Truth or Hoax: Jobs Plentiful for
"All" Who Want to Work
By Carrie K. Hutchens
Some have a firm
belief that all who want to work can actually find a job. Perhaps
"find" is the keyword in making the statement true. Finding job
listings is the easy part. Securing the jobs isn't necessarily so,
no matter how badly someone may want to work.
There may be a rash
of job openings, but that doesn't mean the job seeker is qualified,
fits the "ideal" profile, can relocate or numerous other factors
that may come into play. Wanting to work, can often mean little in
the scheme of a job search, especially in recent years.
I know of a factory
that brought in Mexican workers under the guise they couldn't find
enough area people to fill the shifts. If by any chance that was
true, by the time they said it, it certainly wasn't because there
was a lack of willing workers around.
It might, instead,
have had something to do with "how" they wanted to treat the
workers. Servants and slaves are terms that readily come to mind.
Firing people because of stupid things like actually getting sick.
Refusing to let a spouse take his wife home and insisting she had to
wait in the freezing car for the long shift to be over, or he'd be
fired. Then firing her, because she got worse from having to wait in
that freezing car and had to miss what they considered too many
days. Yeah, it might have something to do with their handling of
employees, but then, this particular company hasn't been alone in
such wrongful treatment from what I have seen.
Of course, what is
the motivation to treat people right, when all the companies have to
do is bring more desperate people up from Mexico, even to replace
the Mexican workers that weren't able to meet the un-meet-able
expectations or didn't happen to bow down quite fast enough either?
Yes, an unending
stream of desperate people to exploit, does tend to stamp out
motivation to correct wrongful treatment of workers.
In still another
case, I was witness to employees being forced to work while ill,
though it wasn't (at that time) because of Mexicans waiting to take
their place--just a long list of area hopefuls. It didn't matter
who--people were readily waiting in the wings. And speaking of
wings--two of these places I have mentioned are factories that deal
with preparing food. I was real impressed. So impressed, as a matter
of fact, that I rarely if ever--purchase their products. (Makes one
feel real confident in what we eat, doesn't it?)
People do have a
minimum amount they can get by on, especially when they are raising
a family. Likewise, there are only so many part time jobs that one
person can handle, no matter how hard working and determined. But
again... "willingness" to work and work hard, does not necessarily
mean that there will be a job opening that person is qualified for
without being disqualified as a result of being over-qualified.
That, too, happens.
I can say from
personal experience that I once begged for a dish washing position.
I emphasize "BEGGED"! I wasn't too proud to take such a job and I
would have done it as though it was the most valuable and important
job in the world, but they wouldn't budge. They said that I was too
skilled and ed-gee-cated for the position. Said that the minute I
was offered a position equal to my abilities that I would be gone.
Promising them that I would guarantee staying at the minimum of a
year--they still wouldn't even consider me. They said they wanted
someone who could do nothing else and would feel this position was
the top of the line and worth fighting for. All I got was a chuckle
and a firm shake of the head, when I reminded them I was already
fighting for the position. Oh, okay... I was also told, "Good try!"
There are people that
will work their hearts out, but they don't do well in interviews
because of whatever reason. Given a chance, the people I speak of,
rarely make the hirer sorry for choosing them. On the other hand,
there are people that have the gift of gab, but little else,
including the willingness to put in a full day's work for a full
day's pay, especially long term. But too many times, as far as I
have seen, when these types of people have sugar coated their way in
where they rightfully didn't belong--no good came of it. Even more
unimpressive are the workers, whose skills are gossip and getting
other people wrongfully fired. Amazing how some spend years
collecting a paycheck doing just that and very little else--the
prized employee.
Of course there are
people who do a great deal of "talking" about getting a
job--work--but do little more than talk about it, if they even put
forth that much effort. But those people's ways should not be
considered the way it is for all, especially in this day and age,
when many jobs are being taken faster than they are created, and
more often than not, going to be taken by a non-citizen of the USA.
If in doubt, go to Wal-Mart and check out the tags. I have!
Jobs plentiful for
"all" who want to work? Maybe once upon a time! Now there appears to
be a new qualifier. Looks like maybe it is all dependant upon which
side of the border one is born on! Truth or hoax? "Jobs plentiful
for "all" (non-USA citizens) who want to work!?!?
Carrie Hutchens
is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is
active in fighting against the death culture movement and the
injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.
