Sorry it's been awhile since I've posted, but things are going pretty well despite me getting the flu, bronchitis, pnuemonia, or whatever it is from two different directions. I'll explain more later. Thank you also to several people who have complimented the blog thus far, and its new look.
At work, I normally patrol the south area of Detroit, namely Downriver. Every day I pass down Eureka Rd. near Southland Mall, I see either one or two people standing at the curbfront, no matter what the weather is, holding signs advertising those "blue tooth headsets"... those things that flash blue that you use with your cellphone, I think.
I keep thinking to a speech President Bush made about two years ago regarding the job situation in the country, and remember part of his quote that ended with "the jobs Americans don't want."
We in Michigan, of course, laugh our rears off at that statement. With an unemployment rate already at 8%, and with predicitions that it will go to 9.5% fresh in our heads, where are the jobs Americans don't want? Michiganders will take them!
Still, I can't believe that people sign up to work at a cellphone store, and don't even get to stand behind the counter to demonstrate the gadgets. Cellphone stores are hot, and it's good to know the technology. But if I work at a cellphone store, I would want to know the technology and develop good customer relations, not stand outside and wiggle a sign telling customers to come in. Incidentally, there are similiar signs littered all over the outside of that building, which is NOT invisible to drivers along Eureka.
True, the Little Ceasars pizza station two miles down uses (or forces the employee to use) creativity when they hold signs. They dance, move the sign around, and definitely make drivers stop and wonder (what they wonder is anyone's guess).
The sign people are out more than the mail delivery personnel, in every conceivable weather condition. If the job description doesn't say "must work outside", why do they have to do that, when they could be learning about the cellphone business?
I can understand that position being on the short list of jobs Americans truly do not want. But the list is not as exhaustive as President Bush claims it is.
Ask any American forced onto the street.
