Sacramento Bee: Young and old apply as McDonald's serves up jobs

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Young and old apply as McDonald's serves up jobs

By Darrell Smith
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Published: Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1A


Michael Smith and Julius Giles couldn't be less alike. Smith is 63 with three children in college and a veteran of 25 years in the local television business; Giles is a 23-year-old Sacramento City College student and a single father of a 2-year-old daughter.

But on Tuesday afternoon, the two shared a table at a Sacramento McDonald's: unemployed, applications in hand, waiting for their names to be called.

"Forty years between us, and we're at the same table," Smith of Sacramento said.

A lot of people might as well have been at the same table.

Smith and Giles were among thousands who showed up at McDonald's outlets throughout Northern California and western Nevada – trying to land one of 1,000 jobs the company was filling during a hiring day event. More than 100 applicants came to the K Street site alone.

The complete piece is at: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/18/2965989/jobless-young-and-old-line-up.html#ixzz0wxfhiSuw

[fasttense]

1. Ahhh, the wonders of "free" trade never cease. n/t

[rocktivity]

2. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" award

McD's has always tried to hire retirees and the very young--they're the easiest to exploit...

:boring:
rocktivity

[HughBeaumont]

3. Oh Beautiful for wealthy guys

Monsanto's waves of grain
for Cargill's profit majesty
ConAgra's fruited plain!

Corpmerica! Corpmerica!
Our workers cannot eat!
Instead of mobs, we fight for jobs
that cannot make ends meet!

A sad, SAD commentary on today's economy. This way of life is a fucking sham.

[d_r]

4. But I thought the unemployed were just lazy:?

I thought that they could go work at mcdonalds if they would just stop being lazy? What do you mean people are lining up trying to get jobs at mcdonalds?

[Javaman]

5. Young and old get together...

I remember Heinlein's book, "starship troopers", (nothing like that crappy ass pile of shit movie), at the end of the book, the war isn't going so well. The young recruit we follow through the novel is now a hardened vet. While on break from the front, he encounters his dad. His father is much older. I put him in his 50's or 60's.

The father was a new recruit.

Two ships passing through the night on stormy seas with no let up in sight.

We have a new reality folks.

[marmar]

6. That movie was responsible for some of the worst acting in history.....

The bugs were by far the best actors in the film.

[Javaman]

7. If there ever was a film prison, everyone on that shoot should be

put in jail for crimes against art and humanity.