tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2944737129535145839..comments2024-03-28T12:13:06.135-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The job market reflects a hollow economyPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-170798863087628162014-09-10T09:36:37.859-05:002014-09-10T09:36:37.859-05:00I don't think that the "job-market comeba...I don't think that the "job-market comeback" means the same to those bureaucrats as it does to the folks who aren't sitting in .gov jobs.0007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-20354106708637656832014-09-10T06:34:50.540-05:002014-09-10T06:34:50.540-05:00I know I've pointed it out before (without und...I know I've pointed it out before (without understanding quite why its happening) but …<br /><br />You are aware that the bulk (even the overwhelming majority) of those 'newly created' jobs in HES (as well as administration, usually as part of the bureaucracy) are women only posts.<br /><br />The situation is mirrored here in the UK. Manufacturing, Industry and even service (and the military of course) jobs traditionally used as 'bread-winning' posts by men have been decimated over the last few decades (and continue to be so). The 'only' jobs created have been by the 'social care' type posts caused by 'care in the community' (closing hospitals and moving it to 'peoples homes', so one hospital nurse is now replaced by twenty community health care assistants, with a massive bureaucracy to support them, … all of them women only). The expansion of government (be that local, regional or national) with its concomitant increase in (predominantly female) administration posts. (We here have areas, cities, where >60% of the working age adults are employed directly by government, the overwhelming majority being women. Then include those on unemployment, supplementary or sickness benefits and it's not inconceivable that they are all being supported by taxing two small business owners in a district – a slight bit of hyperbole but not much).<br /><br />The trend to part-time posts is also interesting as, yet again, it favours women (here at least). A woman with children (unmarried) can work up to 16 hours a week and still receive her full benefits. Then there is preferential hiring for women to 'balance the inequalities' (well except for any industry/profession where the majority are women). There are also regulations which force employers to provide 'family friendly', 'job sharing' hours when requested. So we have a position where an employer 'must' employ women, who then 'force' the employer to divide up previously full-time positions into multiple part-time ones. Result? Only women can survive on the part-time salary (with added benefits) so men (and to an extent young, single, childless women too) are driven from them. (This has happened in my current area, hospital nursing, where a ward previously had a number of full time nursing positions sufficient to suport an individula and even a family, now they have a plethora of 0.5 fte and even 0.25 fte posts which can only be taken by someone with 'supplementary' income. Result? The wards struggle to schedule cover as all the 'parents' want the same time off to 'look after' their children. They regularly, obviously, fail and so must employ additional part-time 'agency' staff – the very people who would have been working for them full time otherwise).<br /><br />I still cannot fathom why? What aim, if one exists and it's not just reaction/pandering (women do appear to vote en block after all), could explain it. Is it yet another unintended consequence of the deliberate destruction of the family, with husbands/fathers replaced by 'sugar daddy' State? I just don't know, and yet it is patently societal suicide.Ablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18109723804885979128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-6580021349909138732014-09-10T00:01:35.858-05:002014-09-10T00:01:35.858-05:00It's coming. That's the short line explana...It's coming. That's the short line explanation of it. In the common modern words "S**t's about to get real." If you don't have access to a solid job as you state it may be time to learn something or become a jack of all trades so that you can survive till this politically inspired hell can pass. If it ever does. Jesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17973419641321027031noreply@blogger.com