Buchanan/Ann Coutler/Sean Hannity/Rush Limbaugh stuff. Very disappointing......

[Paladin]

25. You've Really Gone Over To The Dark Side, Jody. (n/t)

[Kat45]

21. They say that there are 6 people for every job opening today.

Sounds like there were about 25 for every job opening here, and these are just low-paying seasonal jobs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Delta advertised 1,000 job openings. They got 65,000 applications.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_15535756