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I’m not a woman. But I’m a bit amazed that a story like this still needs to be written. Maybe I’m naive. But women shouldn’t have to worry about being treated any differently than men in the working world.
You can do a simple Google News search on “employment” to quickly ruin your day. I did it this morning, and one of the first links that popped up was this one, reporting that unemployment in Oregon has gotten bad enough that the state’s employment department recently had to hire more people to handle unemployment claims.
How many of us really take the entire Thanksgiving holiday — or any holiday, for that matter — off from work? I know I don’t. I’ll snatch moments here and there to work on assignments that have looming deadlines. I’ll do some editing work. I might even spend an hour working on the layout for the real estate magazine that goes to press in early December.
We’ve all worked with bosses we hate. But according to this story I found in the Chicago Sun-Times, those very bosses we despise might actually be sending us to an early grave.
This story highlights Obama’s recent calls for Congress to take quick action to revive the U.S. economy. Obama was scheduled to address the issue again today in his his second news conference in as many days. Obama is asking members of Congress to set aside their differences to come up with a new economic stimulus plan that will be ready as soon as Jan. 20 so that the new president can sign it on his first day on the job.
But in today’s tough economic times, the job seekers are coming to these advisers in such great numbers that their worries and fears can’t help but strike an emotional chord even with the professionals trained to deal with unemployment numbers and tough job searches.
Yesterday, I wrote about the tough job market for recent college graduates. Well, let’s go one step worse: How would you like to be the proud owner of a new M.B.A., one that cost you loads of money to earn, only to enter the job market when the big financial firms are going through what may be their worst crisis?
Today’s graduates, though, have it far worse than I ever did. How’d you like to be entering the job market today? Unemployment is at a 14-year high. In October, 240,000 people across the country lost their jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Just when I thought the news from the job-hunting world couldn’t get any bleaker, I ran across this story on the Web site of the Detroit News. It’s all about how parents can best break it to their kids that mom or dad is no longer employed.
But here’s the thing: No one’s happy that the government is considering bailing out another industry. You can certainly argue that the Big 3 automakers brought their financial problems on themselves. Why weren’t they looking toward the future when they developed their product lines? Why haven’t they found some way to compete with the Toyotas and Hondas of the world? But all that doesn’t mean that the auto-industry bailout isn’t necessary. |
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