Blogcritics Comments on The Run On The Job Bank

Comment by Dave Nalle on The Run On The Job Bank

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:00:53 EDT

The only citation I made here was to the Office Depot jobs listing page and it does say exactly what I said it did. Keep in mind that I was talking about a specific company which lists specific jobs in a specific way, not every company in the world. As usual, Bliffle, you seem to rely on unsupported and vague assertions to make a personal attack rather than trying to use facts, which are clearly not your friends. Dave

Comment by bliffle on The Run On The Job Bank

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:50:51 EDT

Well, once again, tracking down a Nalle citation is a deadend. It doesn't support his argument and it doesn't say what he claims.

Comment by Lumpy on The Run On The Job Bank

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:53:16 EDT

You know just because I want Obama to win I'm going to quit my job and go on unemployment and get cancer just to show amerikkka how much we need him to save us. Won't u join me?

Comment by Dave Nalle on The Run On The Job Bank

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:31:28 EDT

Dave invents new realities to patch up the failures of his old (contrived) realities. "Yes bliffle, no one posts salaries in job listings anymore." Sure they do. Look on craigslist. I get job listings regularly from "Monster" that have pay brackets in the headline. I'm going mostly from ads in the newspaper where the only jobs which post the pay are work at home scams. That's without even trying. In future I'll include those more modern sources in my research. And I remember being on the Reduction In Force (RIF) committees for corps large and small and we were always placing classifieds for the very positions for which we were laying people off! We knew we'd be rehiring, so we'd get some new applications to look at, and we could re-calibrate the market for skills and salaries. I know from my own experience that salaried jobs posted through employment services have salary info, but that's hardly what we're talking about here. You must have a very stunted work experience. I've never gotten a job out of an ad, true. Plus I haven't worked an hourly job since the 70s. It's just been my observation that hourly job ads tend to say 'competitive wage' these days instead of a hard number. Dave

Comment by Dr Dreadful on The Run On The Job Bank

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:21:37 EDT

True, Bliffle. Which makes it doubly sad, because the only places you'd be passing through Fresno to get to would be Bakersfield or Modesto. Everyone else uses the I-5 (which bypasses Fresno at a respectful distance) to get around the state. "Fresno: At Least It's Not Bakersfield"

Comment by bliffle on The Run On The Job Bank

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:15:47 EDT

"...KMPH in Fresno..." I believe that this station ID is a contraction of "K MPH" or "1000 MPH" which is the speed with which people drive thru Fresno on their way to where they really want to be. YMphMV.

Comment by bliffle on The Run On The Job Bank

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:09:25 EDT

Comment by Krutic A on The Run On The Job Bank

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 00:13:45 EDT

I can then only assume that you were chearleading for the Clinton administration during the longest uninterrupted period of economic prosperity in American history, right? Although Clinton was lucky to be president at that period in time (when the Y2K issue happened)which eventually caused the boom and the bust - I do give him credit for presiding over the boom period and blame him for the bust. But I also know enough about our economic system to know that the President has little control over it.

Comment by Dave Nalle on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:17:51 EDT

Yes bliffle, no one posts salaries in job listings anymore. So I must be lying. I just make things up for no reason. Maybe I'm Hillary Clinton. And it's not extraordinary. Everyone around here is having a hard time finding qualified workers. Dave

Comment by Doug Hunter on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:57:27 EDT

My wife's parents are part of the foreclosure statistic. Built a luxurious 5000sqft dream home/investment putting almost none of their own money into it. They timed the market wrong and homes had quit appreciating when it was complete. They lived there a couple years waiting then realized it was loss, quit paying, and used the money to buy a new smaller residence plus a nice vacation home near the beach in SC. Quite a sob story, really.

Comment by bliffle on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:52:48 EDT

I looked at those 2 Office Depot citations and there is no salary info. To the casual observer those postings look like the kind that retailers always keep posted in order to have a sheaf of apps on hand if someone doesn't show up for work one day. Doesn't look extraordinary in any way.

Comment by Matthew T. Sussman on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:41:20 EDT

When I was 17 Office Depot turned down my application. So now I'm here.

Comment by Baronius on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:34:02 EDT

Dread, that was sloppy of me. I was tweaking Realist for his "even Fox 'News'" comment, not referring to KMPH. The image of Realist taking notes while watching Fox News just kills me.

Comment by Michael J. West on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:15:46 EDT

Krutic: I also did not see you cheerleading for the Bush administration when the economy was doing quite well for the past 6 years Since you've said this, I can then only assume that you were chearleading for the Clinton administration during the longest uninterrupted period of economic prosperity in American history, right?

