How bad is it out there?

Dammy

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Last night I was told about a company in South Florida who advertised a job for receptionist at a small office. They got 300 qualified applications for that single position. Hope there is a change in the White House before the fecal matter hits the rotating air foil or there will be starvation happening again in the US. We can not take Keynesian economics for much longer and survive as a society. Or is that apart of Obama/Soros' plan?
 
I'd second this. Hiring here for receptionist and general office type of work we're seeing 200-300 applicants come in. And Minnesota has about 1/4th the population of Florida (~5M vs ~19M). OTOH positions which are highly trained such as Network Infrastructure and Systems Administration we're seeing 10-15 applying in the same timeframe. Though that's to be expected as Minnesota DBA unemployment rate is ~0.2%.

Clearly no one wants their Wal_Mart jobs so a bit better pay for something a bit better is in demand. Though the same workers aren't even bothering to try for a technical field. Though I have gotten some interesting ones in the Systems Admin area - a part time High school coach, part time Home Depot stock with a strong aptitude for learning wants the challenge of learning computers so he applied. Yeah just who I want to deploy Exchange 2010 for me. (That last line was sarcasm.)
 
I'd second this. Hiring here for receptionist and general office type of work we're seeing 200-300 applicants come in. And Minnesota has about 1/4th the population of Florida (~5M vs ~19M). OTOH positions which are highly trained such as Network Infrastructure and Systems Administration we're seeing 10-15 applying in the same timeframe. Though that's to be expected as Minnesota DBA unemployment rate is ~0.2%.

Clearly no one wants their Wal_Mart jobs so a bit better pay for something a bit better is in demand. Though the same workers aren't even bothering to try for a technical field. Though I have gotten some interesting ones in the Systems Admin area - a part time High school coach, part time Home Depot stock with a strong aptitude for learning wants the challenge of learning computers so he applied. Yeah just who I want to deploy Exchange 2010 for me. (That last line was sarcasm.)

Actually, I think Wal-Mart paid more then that job opening. I'm almost certain it did not have benefits, unlike Wal-Mart. Things are so bad down here, in January FL lost 38,000 jobs and the unemployment went down by 0.1%. If you do the math, that means a whole bunch of people just stopped looking for jobs to over come the loss of 38K jobs to drop unemployment down by 0.1%. At least we are not as bad as California and their 10.9% unemployment (U-3 so it's probably over 21% U-6).

You are still using Microsoft environment? Ewwwwh!
 
Apparently we need workers in the north because the mining boom has soaked up all the available locals. Right now the government is thinking about buying airfare for the unemployed (because having the government send people up there is better than the free market solution of increasing the pay until it actually attracts people to move up there).
 
Actually, I think Wal-Mart paid more then that job opening. I'm almost certain it did not have benefits, unlike Wal-Mart. Things are so bad down here, in January FL lost 38,000 jobs and the unemployment went down by 0.1%. If you do the math, that means a whole bunch of people just stopped looking for jobs to over come the loss of 38K jobs to drop unemployment down by 0.1%. At least we are not as bad as California and their 10.9% unemployment (U-3 so it's probably over 21% U-6).
Minnesota continues to add jobs. We're at 6.7% unemployment down from 7.3% the same time last year. We're nearing falling off the extended Federal unemployment benefits. Feb 2011, was our best month in home sales since 2006. Still lots of inroads to make but people here are very positive.

You are still using Microsoft environment? Ewwwwh!
4 years ago I stepped into a partial Novell environment. My first swipe was to get rid of that crap and get it all to Microsoft. The EA contract preceeded me so it was easier to get the road finished. Overal I'd say we're 90% Microsoft, we have bits of iPads, Macs, Android, iPhone, iSeries/AS 400, Linux and VMWare. As for Exchange, IMO, that is one of the few applications that really doesn't have a good competitor yet.
 
Believe it or not, they still use Novell here at work. And yes, it's pure junk. It goes down at least once a week and all your network shares are toast. What makes things worse is that they love to keep critical files used by email clients and even dev tools on network shares, meaning, when Novell goes down the entire office comes to a complete halt. Internet traffic however is completely unaffected and tends to get heavier use because of this. :D
 
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