Dial-up-yours!

So the three year old, $7 million facility that Bell Canada called its home in Kingston has shut its doors, forcing 260-odd workers to place their lives "on hold." My best friend worked there - had just gotten a sweet promotion, actually, and two weeks ago was happy as a clam, ready to reward herself with an Austin Mini Cooper, the vehicle she has dreamed of owning since forever. Yesterday at noon, however, the company declared her surplus. Bye-Bye mini. Please call again.

Compounding this awful news is the fact that an already snug Kingston job market has just become that much tighter. If Kingston's waist size is 32 it's trying to fit into a 28 pant. Not pretty. Of the jobs that are available, almost none pay what Bell was paying - between $17 and $20 an hour. Today's offerings are scant: Weston's Bakery wants people who are available 7 days a week for any shift in the 24-hour clock and they are offering the whopping compensation of $10/hour. There are plenty of jobs in the paper that will pay you "UNLIMITED INCOME!!!" assembling products or surfing the web. If that were true, wuold they really have to advertise for workers week after week?

The truth is folks that unless you have a relative in a government-employee union or you belong to the same Bilderberger-type fraternity as the President of the University you might as well sign up for the military or get out your burger-flipping apron. There ain't no jobs save for those that go to us temps - us lowly, lowly temps.

Press "1" to default on your mortgage or "2" to sell a kidney.