keepthefaith

Well in the interest of giving credit where credit is due, we just got our company Blue Cross health insurance renewal for next year effect 12/1/19. Coverage cost under the HMO plan for a single employee is dropping $80 a month. That's never happened in our 15 year history. Question is, who gets credit, Trump?

Well I don't know what to believe now because David Axelrod on CNN just said Joe had his best performance.

Yes, I've been saying this. Spending will continue to rise, revenues fall some during an economic pullback and then all of the sudden there will be re-newed concern for debt which erodes confidence among consumers, the financial markets and debt holders present and future.

Given the other character in the news that has been recently referred to as Spartacus, that's a good idea.

Should we put a ban on further development and use of automation in manufacturing and service companies? To do that is to risk being left behind by a world willing to innovate to a greater degree. The U.S. has deployed increasing automation for decades yet somehow we've grown jobs pretty steady with the growth of population. The fears of automation destroying jobs have been written for decades. There is always an Amish style life to fall back on for those that don't want to be part of a modern economy.

As automation gets less expensive and as the cost to employ and provide benefits for low skilled labor rises, tasks done by humans will be reduced. It's another argument FOR reducing illegal and low skilled immigration. The auto industry has already experienced this as MANY higher paid union factory workers have been replaced in the plants with automation.

LOL. I worked at a gas station/car wash for about a year in the latter 70's in Buffalo area. Full service back then, no self serve. There was a crew of about 4 of us working at all times. All part-timers mostly high school students. Wage then was a bit over $2/hour and the minimum wage rose about 15 cents. The boss gathered us to tell us. Most of the conversation was about what we needed to do better/faster going forward. We had been paid commission on sales of oil, trans fluid, windshield washer fluid and dry gas in the winter. He reduced the commission. Funny how that works.

Well with 20 candidates originally all promising giveaways, it's tough to stand out. Give Beto some credit for carving out his own niche.

Does anyone know of a secure car friendly lot within a mile of so of the stadium?

Two words young lady: Personal Responsibility.

I'd be shocked if Trump went for that without significant revisions to the agreement such as longer/lower enrichment levels and a variety of peace related commitments.

I was in SE Florida working and had picked up a rental car from airport on the 10th. On the 13th IIRC at about 4:00 PM I began the drive back to Chicago and went nearly straight through listening to news radio non-stop. Got to O'Hare next day to turn in the rental car and retrieve my car from parking ramp. Eerily quiet there. Not a plane in the sky, no traffic at the airport except for police and security. On my next flight a couple weeks later myself and several other men were moved to first class seats. They packed first class with dudes as a human shield I suppose to keep any bad actors away from the cockpit door. The plane was less than 33% full.

That's AOC crazy.

Shouldn't Bob Kraft weigh in on this? He's got more personal experience with all things women.

Agree. He may not even know the difference between right and wrong in this particular area. When you read his texts it's fair to say he doesn't have much respect for women.

A criminal investigation can still happen.

Agree but employees with shytshow personal lives often make for bad employees.

He sounds like a fine fellow.

Well that's very optimistic with other "experts" only giving us 10.5 since the 12 year prediction of doomsday.

Funny. I'd be surprised if the Bills or another team don't add the Duke to their roster at some point. Bills lack a bigger body WR.

Well, Ford has had 4+ straight years of increasing revenue but decreased earnings recently due mostly to overseas losses and some materials cost increases. They cut a lot of heads this year, slashed overseas workforces and facilities, re-organized the engineering group in Dearborn and they have a lot of new vehicles just or soon to be introduced which include the 2020 Explorer and Escape and Transit van. The 2019 Ranger pickup is selling extremely well. 2021 they will begin to sell the new Bronco and there are others including more hybrids and electrics coming. Moody's IMO is late to expressing concern. Ford's made a ton of changes which should help financially next year. The auto industry though will see declining sales overall if/when the economy flattens out or recesses.

If that company location closed thereafter then it seems like you were a casualty of cost cutting in a company that had a losing operation. The folks I'm talking about literally show a different job every year or less. In their cases there is likely a performance issue. Today though we found a great candidate. Hopefully you're in a better place now. If not invest some time in yourself and prepare for and look for a better opportunity. It's rarely been easier to get hired in many parts of the country than it is now. It won't happen all by itself though.

If Brady's healthy, Brown will stay in line IMO. If Brady is hurt or out for a stretch, Brown may melt down.

Maybe some of the positions were temp jobs and if that's the case people should indicate that is was temp or a contractor position. A bunch of these particular applicants all have the same few distribution companies in their history and we're aware that those companies either don't make the contractors full hires if they don't like them or they cut the dead wood. Either way the series of several short term job stints is a huge red flag. We've hired some of those folks and it usually doesn't take long after they're hired to see why they can't stay employed. They crash and burn on the very basics of doing a good job and we're pretty patient and understanding with people and won't fire as a knee jerk reaction like some companies. It's too costly for a company to hire and fire rapidly. In Illinois I believe someone only has to be employed for 30 days for that employer to be charged for unemployment benefits.

Somewhat anecdotal and a small sample but this is typical. We just posted a $15/hr operations job on indeed for a week. Got 110+ resumes. I looked at all of them, many of them twice. I'd say that almost 50% of the people are what I'd consider unemployable based on having a recent history of 5+ jobs with an average time in those jobs of 6 months each. These are people with decent experience but their track record of not being able to stay in a job likely makes them a negative candidate for nearly every employer. The quality of the resume's overall (how the resume was written) was pretty bad even when lowering expectations for a lower paid job. Easily 30 of them terrible. There is a field within the indeed app for applicants to basically sell themselves, write something that makes them a good candidate. Almost nobody entered anything into that field. Of the rest of the applicants, about 15 were contacted by phone or email, 5 or so of those never responded. Of the remaining 10 or so, 6 agreed to an in-person interview after a phone conversation. 2 of those never showed for the interview, didn't call to cancel or re-schedule and didn't respond to follow up calls. Of the 4 that were interviewed, only 1 sent a note after the interview thanking, etc... This is all from the past 2 weeks. The company is in an area outside of Chicago that isn't poor. It's economically diverse with affluent, middle and lower income people . This is what the bottom of the economy looks like. It's filled with people with poor skills, poor work habits/ethics/integrity and very poor job seeking skills. It's people who rarely do their best. It's people who put a very low priority on their career. This population doesn't get described in statistics and in my view it's a big piece.