Man Receiving Unemployment Benefits Refuses Over A Dozen Job Offers

Wow in Indiana the max amount is $390 plus $25 stimulus=415. So $470 is high. My problem is I program in a language that disappeared to China along with most of the manufacturer jobs that Republicans sent their. And keep blocking democrats when they have a bill to reverse it. Some will come back when the economy comes back. I can't get Car quest, target, and the manufacturing and office temp jobs to give me a chance. They give me the over qualified cold shoulder. This really stink if you ask me. Anyway I wish I could find a job soon I can't but it would be nice. They don't even bother sending out post cards saying thanks for applying I have only received 5 in the last two years. I apply to several a day. Depending on how long the application process is. Some are seconds to minutes. Others like car quest is a series of 45 minute sections.

I am 57 years old. Recently sold my business. I can't stay idle! Looking for work is a process that will take time. Why do you have to fill out an application when your being asked the same questions on your resume'? If these companies are taking their time to review a resume' and an App. More paperwork more cost to review the documents and more time for me to have to fill out and not being able to go to the next job.

If the Shoe fits Employer with a resume' then why until you decide to talk to you are wasting all of this energy?

I am 57 years old. Recently sold my business. I can't stay idle! Looking for work is a process that will take time. Why do you have to fill out an application when your being asked the same questions on your resume'? If these companies are taking their time to review a resume' and an App. More paperwork more cost to review the documents and more time for me to have to fill out and not being able to go to the next job.

If the Shoe fits Employer with a resume' then why until you decide to talk to you are wasting all of this energy?

This article is a bit of a joke. Yeah, how many people are going to race to a job that pays $310/wk compared to $450/wk in unemployment benefits which replaces about 60% of lost income so he was making about $750 in his last job. Yes, some 6 figure executive who gets layed off could try to compete against his teenage kids for jobs at McDonalds, but it just doesn't work like that . . . at least until things get truly desperate. And that's really not how it's supposed to work. The idea is to give you time to find a comparable job. Maybe making a little less, but comparable. $310/wk is not comparable to $750/wk. If anything he would be doing a disservice by taking a job from someone for whom $310/wk IS a comparable job.

This a stupid one sided article. Who in there right mind would move to Dubai? Most people have families, those jobs are for you people who are just starting careers. Also, they are not high paying or high skills opportunities. What will happend in the next five years, a worker that has low "business" and tech skills and cannot get a decent job,because the company did not invest in them. All companies like to higher foreign workers anyway, higher them, don't they know English. Or maybe, they can't come into this country....I wonder.

The two examples are hardly jobs with a future. One is low paid, the other requires relocation to another part of the world. But both examples rightly illustrate the issue of global wage arbitrage. Americans are having trouble adjusting to lower pay and the mobility required of globalization. Bye, bye post war middle class and hello 19th century indentured servitude.

Blah Blah Blah...You people point fingers at the democrats or Republicans all the while not figuring it out that they BOTH are the enemies of this once great nation. It is rich against the poor, not black against white, or gay against straight. These tactics are ancient, and meant to devide and conquer...looks like they have succeeded.
Revolution is the only answer now!

Sharron Angle, Jon Kyl, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Joe Barton and the rest of the corrupt Republican cronies should be on trial as American traitors and give them all “Sharron Angle Second Amendment remedies”. None of these corporate lackeys ever worked an honest days work in their life. Sarah Palin could not even finish her term in the cushy Alaska Governor’s office. At the very least, if these confused/corrupt/misguided deceptacons love the ultra-rich and corporate America so much, they should resign their public positions (if not done already) and serve those private interests without pretending to serve the public.

We are prisoners to our corrupt political system courtesy of corrupt corporations and their lobbyists. In many ways, Republicans and Democrats are alike although Republicans are at least 3 times worse than Democrats. Republicans are twice as corrupt and only half as smart. One only has to look at the Republican mouthpieces of Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle to realize that Republicans are inept, corrupt, or both. At least Democrats try to help the people. Republicans can only ramble on about how great capitalism is, when in reality, America no longer has capitalism. Due to corporate corruption, America only can boast of corporate cronyism and monopolism, enforced by troops of lobbyists. But you do have a say. Vote out every last corporate lackey (most Republicans, a few democrats) and keep on doing it. Demand term limits. Just like diapers, DIRTY politicians need to be changed often.

yOU ARE TAKING FOOD OUT OF MOUTHS OF THE UNBORN NEXT GENERATION.
GET YOUR SORRY A$$ TO WORK.