Have you ever wondered how that guy at the cashier stand got his job when it takes him five minutes to scan a sweater?  Have you ever wondered why customer services administrators need assistance more than half the time for questions posed upon them?  Have you ever wanted to kill that lady making your morning latte because she never remembers that you don't want whipped cream on your coffee?  I have.  Do you ever wonder how these people got passed the "Name" field on the application sheet?  If you are one of those people who are sick and tired of finding an overwhelming level of incompetence in today's workforce, you should read this rant.  I write this tonight out of the anger, annoyance, and humour that evolve out of insanity. Yes folks.  This week's installment was inspired by our fellow man that can' t seem to understand the importance of a short-term memory and at least the equivalent mind of a high school graduate or a GED (Good Enough Degree).

I am gamefuly unemployed.  I work my ass off trying to find a job and yet, can't find anyone who would want to hire me.  I walk into a store and find
sales clerks walking around, half asleep, talking to co-workers, or sneaking away for an extended bathroom break.  I ask some of them question about the store just to see how qualified they are and most of the time they have no idea where the khaki pants are even though they are the display window item for the next WEEK.  I can go into a store ONCE and I will know where almost everything is.  Maybe a good memory isn't a good thing today.

Oh no!  If I see the supervisor slacking I'll report him and a nationwide conspiracy will snowball out of control!!  The only way to stop it is to kill me or buy my silence.  Damn my photographic memory.  *sigh*

I apply and don't get hired for reasons unbeknownst to me.  Friends say it's just bad luck.  Parents say I'm too qualified and that employers want individuals who will work for scrap and take the abuse management has to dish out due to the built up aggression caused by years of sexual frustration.  Well, those aren't my parents' exact words.  People hate their jobs so they take it out on the people they supervise.  They don't want to hire someone like me because I actually see what's wrong with a work environment and will do something to change the faults.

Note to reader : If you currently hold a job that you feel you are unappreciated for and over qualified for but still work hard and do your job well, I commemorate you and I hope you know that you are indeed appreciated by at least one person.

People now a days don't see the value of qualified employees.  They'd rather have a barely literate person taking your lunch order of a Big Mac and fries on a console with PICTURES instead of numbers (I'm serious) than someone who can read at least up to a 9th grade level, knows the difference between "your" and "you're", and doesn't think that "genre" is a big smarty word. Come on now people.  What is this country coming to?  More and more often I see arrogant teenagers who love to drink and burn books when they run out of firewood getting jobs as supervisors to computer programmers in a clothing store.  I see ditsy little girls selling cosmetics they can't even pronounce the names of.  I see FUCKING FOREIGNERS who can barely speak a lick of English getting hired as sales associates in a predominantly white area. And I sit here with qualifications up the yang, verbal skills through the roof, math skills unsurpassed without a calculator, medicinal background, computer background, can fake a smile with the best of them, and still remain unemployed.  Am I the only one who finds this odd?

And I'm not even going to start on those who have MORE THAN ONE job.

What do you people want in your employees?  You want a pee-on who will work for that damn $5.25 an hour (before taxes), take your abuse, work holidays,
and will not complain about managerial problems because they THINK they can t find another job anywhere else.  Oh little do they know that they are the exact people wanted.  You people sicken me (the employers).  You are nothing but a bunch of sadists you hear me?!  Damn you and your supposed corporate, upper advantages!  I say burn in hell and may you dance barefoot on top of the shattered wine bottles of the eventually successful people who you refused to hire those 30 years ago.

Way to go Bill Gates and your anti-social disposition.

You're afraid that if you hire someone on the evolutionary ladder who is above a lobotomized ape with no legs and hooks for hands that they will take
your job.  Well you know what?  You're correct on that one!  I hate this.

Sure it's different in some fields that will require skill and knowledge (i.e. the cliche rocket scientist and brain surgeon and the not-so-cliche atom splitter or nuclear war planner) but when it comes down to it, those job fields don't apply to the larger majority of the population.  Computer programmers are in high demand and are hired based on skill.  Maybe I should look into that field.  I hate computers though.  Oh well.

Another day, another dollar ... for someone else.  I have laundry to do and dishes to wash and books to read that do not require me to choose my own adventure nor do they require the skill of reading inside white bubble text spaces.

Horrible rant.  Check back for major editing.  Thanks for reading and never hate your job unless you are sure you can find better.  Bottom line is that you should be happy that you HAVE a job at least and if you act incompetent enough, you may get a promotion.  Good deal huh?

"Strategic incompetence is a great thing, and I hope you, too, have a chance to benefit from it some day."

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