Remember life before September 11, 2001? I do. It was back when the Constitution of the United States still meant something. Americans had rights... not anymore!
I do not care what anyone says, the job market has not gotten better. If anything, this whole "recession" has destroied the job marketplace forever. Employers have their pick of the litter; they do these personality tests that have nothing to do with the position you are applying for and if you "fail" you never get a call. Is that fair? Should I have to take a personality test to work at McDonald's? No. If you can fill out the application for McDonald's then you are qualified to work at McDonald's. What happens when you can't pass their stupid personality tests? Oh, you just don't get a job, why don't you just kill yourself and stop using all us good employed people's resources, you piece of shit.
It is not just the personality tests either that are unfair. Credit reports. O you have bad credit well than you must be untrustworthy. OR MAYBE YOU JUST DONT HAVE A GOOD ENOUGH JOB WHERE YOU CAN PAY YOUR BILLS!! But thats your fault too. It isnt an invasion of privacy to look at a canidate's credit report either because, you see, there is no such thing as privacy anymore. Thank the Patriot Act which in itself is unconstitutional, but got passed because..... The Bill of Rights is just too outdated
Affirmative Action. When affirmative action was put into law it was a slightly good idea, not its harmful. In the recent weeks, with all the racial tension, everyone has been talking about equality. Well how equal can we be when certain races gain employment over other races? So say an employer has two applicants, one white and one black. To meet their quota, they need to hire another minority, but the white applicant is better suited for the position, so what does the employer do? Hire the black applicant. Now, that might seem all fine and dandy, and I'm sure I'll be labeled a racist for this, but is that fair? No. Why not hire the best applicant for the position, that would be fair. Wouldn't you rather get a job based on your abilities, rather than your skin tone? Would you feel good about your new job if they told you that you were only hired because they needed another minority employee? I wouldn't. That's not equality. Affirmative action doesn't just work for jobs either. No its for public assistance; food stamps, public housing, cash assistance, etc. Now again this seems like a good thing, but it is racist in and of itself. Its basically saying that if you are a minority you need more help in life. If you are a minority we know that you can't do this on your own, but if you are white and can't get a job its your fault and you are just a failure at life. There must be something you have done that makes you a piece of shit, because you just are not as good as regular white people. No. Everyone has struggles, black, white, yellow, or purple, it doesn't matter what color you are, it is hard to get a job right now. But you know what demographic get the least amount of jobs? 18- 24yr old white males. Fucking disgusting. Its racist, its racist to ask your race on an employment application. My race has nothing to do with my ability to complete tasks efficiently.
College. The biggest scam of them all... Well you need a college degree to get a good job, so when you get out of high school go right to college straight into a massive amount of debt that you will spend your entire life paying back. And go to college for whatever you want to. Go for something that you love, like art. So you can waste not only your time and money but also your future, because let me tell you, you will never ever get a job as an artist no matter how good you are. Do you want to know why? Because a lot of people go to school for art, including affluent people who have contacts in the art world and will give them gallery space to show and sell their art. This isn't the 60s and this isn't the Village, you are not going to just walk into a gallery off the street and be like, "Hey, I'm really good. Look at my portfolio! Give me gallery space!" No the owner of the gallery would most likely laugh in your face and then call the police.
Art was just an example, look at the show Girls on HBO. Written and staring Lena Dunham. Unless you are blind you can see that this girl is fucking disgusting. She is frumpy and ugly and not fucking witty at all. The show is supposed to be a truthful example of what its like for 20-somethings living without their parents in New York City. Well, talk about realism. First of all a studio apartment in Manhattan is like $2000 a month. So I fail to see how these people are supposed to be living on their own. Its not really living on your own if mommy and daddy are paying your rent. Second, this horrible cow gets naked and fucks someone every episode. This is unrealistic because for someone to find that thing attractive, you would have to be so drunk you would have alcohol poisioning. So how does a completely unrealistic show get greenlighted for HBO? Lena Dunham's parents are besties with Judd Apatow and he executive produces Girls. Which brings me to the point that you can not get a job in this country without knowing someone.
There are plenty of writers more talented than Lena Dunham, but her family is rich and knows Judd Apatow so lets give her a show on HBO. Great. And thats how it is for everything. Even if you do everything right; pass their ridiculous tests, go to college and finish top in your class, you still will not get a job unless you know someone where you are applying and can get them to pull your application to give to the hiring manager. Pretty much the point is to be successful in America, you have to be a sociopath who will not let anything or anyone get in your way to the top. Sell shit that no one needs or wants, better yet sell them stuff they cant afford, so they default and you can reposess it.
Let's see what are some other reasons people can't get a job? Oh I know! Illegal immigrants. Let's just use the recent surge of unaccompanied minors who walked from Honduras to Texas and made it across the border. Now I feel bad about all the crime in Hondoras, but it kind of upsets me that I am an 26 yr old American citizen who has been trying to find gainful employment for the past 2 years unsuccessfully. Now, President Obama said that he was going to deport these people, but instead he granted 5,000,000 illegal immigrants government housing, cash assistance and food stamps. They came to this country illegally and now we are using tax payer dollars to support them? And we need an extra 5,000,000 unemployed people. They would get a job before I would and they don't even speak English!
The people from Honduras aren't as bad as the business owner illegals. If you have ever been to a bad neighborhood you will see stores owned by Asians (Chinese, Korean, and Indian mostly). What's illegal about that, you ask? Nothing except that these businesses don't pay taxes, sell counterfieted goods, take money away from America and send it back to their homelands, will accept food stamps as cash, and live in their stores. We should feel sorry for them. Sure yeah we should feel sorry for them. They had money open up a store in this country and take money from hard working Americans and then not pay taxes on it. Up until Saturday I worked at a laundromat owned by a Korean immigrant. He never paid any employee who ever worked their legally. Now I know this is illegal but I needed to work and the companies I applied for employment with never would call. Food stamps wasn't enough for my family of three to survive on alone. My husband is out of work as well as he is part of that demographic that companies will just not hire. I had to work holidays for no extra money. I had to work 7 days a week sometimes. I would have to work from open to close. I could have just left and I planned on it once I got a real job. 2 years I have been applying to jobs and nothing. Its not like I have a bad resume or experience either. I have no criminal record and I have some college education. I have applied to every major corportation and nothing. Not one. I've had a few interviews but no offers. So now I start thinking what is wrong with me?
There is nothing wrong with me. I am intelligent and I am a hard worker. I actually have a work ethic unlike EVERY employed person nowadays. People who have a job look down on people like me. Its not right and its not fair. I can't even claim that I have worked for the laundromat because it wasn't a legal job. So now I look even worse to potential employers because I have been "out of work" for so long. Like thats my fault. Like I don't want to work. I WANT TO WORK. I WANT A JOB SO I CAN SUPPORT MY FAMILY. I am not a junkie. I have never been incarcerated. I work efficently. I dont want the government to give me money I want someone; ANYONE to give me a job. I dont want to struggle. I dont want to have to choose between me eating and my daughter eating. I just want to work.....
