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Do you work?Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
RetiredDo you work?
Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
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That sounds like good charity work for you to do in your retirement and it won't cost me or anyone else a thing.
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Sounds like a very good idea. It will help those who are down on their luck due to circumstances beyond their control but it will also give real data on how many of this group genuinely have no interest in work. I give the idea a thumbs up.Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
Oh this job is way bigger than one guy could handle..and if your worried about cost since we are already throwing millions at the homeless problem now it would be cheaper.
I see, that is no excuse not to get a job.Retired
its been tried many times before and failed everytime,, and now that business's are competing with the governments unemployment that pays more than a business can afford it will fail again,,,Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
its been tried many times before and failed everytime,, and now that business's are competing with the governments unemployment that pays more than a business can afford it will fail again,,,
if a homeless person wants to work they can get a job anytime they want,,
the majority are homeless by choice,,
There is no unemployment under truer capitalism only underpayment.Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
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I am finishing a 30x40 metal building and have to use my wife for labor because I cant find anything short of top priced labor to help,At a particularly low point, desperate for work, I resorted to an outfit known as Labor Ready. Compared to my previous, white-collar profession, the work I got through Labor Ready was hard, dirty, and sometimes unpleasant, and paid minimum wage; but it was honest work, and once I proved myself, I was able to consistently get work through them.
For a while, whenever I encountered a panhandler, begging for handouts, I told him about Labor Ready. I worked very hard for what meager earnings I was making, and I figured that anyone else who was willing to work as hard as I was, and to observe some very basic ethical standards, could make just as much money as I was; and anyone who wasn't willing to do that much certainly wasn't going to get any handouts from me out of my earnings.
I don't think any panhandler that I thus advised ever showed up at Labor Ready, and it didn't take me very long to realize that I wasn't doing the organization any good by trying to refer those types to it anyway.
I was much, much, much more sympathetic to panhandlers before this experience, than I have been since then.
Anyway, based on my experience, I have little faith that Ben Thomson's idea would work out anywhere near as well as what he imagines.
You really think haircuts and new clothes qualifies a person for a job?Why not have a program where you take able bodied homeless people and give them a makeover with haircuts and new clothes and take them around to all these businesses, primarily the services industry, that are supposedly hurting for people and get them a job...'Nobody wants to work anymore': How a simple phrase became the oversimplified scapegoat for every problem plaguing the American labor market
sure it is....if you are secure why go get a job making 10 bucks an hour?....I see, that is no excuse not to get a job.
If I don't need one why take one from someone who does?I see, that is no excuse not to get a job.
At a particularly low point, desperate for work, I resorted to an outfit known as Labor Ready. Compared to my previous, white-collar profession, the work I got through Labor Ready was hard, dirty, and sometimes unpleasant, and paid minimum wage; but it was honest work, and once I proved myself, I was able to consistently get work through them.
For a while, whenever I encountered a panhandler, begging for handouts, I told him about Labor Ready. I worked very hard for what meager earnings I was making, and I figured that anyone else who was willing to work as hard as I was, and to observe some very basic ethical standards, could make just as much money as I was; and anyone who wasn't willing to do that much certainly wasn't going to get any handouts from me out of my earnings.
I don't think any panhandler that I thus advised ever showed up at Labor Ready, and it didn't take me very long to realize that I wasn't doing the organization any good by trying to refer those types to it anyway.
I was much, much, much more sympathetic to panhandlers before this experience, than I have been since then.
Anyway, based on my experience, I have little faith that Ben Thomson's idea would work out anywhere near as well as what he imagines.
I don't think you need an MBA to flip burgers or wait tables or man a cash register or work in a stock room.You really think haircuts and new clothes qualifies a person for a job?
