Originally Posted By: McMahon
Originally Posted By: Knucklebustersonly
Originally Posted By: AuntyM
Knucklubuster, apparently you didn't learn what stereotyping is either. You can make any claims you like about your personal observations, but the math and logic are STILL against you.

5 people for one job opening. 4 won't get hired, and according to you, it's all their faults, not corporations who sent their jobs overseas or the politicians that passed laws to encourage it.

There is no benefit to you personally, for these people to be disenfranchised. The economy that this occured in is bad for us all. There is only so much you can blame on personal responsibility before you HAVE to acknowledge the truth. Corporate America screwed the rest of America and got away with it.


Put this in fishing terms (if you ever get off your a$$ and wet a line that is...) to make this easier on you.....

5 people fishing in a river for 1 steelhead. Everyone has a different tactic to hook that fish (which is exactly the case in job interviews, everyone presents themselves as a different candidate to land that job) and the guy who tailors his presentation to the application the best catches that one fish. (just like the guy who applies and interviews better than every other candidate...)

Same situation, 5 guys on a river bank, but there are a few more fish to catch (representing a few more jobs in a better economy). You're still responsible for being better than the other guys in order to catch that fish/job. It's not entirely the fisherman's fault for the lack of steelhead.

But under your mindset, it's not their fault that they didn't catch a fish because their simply weren't enough.... In reality, there's fewer fish available, but there are still some. Just like the job landscape. There are jobs available, albeit few, but you still have to present yourself better than the rest regardless of how many people you're fighting against.

I agree, it's not really the fishermans fault for the lack of fish (jobs) available. But that doesn't mean it's not their fault for not finding a job. The unemployed don't have much to do with the fact that there aren't many job openings. But to get HIRED, you still have to be better than the rest, whether there many jobs available or just a few.


Your logic is flawed.

5 fishermen and 1 steelhead: Fisherman number 1 catches and bonks the steelhead. This leaves 4 fishermen and 0 steelhead. Zero steelhead. If there are no steelhead to catch, then what are the fishermen to do?


Let them eat cake.