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Job Fair Discrimination · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations. Welcome, my friends to the Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 1: The Power Hour. I'm Chuck Douglas. You know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: We take it from there my number eight two one
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  Speaker 1: nine eight eighty six eight two one DOUBLEUTV in or
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and six to ten WUTV and if you're
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  Speaker 1: inclined to use that, we get one hour together, which
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  Speaker 1: means I talk really fast and you you must listen
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  Speaker 1: even faster. On my mind tonight, I know. See I'm
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  Speaker 1: one of those I'm becoming one of those people that
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  Speaker 1: complains about even good stuff. And I know, I know
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  Speaker 1: what it's core. It is supposed to be a good thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that. However, this latest announcement from the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Department of Job and Family Services regarding the job Fair,
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  Speaker 1: I forget what it is. I think it's next Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is. That it's it's specifically April thirtieth. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is specifically for the twenty seven and younger crowd,
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  Speaker 1: the jen Zeers. That's yeah. Okay. I have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with this. I'm sorry, but I do. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: do a job fair, a state sponsored job fair for
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  Speaker 1: a specific group, especially the younger groups starting out their careers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, probably working for a lower wage than somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's been at it for twenty five years. What about
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  Speaker 1: the older folks out there that are let go. I
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  Speaker 1: have just a friend from high school. Just on her
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  Speaker 1: Facebook yesterday I saw she posted she was let go
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  Speaker 1: from her position after eighteen years. Why why would we?
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall a forty and over job fare from
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  Speaker 1: the state or a fifty it over and our life
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  Speaker 1: spans you know, sixty five is not the end of
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  Speaker 1: the road anymore. I think it's is at sixty seven
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  Speaker 1: before you can get Social Security or fully vested social Security,
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  Speaker 1: And they were talking about making that seventy two, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: so we are living longer. We're not. You know, everybody
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  Speaker 1: doesn't retire at sixty five and call it quits. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're fifty and you know you need a new job,
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  Speaker 1: you got fired, you got laid off, you just got
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  Speaker 1: sick of your boss, whatever. It seems to me that
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  Speaker 1: that that is a segment of the population that could
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  Speaker 1: use some super service as well. So while I don't say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, forget about those kids, I just think it's
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  Speaker 1: an odd choice for a government entity in this age
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  Speaker 1: of inclusion, where everybody matters. You can't differentiate between males
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  Speaker 1: and females or whatever. Everybody matters that they would have
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  Speaker 1: a segmented job fair like this, And I've been hearing
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  Speaker 1: it in news stories all day long, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just bugging me. Are you I mean, you're Zach,
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  Speaker 1: You're over twenty seven, so barely just just yeah, barely.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, am I am i? Am I just
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  Speaker 1: becoming a grubby old man? Or am I making some sense?
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  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't make any sense. What you did say, though,
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  Speaker 2: is that maybe people who are younger work at a
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  Speaker 2: lower wage, and they can be honing in on that
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  Speaker 2: because some people with experience or certain degrees might demand
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  Speaker 2: a higher wage, and maybe some companies don't like that.
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  Speaker 1: It it depends that could be. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get to a certain stage of life. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not working for twelve bucks an hour, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what you're going to be told. I've done
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  Speaker 1: this for years, I'm good at it. I want a job,
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  Speaker 1: but I need to be paid a commensurate with my
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  Speaker 1: ability and my experience and my performance. That used to
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  Speaker 1: be just such a common, common state of mind for people.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's either we want to give stuff away or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of days ago, I was I was, I
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  Speaker 1: was upset too about the I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw the story in the Columbus Dispatch regarding the City
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  Speaker 1: of Columbus Franklin County residents and a universal basic income
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  Speaker 1: and they picked that was it two hundred people or
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  Speaker 1: one hundred people, I can't remember which, but in Franklin
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  Speaker 1: County who they were giving five hundred dollars a month
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  Speaker 1: to for a year. And the champ in this news
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  Speaker 1: story of this project was County commissioner former Columbus City
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  Speaker 1: council member Kevin Boyce. And the example of the one
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  Speaker 1: of the people participating is a mother. I think they
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  Speaker 1: think she's single mother. If I'm not mistaken, she is
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  Speaker 1: a county employee. And again maybe the intent is good,
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  Speaker 1: but much like this job fair, my question was, if
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  Speaker 1: she's a county employee, why not just raise her pay
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  Speaker 1: to what she seems to require to live. Why not
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  Speaker 1: just give her a five hundred dollars a month pay raise.
