it's a conspiracy from the top down. There's a secret circuit in your radio, installed when you weren't looking - that cuts out all talk about firing, layoffs, and other such disruptive talk.

Only about Mav, though, of course

Economic Crisis? What crisis? All I see is more Democrat/Liberal screw ups

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I keep seeing this in the news, on the web, within the forums. But I have yet to meet Mr Crisis in person lately. I've met him in the past...just not in the past 8 years as some want me to believe.

I recall a conversation with a personel manager once. Unemployment was 7%. And I was asking him where we were going to get these 40-70 new employees we needed. His answer...We found them when unemployment was 5%, I see no reason why we can't find them now.

Which goes to show you, the unemployment rate, is a matter of perception. And not always reality.

We were actually having trouble finding people to work at the #1 rated factory in the area at the time. Our pay was typically 30-50% more than the average for our area.

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I'm not suprised....but I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure there is some fear going thru the drivers. Nobody likes it when a company pulls out "the bloody knife."

Exactly. The jobs are there. I wonder why you never hear the media talk about the number of unfilled jobs when the subject of unemployment comes up.

Of course, some jobs are "beneath" people. To which I snear :"starve, you stupid git!" In my previous life I was vice president of a telephone company (a small one, of course). I'd flip burgers, pick veggies, or wash cars if it became necessary.

The only crisis I see at the moment is my current need to get the heck out of the house before I go crazy(er). Making money at it would be good, though.

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I hear that, tarred basements and took gasoline baths everyday, dug 10 foot holes by hand to patch rich people's leaky basement walls, pushed 3-400 pound wheelbarrows with wet concrete, bucketted 5 gal. buckets of wet concrete up flights of stairs, cut with gas saws inside small rooms with concrete dust and no resporators, crawled around in 3ft. crawlspaces with people waste/tp/corn/etc. to prep for plumbers, jackhammered and dug up broken sewer lines, you name it-I did it for 4 years- summer, winter, rain, sun- all while commuting to school and setting for hours in a class room to get law enf. degree....and I'll do it again if I have to. I'm not above any work.

Good points there Lurch! I've worked plenty of jobs out of necessity.

I was working for a temp agency down in Florida a few years back, and I ended up a the Trop (Tropicana) in their glass bottling plant. No one wanted to go to that section because they were doing away with it, so they had to bring in temps. There were people that worked for the Trop that had been laid off, but they wouldn't take those spots because it wasn't going to be forever.

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Dynamite comes in small packages, Nitro comes in smaller ones, take your pick!

picky about who they hire. 15 years active duty service and they say im not qualified to drive them. oh i see they are not military friendly. i have driven tractor trailers larger and longer than what most people have or will ever drive!

I came straight out of truck school, a rookie, and they hired me. I'd say it's becoming more like they don't want over qualified because that = more money. -They used to not take rookie's (years ago)- now they have a motel on campus for them. jmo.

so what qualifications do i need to drive for them? they say military experience doesnt count. i have 2 tours in iraq and 1 tour in afghanistan driving while being shot at and they say that doesnt count. how can one be overqualified driving truck?

I couldn't tell ya....obviously you would seem more then qualified. Like I said in my opionion- your proably over qualifed and don't fall into the "low pay- do what you tell me to cause I don't know any better" rookie status. I think that this company had to start taking on rookie's against their wishes under a shortage of drivers and is in the process of migrating toward becoming one of the companies that prefers to keep decent, low paid, rookies behind the wheel. If at 2 yrs. with them I was halfway up their seniority list- that shows that at least half their drives arent at max pay yet. I would stop taking it as an insult and start figuring your proably worth more then they want to pay. BUT.... if you want an opionion that is from an opposite but intelligent perspective....I'd as "Notarpsforme" a current driver there of his opionion on your situation. Just send him a message. In my case, I had plenty of construction exp., no cdl, went to a school for 4 wks., got my cdl, spent 2 weeks in "the barn" securement training, and 2 weeks in a trainer truck (because i had gone to my own driving school- i could go tr. trk. for only 2 wks.) - and was given a truck and the green light. Now I know that can't count for more exp. then driving and getting shot at. Best bet is don't try to figure out their logic and move on. p.s.....my father was a ranger and a tunnel rat in Nam.- I'd just like to give you my thanks and respect for you service to this countries people. No matter how much our govern. pisses me off doing whatever....i always have respect for my country, it's people, and always- always have respect for our military. God Bless you.