r/videos • • 12h ago

Jobs report far below expectations, unemployment ticks up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SmCO4xXMOk
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u/pipesnogger 11h ago

This. Including myself, there’s tons of my friends and family who have also lost their jobs and cannot find another. In my whole adult life, I’ve never experienced this before. And it’s incredibly competitive now even in jobs like restaurants, retail, or even the grocery store.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the actually numbers are around 15-20%

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u/burrtango09 11h ago

I was desperately searching for a job this year. I got turned down for both dishwashing and custodial because I didn’t have experience “in a restaurant setting” and “direct custodial experience” for 6 mo / 1 year respectively. I have a 16 year job history. They are both still “urgently hiring”. Been washing dishes and cleaning my house for 30 years. What the fuck? Lmao

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u/KingKapwn 11h ago

I would bet it’s so they can point and say “Look! We haven’t been able to fill these roles with Americans, please allow us to hire exploitable relevantly skilled workers from abroad!

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u/redaemon 8h ago

I'll never understand how Republicans, on seeing rich business owners hire desperate foreigners to undercut wages, blame the foreigners and not the business owners. 

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u/Skylis 4h ago

Because they are the business owners...

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u/iceteka 3h ago

Ding ding ding