With the constant news of layoffs, it is so refreshing to hear about a company who is hiring!
With the constant news of layoffs, it is so refreshing to hear about a company who is hiring! This week I spoke with Joanne Dichard, Employment Manager of L3 Communications/Microdyne Outsourcing Inc. and she had wonderful news. Microdyne has just been awarded a contract that has them looking to hire 50 full time positions. The positions will be Monday through Friday, with a great starting pay of $10.50 an hour for the first 90 days and unlimited earning potential after. Click here to apply on line.
The front page of the Bangor Daily News has an article about the “official” state jobless count likely too low. The reason that the unemployment numbers might actually be hirer than what is reported include the following reasons: people have exhausted their unemployment benefits, there are people working, but their full time position has been cut to part time, or perhaps they have completed a temp position and not eligible for unemployment benefits at this time. There is also a group of “discouraged” workers out there who have been unemployed for so long that they have given up on finding work. The 2008 estimate of people that fall into this group in Maine is 10.9%, which means about 73,000 Mainers.
These numbers show that the current recession is affecting many of us. I know it affects my family as my husband’s teaching position has been part-time since last September. How has this economic slowdown affected your family? What types of things are you doing until you find that new job? I would love to hear all of your feedback!
My mother-in-law is getting let go from the job she has had for over 12 years!, It is really sad that our schools especially can’t afford to keep positions that help our kids!
Here’s how bad things are where I live. I’ve worked for the county school board for 10 years now and my employer has been threatening us with unemployment for the last 10 months as a means of using it against us in our yet to be settled bargaining agreement.
This is the time, America, to really figure out if you want to go through this again. I say we teach our children to be self-sufficient and really explore the entrepreneurial spirit so when they graduate college they can pave their own way to success and not have to count on their employers.