Big Box mart --The end of the American dream

[Mech]

This is very funny...but also very disturbing.

i suppose a laugh once in a while is good medicine...even if it delivers bad news.



WATCH:

2 min. 22 sec

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pKv6RcXa2UI

[Mech]

SAD!!!

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10,000 hopefuls keep eyes open for Wal-Mart job

By HELENA OLIVIERO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/11/08

For the fourth consecutive day, people waited in long lines Thursday for a shot at a job at a new Wal-Mart in DeKalb County, pushing the total number of applicants beyond 10,000.

That's four times the entire population of Avondale Estates, the community next to the planned Memorial Drive store.

HOW TO APPLY
Must apply in person at St. Philip AME Church, 240 Candler Road, Atlanta. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday until Jan. 18.

Beginning Monday, after virtually no advertising or any signs, the throngs of hopeful applicants continued to pour into a church converted into a job processing center — all vying for only 350 to 400 available jobs, according to Wal-Mart officials.

The job-seeking frenzy may be a peek into a larger economic picture. A report from the U.S. Labor Department last week indicated a surprising plunge in job creation by private employers in November, with new jobs far below the level needed to keep pace with population growth.

Christine Roberts, a 39-year-old married mother of six, is hoping to get a job at the Wal-Mart deli. Roberts, who has long worked as a nursing assistant in Sandy Springs, wants a job closer to her Decatur home. At the Memorial Drive store, "I could walk to work," she said Thursday after filling out her application.

Wal-Mart has long declined to reveal starting salaries at the store, but reports that the average hourly wage for regular full-time associates is $10.65 an hour.


www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/01/10/walmartfollo_0111.html

[Swamp Gas]

That is a very good Adobe After Effects work. I was affected by outsourcing at Intel, and it was sad watching 1500 people dumped in the street. We all got good severance, but I lost two other jobs since then, and I'm currently unemployed with no unemployment left. I may have to take a crappy job just to stay afloat. Age discrimination is alive and well in the USA, even with my mile long resume, and awards that I have gotten for my work. They will take a 20-something for less money, and it does not matter if they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

[Mech]

After watching this video...you can see the REAL enemy we all face...Ignorance and the SLEEPING American masses.

The question should be....HOW in the hell are we going to get these people unaware of the huge wolf at their door who is about to chew and swallow them (with a smile?) to wake up?

How do we reach them..or can we?

[Mech]

Swamp..i wouldnt lose total hope....there must be a studio or shop somewhere who really wants your creative talent...perhaps not with the capital that intel had...but who are into the creative process.

[Swamp Gas]

Thanks for the support Mech

I have a few interviews in the city this week for some companies doing what I did at Intel, so no, I have not lost hope, and I have Theta, my friends, such as yourself, Willie Watt, my cousins, and Theta's family.