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2011-10-18 11:22:13 AM
which will make kids more desperate for candy, which plays right into the hands of the pedophiles. obama's job-killing policies are getting our children molested, how can people continue to support that monster?
 
2011-10-18 11:38:38 AM
Funland is going to be a whole lot surlier next summer.
 
2011-10-18 11:38:45 AM
And if those kids can't find jobs, they're lazy.
 
2011-10-18 11:50:26 AM
But they're the 53%!
 
2011-10-18 11:53:29 AM
Bad move. Which group would you prefer be desperate, the generation raised on Little House on the Prairie, or the one raised on Grand Theft Auto?
 
2011-10-18 11:54:31 AM
I thought everyone who didn't have a job was too lazy to get one?
 
2011-10-18 11:54:48 AM
That's it, kick the bottom rung off the employment ladder, and when you finally die, some 30 year old that has never had a job will be unsuitabe to replace you. Two generations farked in one fell swoop.
 
2011-10-18 11:55:15 AM
The obvious answer is to deport the old people "fer takin' our jerbs".
 
PJ-
2011-10-18 11:55:43 AM
Barbigazi: Funland is going to be a whole lot surlier next summer.

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'Surly only looks out for one guy... Surly!'
 
2011-10-18 11:56:37 AM
This could get epic.
 
2011-10-18 11:56:45 AM
Reminds me of that SouthPark episode...

next we'll be overrun by people from the future looking for jobs.
 
2011-10-18 11:56:51 AM
As a retail manager, I can't say I'm disappointed that the irresponsible teenagers are being flushed out by retirees who show up early, work their asses off, and pick up whatever shifts they possibly can, be it night, weekend, holiday, whatever.

/Only in my mid-twenties myself, still, get off my lawn.
 
2011-10-18 11:57:25 AM
Suck it, kid.
 
2011-10-18 11:57:42 AM
I was wondering why the lemonade pitcher at grandpa's stand was being filled from a plastic pipe running up his pantleg....
 
2011-10-18 11:57:52 AM
We need to sacrifice a few virgins to the Job Creators.
 
2011-10-18 11:59:11 AM
punishmentforshoplifting: As a retail manager, I can't say I'm disappointed that the irresponsible teenagers are being flushed out by retirees who show up early, work their asses off, and pick up whatever shifts they possibly can, be it night, weekend, holiday, whatever.

/Only in my mid-twenties myself, still, get off my lawn.


So theyre Mexicans?
 
2011-10-18 11:59:43 AM
tacks: I was wondering why the lemonade pitcher at grandpa's stand was being filled from a plastic pipe running up his pantleg....

Okay... I cringed at that one.
 
2011-10-18 11:59:44 AM
punishmentforshoplifting: As a retail manager, I can't say I'm disappointed that the irresponsible teenagers are being flushed out by retirees who show up early, work their asses off, and pick up whatever shifts they possibly can, be it night, weekend, holiday, whatever.

/Only in my mid-twenties myself, still, get off my lawn.


as an american, i think it's sad that retirees whose retirement funds have evaporated are forced to work minimum wage retail positions on holiday shifts.
 
2011-10-18 12:00:39 PM
I'm 32 and stuck in a job like that for 2 years. I am, by no means, the "senior" person in regards to age. There's people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who are stuck behind cash registers or on the floor, making barely above minimum wage (0.25 or 0.50 more... depending on whether you're seasonal or regular).

It's not that any of them are too lazy to find a better job. Hell, I've got a decade of actually useful experience, and I can't find a farking job, and I apply for at LEAST 2 jobs per day.

This job barely helps make ends meet, but I keep it because long stretches of unemployment = "We'll toss out your application and resume without a second glance" from HR people.
 
2011-10-18 12:01:52 PM
The Crepes of Wrath: Bad move. Which group would you prefer be desperate, the generation raised on Little House on the Prairie, or the one raised on Grand Theft Auto?

except that the first group was raised to go out and do whatever is necessary to provide, and the second will simply log into fark and complain about it.
 
2011-10-18 12:02:18 PM
I have a college degree and I definitely am not about to work a seasonal job.
Plus, they rarely have the gluten -free, vegan snacks I need.

Older people can have those jobs
 
2011-10-18 12:07:35 PM
Yeah my out of work roomate is asleep when I leave asleep when I get home yet manages to have money for booze and smokes. But she just wont go for any job it has to meet her criteria. She may be homeless soon
 
2011-10-18 12:08:05 PM
Our medical advances have farked us. 50 is when people should be dying not taking crap jobs.
 
2011-10-18 12:09:53 PM
groppet: Yeah my out of work roomate is asleep when I leave asleep when I get home yet manages to have money for booze and smokes. But she just wont go for any job it has to meet her criteria. She may be homeless soon

You can't get her on at the bootstrap factory?
 
