I'll tell you how you don't get hired. By walking around and getting all shouty!
And I've only been working here for three days and I've already gotten to see my first downtown Boston protest!
I guess these kids are pissed because people aren't hiring enough youth.
"What do we want? Youth Jobs!"1
I think they might get better results by going into businesses and handing out resumes. Maybe checking the internet for listings. Networking. That sort of thing.
In fairness, I'm sure a lot of these kids are just along for the ride. Protesting is a chance to belong to something bigger than yourself, to become part of a mob. The desire to belong to a tribe is strong. Just stir in a little outrage at the cause of the day, and you've got instant camaraderie.
I guess a few parents and adults are along to support the cause as well. They're probably desperate for more youth jobs, so they can stop paying to feed their not-so-wee ones and start saving for retirement again.
Boston Common has a long tradition of protest and public assembly, and I'm excited to see what comes rolling through in the years ahead. So long as nobody decides to protest 150 year old tobacconists. In that case we might have a fight on our hands.
1 More specifically they want 5000 state funded minimum wage summer positions in the YouthWorks program. I'm not sure why the government should be creating busy-work when there's "help wanted" signs hanging in businesses all over the city, but there's a long tradition in this country for government paychecks, too.
I love the current job markets. At least my local ones.
The government says the unemployed need to get some jobs and are making changes to force unemployed people to get employed.
There are positions open for around 10% of the unemployed, most of these are requiring special skills or education which the unemployed rarely have. (I think 20-30% of positions open are for different kinds of experts or special experts, whatever the difference is. Quite many positions are for health care sector and you can't work there without specific education)
The companies are complaining how they are not getting applications, but most companies which are complaining are very remotely located without enough apartments and low wages - expecting professionals to be eager to daily drive 100km+ (per direction) for a really low salary job.
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It sounds like things are quite a bit more desperate in your country. Would you support the government using tax money to provide jobs for people who would be otherwise unemployed? If they are requiring people to go to work, should there be a requirement that basic jobs are available for them to do?
I definitely agree that available housing and transportation is a huge issue. And for jobs that require skilled, in-demand workers: they need to be in a place those workers would actually enjoy living, with amenities and culture.
The weird thing here is, these kids are asking for state provided minimum wage jobs, when there are "now hiring" signs all over the city for similar positions. But maybe they think whatever job the state provides will be more rewarding that flipping burgers, ect...
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Well we're not having that bad issues, luckily. We are managing fine for now, but the system is not built to handle difficult scenarios.
Personally I'd like to see some of the laws changed to allow more companies to be born AND start basic income for the citizens, making even temporary and part-time jobs truly good options without fear of pointless paperwork and at worst, loss of money.
However it's hard for me to imagine the situation you are in. Well not you personally, but if there are open positions but the job is not "good enough".. it's a shame.
I worked in a shop with a business degree while applying for better jobs. Some just skip that phase and rather be unemployed than take anything not on their level.
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At times it's good to tell government which we want so they know what we want NH
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That's true, but how often do you think the government listens to street protesters?
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facial recognition software is a thing.
run the video and photographs thru a digitizer...run the pictures of the faces thru the facial recognition software...add it to a data base...
when anyone applies for job..check their face against the database.
if it's innit they don't get hired.
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Funny you should mention that. I guess another thing they were protesting (although ineffectively, since it wasn't exactly on the placards) was to have youth criminal offences expunged from records at adulthood, rather than just sealed.
But we're heading to a world of greater consequences for lesser actions, not the other way around. Remember when you could be a dumb kid and your mistakes didn't live forever on social media?
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one of the things I am VERY grateful for was that the internet, and ubiquitous cameras weren't invented until after I was forty years old.
Very FEW people are still alive now that remember what I did when I was a kid.
that being said...
tough titty kitty..do the crime...serve the time.
life is tough..but it's tougher if you're stupid..
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"Very FEW people are still alive now that remember what I did when I was a kid."
Geez Everett, you must have done some crazy shit to be ridding yourself of witnesses, I assume the "FEW" got the message 😬🔫
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heh...I suppose that's one interpretation.
similar to.
my mom always told me to respect my elders...there's damn few of them left.
what I meant was that I've outlived most of the 'witnesses'...and it wasn't televised.
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Handsome Hubby was mentioning something about that the other day. He came from a small-medium size town in Idaho and remembers getting warnings from cops for things that would get kids cuffed and hauled into the cop shop these days. He wasn't one to push the boundaries. Getting caught scared him straight - he only has to be warned once (OK - there was a twice one time and his parents heard about it).
A few years ago my brother gave my sister's boy a small pocket knife (he was 12 years old) for Christmas. He took it to school to show his friends. They caught it. He was expelled for 2 weeks and sent to a different school that had a program for delinquent kids. It could have been confiscated and he had some kind of punnishment like such things have been in the past. The kid had never been in trouble once in his whole school career and my sister and her husband were strong members of the parent-teacher program. The only thing that mattered in this instance was the 'zero tolerance' policy.
The shootings that happen in schools are violent and tragic and possibly preventable but what about the millions of deaths due to teen drinking, driving, and sheer stupidity? Aren't they as important? How many millions of school kids go to school absolutely safe and miserable in the way every teen is supposed to? Isn't that important? (rant over)
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the schools I went to didn't care about pocket knives. (grades 1-12)..
nothing bad ever happened.
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The problem of "youth" unemployment relates to the failed government policies subsidizing "adolescence" through child labor laws, university loan guarantees, "diversity" university acceptance, forcing "diversity" hires, etc. No sane employer will dare hire one of these overly pampered, entitlement deluded "youths" with little to no skills other than their hair-trigger tendency to whine on social media and to report "injustice" to the labor department. Managing these useless humanoids for the next 80 years will be a monumental headache for our modern society.
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great article @winsonalden .
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Well, private sector jobs might hold them to some type of standard. Unlike government busy-work.
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