unemployment

unemployment

fiction
edward w pritchard

No one expects to be sick unless they are sickly, which sometimes starts in childhood and it's sad if you know and care for someone who is sick a lot. If you are healthy and strong you jump off of small ledges and shake a stick at snakes on the trail and sometimes push your chin at a bully who threatens or intimidates others.

Companies now a days won't talk civilly to unemployed workers. They behave in a high handed way and hire special recruiters to not return phone calls and then obtusely only do hiring synthetically only over the internet.

Those same companies want and expect everyone to be their jolly old customers however. They sponsor a couple of little league teams, which is good, and then tramp around in their yellow tee shirts with their company name on it and carry a coffee mug with their company logo on it and everything is hunky dorry, they think.

That's not enough. Unemployed people are like sick people, at least temporarily, maybe for a few years. Companies if they expect all of us to be their loyal customers have to be above board, take the high road, at all times, and be responsible caring citizens. If companies are not, and you find out, stick your chin out at them and don't go to their stores. Support the army of the unemployed even if by the grace of God you aren't currently in their ranks.

Don't patronize a company who is crummy in it's hiring practices and tell others to shun and avoid them also. Ask not for whom the unemployment bell tolls, it tolls for thee. Solidarity and compassion.