2011-10-18 12:10:35 PM
netcentric: I have a college degree and I definitely am not about to work a seasonal job.
Plus, they rarely have the gluten -free, vegan snacks I need.

Older people can have those jobs


A masters degree in beatles? Excellent thread merge.
 
2011-10-18 12:11:41 PM
There's a sweet little old lady who works at the local Hardees. Whenever I go in, she's there,smiling and happy. I know she'd be happy doing something else; spending time with the grand kids, shopping or gardening but I guess life caught her short and she has to work to survive. It mus be pretty depressing to get up, put on a uniform and stand for eight hours filling meal request, making change and telling people to 'have a nice day'.

This has me upset because I can't yell at her for poor service, cold fries or why I have to get my own soda from the machine. I've tried but every time I start to rant about how filthy the soda machine is, she just looks at me and I melt.

They need to bring back that angry minority guy. He had buttons that could be pushed. "Why can't you keep this thing clean? My fingers are getting sticky fer chissakes! You lazy slug. Don't threaten me! I know you're Parole Officer, buddy. Come across that counter and I'm calling him!" Oh why did he have to kill that guy that looked like me in the grocery store parking lot?
 
2011-10-18 12:12:02 PM
It's simple, older people have more experience selling rubber noses.
 
2011-10-18 12:12:21 PM
Man. It's a dog-eat-dog world out here, and everyone's wearing Milk Bone underwear.
 
2011-10-18 12:12:22 PM
Mr. Parker: Our medical advances have farked us. 50 is when people should be dying not taking crap jobs.

there is a lot of truth to this statement. working 15 years longer has pushed a generation out.
 
2011-10-18 12:12:48 PM
LincolnLogolas: I'm 32 and stuck in a job like that for 2 years. I am, by no means, the "senior" person in regards to age. There's people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who are stuck behind cash registers or on the floor, making barely above minimum wage (0.25 or 0.50 more... depending on whether you're seasonal or regular).

It's not that any of them are too lazy to find a better job. Hell, I've got a decade of actually useful experience, and I can't find a farking job, and I apply for at LEAST 2 jobs per day.

This job barely helps make ends meet, but I keep it because long stretches of unemployment = "We'll toss out your application and resume without a second glance" from HR people.


Hate to break it to you buddy but working in a halloween store gets your resume thrown in the trash from HR people too.
 
2011-10-18 12:14:50 PM
groppet: Yeah my out of work roomate is asleep when I leave asleep when I get home yet manages to have money for booze and smokes. But she just wont go for any job it has to meet her criteria. She may be homeless soon


Barbara Streisand will sing for her.
 
2011-10-18 12:14:57 PM
The Crepes of Wrath: Bad move. Which group would you prefer be desperate, the generation raised on Little House on the Prairie, or the one raised on Grand Theft Auto?

You got the wrong age group there,kiddo.Us boomers were raised on Milton Berle,Perry Como,Ed Sullivan,Paladin,Gunsmoke,etc.Which means we will sing you a song,laugh at you, and then blow your crybaby asses away. ;)
p.s. I am now on my way to my 16 hr./wk job @ 7.25/hr.,so don't talk back.
 
2011-10-18 12:15:39 PM
The employee doesn't choose who gets hired. I read it some article.
 
2011-10-18 12:15:49 PM
groppet: Yeah my out of work roomate is asleep when I leave asleep when I get home yet manages to have money for booze and smokes. But she just wont go for any job it has to meet her criteria. She may be homeless soon

How is it roomin w/my ex-wife?
 
2011-10-18 12:16:29 PM
Uh oh. A target = me.
 
2011-10-18 12:17:41 PM
Hmmmmm

I figure all those protesters on Wall Street may drive away people who want to turn in their resumes in person. Maybe it'll give me an advantage.
 
2011-10-18 12:18:53 PM
Harry Freakstorm: There's a sweet little old lady who works at the local Hardees. Whenever I go in, she's there,smiling and happy. I know she'd be happy doing something else; spending time with the grand kids, shopping or gardening but I guess life caught her short and she has to work to survive. It mus be pretty depressing to get up, put on a uniform and stand for eight hours filling meal request, making change and telling people to 'have a nice day'.

This has me upset because I can't yell at her for poor service, cold fries or why I have to get my own soda from the machine. I've tried but every time I start to rant about how filthy the soda machine is, she just looks at me and I melt.

They need to bring back that angry minority guy. He had buttons that could be pushed. "Why can't you keep this thing clean? My fingers are getting sticky fer chissakes! You lazy slug. Don't threaten me! I know you're Parole Officer, buddy. Come across that counter and I'm calling him!" Oh why did he have to kill that guy that looked like me in the grocery store parking lot?


I'm sure you've been told before, but you win a key to the internets.
 
