So McDonalds is doing well and wants to hire a few people right. What's wrong with that? Well it's a tough job working for Mickey D, especially when doing so involves being run over by a car. That is both hilarious and wacky at the same time. For one, what's the big deal about one job at McDonald's over the next that makes one want to run over someone else with their car. Lol. This is crazy! Are the benefits of shift leader at McDonalds that great to flatten the next guy (gal) in the process? Too funny, it must be the new McDonalds's chicken tenders that's causing all the tension and jockeying for shift leader positions. Maybe the shift leader gets a 20 piece order of chicken nuggets on the house each day. Surely, that's worth fighting for, especially if you throw in the Chipotle BBQ sauce. ROFL.

As it turns out, two women decided to fight over who had the right to opening and closing shift duty. Now that exchange leads to three people getting ran over with a Honda Civic. So McDonald’s big hiring event turns into a bloody drama event instead. Hummh, here's a thought...instead of launching a big hiring event targeting 50,000 new hires in places light Cleveland Ohio, why not raise the quality of the menu, increase the price point a bit then hire out of towns where the education level is higher and drama levels lower i.e. charge a little more, increase product service quality, stop exploiting the uneducated and unemployed and pay a decent wage for a descent quality labor. Now why would McDonald's want to go and do that? Lol. Maybe the ensuing lawsuits will be motivation enough. Maybe, maybe not. One thing is sure - boy it's a hard job working for McDonalds.

In case you haven't heard the unemployment rate is up again despite the economy adding 39,000 jobs in November. If that isn't bad enough, well how about good ole' Newt calling for an end to what he calls "class welfare" for the unemployed. If that isn't a bombshell statement, you must be dead or at least deaf. For some strange reason, many GOP supporters seem to think the unemployment problem and providing a safety net for the problem is somehow welfare. Obviously, these are folks that simply are out of touch with the working class to say the least. Currently a record number of long term unemployed are still looking for work and some GOP supporters like good ole Newt thinks the problem is unemployment welfare checks. If that isn't politics at its worse than my name is Mikey - you know the "he'll eat/believe anything Mikey."

It's a real sad day for unemployed job seekers that politics comes before progress. Now that some 2 million unemployed have stopped receiving unemployment compensation thanks to the GOP blocking the latest bill to extend unemployment benefits, what exactly is the plan for these 2 million people and their families - just before Christmas might I add. Oh, and what about the millions in jeopardy of being cutoff from unemployment benefits early 2011 from Newt's coined "class welfare"? The bottom line is the GOP doesn't have a plan for job creation. The plan is to get tax cuts for Millionaires and Billionaires and ride off into the sunset with their mistresses. Oh and do tell - who is going to pay for the $700 Billion lost tax revenue? Who cares, that's a problem for the next generation. Now that is fiscally responsible. Lol...and Newt thinks he is Presidential. Wow. If you work for a living you should be scared, very scared at the threat of a Newt Gingrich Administration in 2012.

Here we go again with Ohio in the news. Looks like US tire manufacturer Goodyear is cutting 820 of 1200 jobs. That's the bad news. The good news, if there is such a thing with job cuts, is that those job cuts are at the Goodyear plant in France. So, the cuts obviously have little affect on the livelihood of its workers here in the states. That of course, assumes that most if not all of the workers at the France plant are natives of France versus the US.

On a different note, this job cut announcement just makes you wonder if more Goodyear job cuts are coming here to the US? Why? Well its no secret that Goliath corporations like a Goodyear typically seek out foreign soil to reduce operating costs, typically citing higher US corporate taxes, employee health care costs and employee wages. So if Goodyear is cutting costs at presumed to be cheaper operation locations abroad, its seems fair to say that the same is likely to happen domestically. Of course, that part has not been confirmed but it might be safe to be on alert. Like i said, since Goodyear slashed 820 jobs abroad, the same is likely to follow here in the states. Keep your ears to the ground and your eyes on the blog.

The green jobs revolution is shoring up jobs in Ohio, in particular Minster. Minster Machine Co is leading the way in creating green jobs for the area, due in part to its supply of skilled metal workers. The company boasts starting wages at $17.50 per hour which is a well above many green job openings. According to Philip Mattera of Good Jobs First, many green jobs pay just $11 or $12 per hour. This is definitely something to boast about for Ohioans, considering it has been battered by the peaks and valleys of the steel industry - although more valleys than peaks. On the other hand Minster isn't exactly a metro area like say Columbus, Cincinnati or Cleveland. So if you are open to retraining and willing to relocate to a smaller town - than Minster with its green jobs openings could be the move. The cost of living is behind that of Ohio metro areas so the boost in wages means you get to keep, considerably, more of your paycheck . That is the bottom line. Keep more. Think about it.