Job Fair

(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

It was a few days ago when I went to see this.  

I was in the D.C. area and since I was recently unemployed I figured “while i’m here” and went to have a look around to see what the climate was like. What I saw was the vision of our job future.

A woman walked out from behind the booth at this one station and screamed “Ok, PhD’s in this line, all others in this line!”

I laughed to myself as I continued to enjoy my sweet potato fries watching this ridiculousness from the sidelines go on.  All these well-dressed people, huddled in lines, and then split by order of their degrees.  

But behold, the tragic comedy reached a new high (or low?) when an Alpha Plus said to the woman “I have my PhD and some of these people on line only have their Masters, shouldn’t I be in front?”

At that point my laughter had become external and highly audible seeing as everyone was looking at us.  

I explained I was a sociologist who was just “enjoying the view”….

(Note: This is an actual job posting located near me.)

Job Requirements:

The Stockbroker Training Program is an opportunity for a passionate, persistent, enthusiastic, team-playing leader who is willing to learn a craft and work hard to perfect it:

To be eligible for the Stockbroker Training Program, you will have:

   * Excellent verbal communication skills – phone skills a plus:

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   * Strong work ethic and the ability to fully commit to the job:

   * Ability to adhere to a high standard of professionalism:

   * Ability to work well with others and respect an organizational hierarchy:

   * Background in sales, customer service,  finance, financial, or banking industries a plus though not required:

Also I have passed the “Series 7” but would never do it again because 7 drugs in 7 days is something you should probably only try once.

And now for something completely different:

“Food prices will soar, he said. Unable to feed their families there will be riots. Already [sic] this has been witnessed in the Middle East. Back in 2008, when food prices hit an all-time high, we saw riots, and again this year when food prices have matched those stratospheric records, we have seen uprisings around the globe.”

“A slow dawning realisation will lead to the inevitable conclusion that things ain’t the same as they used to be. ‘Then it will hit. Like a grenade in a glasshouse, shattering denial and delusion and leaving it like a pile of broken glass on the floor of the old economic model. Then we’ll be ready for change,'”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto…

Romantic words, but from a more realist stance I see lots of “tongue-in-cheek” legislation that adds more inmates to the prison population temporarily as “time served” in lieu of paying your debts before anybody asks me for improvised pyrotechnics training.

For now though:

Here’s The Plan



 

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  1. and back into the void.

    • TMC on July 1, 2011 at 16:52

    who see this country spiraling to its demise. I am grateful my daughter had no children.

  2. Is it 38% now?  Might be.  Funny how those biblical references from Revelation kinda ring true.  That 1/3, 1/3,1/3 stuff about how they fight with each other until “we” exist no more?

    Hey, it is after all THE green thing to do, less people I mean.

  3. Willingness to travel to third world shitholes and wake up to automatic weapons fire undaunted.  No bitching about not seeing your wife, kids, grandmother etc for extended three year periods of deployment.

    Ability to walk in the door and construct top secret government shit without training or ability to speak spanish and work for 5 bucks an hour will be considered.

    Ability to suck corporate cock enthusiastically.

    Fully “grounded” in the lamestream version of “America”.

    Your internet blog history,your entire life is available to corporate and will be completely scrutinized via NSA records.

    By clicking on this link you acknowledge not only your ownership by us but also our ownership of any and all children you may spawn during your lifetime, our right to determine their future earning potential/ability to perform and or influence society, willingness to accept medications/foods/exercise regimes corporate deems appropriate and or any and all future policy amendments of the corporation.

    This is a third shift 80 hour per week position with no beneifts whatsoever.

  4. http://theeconomiccollapseblog

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