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debbierlus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:01 PM
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6000 people apply for 300 jobs at Wal-mart in Cleveland, Ohio
Edited on Mon Nov-26-07 02:03 PM by debbierlus
As the world's largest private employer, Wal-Mart is used to being greeted by large numbers of applicants almost every time it opens a new store.

But the 6,000-plus people who applied for jobs at the new Supercenter in Cleveland's Steelyard Commons took everyone, even Wal-Mart, by surprise.

"We had to recount three times," said Mia Masten, Wal-Mart's director of corporate affairs, Midwest division.

When thousands of people compete for a few hundred ordinary jobs, trend watchers say it's an indication not only of a less-than-stellar economy but also of a workforce short on marketable skills.

The huge number of applicants wouldn't have caught anyone's eye had these been skilled, high-paying jobs, the types of positions that thousands of people always seek.

But these were regular retail jobs with low-to-average wages and benefits, not the sort of positions typically in high demand. Target wouldn't disclose the number of people who applied to work at its Steelyard Commons store.


......MORE.....http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business-4/119606989156620.xml&coll=2


:wtf: Can we call it a recession, yet? And, does it become an official depression when they finally admit the recession we have been in for the past couple of years????

This is very disturbing. VERY disturbing.
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:06 PM
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1. I don't think marketable skills
should be brought into this. How many college-educated people are already working at Wal-Marts all over the country? When you need a job, you need a job.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:08 PM
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5. I think the SUGGESTION that the number of applicants relates to them is absurd.
Perhaps the PROBLEM is that these folks HAVE "marketable skills" but all of the "markets" have moved offshore.

It's Cleveland. Times are tough in Cleveland.
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CitizenLeft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:13 PM
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10. amen and thank you.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:09 PM
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7. exactly...pundits are mostly wealthy folk, hence the 'need' for a job is alien to them
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:10 PM
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8. "Marketable" implys skills for which there is a market. Here.
Many college-educated folks have no skill which they can
sell in the current market at what they consider an acceptable
rate of pay.

"Marketable" is exactly the correct word.

Tesha
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CitizenLeft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:12 PM
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9. yeah, that comment just pissed me off
Edited on Mon Nov-26-07 02:15 PM by CitizenLeft
There are many college grads who can't get jobs in their field and are applying for jobs like these. When articles are written like this, why don't "journalists" dig deeper and ask the question, WHY aren't their jobs to match skills? And WHERE are the skilled workers? Where are the jobs?

Their jobs were shipped overseas or across the border - like mine (IT) - and/or only pay half what they used to, and yeah, they're now underemployed.
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debbierlus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:19 PM
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17. They are STILL trying to blame the workers for their bad fortune

They haven't kept up with the necessary skills to compete in today's vibrant economy, you see. :eyes:

It is incredible, isn't it? I was upset with my son when he dropped out of college to manage a restaurant. However, he is making
an above average salary with full benefits. He didn't know what he wanted to do anyway, why the hell should he go tens of thousands into debt for a non-existent job? At least this way, he doesn't have the debt. If he really wanted to do something specific, it would be another thing.

This is just beyond depressing.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:30 PM
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21. Because the PD is a right-wing piece of fishwrap.
Their journalists don't dig because they don't see anything beyond the surface. Never the big picture.

If anyone's still skeptical, in 2004 this paper actually wrote a piece defending job offshoring. More often than not, they endorse pro-free-trade war corporatists like Mike DeWine, shitty pro-free-trade legislation and would have endorsed the Failure Fuhrer in 2004, had their editorial board agreed with the wingnut publisher.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:19 PM
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16. That's what made ME mad about the article.
The assertion that all of the 6,000 applicants are low skilled is a false assumption. Look at the law-school-attending managerial worker in the article - he's skilled, but couldn't pass the bar exam. Others may have a dried up market in their fields and need a means of putting food on the table.

The fact that ChinaMart is their only option speaks volumes about how unbelievably crappy this economy is and also how much our trusted MSM is getting away with such WHOPPERS of lies in regards to it's supposed upswing.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:06 PM
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2. Up to another 45,000 potential applicants. courtesy of Citibank.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:07 PM
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3. Cleveland's economic future is bleak
Along with the rest of Northern Ohio which was devastated by NAFTA and the loss of manufacturing jobs. The auto manufacturing sector that supported machine tools, die makers, steel producers and every other supporting manufacturer is rapidly disappearing here.

Not as bad as Michigan, but it's a close second.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:08 PM
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4. But the economy is doing well. Bush says so.
He wouldn't lie to us, would he? Because if he did, that would be IMPEACHABLE. :mad:
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:16 PM
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13. To Bush and his buddies...
The economy has never been better for them, especially when their in the business of raping and pillaging ordinary Americans.
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:09 PM
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6. No.
> :wtf: Can we call it a recession, yet?

No. because if we did, that us, if people actually started
to have confirmed for them *EXACTLY HOW BAD THEY
KNOW, IN THEIR GUT, THAT IT REALLY IS*, they'd be
setting up the guillotines on the National Mall in front
of the Congress and the White House.

Tesha
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:13 PM
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11. whoops
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:15 PM
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12. People are starving to death, dying in the cold and losing their
homes in droves. But hey, George says everything is okay and the M$M makes billions so who are they to argue. Next year all the airwaves will go digital, so if you want to believe we are free now we won't be come next year.
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fenriswolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:18 PM
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14. very sad
and we havn't even started paying for the war...
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DemGa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:19 PM
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15. Damn, sounds like the Reagan era...nt
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:23 PM
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20. Reagone Redux.
Bewsh is doing his damnednest to take Reagan's worker/poor/homosexual/minority/elderly/foreigner/child-hating policies to the utmost extreme.
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debbierlus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 03:09 PM
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23. Yet, they still talk like Reagan was some kind of a God

He was a HORRIBLE President, & the Repukes hold him to the highest esteem

Weird.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 08:47 AM
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29. But he ended communism! And freed the hostages!
And he broke down the Berlin Wall using only his gigantic, steel-hard all-American Republican penis!

Don'cha know.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:20 PM
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18. guess they didn't hear about our 'Robust' economy
:sarcasm:
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:22 PM
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19. This has been happening for years
At least 2 years ago I read an article on the number of applicants at a new Walmart.
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 02:44 PM
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22. Can we please recount the unemployment numbers....
and this time actually count the unemployed.
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 03:29 PM
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24. "a workforce short on marketable skills??"
Edited on Mon Nov-26-07 03:31 PM by OhioChick
:wtf:

A good friend of mine applied there.......she's a laid off social worker that works (Or should I say....used to) with abused kids. Yeah.....times are good here in Cleveland. :sarcasm:
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 04:15 PM
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26. The Key Word is "Marketable"
We have no use for social workers in conservative America; we only need cops and privatized prisons. Geezus, when will you do-gooder bleeding hearts get this straight? <sarcasm>
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-27-07 08:46 AM
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28. There's no market; thus no "marketable skills"
'Course they won't say that part
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 03:35 PM
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25. Anybody remember 1992?
Pretty sure that's when it happened. A hotel in (I think Chicago) was hiring for a few hundred jobs and thousands showed up. Old man Bush was yammering about how there was nothing wrong with the economy. I knew right then and there he was out come the next January.

"It's the economy, stupid" - Tell your friends. Everything old is new again.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 04:22 PM
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27. Good lord. Thank you for posting this. n/t
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