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It's freaking cold in ND!! Who'd want to live in a tent there??
I recently read how things were so badthat some of you guys were forced to live in tents. Must have been some kind of horrible "out of your hands" type of situation but you guys might be able to save this company. they might even pay your bus fair. Hopefully you guys can manage to crawl out of your holes to see this. I know how being unemployed can cause muscle atrophy.
TAMPA, Florida (AFP) – A Florida-based firm will soon close one of its North Dakota offices for a reason that seems unfathomable during the deepening US recession: it can't find enough employees to hire.
Sykes Enterprises, which specializes in creating and maintaining computer customer care services for corporations, opened a telephone call center in Minot, North Dakota in 1996. Last May, management wanted to increase the number of employees to 450.
Yet an unexpected thing happened: so few people applied for the Minot jobs that the Tampa-headquartered company will have to close the call center on May 10 -- a cutback by Sykes that will result in 200 people losing their jobs.
"We've been working for several months there (in Minot) to find enough applicants for the work, since we have been experiencing significant growth in the US," said Sykes spokeswoman Andrea Burnett.
She also told AFP that Sykes advertised for many months in the local Minot electronic and press media for applicants.
The state of North Dakota has bucked the national trend which has seen the US economy hemorrhage 651,000 jobs in February, pushing the unemployment rate to a 25-year high of 8.1 percent and pointing to an ever-deepening recession.
But the unemployment rate in North Dakota stood at just 5.1 percent, one of the lowest in the nation.
And Minot in particular has been seemingly recession-proof with the city's economy being based on agricultural commodities and oil production, and with it being the home town of a US Air Force base. The micro-economies of all three are productive, leading to Minot's economic healthiness.
Geography, demographics and weather may have kept outsiders from applying for the jobs. The sparsely populated state of just 640,000 residents is in the far northern Great Plains, one of the remotest regions in the contiguous United States.
Parts of North Dakota, including the northwest where Minot, a city of about 40,000, is located, can be as cold as Alaska during winter months.
It's freaking cold in ND!! Who'd want to live in a tent there??
the same ones that have internet access in these tents so they can read this.
beat me to it
Because it is perfectly straightforward for somebody in a tent in Sacramento both to get themselves to Fargo. The poor are noted for their high mobility.
The logic and sarcasm....it burns
....and wi fi attainability.
You can dissect my statements however you please but the fact of the matter is that someone who's motivated to seek gainful employment can in fact secure a job. With a company like this its not uncommon for their to be some sort of reasonable relocation package or help. Especially if they're having such a hard time finding people to keep their successful business running.
Crying about how difficult it is for a homeless man to move across the country is a waste of hot air as far as I'm concerned because it can be done. He's already in a ing tent....go live in a tent where the jobs are. Better yet check into a shelter because in a town with employment rates doing so well there is bound to be plenty of beds available.
Go ahead and just keep making excuses for them. They feed off that like they do our garbage.
I would never expect a moron like yourself to think that a homeless man could log on to the internet from the public library free of ing charge. God forbid he find a resourceful way to seek gainful employment.
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But, but, but in your OP you implied the homeless can't possibly be resourceful! Are they resourceful or not?
They're resourcefull enough to somehow find a sharpie to write on their cardboard sign.But, but, but in your OP you implied the homeless can't possibly be resourceful! Are they resourceful or not?
Easier said than done but I understand where you are coming from. I watched a show last night about people getting evicted from their homes. Sad indeed.
I hope and pray that you'll never be in that situation. Or anyone else for that matter.
Yeah ok, the reasons they are there are by choice more often than not.
So more than likely no I won't be.
And you have proof of that right? I know there are those who choose that lifestyle but I won't judge them.
Yeah ok, the reasons they are there are by choice more often than not.
So more than likely no I won't be.
Many of them are fully capable of being resourceful enough to find work. However most won't.But, but, but in your OP you implied the homeless can't possibly be resourceful! Are they resourceful or not?
And some will.
I do because the homeless is who my business hires.
Go with my cousin a few times to hire workers and you would be SHOCKED at the response.
More of them are mentally ill and are indeed unable to work.
Most won't because they would make more living off the government.
That simple.
The guy by the side of the road holding up a sign probably lives in a nearby house and does an acting job for easy cash.
Most actual homeless don't advertise. A sign would double as a bulls-eye.
That % is? The tent people article was interviewing recently unemployed people who were relegated to tents. Specifically a car salesman off the top of my head. I don't think he was mentally re ed. I'd guess 10% maybe 5% of the homeless are mentally unstable and probably shouldn't be on the streets and deserve better. In no way are "more of them" or most or anywhere near half of them mentally ill.
even less would prompt that behavior. My father in law quite his 35k a year job for the 2k a month he gets in disability because "why work for more when you can earn a fair amount by doing nothing". Pretty ed up and very common.
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