On Friday about 3,000 people in Chicago lined up at a municipal jobs fair for 55 posted job openings.
… some of them waiting in line for up to six hours – hoping to apply for work with the city, but many left frustrated after learning the only way to apply for a job was to go online.
WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports Mayor Rahm Emanuel stopped by the job fair, expecting a warm welcome from job seekers, but instead ran into lots of ticked-off people.
Rodney Booker said, “I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something.”
“They better give me…”
I guess this will be replacing “E pluribus unum” as the national motto…
Funny that…the political party that deems getting photo ID onorous/unfair…mandates that these job applicants must go on-line to apply….
He should go to China for work, plenty of Wal-Mart job opportunities with perks and discounts over there.
That in a nutshell is life here in Mordor. Truth be told the only way you get a gubmint job is Mordor is through connections.
I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that Rahm Emanuel never thought that he’s grow up one day to be mayor of a large African city.
Were it not for minimum wage laws, FICA, Obama-care (now), union-friendly legislation, etc etc etc all those slaves to leftism could be productively employed. The only useful service they can legally offer anyone now is their vote for their slave masters. In exchange, their keepers loot the future to give them enough free stuff to keep them around for the next election.
Rogue, I think it goes like this “e pluribus, mea liberum effercio”
Congratulations Mayor Emanuel. Those are your people. Enjoy.
Be sure each and every one of them voted for Obama, if they fail to get a job he’ll take care of them.
LOL .
The job fair was such a success (55 jobs for one year) that they will have another one again sometime in 2013 ..lol
Two views of the reason I don’t even -drive- through Chicago. Offical incompetence and citizen incompetence melding together into one titanic snafu. Add a dash of “f- you, me first!” and you have Chitown.
Makes me nervous just driving around the damn place, never mind through it. I’ve never EVER so much as stopped for gas in Chicago. Its the butt-crack of the Midwest.
Hammer down, fast lane, devil take the hindmost.
Paulinmordor, my condolences dude. Advice, houses are cheap in Phoenix AZ and the weather is better.
I would have more sympathy for these people if 103% of them hadn’t voted for the status quo last Tuesday.
The operative phrase is…wait for it…
“they better give me”.
Or what? Is that a threat?
Nothing better than Emanuel’s deer-in-the-headlights look.
Early Christmas present.
Icing on the cake is his name being Rodney…I’m sure he thinks he’s also a King…
To paraphrase an old saying “be careful what you vote for”. Welcome to Obamaland Part Deux folks. Enjoy!
“They better give me…”
Great suggestions here regarding that new national motto. Perhaps best shortened to “Gimme!”
That is also a perview of the sort of health services they are going to be getting.
55 job openings in Chitown? Musta been the 55 who voted for Mitts.
To funny, the Chicago machine is well oiled and running just as the thugs like Rahm and Axlerud want it to be. Heard in the lineup I think, “Da man wat givn me da fone and free gas an payin ma mortgage, and now da man seein me a job, sup man, who dat man, why he my shuckn jive hero, yo man, Imagit a Walmart gift certificate trudat”. Welcome to Obamaville.
Emanuel says this one was such a success he will hold another one in 2013. Heh. For which jobs I wonder. Does he really expect the workforce to grow? No layoffs in the future ? I would guess that by this time next year he will be afraid to go anywhere without a armed escort. If this job fair was a success, I would sure hate to see what a failure looks like.
“… expecting a warm welcome from job seekers, but instead ran into lots of ticked-off people.”
Not ticked-off nearly enough.
What Rogue Male said.
The US is fast moving into the “the government pretends to pay me, and I pretend to work” mindset.
Does he really expect the workforce to grow?
Why yes peterj, yes he does. From a SunTimes article, “The city said another fair is planned early next year after seeing the demand.”
So employment levels will be determined by how many people are looking for work, not by how much work needs to be done. What could possibly go wrong?
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Rahm said that the frustration wasn’t with the six hour wait ,but with the three year wait for those jobs to be created.
So,who is he trying to deflect blame onto with THAT statement? The former Mayor,Bush?
A decent Democratic Mayor would have hired at least half those applicants on the spot! They need jobs,and it’s up to the guv’mint to provide jobs,so, get on with it Rahm!
Gimme will change to it’s mine mine mine, and the left will just take what they want.
What is really and truly sad about this is that neither the local newsies nor Hizzoner see their own self parody.
Too frakkin’ funny.
I went through this once! I stood in a line for hours with 1000 other people for a job in a newly opened toy factory.
1000 + applicants for 3 jobs.
Jimmy Carter was President.
I along with 997 other people did not get the job.
“… expecting a warm welcome from job seekers, but instead ran into lots of ticked-off people.”
We will no when the people are really ticked off when the appearance of a liberal, democrat Mayor or city Official sets off a tar and feather trip to the City limits sign.
Then folks will start understanding just what they voted for.
Take a long position on petards.
Laughably, likely ALL of those high-paying government jobs will be paying more and offering more benefits than had they been contacted out to the public sector, but – of course – that option flies over the heads of the leftards in charge
mhb23re
Ah, yes. Demanding to get paid just for showing up.
And people wonder how Obama got elected….
If thier city jobs than this is a bogus enterprise. Trust me they have already been spoken for. This is just theater.I suspect its no different there than Edmonton or Calgary. By law you post the jobs, by Union those who get them already work for another department or its a family relative.
“I went through this once! I stood in a line for hours with 1000 other people for a job in a newly opened toy factory.
1000 + applicants for 3 jobs.
Jimmy Carter was President.
I along with 997 other people did not get the job.”
Yes, I had some very similar experiences in B.C. in the early 1980s. That’s when I learned a lot of the lessons that seem to have been unlearned today.
As I see it, a large black-market labour force will develop, as people opt-out of the free benny/minimum wage lie.
>>>Rodney Booker said, “I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something.”