Unemployed Need Not Apply

Yes,jobless discrimination does exist and minorities are been hit harder with this new trend than any other group. The Federal Goverment most pass a new law prohibing this new type of employers' behavior that violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As time changes our laws have to be modified to better protect the most vulnerable victims. Changes are Needed NOW!

This is not unusual. I worked for a contract sales consulting company and the client we were under contract had let go of most of its' highly paid sales people and managers. Those remaining were very upset and tense when we came in since they had been told there would be no more hires.

The reason companies won't hire unemployed people now is because they are trying to avoid the higher paid people who were let go. They know there are excellent people out there, but they don't want to pay them. They were already let go because of cost. If you say this, not only does it create bad will, if can cause legal issues, since the higher paid personnel are typically the older employees.

Least capable? You are wrong for the right reasons. The intention of companies is to lay off the least capable, but there is so much stupidity in the process, that you are seriously mistaken about the people affected by layoffs. I know many people who were layed off and some even fired for cause, and few of them are incapable, bad employees, or unproductive. Many situations affect who gets laid off. Sales people with quotas set by morons don't make their numbers and are laid off. Managers who have choices between their favorites, or people they don't like, lay off people with high potential that they don't like and probably never supported. I am fortunate to have been "passed over" for lay offs but it could have happened to me, and it could happen to YOU!

Lupe, I am a widow, and I saved for a rainy day, but guess what, those rainy days are gone! While I saved my money, did not overspend, and thought I was doing everything right as an Insurance and Financial Advisor, I lost everything, after having lost my well-paying job in January 2008 at the age of 52. I have diligently looked for work and thought that being highly skilled, and well-qualified for most jobs that I would certainly get a job right away. I have gone on three and four interviews, told they love me and that they are going to recommend me for the position only not to be hired, and to find out a man was hired over me. At every interview, I have been told you must not have any gaps in employment. After having worked for the finest companies, and making a good income, I have lost my house, my brand new car, and had to live off unemployment which was not a fraction of what I was making, and my savings which ran out during the first year. After that it was strictly unemployment while I continued my frantic search for a job to sustain myself. I downsized, moved from my big house to a small apartment, and gave up half of my possessions to move into this tiny four-room apartment that I was barely paying for with the unemployment benefits. I got a rusted through, salvaged vehicle and put $4,000 of my savings into fixing it. Still, in the dead of winter, the heat went out, the engine which was burnt up when I bought it, broke down, and I did not have the money to replace the engine or heater on this dilapidated vehicle. It sat there in my parking space while I tried to figure out where I could get the money to fix it and started taking public transportation and cabs to job interviews. You see, Lupe, I still made sure to go on regular job interviews. Now they have cut the bus service in our area and my car was towed out of my parking lot because I assume no one saw it moving and I did not have the money to get it back. Then I was spending my last money taking cabs. I live alone and have no one to help me. The benefits stopped in May and I was forced to seek the help of that charity. I am fully capable and want to work however, now that I have had no medical insurance for two years, I am starting to feel the results of not having regular medical checkups and my health which has always been good, is deteriorating. Finally, desperate because I am facing shut off of everything I had been managing to keep paid, electricity, phone, I already had to let go of the cable, now my rent is paid until July 31st and I have no more money, I went to Wal-Mart and applied for a job instead of the Insurance Companies and Financial Institutions. Not to mention that I did not even have the money to renew my Insurance licenses so I had to let them lapse. I applied at my local Wal-Mart and every local place of business. Every time when one of these places called me for an interview, it was not in my area that I had applied for but where there was availability and still I managed to get there, not buying food, letting go of the cable I did not need, so that I hopefully could get a job to stave off homelessness. I went through the interview at Wal-Mart and was told I had the $8.20 part-time job and I could not tell you how happy I was, Wal-mart, my savior! Well, now it is going on three weeks since I took the drug test and background check, and no call to come to work at Wal-Mart despite me calling several times to follow up. I have been told to wait for the HR person to call me. Well, now I am two weeks away from my rent being due, my electricity and phone will be turned off as the bills were due the week of the ninth and for the first time I just had no money to pay them. I am a person who prided my self on paying my bills. The only thing I can think is to sell everything I have just to survive another month or two. I was sickened by the woman who said she got lazy and used to getting by on unemployment when there are so many of us trying to diligently do what is right. Who in their right mind can live off of unemployment benefits and think it is ok! You are living off of a bare fraction of what you were making. We are suffering! This is not a joyride. I want to work and cannot get a job! Shame on you Congress and shame on you who take you good paying jobs for granted. Those who feel so cocky that you think it cannot happen to you. Believe me it can happen to anyone, except Lupe. Thank you all for allowing me to vent and Lupe, I am sincerely glad you are not caught up in this mess because you planned so well. I thought I had planned well also. God Bless You Lupe! I sincerely hope all stays well for you.

