Murdock's Labor Day meme "Working class LIKES working two jobs in order to make ends meet"

[mdmc]

Headline: Many people work 2 jobs; few say it's a big problem
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070903/NEWS/709030323

The article admits that 62% of moonlighters need the additional income to make ends meet. I've never heard of Families and Work Institute, but they claim that "there was virtually no difference between single- and multiple-job holders in overall life satisfaction, family life satisfaction, married life, mental health or perceived success as a parent.

I work two jobs (one full time, the other 16 hours per week). Everyone that I know would much rather make a living working 40 hours per week. I don't understand how 62% work another job "because they need the money" but would not prefer to earn "enough money" at a 40 hour per week job.

The article points out that people are paying off dept or enjoy doing their part time job.

I can't believe the newspaper puts this under "A Life of Labor" headline. WITH PRIDE! - as if working two jobs is good for working families.

:mad:

[Fovea]

1. Another Big lie stuck up the ass of the workers of Amerika

And Murdock sweating and smirking like a pig saying
"Who's your daddy, Prole?" as he slaps your butt.

And Amerika just cries a bit more, and bites their lip.

[Nikia]

2. I remember seeing an editorial several years ago

In my hometown coservative paper about how the minimum wage shouldn't rise. Their suggestion for the working poor was to work multiple jobs. That seems to be the sentiment of this article as well. What bothered me most about the article was how it described having a second job as the "new normal". While there may be a few people who don't mind working two jobs and can handle it well, there are many people to whom this is detrimental.

[BlooInBloo]

3. It's "quintessentially American", dontchaknow.

[NMMNG]

4. What a crock

I've worked either substantial overtime or two full-time jobs just to survive since age 18. I'm currently working around +/- 90 hours a week at my job with overtime. I'd certainly not say that it didn't affect my quality of life/satisfaction/mental health. Having no time for leisure (other than the occasional vacation, as my weekends are spent working overtime), barely enough time to run errands/attend to personal needs/etc. and time off for sleep and little more. Who could possibly enjoy that?


Families and Work Institute is full of crap.

[mdmc]

7. my thought exactly my friend

peace and low stress to you and your hard working self...

[Exiled in America]

5. Here are the FUNDERS of the Families and Work Institude:

See a Union on there anywhere? LOL its nothing but a mass corporate fucking front...

Families and Work Institute's
Corporate Leadership Circle

Our thanks to these companies for providing annual donations for general operating support of the Institute.

As of August 2007


Corporate Benefactors ($15,000 or more)
Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Eli Lilly and Company
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
IBM Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
KPMG LLP
Merck & Co., Inc.
Pfizer Inc


Corporate Patrons ($10,000 - $14,999)
Ceridian
Chevron Corporation
Marriott International
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Corporate Sponsors ($5,000 - $9,999)
Alcoa Inc.
Allstate Insurance Company
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
CIGNA Corporation
CIT Group Inc.
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Ernst & Young LLP
GlaxoSmithKline
Harris, Rothenberg International, LLC
Hilton Hotels Corporation
Knowledge Learning Corporation
Kraft Foods, Inc.
Lehman Brothers Inc.
MetLife
Pearson Education
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prudential Financial
Time Warner
United Technologies Corporation
Viacom Inc.


Corporate Friends ($3,000 - $4,999)
Accenture
Aetna Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Eileen Fisher, Inc.
First Horizon National Corporation
Lowe's Companies Inc.
The McGraw-Hill Companies
RBC Financial Group
RSM McGladrey, Inc.
Texas Instruments
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
WFD Consulting
Xerox Corporation

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Murdoch can go suck a fuck.

I don't know ANYBODY currently working two jobs who thinks it's just hunky dory. Especially if they're doing heavy physical labor.

"I'll put it in simple words/Working men are pissed!" - D. Boon

[mdmc]

8. is that Daniel Boon?

:kick:

[RandomKoolzip]

9. No - this guy:

[mdmc]

14. thanks for the clarification

peace and low stress

[JVS]

10. Yeah having extra time and money to spend would be such a burden

[bridgit]

11. i'm sure we don't like *having* to work two jobs...

what a dumb-ass

[SeattleGirl]

12. Oh yeah, something to be real proud of: living in a country that

makes it a necessity for so many of it's citizens to HAVE TO HAVE second and third jobs. Boo-yeah, makes ME proud to be a Murikan.

:grr:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. The Double or Nothing economy.

Either two jobs to make ends meet, or no job at all, when you're overqualified and over forty.

:banghead:

Sounds like more right wing propaganda.

We need to sleep, eat, go to the bathroom, take showers, deal with the bills and errands and all that normal every day stuff.


Some years ago I worked full time at the courthouse, typed transcripts on weekends as part of my job as a court reporter, and went to night school three or four evenings a week, to get a law degree. This lasted for five years. Looking back, over 20 years after I graduated, I can't believe I did it. Thinking a J.D. would get me someplace in life. Ha!! How cruel!!


I do remember I had no dates, no social life, no family, no free time and absolutely NO FUN.

[iverglas]

15. falling expectations, I expect

Many people in the US simply no longer expect to have secure, full-time employment with the benefits their great-grandparents fought to secure, like sick leave, vacation, pensions, health insurance ...

People who work two or three part-time jobs to make up a full-time work week and full-time income may not see their lives as much different from people with a single full-time job. They may not be noticing what they're missing, possibly because so few people actually have it these days in the US anyway.

My own grandfather was a union man who fought for the 40-hour week in Toronto in the 30s. He was president of his union local (in the printing industry, now a dead industry, of course, like so many other industries that provided those secure jobs in the past). He died about 30 years ago. He'd probably be amazed to see how few of his grandchildren even have "jobs" (my two brothers and I are both self-employed; in my case, on multiple contracts: excellent income overall, but no security, no unemployment insurance, little control of work hours despite the theoretical freedom), let alone any of the benefits of employment that he thought he was securing for us.

It truly is amazing how much and how many different elements of the social contract can be eliminated in such a short time.

[w8liftinglady]

16. I,Naturally,had to add my 2 bits...let me know if they crucify me.

[mdmc]

17. thank you for your contribution

peace and low stress

[guitar man]

18. What a sack of dung

I actually like my second job, but that's just because I get paid a little money for playing guitar with my band on the weekend. :evilgrin:

But, if I had to leave my 40 hour a week job and go spend even more time away from my family flipping burgers, cutting lawns, loading trucks or whatever, I'd be pretty damned unhappy that I had to do so just to "make ends meet".. :grr:

We need some kind of a worker's revolution in this country. A real labor party might be a good start. It's high time the robber barons in this country felt the boot heel of American labor. :mad:

[mdmc]

19. UNITE!

my friend!