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  Speaker 1: If the county is doing this and she's a county employee,
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  Speaker 1: just raise her pay or since the county administer's property taxes,
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  Speaker 1: she was having trouble making her mortgage payment, how about
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  Speaker 1: just lowering her property taxes a month. That's six thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year. If she's paying three thousand dollars in
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  Speaker 1: property taxes, you could give her a two year zero
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  Speaker 1: tax tax abatement to help her get her stuff together.
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  Speaker 2: If she's already working. I don't I understand if you're
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  Speaker 2: like the general idea I think originally behind universal basic income,
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  Speaker 2: would you take people in a tough situation and then
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  Speaker 2: you they have something to start out with, and then
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  Speaker 2: they can achieve their dreams or whatever. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but it gives them a baseline of something. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying I agree with it or don't agree with it.
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  Speaker 2: But if somebody is already working a government job but
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  Speaker 2: just not making enough money, yeah, what is she doing?
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  Speaker 1: What was her job? I don't know. Daya said she
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  Speaker 1: was a county employee. But she goes to the food
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  Speaker 1: pantry three days a week to get groceries for her family.
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  Speaker 1: And it's having trouble paying the bills and making the
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  Speaker 1: mortgage payment and buying groceries and everything, and I'm just saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: of course I feel for somebody like that, But but
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  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars a month for a year, what are
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  Speaker 1: you actually doing for her? For that same amount of money,
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  Speaker 1: that mortgage payment she's having could be substantially reduced for
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  Speaker 1: two years by just eliminating her property taxes. Right. You
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  Speaker 1: remember Andrew Yang, Yes, that was his that was his
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  Speaker 1: hole platform. Yep. You notice how quickly he disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't have much else other than.
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  Speaker 1: That, because giving stuff away to somebody means somebody else
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  Speaker 1: is paying for it, correct, And America was not ready
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  Speaker 1: to jump on that anyway. If you think I'm just
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  Speaker 1: a grumpy old man, feel free to tell me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind. Seriously, I'm easy like that.
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  Speaker 3: Not you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that from you. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight eighty six my number eight two one
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  Speaker 1: WTV And let's go to the Legacy Retirement Group dot
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  Speaker 1: com phone lines and John, you're on six ten WTV
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  Speaker 1: in high Hey, Jack, just.
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  Speaker 4: Calling it about the uh schooling or doing for the
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  Speaker 4: gen z's. I don't understand why it's that generation, because
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  Speaker 4: if you take a look, the majority of people working
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  Speaker 4: at the fast food restaurants and so forth are up
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  Speaker 4: in their fifties, sixties and seventies.
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  Speaker 1: Well that depends if I get if I get my
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  Speaker 1: fast food and it's hot and prepared correctly. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: there in their fifties, sixties and seventies, right.
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  Speaker 4: But just because of gen Z's doesn't make them special.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I don't get it either. I don't get
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  Speaker 1: and see, at the same time, while we're saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: we need to help them get jobs, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: make less money, then we're being told, well, they're making
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  Speaker 1: less money, But then we also want to forgive their
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  Speaker 1: student loans so they don't have to pay those back.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just I mean, this is what happens when
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  Speaker 1: government becomes nanny and tries to live your life for
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  Speaker 1: you and you know, bring the groceries home and keep
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  Speaker 1: your lights on. And so we're we are losing our
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  Speaker 1: great pioneer spirit. We're losing that ability, that mindset to
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  Speaker 1: go out and you know, go west young man, as
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  Speaker 1: they say, and make things happen in our life. Were
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  Speaker 1: waiting for other people to make them happen.
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  Speaker 4: For us, Yes, we are. And the problem is even
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  Speaker 4: getting those jobs for the gen Zers. If you look
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  Speaker 4: at what it costs to live today, it's not going
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  Speaker 4: to be enough for them to move out for mom
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  Speaker 4: and dad.
