I was recently at a Subway with my wife and we heard a conversation between the manager and a twent-teen who worked for him. The manager was informing the girl that he could make her work in any manner he wanted due to the economy being as bad as it is. The girl who was obviously upset stated that there were no jobs available and to this the manager added there were also no shifts available as all employees were working their shifts. I get sickened when I see abuses like this occur.

The whole conversation was inappropriate and it was obvious that the manager was on a power trip. It occurred to me that just about two years back, the job market was screaming on how the baby boomers were retiring and that there was going to be more jobs available than employees to fill them. It got me wondering what happened. The market has fewer jobs and has seemed to tilt hard towards the employer again, or has it? Is it just those employees will have to adjust to the positions that are soon to be available? It is my belief that within a year or two the market will shift dramatically when more and more baby boomers learn how to adjust to a fixed income as it is obvious that we will not soon be in a bull economy. It will fix itself or we will adjust, just as global warming is a hyped up concept, so too we will find the market falling is a media hyped blast of misinformation.

I know the econmy is currenty in a positon of fewer jobs, however I am hopeful that we find ourselves in better position of understanding and less falling victom to bad or hyped reporting by over eager hollywood news reporters.