Techies, Dell is hiring right now

[Barney Gumble]

Unemployment just hit 6.4 percent. Half the folks I know are out of work and the rest are worried they soon will be. The recovery appears jobless, but leaders say business is coming back. So what gives?

I was starting to have a meltdown from cognitive dissonance. Then, mercifully I find the answer in today’s news.

The jobs haven’t gone abroad, as I feared. No, I can still get one right here in the good ol’ U.S.A. Where do I find a solid tech job with a future, like recycling computers? Why working in prison for Dell (and who knows how many other proud American corporations).
The only catch is I have to be incarcerated—and free to work for 20 cents to $1.60 an hour. That way I can work for the company Dell hired, Unicor, which is run by the Federal government. It found work for about 22,000 of 165,000 Federal prisoners nationwide as of September 2002.

http://duckseason.org/articles.asp?article=109

[Not a robought]

1. Slavery worked once before

it can be useful again can't it Michael?

[Dagaz]

2. Comcast is hiring as well

The positions are in Concord, CA and I hear they're looking for well over 100. They just bought AT&T/@home/whatever cable/internet and are moving the operation to the east bay.

[revcarol]

3. Dell here cancelled their contract with Stream call center,

which was our yukky backup when the mines closed,,,20 PLUS% unemployment now...jobs may have gone to India,,,,or Arizona,,,nobody knows.

We gave special property tax benefits, free rental of building, redo parking lot at taxpayer expense, special discounts at the hospital to employees at Stream...all conditional on staying here and hiring local people for a certain period of time. Guess they forgot to get binding contracts with Dell for that period, because all is gone...including our tax money.

[sandnsea]

6. So that's what happened

I read about Stream yesterday, in Kalispell right? That's really incredible, I know how hard Montana has been trying to get industry. Where'd the jobs go? This story might be the clue.

http://www.ciol.com/content/news/repts/103031901.asp

[revcarol]

9. Yup, the Stream workers were tech support for Dell...

ya know, 24 hr. "we help you with your computer" people.

[blm]

4. Dell is BFEE.

Everyone should keep their distance from that company. Poppy was involved with a business that built prisons throughout the 90s. They had this sh!t planned.

The Handmaid's Tale.

[sandnsea]

5. This is disgusting

I always thought that prison work programs were good. I really would like to see a program where the more you learn, the better job and the better food and services you get in prison. Like in the real world.

But for corporations to use prisoners as cheap labor is revolting. I don't even understand how this is happening.

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. Standard BCE operating procedure...

Grandpa Prescott had a serious investment in a German steel company that used concentration camp slave labor. The prisons may only kill their "guests" one at a time, but other than that, the plot hasn't changed much in 60 years.

[bluestateguy]

8. Dell

I remember when they laid off a bunch of people in Round Rock, TX. After being given their pink slip they were "escorted" off the premises by security: something you would expect out of Mr. Burns at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.