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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We're down to looking to hire blue-collar workers now -- bottom feeders."
This is a remark I just overheard from one of the corporate execs where I work.
He then went on to joke that he won't be seeing these applicants wearing Italian suits like their usual exec-level interviewees.
Take a guess which political party he belongs to. (Hint: He refers to our president as a Socialist.)
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)of the poor and disadvantaged.
Iris
(15,670 posts)and your company can't find qualified people?
(The insult against working class aside, it sounds like something stinks up in your workplace)
They can't find guys with Italian suits that are willing to work for what they want to pay.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)now i wont vote for romney cause when i got laid off my republican rep called me a moucher and a leech." like that woman in freeport. this is how they talk untill they have to deal with the republican agenda of unemployment. we're bottom feeders, freeloaders, the crap on their shoes, then the crap hits the fan for them and then it's "i was wrong, now im a democrat"
mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)Then they blame it on regulations, unions and single parents.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)that is disgusting. just sickening.
your co-worker's remark proves to my mind that we are in fact involved in class warfare, and it's being waged by dicks like him.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)thanking the American public for the fact that they haven't been marched to the fking guillotine. Yet.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Hugs!!
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)"I have no idea why your Audi is still running poorly, but I'm sure another $2000 will fix it."