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Originally Posted by Blacklight
The recession is definitely not over. In my state, layoffs and jobless rates are increasing at rediculous rates. It's getting to a point here that you're competing with at least six other people even for menial low paying jobs now according to the news earlier this week.
Heck, My wife has a masters degree. She got laid off and now it's been two years and no one wants to hire her for anything other than temp work (She keeps hearing "Overqualified" a lot but I think "Overqualified" actually meand "We aren't hireing and we're just humoring you.").
She's now working as pretty much a minimum wage temp, in the same job she got laid off from, doing the same thing she was doing when she wasn't a temp. She says that 90% of her office is now temps. Oh.. and that means that she has no benefits, no health insurance, and we barely make enough money to even scrape by and we're having trouble even affording the tiny apartment we live in and it's pretty damn cheap for rent. The next step lower would be a homeless shelter. And god forbid something should happen where she needs to be hospitalized. I could use this time to rant about how much we need universal healthcare because we are EXACTLY the kind of people that it would help, but I won't.
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That really sucks when corporations use Temps as a way to get cheap labour without having to pay benefits. So much for loyalty from corporations huh?
Very sorry to read about this. We have been very lucky. Both of us are in pretty secure positions (knock on wood). With the prices the way they are here in Virginia, I don't think we could survive on one paycheck for very long (one of the many reasons I can't wait to move out of VA)