“After more than a month of protest demands for better employment opportunities and benefits, Accuracy in Media saw fit to test their desires with…employment applications. Our ‘headhunters’ were treated to every excuse as to why these jobs aren’t good enough for them. We guess middle management opportunities with healthcare and 401k benefits aren’t desirable anymore.”
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the hundreds of job applications they had on hand were indeed genuine. Churchwell explained that while the “head hunters” in the video were not real (and did not at any point reveal to the protesters that they were employees of AIM), the organization did comb over the Washington Post classified page for real jobs, and printed PDF applications for every opportunity they could find for college grads or entry level positions with opportunity for advancement.
That is with one caveat: Churchwell admitted that the Solyndra application (the failed energy company) was the only application that was not real, but the group put it in with the other opportunities to see how aware the protesters were of current events.
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only two protesters requested job applications from AIM “head hunters” that were at the Occupy DC camp for hours this past Friday.
According to him, the only applications that the protesters took were from Disney and Solyndra.
Can’t get to it; a big white box obscures the middle of the screen for me.
Most people I personally know who’ve been at the protests already have jobs; they’re there to protest for opportunities for others, as well as equality of taxation, not moving jobs out of the country, real penalties for those who fucked the economy over with the subprime mortgage/banking situation that required a bailout starting in the Bush administration, etc. For those who don’t have jobs - do they have the qualifications? Not everyone has a college education, and the first part of your quote refers to middle management, which belies the “entry level” part of your quote.
Missed the edit window - got to it directly via their own link. Wouldn’t it be immensely hypocritical to work for Bank of America, Walmart, or the Dept. of Defense if you felt they were wrecking the nation? I’m sure they had their share of true slackers, but people who have a job can afford some standards, surely.
I know how to create jobs. Lets make all businesses grow bamboo on their roofs. And then they would have to hire someone to go up and check on the bamboo. And they could make money on it by selling bamboo flutes. And the birds would like it too.
I think I’ll head down to Occupy Hogtown and see if I can find some home grown crazy.
That’s how I knew Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were faking it. They claimed they were protesting against slavery. But they had escaped so they weren’t slaves anymore. Obviously nobody would ever protest something unless it personally benefited them.
Just in case anyone is wondering who Accuracy in Media is; they are the guys who worry that Fox News is too far to the left. I’m sure there are plenty of 99% nutbars, but AIM aren’t exactly the people to ferret them out.
Why do I get the feeling that the story could just as easily have been “Occupy D.C. protestors demonstrate hypocracy; no longer anti-corporation-as long as they can get hired”
I have a two jobs, and I go to Occupy Denver every Saturday. I go with two other people, one who is retired and one who has a good job. We meet other people there, who have jobs. We go when we can, because of others, to help bring attention to so many wrongs that are being committed, to bring supplies and money and moral support to the stout hearted souls that Occupy 24/7.
And truly, even with two jobs, it’s not so great for me, my age is against me, health issues, etc, ad nauseum. But come rain or come shine, we’ll be there as much as we can for as long as we need.
They knew they would not get the jobs. Dropping a pile of applications on a table is not much of a way to hire people. The applications would likely be not treated well at the business. Do you think the company would feel committed to providing a job to someone who picked an application off a table at an occupation.
The story is insulting BS.
Add to that, people are generally smart enough to realize that an application for an industry you’re not trained in / have experience in is a giant waste of time. Hell, I have (recently, even) been asked to apply for jobs such as logistics or machinist. I say “I have over ten years of experience in creative services, visual communications, and marketing,” and never hear from them again.
I don’t even know what logistics entails, beyond a very, very broad layman’s sense of “organizing stuff.” Why would they hire me instead of someone with ten years of logistics under their belt? Why would I apply for a logistics job knowing that? That application is going straight in the trash as soon as the hiring manager sees it.
So were they “offering” a wide variety of job types/industries, or did they just assume that everyone would and should jump at the chance to be a machinist, qualified or not?
I’m going to be *that *person: They really need to learn how to spell acquired. Spelling errors? Put that one in the round file. That’s what employers do, right?
In other news: There are flakes who protest. Shocking!
I wonder if they left anyone on the cutting floor that said, “Hmm, applications. What are the jobs? Just showing me an application doesn’t mean there’s a job opening associated with it.” I did notice one protestor asked, “What kind of jobs are you hiring for?” It was left unanswered, but apparently CEO of Bank of America wasn’t one of them. Reply: “We do have a Bank of America job application though.” Great! Are they hiring? Yes, for tellers. How’s your credit? Not so good? Next.
They also told a couple of skeptical guys that “if you’re qualified, they’ll call you back,” but never told them what they were applying for. Why would anyone take the time to fill out a blind application for a job they may very well not be qualified for?
They also tried to offer the lady who “won’t do that” an application for the Ministry of Defense. In England? We don’t have a Ministry of Defense here. Sounds like that that was also a bogus application.
And what kind of flake provides, in writing, a great deal of personal information to a couple of guys on the street who don’t identify what company they work for waving a random stack of applications without associated job listings? No wonder they were unsuccessful in accumulating applications. I think they need to re-evaluate their conclusions.
Do many companies even take paper applications? - I mean, outside of the McDonald’s franchise (although the one by me has an “apply” terminal in it). Granted, I have far less experience applying for jobs than a lot of folks in this economy, but I thought it was all online and attach your resume now.
Exactly. Some of the lame excuses were kind of funny but their were cherry picked for that purpose of course. The job can’t be with any major company, especially defense which is everything in DC. It has to be part time and pay enough to support a whole family comfortably. I’m still looking for that job.
Also, do companies these days even give out applications for middle management positions? Those are typically the types of jobs you have to send a resume in for. You may have to fill out an application at some point, but typically not until after you’ve been called in for an interview.
And, as for the Department of Defense, does the federal government itself take paper applications? From what I’ve seen, a lot of their hiring is done online nowadays.
In England? We don’t have a Ministry of Defense here. Sounds like that that was also a bogus application.