Hmm lets see. We have plenty of money for the wars in Irag and Afganistan, we're allowing employers to hire illegals but they say no help is available to unemployed American citizens whether it be unemployment extensions for the long term unemployed (i.e. past 99 weeks) nor are they willing to create job training for those whose skills are weak. Now what is wrong with this picture. If we must run a deficit why not run it up on Americans citizens instead of BS wars. These wars I believe are the direct fault of American policy trying to force ourselves upon other nations. These terrorist just didn't wake up one day and say to themselves we're gonna attack America. We gave them a reason to behave this way. Maybe if we left them, their way of life, and their oil alone we wouldn't have the problems we have now. Think what the Chinese would say to us if we tried to force democracy upon them. Change will come from within these countries when they are ready for it, not before. Lets worry about our own first.

If you give an employed person a job, then another position opens up to fill the person leaving. Unfortunately, these ship jumpers will jump your ship soon too for another better paying job up the ladder they go. The unemployed will stay put cause they are happy to just have a job. Alot of talent is being wasted -- shamefull, just shamefull.

I am a hiring manager for a large electronics company and I will admit I do give preferential treatment to those already employed. This is not to say that I absolutely will not hire the unemployed; however, all else being equal I will choose an employed job candidate over an unemployed one. I do this because I have been in this business long enough to know how lay-offs work during tough times. Except in situations where the entire shop closes or where union agreement requires lay-offs by seniority, the least capable are laid off first. Why would I want to hire someone else's least capable? I would rather steal away the employee that was deemed worth keeping. I especially like to recruit employees away from comapanies that have recently had massive lay-offs. If the employee survived a massive lay-off, then they must be good!

To all of you that has a job and saying well get off your butt and find one shut the hell up.You dont have a clue how hard it is to find one.I worked for the same company for 14 years was never out never complain and never asked for a raise in the past 3-4 years.I lost my job last July due to the customers buying overseas.I look everyday I hope everyday but if you dont get welfare,know someone you are out of luck.Unemployment and welfare are not the same thing not even close.I hope all of you who think it is so damn easy to get a new job get layoff tomorrow...

I am an employer and I wish I new who the company's who are doing this so I can mark never do business with them or their associates.

I haven't had steady work since April of 08. I've moved around from state to state. I'm originally from Southern California. I've been to Vegas, Houston, Reno, and now Roseville CA. The job market is ****** because of all the nepotism, racism, theopantism, capitalism... all the negative ism's that corrupt society. In my experience TX holds all the titles when it comes to the ism's.

I own every cliche in the book as to why companies will not hire me. I am turning 34 but I look 22. My last name is Gonzalez but I'm not latino. I don't own a vehicle anymore but I can ride a bike 20 miles in a day. I don't have kids. Does that make me less of a hard working individual? I have an open schedule for potential jobs because I'm not tied down.

I used to have tenure with companies in my 20's and eventually got sick of corporate politics. I changed careers and since the downfall of the economy, my career change wasn't a good calculated risk. I had to supplement my income by doing independent contracting and by doing so I basically put holes in my resume and even went in debt by working for crooked contractors.

There is people in the world who hate there jobs and only go to work in order to support there families. They feel like they don't want to work anymore for the rest of there lives. If you ask me it's just plain lazyness and it's stacking mistake on top of mistake. think about it. that's people going to do something day after day that they most likely hate. for something that they shouldn't have to in the first place if the used birth control way back then...

That's America in a nut shell (overpaid, lazy and not thinking of the future). We're a country full of simpletons and I'm stuck in it. I want political asylum. Having aspirations of living on an island and doing nothing but fish and surf sounds like a retirement plan to me...If I die fighting off a shark over a fish or gett bit catching a wave, at least I was living the way I wanted to.

If the people of these United States don't open their eyes and start caring for one another then there's no hope this country to bounce back.