Comment by Dr Dreadful on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:18:03 EDT

Clav, I suppose Fox News could claim to be "fair and balanced" based on the fact that Bill "50th star to the Right and straight on till November" O'Reilly gets e-mails from people complaining that he's in bed with Obama and also from folks accusing him of sucking up to Clinton.

Comment by Dave Nalle on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:11:13 EDT

Jeez, Dave, if you really want to help out your "friend who works at a large retailer" you'll publish his contact info so people who want those great paying jobs can apply for them. Well sure Bliffle, glad to oblige. He's not in HR so I'm not going to post his contact info, but here's the entry level job listing for the store he works at, and here's the search page for similar jobs nationwide. BTW, his store is also looking for managers and assistant managers. Office Depot is constantly hiring and opening new stores and running into staffing issues like the one I described the southwest. So good luck with that new job, Bliffle. Dave

Comment by bliffle on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:08:59 EDT

If nothing else, this economic calamity may stop the nuts from jabbering about "free markets" when what they mean is monopoly markets administered by the corporations that the government favors, and coppered by the Fedral Reserve when they start to suffer the consequences of their own actions. Oh, and maybe it'll stop the hysterical "deregulation" mania of the past 30 years. I saw Paulson on TV declaring that "the regulations that congress instituted 70 years ago weren't designed to regulate these financial instruments". It's all congress's fault. The New deal congress of the thirties, to be exact. No. Paulson has it backward. These modern instruments were specifically designed to circumvent existing regulations. It's not due to an oversight of thirties congress, it's because of evasive maneuvering by modern financial scoundrels. But common sense would suggest that if a company acts like a bank, orrows money like a bank, loans money like a bank, etc., then it should be regulated like a bank. Especially if your Secret Plan is to bail it out like a bank.

Comment by Clavos on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:10:11 EDT

Nobody with half a brain really believes Fox News's slogan, nor, I'll wager, does the vast majority of their audience want them to be, any more than Markos Moulitsas's audience or Ariana Huffington's want them to be "fair and balanced." People will listen to the source that makes them feel comfortable; nobody understands that principle better than the Aussie mogul.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:46:02 EDT

Baronius, KMPH in Fresno isn't Fox News, it's the local Fox Network affiliate. Same megacorp, different method of turning the viewer's brain to blancmange.

Comment by Pablo on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:59:51 EDT

Baronius, When you make a statement such as the one above regarding FOX News being fair and balanced, do you really believe whats your writing. Take Hannity and his puppy dog Colmes. Is that what you mean by "fair and balanced" Baronius? You take the one guy Hannity who is overbearing, aggressive, hateful, and quite frankly a very poor representative of humanity, and put a little puppy dog, smarmy character like Colmes to "represent" the other side. Fair and balanced my buttocks Baronius.

Comment by Baronius on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:32:45 EDT

Realist, I guess that Fox News is more fair and balanced than you thought.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:27:13 EDT

Realist, I suppose I should be excited that Fresno has caused a blip on somebody else's radar, but in all fairness I feel I should point out that KMPH didn't do any actual work here. They simply picked up an AP news feed. I can tell you that KMPH's idea of cutting-edge journalism is to make their own budget version of Cops by plonking some hapless reporter on a ride-along.

Comment by ObamaBoy on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:54:46 EDT

Lee...I think its even worse than that! Bush and Cheney are coordinating this inorder to drive the world into a chaos to regain the power of the trilateral commision and the Masons...the are lying and have all of the senate and congress fooled into following them into the great abys...only one man on earth can help us through these uncharted waters..Obama..for change and hope! ObamaBoy

Comment by Lee Richards on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:42:20 EDT

Re #3: Then why is individual-and government-debt in the many trillions and ever-increasing? Your comments could have been the rosy rationale offered on the eve of the Great Depression.

Comment by ObamaBoy on The Run On The Job Bank

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:49:26 EDT

Mr. Ruvy, "self-employed workers are so employed because they feel they have choice, and no opportunity in an economic system" Oh that is so true...the dispair of those forced to be self employed is just another ploy to keep people down and under control. These fools are tricked into borrowing money, taking risk, working hard and reaping the financial rewards...how dumb they are! They dont understand that the government uses them so they can acculilate wealth, hire people and invest just so the government can tax and gain more control on their spirit...what fools! In addition Mr. Ruvy it seems that you and your family understood the tricks of capitalism. Rather than be fooled like those other "hungry and abused Jews" who were tricked into working hard, geting an education, starting businesses and accumilated wealth...your lineage was much smarter...by taking public assistance, not investing on improving you or your childrens social or economic status and perputuating your cultures fines histrory of poverty and dispair...pure genius not to get tricked by the capitalist hucksters! ObamaBoy