Are you unemployed? - Page 4

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:00

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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.)

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:01

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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.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:03

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Originally posted by MrFun

I love how you qualified that.

Good observation.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:04

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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?

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:05

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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.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:07

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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?

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:09

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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.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:10

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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!

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:20

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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.)

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:25

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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 jackshit 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 · September 27, 2003, 17:28

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.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:28

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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.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:30

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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!"

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:32

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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".

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:33

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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?

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:38

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Originally posted by Wittlich
If you got drafted? Sure, they would have let you go...after the war though.

I think he wants the "cabin boy" position.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:39

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Originally posted by MrFun

You mean they're hypocritical enough to keep "faggots" as cannon fodder by ignoring their own policy?

But then, why should I be surprised of such hypocrisy?

You like that big fat tube...

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:39

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Originally posted by Wittlich
Is the Department of Defense hypocritical? Of course.

The military's bottom line is what is best for the nation, not the individual. But then, who ever said that the US military was a democracy?

"needs of the Navy, son..."

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:41

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Originally posted by Q Cubed
student taking a quarter off, working as a temporary replacement on a contract basis as a network admin at a school in atlanta.

Were you in grad school or in ug? UC is UNDER the Naval Academy in party schools. Do you know how bad that is? Especially in Chicago????

Yoy can look down on the Woops though.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:42

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Originally posted by Ramo
I have a part time job and am a full time student. I may get a second part time job and/or increase the hours of the first eventually.

You are a little stud. keep it up.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:45

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Originally posted by GePap

We in the US only count those looking for work as unemployed. Those that have given up aren't. I wonder what the true unemployment rate in the US is?

I don't want to count wimps. It is not that hard to work here. Look at all the illegals.

You maggott! Die, die. And don't you dare report me. Can't believe there are maggots that do that.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:46

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Originally posted by 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.

do you understand being "Minged"!

TCO · September 27, 2003, 17:47

I am caught up now...whew!

Wittlich · September 27, 2003, 18:08

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Originally posted by TCO
do you understand being "Minged"!

Do I understand being Minged? Yes. Have I ever been Minged? No. Do I understand what it entails? Yes.

That's why I'm a good boy.

TCO · September 27, 2003, 18:25

crawl!!!

Wittlich · September 27, 2003, 19:33

Only in your wildest dreams TCO!

TCO · September 27, 2003, 19:35

ewwwww!

KrazyHorse · September 27, 2003, 20:59

I'm a full-time student and part-time TA (theoretically 20 hrs a week, but it works out to about 10)

KrazyHorse · September 27, 2003, 21:02

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Originally posted by TCO

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

Originally: "When your neighbour loses his job, it's a recession. When you lose yours, it's a depression"

Oerdin · September 27, 2003, 21:49

Jesus CHRIST!!! For a while TCO posted 30 out of 32 posts! I think that's a new record.