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Thursday, August 07, 2003
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I feel bad about what I did yesterday
I interviewed a guy yesterday for a job at where I work. Luke graduated from college during the heady days of 2000. Luke was hired into a IT management fast-track program at either MCI or Worldcom. It was a program were Luke worked on a series of projects, each completely different, in order to give Luke a broad IT background before he moved up to manager. I am sure when Luke was offered the job, he was anticipating making a 6 figure salary in just a few years. While Luke was still in his rotations, MCI and Worldcom merged, and the program got cancelled shortly thereafter. Luke was forced to relocate to Dallas to keep his job. The job Luke had in Dallas was performing small projects with the reporting software I use, with the idea that an internal client would like what he or she saw and would fund a larger project. As all departments at MCI Worldcom didn't have enough funding for their own people, no group saw fit to fund Luke's group and Luke was laid off in February.
So, I did the technical interview with another technical person, my manager and my manager's manager. Luke seemed nervous in the interview. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the first interview he had since he was laid off. His background totally worked against him - we want someone with in-depth knowledge of how to use our reporting software on a major project. I do a good job of getting out of a person exactly their technical knowledge, and I laid bare for all to see just how little Luke knew. When the interview was done, my manager's manager lead Luke out and when he came back, he commented about how shaken Luke was and that he almost offered to buy Luke a drink.
I am sure Luke was utterly depressed when he returned home. His big interview was an total disaster and future interviews don't promise much better. He is probably a bright guy with a lot of potential, but everybody is hiring only people with experience. His unemployment is about to run out soon (though I believe he can get an extension). And all of those dreams about having a 6 figure salary by now probably haunt and mock Luke. As Springsteen put it, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse".
6:46:50 AM 
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Dubya talks about his tax cut
Any American out of work is too many Americans out of work. And that's why it's absolutely essential that we work together to put a growth plan in place to create jobs for hard-working Americans.
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We made a great step toward economic growth when we worked together to pass tax relief. One-half of the checks have gone out; more relief is on the way this fall, which should help our economy. Beginning in January 1st, Americans will see lower tax rates, lower withholding from their paychecks and a larger tax credit. Tax relief is just now making its way in the economy, and there are some, it seems like, who are beginning to say, maybe we ought to raise taxes. But I can assure you, the four of us on this stage are not going to let anybody pick the pockets of the American taxpayer.
Of course, that was from 9/7/01. So much for the great step forward then, and I don't think the tax cut will be a great step forward now.
MaxSpeak lead me to this interesting tidbit - that the economic forecasts behind the president's latest tax cut predicted:
the economy to generate 256,875 jobs each month even without passage of the “Jobs and Growth Plan,” and 344,375 jobs per month with its passage. To get to the 5,510,000 jobs Dubya predicted would be generated by Nov, 2004, we only need 5,584,000 more to go! That is an average jobs per month of 394K. The Democrats need to start educating the public on the 5,510,000 number, otherwise Dubya will claim victory if he gets anywhere close to 1,400,000 jobs by Nov, 2004.
6:13:29 AM
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