I take a lot of crap over at C&L from the Obama apologists (honestly, I didn’t know there were any left! I guess they still have jobs) and I don’t understand it. Do they really not understand how many people are in real trouble right now? Because frankly, I don’t care what else he does if he doesn’t take care of the unemployed.
And yes, I understand that he’s the president and not a legislator, but I don’t see him out there rousing the troops for this. Instead, he appointed a fiscal commission – AFTER Congress voted it down – to go after what’s left of the safety net. So no, you’re not going to convince me that I’m being “unfair,” and “negative.”
When Laurie-Ellen Shumaker, 59, was laid off from her job as a lawyer for a shopping center in January of 2009, she assumed she would be hired again in no time. In addition to her impressive resume, which includes a degree from a top-tier law school and 23 years of legal experience, she has always been actively recruited for positions.
But in the past year-and-a-half, Shumaker says she has applied to over a thousand jobs — everything from secretary to file clerk to daycare worker — and she has yet to be called for an interview.
“It’s frightening,” she told HuffPost. “Interviews are like seeking unicorns. I’ve even gotten a status update on two different jobs saying I’m the best qualified, but then I never hear anything after that. It’s hard not to rake through one’s brain trying to figure out why. Is it my age or my gender holding me back?”
No, hon, it’s mathematics. Five applicants for every opening, that’s what it is. They’re going to take the youngest and the most pliable, not the best.
Of late, I have wondered what the hell is going on..
The American people are SCREAMING that JOBS JOBS JOBS is the number 1 priority…
And while the Obama administration does pay SOME lip service to the idea, every action that has been taken has been at the EXPENSE of creating more jobs….
I really have to wonder if there isn’t some ulterior agenda at work to keep the American public in the unemployment lines…
I know, I know…. It sounds like conspiracy kookery…
But does anything else fit the evidence???
Michale32086
Another thing that would be working against her is the fact that she doesn’t have a job. I’ve seen several reports that many employers won’t even look at a person if they are not currently working. The thought being that if you were valuable you wouldn’t have been let go in the first place. Which that is a total crock because in many cases, such as my personal one, whole workplaces/offices/branches were shut with everyone working there put out of work.
Feels like being on the other side of the fence during the Bush II administration, eh Michale? Out there in a “free speech zone,” perhaps? A government totally unresponsive to the needs and desires of the small people & etc. Way to go, ideological cheeleaders! The United States is now an equal opportunity butt fucker.
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But on topic, the lady lawyer with 23 years? Not a prayer.
In our technocracy, younger and cheaper (as well as pliant) will always get picked over older and more experienced. And especially a middle-aged woman. Just how it is. Welcome to the twisted world of consumer culture Darwinism, made right here in the U. S. and A. We’re number ONE! This is not your daddy’s distopia …
CF,
Feels like being on the other side of the fence during the Bush II administration, eh Michale? Out there in a “free speech zone,” perhaps? A government totally unresponsive to the needs and desires of the small people & etc. Way to go, ideological cheeleaders! The United States is now an equal opportunity butt fucker.
I completely agree with you here…. Those who follow ideology at the expense of individuality are the bane of this country’s existence…
We’re probably not as different as you would like to think we are.. 😀
Michale32086
Don’t worry Susie. They’re in denial. Everyone’s in denial. I think they’ll come around, eventually.
I think Obama will be a one-termer though, and all this stuff that FOX is projecting on to him about fascism and socialism is basically stuff they’re preparing the nation for. Socialism for the rich. Fascism for the rest of us.
First of all:
#2 – John.
Really???!! I’m about to say eff you. I’m gonna take a deep breath though.
Then I saw ‘Captain effin Fantastic’ post.
I don’t even know why he reads your blog – perhaps some guilt that at some time some woman imposed on him. I hope his Mom.
Then, seeing both of these posts – well, eff us women, I guess.
It used to be a man’s world, I guess it turned into a boy’s world.
My last interview – an company based in Isreal – the hiring manager (I knew he liked me) told me that the company was ‘very conservative’, I heard that three times in a half an hour. They gushed about how kid friendly and pet friendly they were. But above all, I guess, how conservative they were.
I checked back – sure enough, no domestic partnership benefits!
I figured, and I knew then, that same-sex people don’t stand a chance in this company.
But try and prove it? I/you can’t. They’re free to be bigots.
Oh, and Jay?
Susie SHOULD worry – and so should you!
I WORRY – my partner and I are about to lose our modest little 860 square feet home in a month or so!!
Jay – YOU ARE THE ONE IN DENIAL!! Snap out of it!
Have you really followed Susie’s blog?? I think not.
My advise to you Jay, is, WAKE THE EFF UP!!
Oh, also, I got a bit distracted:
‘And yes, I understand that he’s the president and not a legislator’
Yes HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Isn’t that supposed to be the most powerful position in the world???
How come BUSH could push his shit through??? Bush didn’t even have close to the majority in Congress that Obama does.
Pelosi seems to have more and bigger balls than Obama does = don’t get me wrong, I LOVE what Pelosi is and has been doing. No thanks to Obama though, even though he’s taking credit!
I guess it’s no longer about having ‘the balls’ to do something.
It’s all about the ‘Ovaries’ and actually getting things done!
Eff the balls, GO OVARIES!!!
Yes, I’m angry, nasty, truthful, honest.
I’m a so-called ’99-er’, my benefits were cut off a few months ago.
My partner was laid off almost a year after me.
She just received her last check – Republicans and Nelson are keeping her from getting any kind of extension.
In short, we have NO income whatsoever. Period. PERIOD!
Aargh – I don’t even know where to start in addressing this ‘Model of Democracy that the US is’.
Both Iraq and Afghanistan adopted that same type of Democracy: full of corruption and/or pay-offs.
Give me one single example besides Al Franken, or anyone else in the US Senate, who’d NOT beholden to any kind of ‘black mail’.
ALL OF THEM ARE.