Why do unemployed people turn down a job?

[Four Suns]

http://dealbreaker.com/2010/07/send...eaker+(Dealbreaker)&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

[skolbe]

I graduated from college at the time when Hillary was "fixing" the pharmaceutical industry. I had worked in a pharmacy through college and did get my degree in economics. No pharmaceutical companies were hiring at that time. In fact many were laying off. I ended up after interviewing for 4 months prior to graduating starting a job that was not my ideal job - but at this point it was a job with a small manufacturing company as a sales person. I received NO sales training, so I asked a successful salesperson how to sell. He suggested sales training and some books. Which I paid for myself and actually started making a decent living. Then, I transferred into the software industry and did very well. Since then launched a company 8 years ago. While owning a business has been a challenge and I learn something new everyday. I have been very lucky. I am relatively young (39) and yet we are pretty lucky. Listening to some whiner complain that he is too good to start at $40k a year is sad. If he is so talented - which I doubt he is. He could have moved up already by now. What a loser. At the end of the day if you don't have relevant work experience - then I am not going to hire you.

 

[MonacoMike]

At 24 he knows it all. Except the afterbirth hasn’t been cleared away from his eyes so he can see the real world. :smt021 Most successful people I know went through the school of hard knocks before they drifted to a course of life and experiences they hadn’t planned and yet succeeded.:smt038

Maybe he should start a website forum to exchange ideas with others how to mooch from their parents after they have sent them to college. After a few years he could sell it to Google for millions.:smt043

MM

 

[Escapade]

I'm looking at applicants w/ over 1 year unemployed Vs. guys that took a job at Home Dopey just to keep busy / Some cash flow of thier own. Who am I going to hire?
Let me throw this one out for you... Another round of.... Extended benifts!

 

[mwph]

To qute the story, I'm becomming an "Asshat" too. My daughter works full time, now she can pay for things like cell phones, auto insurance, medical insurance, food, oil changes......... Yeah, I'm an asshat!

 

[JV II]

Simple answer: Because there is no mandatory draft, we are breeding a whole generation of soft, dependent liberals. This would not happen if every 18 year-old served in the military. Some parents are incapable of providing their children the responsibility, drive, and work ethic necessary to sustain themselves.

 

[Nehalennia]

http://dealbreaker.com/2010/07/send...eaker+(Dealbreaker)&utm_content=Google+Reader

'cause he can. It's this thinking and attitude of entitlement that pisses me off.

His quote:
"My parents are subtly pointing out that beyond room and board, they are also paying other expenses for me, like my cellphone charges and the premiums on a life insurance policy.”"

Just because you've gone to school for however long doesn't mean there's that dream job handed out with your diploma.

I don't care about this tool, but his parents are the morons that will have him back in the basement when he gets a slice of his dream job, later to have the rug pulled out (like Microsoft announced today's layoffs) and he can't afford the payments on his Lexus sport coupe. They don't want to be embarrassed.

I went to two years of school(regret I didn't finish) but started as a delivery driver at a lockshop. After years of hard work, after hours calls and developing customer relationships I can maybe do my job anywhere in the world. It's a unique trade and I work for many of the most rich and famous in the world. I've never been out of work(knocking on wood), but I still believe that need a kick in the ass to develop hard work ethic.

 

[Escapade]

MWPH-
AssHat is not so bad. I'm an AssHat too! My oldest works full time in summer and studying her fourth year in radiology. She can wash / wax, laundry, change oil, vacuum pool, do windows, cook dinner, Spend her own money, exceed our expectation, and deal w/ me. She told me the other day she wants an Audi TT convertible and said, I hope they still have that model " When I Can Afford It" Sound like she is becoming a republican! I am confident she will not meet this guy in her path.

 

[lambrld]

Simple answer: Because there is no mandatory draft, we are breeding a whole generation of soft, dependent liberals. This would not happen if every 18 year-old served in the military. Some parents are incapable of providing their children the responsibility, drive, and work ethic necessary to sustain themselves.

Although a tad bit bias; I couldn't agree more. I am retired military (23 years) and make a good living now but it was not always easy. My daughters didn't necessarily like being raised in a military environment and being dubbed "Military Brats" but they matured to become responsible (employed) adults and parents.

 

[Summer Fun II]

.:smt001

 

[chumbley]

Entitlement is right. Too many young people think they deserve stuff - where most of my generation was satisfied with earning stuff.

Parents are partly to blame. But so is society as a whole. What's with the "games without keeping score" and "trophies for everyone" crap? Life ain't fair, and there are winners and losers in nearly every game. So pick which one you want to be, and go do what's necessary to earn it.

We've gone soft.

I say, put the kid in time-out until he gets a job...

 

[Slippery When Wet]

I blame the parents.

