I just had to pass this tidbit on to you. I found this headline quite amusing. “Layoffs become rarer even with unemployment high” Really? No Duh! Here we have nearly 14 million people out of work. Companies (in general) have already lain off the majority of their workers, or have let them go due to facility closings. Doesn’t it make sense? Less people employed equals less people to lay off? I look at it this way. I have a 5o employees . Business keeps dropping off each month I am forced to lay off 20% of the my employees, after 4 months I have lain off 80% of my 80% of my faithful employees. On the 5th month I realize, I am about out of employees. I only have 20% left. Assuming,, I now have the bare minimum I need. Each employee will have to do more, for me to stay in business. I can’t afford to eliminate anyone any longer. What do I do. I do all I can to maintain status quo. Instead I do my best to keep my minimum employees. If business does not pick up I may have to let an employee or two go. However I I may need them if the economy corrects itself. Now my remaining face a RARER, chance of layoff. It just seemed to be an unusual headline. Stating the obvious, Less workers has to equal less layoffs, or you are out of business. That Is How I See It. Views: 122
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Dwindling Unemployment
The Government keeps talking about how the unemployment rate is dropping. But is it? As you know politics is about skewing the facts. Making promises you have no intentions of keeping. Example: How many times have you heard a politician say. “If elected I WILL do this or that. Knowing they can only do this if they have the backing of other elected officials. Promises mean nothing and neither does their reports. Remember my post about “Media Spin” . What they don’t tell you about the “dwindling unemployment” is more important than what they do tell you. I’m sure they don’t count the people who are homeless that would love to have a job but can’t find one and are not on the unemployment roles. They don’t count those of us who have exhausted our unemployment funds. Those of us who have given up on finding full time employment and do day work to try to survive. Those of us living with relatives. because we can’t find a job. Those of us who swap things for things we need, in order to survive. No these aren’t included. How can you get an idea of how many people are unemployed. An easy way to get an idea is to subtract the number of jobs added from the number of jobs lost. But that only gives you an approximation. Here in my state they consider you employed even if you are only working 8 hours a week. they have companies who are considering bringing in jobs and use their projected employment even if it is 2 years from now. In other words they count jobs that don’t yet exist. If a company has , say 50 people working on a temporary basis. (who are not collecting unemployment), The company decides to make these jobs permanent, Then they count these into their NEW jobs. It makes the Governor and other officials look good. That is more important the truthful reporting of unemployed. I know I will never be able to find a real job. The only hope I have is to find an investor and start my own business. I either am overqualified, underqualified, Too old or too young. I am probably more overqualified than the rest. I don’t care. Give me a job. Skewed unemployment counts. That is the story today. Give false hope to Americans. That Is How I See It. find find Views: 174
