Job growth soared ahead and the unemployment rate fell in February, as the economy gained momentum and people who had been stuck at home because of January snow returned to work.
Fucking snow taking all our jobs. GO BACK TO CANADA, ILLEGAL. WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE.
Employers added 192,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday. The number closely matched analysts’ expectations, accelerating from a revised 63,000 jobs added in January. The unemployment rate edged down to 8.9 percent, from 9 percent.
So if you still don’t have a job, you are a worthless human being who doesn’t deserve to make a living and support your family! Obama ’12! Winning the future with out you! [WP]
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Big spike in open jobs for mortuary attendants, autopsy aides and apprentice embalmers in Arizona expected.
"Job growth soared ahead and the unemployment rate fell in February"
Actually it's the rate of people who gave up looking for work that soared.
A slight drop in unemployment means it should be perfectly OK for the new crop of Republican governors to go around laying the shit off of state workers.
The national consensus was "Fuck you, one in ~11.1% of people!"
How long until Boehner takes credit?
Did orange paint sales increase?
Oh, you know it. The TeaBaggers/Republiklans are going to point at this as proof that more tax cuts create jobs.
Post hoc ergo propter ho-LY CRAP THESE PEOPLE ARE MORONS!
this is terrible news! we have to fire everybody everywhere! austerity now!
Alas, all the growth was in retail gun sales. The bright side is that we should soon see an upswing in retail bullet sales and a demand for emergency services personnel, as a result.
Just as long as there ain't no Union Ambulance drivers…
Have the Republicans credited tax cuts yet?
Too late:
"The improvement seen in this report is a credit to the hard work of the American people and their success in stopping the tax hikes that were due to hit our economy on January 1," Boehner says in a statement. "Removing the uncertainty caused by those looming tax hikes provided much-needed relief for private-sector job creators in America."
Fuck, really. Just fuck.
Oh, go fuck yourself, boner.
I'd love to see his, (their), heads assplode if anyone in the media wold point out, (they won't), that these tax breaks have been around for 10 years now, including, the recent decline in jobs numbers. I'm not holding my breath.
John Boehner is the "First!11!!" troll of politics. Sadly, many thinks that makes him factually correct.
Not to worry – Scott Walker will insure that this increase in jobs WILL. NOT. STAND.
This is a red alert to Republicans — things don't suck enough, so they'll be ratcheting it up soon.
It's even worse when they use their salaries from the gummint to pay union dues, as I hard some douche bag on NPR assert the other day. That forces the taxpayers to support unions, against their will!
Of course using your tax dollars to support Lockheed Martin and Boeing and wars all over the place is your civic duty.
I heard that, too and was sickened but not surprised that it went unquestioned.
It won't last. Most people will soon be unable to afford their anus burgers and the newly-hired flippers will be laid off.
BTW, you socialist unemployed bums, the Caveman is hiring for one, possibly two, live-in night/weekend managers for his little hotel, out here in the Pacific Northwest.
So if you like weird hours, lousy pay and a surly, snarky boss, feel free to contact me.
Yeah, you'll still be poor, but in a place with beautiful mountains, the ocean, surprising (for such a little town) cultural events, and an almost equal balance of scruffy hippies to annoying teatards. Actually not too bad a place to be poor, especially if you like lots of rain. I've gotten used to it, anyway.
I'd link to my website, but it's down for updating till later this afternoon. Send your MA- and PhD-laden resumes to: downtownhotel (at) olypen [dot] com.
(This job posting made possible by Republican Tax Cuts – NOT.)
It's morning in the Pacific Northwest!!! Happy days are heReagan!!!
i would SOOO do this if i lived anywhere near your beautious town.
Actually, the job comes with a live-in apartment, on-site. The apartment is the bulk of the compensation offered, ergo the "lousy pay" part.
Yeah but then you couldn't complain about your boss on Wonkette or goof off on Wonkette while you're supposed to be working.
Lol, that didn't stop Autoo (Some of you may remember him from long ago. He worked off and on for me for about a year, and more often than not, spent his time posting stupid, profane stuff under my log-in when he was bored. I got him back, however. When he finally opened his own account, I went and posted a bunch of witty and insightful stuff under his name. Then he left in a huff to family reunion in TX and I haven't heard from him since.)
Seriously, if you come work for me, use own damn Wonkette log-in. And the Night Managers are more like "night watchmen," they have to be here to check in an occasional guest, and answer the phone, but there's precious little work involved. It's a really tiny hotel; 17 guestrooms. Lazy Wonkette Commenter's Dream Job.
Is it cool to bring my taxidermy bird collection? Can my mom stay in the nearby house with me?
Well, the night managers' apartment is unusually large for a two-bedroom affair, and we have plenty of live seagulls on the roof, so why not dead ravens in the house?
And as far as your mom? Pix, pls. Big plus if she looks like Janet Leigh.
Perhaps if I ever get tired of this hustlin' bustlin' life I lead in The Big City (aka Seattle), I'll come join your sleepy Olympic Peninsula paradise.
Who needs money, as long as fast internet and Wonkette commenting privileges are included?
