"will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed"

[phantom power]

In a current job posting on The People Place, a job recruiting website for the telecommunications, aerospace/defense and engineering industries, an anonymous electronics company in Angleton, Texas, advertises for a "Quality Engineer." Qualifications for the job are the usual: computer skills, oral and written communication skills, light to moderate lifting. But red print at the bottom of the ad says, "Client will not consider/review anyone NOT currently employed regardless of the reason."

In a nearly identical job posting for the same position on the Benchmark Electronics website, the red print is missing. But a human resources representative for the company confirmed to HuffPost that the The People Place ad accurately reflects the company's recruitment policies.

"It's our preference that they currently be employed," he said. "We typically go after people that are happy where they are and then tell them about the opportunities here. We do get a lot of applications blindly from people who are currently unemployed -- with the economy being what it is, we've had a lot of people contact us that don't have the skill sets we want, so we try to minimize the amount of time we spent on that and try to rifle-shoot the folks we're interested in.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/disturbing-job-ads-the-un_n_600665.html

Leo Hindery was on with Spitzer earlier today talking about the unemployment rate and he said that it is actually double the official rate -- or close to 19%. If that's the case, we have a huge, huge problem if our culture decides to cope with this by ostracizing these people. We pretty well managed to abolish most awareness of "there but for the grace of God go I" sense of empathy as it is, but this takes it to an entirely new level. That is a whole lot of people we are going to have to step over on our way to the mall.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/ostracizing-losers-unemployed-need-not.html

[elocs]

1. A big thread on the same subject here from June 1st:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8460959

[LuvNewcastle]

2. That ought to be illegal, although

I'm sure it's been going on for a long time. What if the person's place of work closed down or what if he just got out of school? There are plenty of good reasons why a person can be unemployed. Very few people are unemployed because they were fucking off at work.

[county worker]

3. This is the brave new world envisioned by the conservatives.

Basically it is taking the pie and dividing it up among few and fewer people.

[90-percent]

4. possibly

possibly the personnel person that has to do all the screening can't stomach dealing with desperate people all the time?

Here's an example from my personal experience;

We need a 24/7 live in help for my 86 year old parkinson's mother, who lives in the attached in law apartment. I ran ONE help wanted ad in the local craigslist and my wife had to deal with a lot of desperate people. People in other countries that were willing to drop everything and move to my mom's Apartment just to HAVE SOME INCOME and LIVE IN THE USA.

There is a lot of human misery in this world and I think the root is that all corporations want everything we own! Corporation have gamed all our laws so aggressively the last thirty years that I think we are within viewing distance of this great Zappa quote:

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
— Frank Zappa

Middle Class America, as of June 5, 2010, can clearly see the brick wall at the end of the theater if they are open minded enough to look.

-90% Jimmy

PS - if there is a benefit to this Gulf oil spill it is that it clearly illustrates in very undeniable terms, that multi-national corporations are:

1. More powerful than the government of America
2. Do not even put the best interests of the world on their corporate priority lists!

[upi402]

5. I never thought I'd miss the 70's

But the remembering hay day of Zappa, Carlin, and Sagan et al makes me melancholy. Yeah, we've hit Zappa's brick wall. Democrats have done NOTHING about the 2 presidential elections stolen by Republicans.

And that's saying nothing about campaign funding and media reform. I wonder when the EEOC laws will be completely eliminated as us lab rats compete for fewer and smaller chunks of cheese in this 'fail' experiment.

[glitch]

6. The hurt this "client" is generating needs to be reciprocated.

Agencies should refuse service. Boycotts should be initiated. People who cannot empathize need to be taught lessons the only way they can learn them: personally.

[fasttense]

7. But I thought that tax cut was suppose to take care of this?

"The bill offers employers two tax breaks for qualifying new workers hired in 2010. Companies will be exempt from paying their share of Social Security payroll taxes, normally 6.2% of a worker's wages, for any new worker who was unemployed for the prior 60 days. (Workers will still have to pay their own Social Security tax share.)"

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/17/smallbusiness/congress_jobs_bill_small_business/index.htm

I guess tax cuts don't solve anything. So much for that $17.6 billion jobs bill signed into law last March. That tax break seems to be doing... nothing. Who could have know?