They didn’t fill all the positions at once. What’s so suspicious about that?
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That doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they just go back through the applicants they had on file, especially if they supposedly had this massive number of job seekers? Does Trader Joe’s like to deal with a horde of applicants when it’s not necessary? I know you can’t answer that, but what do you think? Like I said, it doesn’t pass the smell test.
That and the fact that Trader Joe’s is actually expanding in the area makes your 3rd hand anecdote seem like a pretty weak “tipping point”. Not that there isn’t plenty of bad economic news. It’s pretty much all that gets reported during a recession.
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I don’t know the details. I’m pretty sure my friend didn’t bother to get into the specifics as to why they weren’t hiring everyone at once. She just inquired to get a general sense of what her competition was. People who are really hungry for work are generally so pre-occupied with just getting their foot in the door that they don’t stop to ask the questions you’re asking – not that they’re not good questions. I get that you don’t think the Trader Joe’s anecdote was a tipping point. I think that there are plenty of other examples of tipping points around us that seem to indicate, at least to me, that this crisis has taken another turn for the worst.
The fact that we are now firmly below 7,000 on the Dow would seem to be a tipping point.