If I was at a point in my life where I could do this I would jump at the chance just to escape being in Texas.
Learn from my example young people – kids ruin everything.
Y'know, kids can be trained clean hotel rooms; just sayin'.
Unemployment Drops Below 9%; So, Feel Even Worse If You Still Don’t Have a Job
I do. Thank you.
I'm going to start drinking early today…sigh
There you go! Putting your liver to work!
Yes, this is because the Republicans took over the House. Just like how the economic bubble bursting happened because the Democrats took over the House and Senate in 2007. And the economic boom of the 1990s was because of the hard work of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the 80s and early 90s. And the recession in the early 1990s was caused by the economic deicisions of the Carter administration in the late 1970s.
Yes, there are people who honestly think this way.
Well Madison, WI had a bunch of hires for pizza delivery folk, so recovery has to be just around the corner.
Actually, the riot police are just around the corner. Recovery is two blocks down, turn left at the dumpster.
Now that is funny as hell LOL
Teachers get summers off! And firefighters only work when there's a fire. But the taxpayers work 24×7, except when commenting on wonkette of course.
Who do they expect will put out the fire when Scott Walker burns down the Reichstag?
Heaven knows I wish I were miserable now.
I am curious, how many here are without jobs?
Thank you for getting that.
As a freelance writer/designer/artist/gigolo, I'm lucky enough to work from home, yet unlucky enough to all too often not have work.
It's possible that I started commenting on our Wonkette because I didn't have a job. It's also possible that I don't have a job because I started commenting on our Wonkette. It's an ironically vicious cyle, but I guess that getting paid in 'p' is better than not getting paid all.
You have a very interesting bio. I am a professional trophy wife. I am assuming that's what Jeff means by "poon"
Snark aside, see the Daily Show's takedown of Fox Business last night I highly recommend.
I'm actually launching a new business thanks to these tax cuts! Just kidding.
I'm launching it because I'm sick and fucking tired of working for The Man. Eat the rich, I say. And then take their money.
you doing the right thing 100% just don't become one of them in the end
speaking as an unemployed person i can vouch for the crappiness of the feelings and jack, you are EXACTLY spot on.
what makes it even better is getting a rejection notice – on this same day – for a job you really wanted and thought you might actually get.
just sucks.
I kinda wish they went back to mailing notices. These electronic ones aren't any fun and I want to do something fun with all that paper, like wallpaper my bathroom or make a ballgown out of rejection letters.
I mean, I guess I could print out all the emails, but letterhead is prettier. And besides, I usually swear loudly, delete it out of my email and go get drunk (especially for a dream job that, once upon a time, I thought I had a shot in hell of getting…)
back in chicago, we used to hang all our audition rejections on our doors. badges of honor.
job rejections – when they come at all which is so so rude that can't take the time to say thanks but no thanks – are a lot more embarrassing.
Slightly OT: I lost my job in early December of last year because the GM decided he could cut my paycheck in half and not be called out for it. Of course, he was more than called out as I threw him across the room, but whatever. The good news is that I heard he was finally tossed out on his ass yesterday. Small victories are sometimes the best.
That is cold comfort I'm sure, James, but that last bit is welcome news. Not everyone gets a comeuppance to temper the bitter.
And hey, at least you didn't get jilted on Employee Appreciation Day — all I got was a "quick heads-up" that I'd need to pack my cubicle contents to be relocated down the hall by Monday (why? "The head-boss just likes to mix things up every so often", that's why); then just this afternoon was given an update to "make that Monday morning have it all ready to move." Fine, OK, like I needed another excuse to go by the liquor store.
It's lose-lose, employed or not. I now have the addendum of Finish Packing Newly-Procured Johnny-Walker boxes on Short Notice to look forward to over a couple hours' return to the empty office this weekend.
You know, It's comments such as this that make me wonder "is an upfisting really an appropriate response?" And then I just forget what's happening and stare at shiny things.
Cheers!
I suppose it could have been worse. I, or you, could've been ordered to pack boxes on Employee Appreciation Doofus-Day b/c we'd been canned on said day.
Snark aside, I sincerely wish you well in your pursuit of gainful employment &, am glad I didn't come across trying to one-up your tale, which is a scenario increasingly familiar these days/ years.
Sorry to read of your troubles, CJ. May I share my small victory? My first job was layout for a small printing company run by a classic Napoleon asswipe. Suffered through enough years to take my skills elsewhere. Many years later, I'm a freelancing proofreader for a nice ad agency and am told I've been hired full-time. Who do I find standing at the front desk while heading out for a celebratory smoke break but that old bastard (his company had long since gone under) asking about the proofreader position. I had to pause long enough to stone-face him, knowing I already had the job he was applying for.
So weird, the GM of which I spoke had the same napoleon complex, which of course assisted in the aforementioned midget tossing. What the hell is wrong with little people.
Hey all you sad-sack unemployables: I hear there's a job opening at Heart Attack Grille.
Oh nevermind. I see that Donner-Froh said basically the same thing in the very first comment. Reading comprehension FTW!
Good news can never be shared enough.
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