Are you unemployed?

[TCO]

Originally posted by st_swithin
I just sit around waiting for a job to find me. I'm good at hiding from work, though. Maybe... TOO good.

Are you still in shock from the Acivision layoff? Seriously. I give you a lot of ****. but will give you a pep talk and get you pointed straight.

Heck, I already told Makeo to go to Breck. Kitty to come to a US grad school. (Well both did a lot on their own...) And I even encouraged that young guy in 1998 who was freaking out on the net (White will remember.)

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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I'm a contractor, and my contract may be expiring soon. They haven't told me one way or the other, so I will assume that I'm outta here soon, though they'll probably find some more money to keep me.

I wonder if your politics is holding you back. You seem good at compartmentalizing your life...but still ther must be conflicts. Living in the man's world.

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Originally posted by MrFun


I love how you qualified that.

Good observation.

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Originally posted by Provost Harrison


A glorified penpusher as I vowed never to return to research

Compliance. I deal with GMP stuff and batch release for Novartis (pharmaceutical company) plus I will be looking into their archiving and documentation system stuff. Looks like the experience in my last job came in handy. Although I definitely intend to stay out of the laboratory from now on.

Would you be willing to do some Switzerland or Atlanta time?

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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
It's a real rut nowadays Skanky...you try your best but you invariably end up exploited, overworked and underutilised. Give up now, suicide is the only way

Actually I know a little how you feel. But there must be answers out there. Not pity. insights.

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Originally posted by Japher
PH, your QA? Man that would suck.

Worse or better. he is regulatory compliance. Actually I do know a cool GMP angle that you might consider, PH. Do you like construction? Drafting?

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Re: Re: Are you unemployed?

Originally posted by SlowwHand



Home foreclosures are at a 30+ year high.
Personal bankruptcy is at an all-time high.

This is the worst since the Great Depression.
Not just my opinion. Fact.

Gameleague *****. BTW, Ming told me that you are a piker compared to me. I get way more complaints.

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Re: Re: Re: Are you unemployed?

Originally posted by MrFun


It's that bad??

Why are people not calling this a depression then?

When you are unemployed during a recession, it is a depression. When you are not, it is a...recession!

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you unemployed?

Originally posted by SlowwHand


I have no idea.

Get in the cooler!! BTW, wtf was the deal with Tia lying about having a kid.

(prays for Ming to be off line.)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Are you unemployed?

Originally posted by Sava

because super rich corporations are still making money... its known as a growth recession. The GDP still grows because the outliers at the top scew the numbers. This was the case during the 80's... Bush has continued Reagan's economic policies of "rich get richer screw everyone else", only Bush has coupled it with expanding "free trade" so that American jobs are being exported. You'd think America would have learned after 8 years of voodoo-economics doing jack**** not to give Repugs the power to enact their dopey economic plans... apparantly not. I guess it takes millions of job losses, stagnation of wages, and excessive wealth concentration at the top to really wake people up.

The fact is, things have been getting progressively worse since the 60's. Clinton helped create an opprotunity for job creation as we saw almost record low unemployment numbers, but all of that went to **** once Bush got in office.

Personally, I think we need to put back in place the progressive taxation system during the 50's and 60's and use revenues to create public education jobs, a national health-care system, and improve our infrastructure. This will put people to work and give consumers money to spend, spurring the economy. We also need to put a stop to wasteful government pork and corporate welfare. Business should get its money from the market economy, fueled by consumer spending... not by tax-credits or handouts. But as long as corporations, the rich elite, special interests, and mass media influence our government, this rejuvenation of the American Dream isn't likely to happen.

A. you are a moron.

B. You are NOT bright.

C. How about all those smoke and mirrors dotcommers and Enron types that got rich in the Clinton boom?

D. You know what I think of your business knowledge.

[Wittlich]

I guess TCO decided to catch up on the posts his missed.

TCO, you shouldn't worry about the multiple posts - all of your posts were valid replies to past posts, and in itself shouldn't be considered as spam (as far as I can tell)...of course, I guess one post could have done it, but replying to various other posts in one post is a pain, so I for one, understand.

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Originally posted by el freako
It's not a depression because that would be much worse.

Just because the current figures are the worst since the depression doesn't mean that the US is nearly in one again.

The main factor in the 'jobless growth' is the improved productivity growth - the economy must grow faster than before to generate the same number of net new jobs.
However it isn't growing any faster because far fewer people are entering the workforce nowdays - the rate of participation in the labour force, which had been rising since the late 1960's, came to a halt in the 1990's.
That, coupled with faster productivity growth, means that whereas a slowdown like this would have translated into sluggish job creation in the past now it means that employment is much more likely to shrink.


Hmm, fast productivity growth and a sluggish job market?

Welcome to the european economy circa 1975-95

I don't trust your analytical sense. How are things the worst ever? They are not even worse than early 90's. look at absolute measures not rates of change.

Maybe things are the worst ever in Euro-land. Definitely not that bad over here.

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Originally posted by Wittlich


How so? Because I followed along with them not "Asking", me "No Telling" and they in turn, "Didn't Pursue"? Is that the "lie" you're referring to?

Concerning how us "Gay bastards are" ... well, we're F A B U L O U S !

You are ok...for a gay guy. Note...this is like "intelligent for a Marine!"

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Originally posted by MrFun




And if I would ever have been drafted, I would just proclaim my sexual orientation, and they would let me go, right?

De fodder de la cannon est running out. S'il vous plait, put le gay Funster in le "tube".

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Originally posted by Big Crunch
I am underemployed. I haven't worked full time in about a year. I am starting a part time job (data entry) on Monday though, which will net me some cash. Hopefully the 2 weeks initial will be extended.

I would complain that I am being taxed unfairly, no Personal Allowance for me and I can only claim back pension payments when I leave the country, but then I am a filthy foreigner stealing hard working Australians' jobs.

I think you need a pep talk as well. Seriously, are you only intersted in stuff in Opera-city land? Or are you intersted in stuff in the states?