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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-out-for-the-jobs dept.

dsoltesz writes "This coming week is the Government's first Virtual IT Job Fair. A number of agencies are participating, including NASA, the Smithsonian, and the National Gallery of Art. While government jobs aren't exactly the highest paying in the nation, IT positions do rate in a special pay category (see tables 999A-F depending on where you want to work). The online job fair lasts from April 22 to 26, and hopes to fill 230 positions. Here's a quick list of IT Series 2210 specialties, or if you want a little light reading, try the 155 page, 1.7 MB detailed spec."

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  1. Of Course by The+Cat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nice troll.

    Plenty of people have jobs

    Plenty of people are living hand-to-mouth, have no savings, own nothing and are two paychecks away from being broke.

    Plenty of people are underemployed, have nothing to do most of the day, and are tormented by management on purpose to get them to quit.

    Plenty of people try to work hard and do a good job and get fired anyway.

    Plenty of people have to choose between child care and medical insurance.

    Plenty of people have to spend their retirement account on food.

    Plenty of people have no meaningful contribution to their jobs.

    Plenty of people spend the majority of their work day in unproductive meetings.

    Plenty of people have to allow the company to control every moment of their workday, and attempt to control every moment of their off-time.

    Plenty of people lose those jobs when management decides to reorganize the paradigms.

    Plenty of people can't afford a house, ever.

    Plenty of people can't afford to raise a family.

    Plenty of people have watched their unemployment run out and the phone never rings.

    Plenty of people have to lie in order to get hired.

    Plenty of people have given up on ever finding another job, anywhere.

    Yes, of course. All those thousands of people. It's all them. It's NEVER the fault of the incompetent people doing the hiring. It's never the fault of the businesses. They can do no wrong. They are blameless in their pursuit of profits.

    Always better to blame anyone who complains than to fix the problem.

    1. Re:Of Course by The+Cat · · Score: 3, Interesting

      OK, I'll feed this troll some more:

      lol Ironic to use the word "troll."

      how do we "fix the problem"?

      Yeah. Let's ask for a simple answer that'll fit in a text box so we'll have something to ridicule.

      I don't know. I'm not that smart. What I do know is that what is happening is very corrosive, and business better get a handle on it, or the bill is eventually going to come due: meaning there won't be anyone left to buy their overpriced low-quality products.

      Houses at $600K ($13K/month to qualify)

      600 sq. ft. apartments at $1000/month (over 50% of the average wage)

      $7 for a sandwich

      Adds up. And there are two kinds of jobs where them houses, apartments and sandwiches are (and it isn't SV): $7/hr. at Wal Mart and that VB job that's been on Dice for three years. And THAT'S IT. I don't know how these other people are paying the bills, but my guess is that none of them have a current resume.

      (For those of you watching at home, yes, that's ONE HOUR and 20 MINUTES OF WORK for a sandwich, after taxes.)

      There, how's that for a troll? Maybe I'll get another 3: Insightful, eh?