150 Applicants for 30 Jobs
November 15, 2009 at 9:25 PM Leave a comment
So sad: The Salvation Army branch in Grand Junction, Colorado has received 150 applications for 30 bell-ringer jobs “that pay $8 an hour.” It usually “struggles” to find enough people and historically has accepted “applications into December.”
Not this year, apparently. (People are desperate for jobs — even temporary jobs — and they’re happy to take ones that pays as little $8 an hour. Meanwhile, the food bank I volunteer at counts pennies; it rushes to the store when ramen noodle soup is on sale for 17¢ per pack and it and rations toilet paper. Meanwhile the big boys blow their bonuses on trinkets at Saks and Tiffany’s and reserve a place in The Hamptons for next summer. The structure of our society is so out of whack.)
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