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In reply to the discussion: Most Of The New Jobs Were Part-Time [View all]warrprayer
(4,734 posts)40. bright side?
please point out to me the bright side of this.
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part-time, no benefits, and how many of them were of that horrid "on-call" variety?
niyad
Aug 2013
#1
One DUer said that many places only schedule you a few hours, expecting you to be 'on call'
CrispyQ
Aug 2013
#7
Are you nuts? People who are living these statistic have no bright side to look at.
matthews
Aug 2013
#48
certainly you forgot the sarcasm icon, because you could not possibly have posted this seriously.
niyad
Aug 2013
#57
Here's a BLS paper that describes the undercounting of the long-term unemployed.
leveymg
Aug 2013
#61
oh, dear, having a bit of difficulty following, are we? the post to which you were replying was
niyad
Aug 2013
#67
This has been happening for many years. And even many of the full-time jobs are contract work.
SharonAnn
Aug 2013
#6
Yes, now this is correct as they have their 2015 gig now. But greed works off the clock.
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#38
My applause was sincere. I'm pleased with this news. I'm not sure why you think it was a slam. eom
millennialmax
Aug 2013
#14
I don't think business executives give a shit about what happens next quarter.
winter is coming
Aug 2013
#46
An old scam that worked well under Reagan. Take away good jobs, replace them with bullshit
Catherina
Aug 2013
#24
You see, there are the people still with full time jobs that post here. They don't get it.
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#26
People with the jobs apparently do not see the ages of the people that wait on them, or help them..
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#33
I substitute for a school district, both certified and classified employment,
duffyduff
Aug 2013
#63