I have made it clear to my kids that they are free to live at home rent-free as long as they are enrolled in school. Once they are no longer in school, they pay rent or move out. Plain and simple. It's how my mom raised me and I am appreciative of that.

 

[OldSkool]

I had an iron worker apprenticeship while raising a family, was certified as all position welder. Moved over into heavy equipment and got my master technicians certification. Ran field service department for a well know dealer. Raised 5 daughters and they paid for their cars, gas, and insurance. All are married and I now have 11 grandkids. They all married guy’s that go to work EVERY DAY!!

It took me 35 years to get my corporate job. I love what I do and folks say I’m good at it.
It took 6 months to get the grease from under my finger nails. I’m not bragging, it’s because MY dad went to work EVERY DAY! He never had much but he did have the integrity to feed and provide for his family.

If you come to me whining about your wayward kid you’re going to get an earful….. :smt013

BTW. All you rich S.O.B.’s who own those big boats, shame on you for employing hundreds of people and make them come to work every day. And what about all that money you have tied up in that yacht? Folk need to install the toys you buy and the store needs to employ people to sell you the toys. Then there’s the poor guy who services the bottom every month. How dare you sit at the helm and do this. :grin::grin:

 

[douglee25]

I blame the parents.

I have made it clear to my kids that they are free to live at home rent-free as long as they are enrolled in school. Once they are no longer in school, they pay rent or move out. Plain and simple. It's how my mom raised me and I am appreciative of that.

I blame the parents as well. They're enabling the kid to be a free loader. If they had had a sense, they should have made the kid get a job and start making him pay room and board. It's quite simple actually.

Doug

 

[Rono007]

I blame the parents as well. They're enabling the kid to be a free loader. If they had had a sense, they should have made the kid get a job and start making him pay room and board. It's quite simple actually.

Doug

+1.

Simple answer. Get off your lazy, egotistical a** and get a job. Even if it's making coffee at Starbucks until your dream job comes along. Period.

 

[comsnark]

pent his mornings searching corporate Web sites for suitable job openings. When he found one, he mailed off a résumé and cover letter — four or five a week, week after week.

Scott Nicholson almost sidestepped the recession. His plan was to become a Marine Corps second lieutenant. . . . . .Last fall he passed the physical for officer training, and was told to report on Jan. 16. . . . .

It was not to be. In early January, a Marine Corps doctor noticed that he had suffered from childhood asthma. He was washed out.

His brother in Boston lost his roommate, and early last month Scott moved into the empty bedroom,. . . . .until the lease expires on Aug. 31.
And if Scott does not have a job by then? “I’ll do something temporary; I won’t go back home,” Scott said. “I’ll be a bartender or get work through a temp agency. I hope I don’t find myself in that position.”

I think this story is not as simple as you guys are making it out to be. He is applying for jobs. He tried to join the Marines. He *knows* it is time to "get a job". He doesn't want to settle for just anything. . he is looking for a *good* job. Doesn't want to get "trapped". I would feel the same way. Don't settle for just "anything", but keep looking for the "one".

Of course. . .that logic probably was right for the first year. We are now in the second year. Leaving school to immediately take a dead end job would be a mark against you. However. . .being unemployed for *two years* without a ton of charity work is something else. He should have taken the recent dead end job.

This quote about the Marines is telling;

"They finally told me I could reapply if I wanted to,” Scott said. “But the sheen was gone.”

Yup. Standards are too high. Enabled by parents with money. He should have reapplied for the Marines. ( . .I could buy the "they would reject me again" argument; not the "sheen is gone" argument).

Tough to see your dreams die. . .but sometimes they do.

 

[Vince_nj1]

This 24 yr child has an inflated sense of self worth. He is not going to be handed a dream job with his attitude. For every dream job that he applies for, there will be at least 10 other applicants that have demonstrated a willingness to work. Maybe MTV or Fox can do a reality show on him? "House Children of (insert city)"

At least he is riding on his parents money and not the taxpayers.

 

[HUMPH]

My company takes college students as summer interns. They learn to work and if they like the industry/company and are good hard workers we offer them a job before they graduate. They then start at the BOTTOM and spend years getting to the point when they qualify to move to managing. If they are really good this would be about 6 years or more.

The kids that want to start in management because they have a degree are out of their minds. Go to school, figure out your trade, get a job with a good company (at any level), show them what you are capable of and move up the ladder. What ever happened to that?

 

[douglee25]

I think you hit the nail on the head. Kids these days want to start out in management instead of working their way up. I have heard this directly from people in our department who hire. Those same individuals also WILL NOT hire kids who say that on interviews. I wouldn't doubt the kid comes across as arrogant during an interview and hence why he doesn't have a job.

Doug

 

[STIHLBOLTS]

It's really funny...:smt021 We could fix our country in one years time by doing one simple thing.

Eliminate Welfare completely and Unemployment payments beyond 30 days.