2011-10-18 12:19:45 PM
LincolnLogolas: I'm 32 and stuck in a job like that for 2 years. I am, by no means, the "senior" person in regards to age. There's people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who are stuck behind cash registers or on the floor, making barely above minimum wage (0.25 or 0.50 more... depending on whether you're seasonal or regular).

It's not that any of them are too lazy to find a better job. Hell, I've got a decade of actually useful experience, and I can't find a farking job, and I apply for at LEAST 2 jobs per day.

This job barely helps make ends meet, but I keep it because long stretches of unemployment = "We'll toss out your application and resume without a second glance" from HR people.


Plenty of time to fark off and biatch on Fark though I see...I guess its cheaper than seeing a therapist and getting over your "issues"
 
2011-10-18 12:20:22 PM
asciibaron: Mr. Parker: Our medical advances have farked us. 50 is when people should be dying not taking crap jobs.

there is a lot of truth to this statement. working 15 years longer has pushed a generation out.


Not to mention sucking social security down to nothing.
 
2011-10-18 12:22:01 PM
Now that Gramps has a job lets move in with him!
 
2011-10-18 12:25:54 PM
I can think of a job that the youngsters can get that the old people like me cant get into. To apply, just check your local recruiting centers because they always need more troops and they dont want a 40 year old like me. Opening up another front of war would pretty much fix our entire country, if the front is big enough. Hell they could even switch to "pro-ACTIVE" recruiting to get people work like they did in the old days.

/I would happily die in a shiatpile screaming in pain in a country that hates and pisses on me if my family got a big enough payout for my trouble, but too old and fat to get the millitary love that our youngsters are lucky to get.
//lucky bastards
 
2011-10-18 12:27:13 PM
And to give the younger folks just one more kick.....the older people in Washington are going to retire and leave them with the Nations credit cards, MAXED out.


/you're gonna pay
 
2011-10-18 12:27:33 PM
The media has been printing this story every year since the dotcom crash. Besides, the Occupy "movement" has shown that most people don't want to work, they just want to complain about not working.
 
2011-10-18 12:28:19 PM
The best one was the second page of the 66 year old who worked at a hospital as an HR manager gets fired off. Love the part about need insurance because wife sick and how old was she? So he managed to have no retirement working at a hospital ! Acting like he would starve if he did not that was good. Maybe if you stop spending on your snowflake's flesh knuggets you could have money to eat.
 
2011-10-18 12:28:19 PM
asciibaron: Mr. Parker: Our medical advances have farked us. 50 is when people should be dying not taking crap jobs.

there is a lot of truth to this statement. working 15 years longer has pushed a generation out.


Work till you get sick then die, it is the new bootstrappy way! Why wouldn't anyone want that in this new era! By the way, Bank of America had over 4 billion profits this last quarter, so bonuses all around! It's all good news, all we need is some more tax cuts for the rich and it will be a paradise. .
 
2011-10-18 12:30:10 PM
The Crepes of Wrath: Bad move. Which group would you prefer be desperate, the generation raised on Little House on the Prairie, or the one raised on Grand Theft Auto?

The latter. The old folks are often vets, are better shots, and have more firepower. The little snots with top score in GTA are just potential fertilizer.

young snot: hey, watch it old man, I got top score in GTA!
old fart: BLAM!
young snot: Arrrgggggggggg....
old fart: BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
old fart's granddaughter: nice grouping, Grandpa.
 
2011-10-18 12:31:20 PM
AcneVulgaris: That's it, kick the bottom rung off the employment ladder, and when you finally die, some 30 year old that has never had a job will be unsuitabe to replace you. Two generations farked in one fell swoop.

The food service robots will be here within a decade to put them all out of work, anyway.
 
2011-10-18 12:33:47 PM
punishmentforshoplifting: As a retail manager, I can't say I'm disappointed that the irresponsible teenagers are being flushed out by retirees who show up early, work their asses off, and pick up whatever shifts they possibly can, be it night, weekend, holiday, whatever.

/Only in my mid-twenties myself, still, get off my lawn.


This. I've got 9 employees now. Every single one of them is over 40. They work. They do GOOD work. And if they screw up they fix it and learn not to screw up that again. In other words, they take ownership.

The young snots that apply are whiners who think the world owes them a living.
 
2011-10-18 12:35:51 PM
groppet: Yeah my out of work roomate is asleep when I leave asleep when I get home yet manages to have money for booze and smokes. But she just wont go for any job it has to meet her criteria. She may be homeless soon

Maybe she is turning tricks in your bed while you are working. Have you checked backpages?
 
2011-10-18 12:36:13 PM
Mr. Parker
Our medical advances have farked us. 50 is when people should be dying not taking crap jobs.

I'm going to assume you're just trying to be funny. but it didn't work.
 
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