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  Speaker 1: Right and well, and again that say nanny state, John.
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  Speaker 1: Remember you are a complete adult depending on at eighteen
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  Speaker 1: legally unless you want to, you know, be a boy
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  Speaker 1: when you're you're actually a girl. Then you're apparently an
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  Speaker 1: adult when you're like fourteen, so you can make that decision.
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  Speaker 1: But when it comes to providing your own health insurance,
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  Speaker 1: you're not an adult until you're twenty six. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: which is it going to be?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Correct? And that's what I'm saying. It just a smoke screen.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but.
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  Speaker 1: More feel good stuff to make it look like somebody's
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  Speaker 1: doing something is what it comes down to. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: really all it is. And again I think it's wrong
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  Speaker 1: for them to be age selective. Why not just do
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a series of job fairs for people
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  Speaker 1: of all ages, especially since it looks like that three
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars or three thousand job Intel thing ain't happening
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: It would make sense, like Friday twenty seven and under Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: we have jobs for thirty five to fifty Sunday we
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  Speaker 2: have blah blah blah blah blah. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you were That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: It could be the same companies, but they just have
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  Speaker 2: different jobs or different kind of prerecresits of what they're
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  Speaker 2: looking for.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know two one nine eighty six A two
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  Speaker 1: one WTV. And what do I have here?
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  Speaker 2: On?
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  Speaker 1: Is this? An entire county is calling me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's Megs County.
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  Speaker 1: Tim, Oh, it's Megs County. Tim. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: all of Megs County because I can't believe.
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  Speaker 2: Tim represents all of Megs County.
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  Speaker 1: Can't believe they were coherent enough to all dial the
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  Speaker 1: phone at the same time. Tim, what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: In coherent?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Megsty have a bit of a reputation.
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  Speaker 3: Just a slight hey two things. You know, I was
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  Speaker 3: talking to you and Mark the other day about you
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  Speaker 3: stuffing me. I couldn't remember the restaurant then, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was a little bit under the influence. But today
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  Speaker 3: it's Woodies. Do you remember Woodies up there on Sankus Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Not on Sankus. No, I remember the Woodies out there
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  Speaker 1: in the Marysville area. At thirty three and what was
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  Speaker 1: it thirty three and oh not every road.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, anyway, you were going to come up for
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  Speaker 3: a Cleveland Browns football game and you didn't make it.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no big deal you didn't do it first,
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  Speaker 3: like I was. Really the real reason why I called
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  Speaker 3: was I wanted to talk about the job there. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and my point is is, is this not the generation
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  Speaker 3: it's getting into more trouble than any of the other
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  Speaker 3: generations before?
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  Speaker 1: I almost followed you say that one more time.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't just the generation that's getting in more trouble legally
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  Speaker 3: than any generation before it? You know, hot rotting cars,
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  Speaker 3: fill cars.
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  Speaker 1: Well it is, it's it's much better known. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we we hear it. I think to some degree,
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  Speaker 1: my gut tells me yes, But I also have to
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  Speaker 1: be realistic. These days, there's a camera everywhere, there's a
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  Speaker 1: social media. We had bad kids in the past two
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  Speaker 1: but it's much easier to find out about them now
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  Speaker 1: than it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: Oh maybe true, But I like Zach's idea that the
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  Speaker 3: companies hold different days for different age groups with different
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  Speaker 3: sets of skills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, why not. I mean, there are some things
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  Speaker 1: that are limited, but if you're you know, general office
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  Speaker 1: work or something like that. There ought to be quite
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  Speaker 1: a few jobs out there that need to be filled,
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  Speaker 1: at least I would think. It's not like this business. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to find you know, a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of opens and radio.
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  Speaker 3: But well, if you're a machine operator or you know,
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  Speaker 3: some kind of a press operator, a forklift operator, and
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  Speaker 3: you've got you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years experience of that,
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  Speaker 3: and your company has laid you all they ought to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, give a break to some of these people. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: That's all I got. Let you know, I'm listening to you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Tim, Thanks for being out there, and
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  Speaker 1: thanks for the call.