Board of Trade Offers Job Counseling Advice for Occupy Chicago

The reason the kids are angry is simple. All their lives they were force fed the idea that if they did not want to spend their loves flipping burgers at McDonald's for minimum wage, that they should get a college education. So, they did get a college education and went heavily into debt to do so, only to be told that Wall Street shipped the jobs requiring a college degree to other countries and recommends that the graduates spend the rest of their lives flipping burgers at McDonald's at minimum to pay off their student loans.

I would like to see the traders (traitor? lol) fired and denied UI benefits. That would be funny! Hope they saved an application for themselves! lol  Come on down here with the rest of the 99%! What's happening is the 1% is feeling the pressure - and they are panicking. :) They didn't see the 99% coming at them because they have been sleeping. Their world as they know it is crumbling down around them. They are out-numbered and have nowhere to hide. Their truth exposed. 

I'm LOVIN' it! these protesters should do something more productive with their time.....how is WORKING (even at McDonalds) an insult? I think being lazy and a burden would be MORE of an insult.......wanna protest BIG MONEY? how about going out and DOING something to compete with "big money"?

there's no pride in being poor, if you don't have money it's your OWN FAULT-and nobody elses! stop blaming capitalism

Reverend .... loser

Jump, assholes!  

Even a McJob is almost impossible to get if you don't have good credit! And if you're out of a job your credit probably stinks, like mine. For a good description of the problem in 1:30 mins, check this: http://youtu.be/JGeOUmLeeO4 And if that makes sense, check this!

Please Sign and RT petition @WhiteHouse.gov to stop credit scores from barring people from employment- http://wh.gov/b0v

There are ways to change things for the better. I haven't got a lot of sigs yet on this and I suspect it's because a lot of people don't WANT to take the time to register for the petition site. So, if people at Occupy in the north can freeze the bums off, and people in Oakland and Seattle suffer through teargas and rubber bullets, how much of a sacrifice is it to register for a website!??

I'm still waiting for a LARGE outpouring on this idea because I DO think it makes a difference. Watch the video - sign the petition.

John Hampton
@NativeSonKY at twitter
8.25/hr. worker in Kentucky and glad to even have a job!

How is it that the identity of the person or person's behind these actions remains a secret? This surely cannot be accepted protocol on the part of Chicago traders. What other odd behaviors are part of the normal workday at the Chicago Board of Trade. Even if the police don't decide to intervene, surely the people running the Chicago Board of Trade can't publicly be on record as approving these actions. Can they?

Sure they can! If Joe Walsh can get away with owing over 100K in child support and not get arrested, then "they" (the 1%) can get away with ANYthing! I know mothers and fathers who have been put in prison for 5-8 years here for owing LESS than 5K!

And just today ol' Joe got an award from...wait for it...the Family Research Council! See: http://ow.ly/7jDrA

That's how the 1% are treated! Don't make them cry!!!!

:-/

Good job guys , that was fun ... and productive

........see you later today for round 2

I am sure the irony was lost on the Chicago Board of Trade. Not even McDonald's is hiring:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...

Its funny that they think they are the 1%... making mid 100k's to low 200k's does not make you the 1%, and I guarantee you the guys who have time to go find applications, print them, and throw them out of the window are nobody's at their firms.  

Do any of you Conservative wackos read the f-ing news.  McDonalds held a job fair earlier this year that received a over a million applications.  at one point they were turning people awaywithout giving them an application.  Eventually they hired 60,000 of them.  That means there were16 applications per job filled.  Which also means a good 900,000 of those people didn't get a job.  So if the positions are already filled, and their getting 16 applications per job, what are the chances that any single unemployed worker at Occupy Chicago is going to get the job.  

It's insulting and misses the point entirely. My brother got laid off early in this economic debacle--BEFORE OBAMA EVEN STEPPED FOOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE--and was jobless for 14 months before he finally got a job.  There were just no jobs in his field available where he lived.  He finally got one, but it pays him less than half what he was earning.Has anyone been arrested for the fraudulent irresponsible behavior perpetrated by Wall Street and their cohorts in the Chicago Board of Trade.  Of course not.  Instead they all got gift wrapped bailouts from the government and voted themselves a pay raise or executive bonus.  The problem is an economic system in the US that favors the rich, and a Government that is unwilling to regulate their behavior, b/c they're bought by special interests in every industry, including the financial services sector . . .  and yes that includes not only Obama, but also Romney, Cain, Perry, Reid, McConnel, and Boehner.

Occupy lowlifes

CBOT is throwing peanuts at homeless people begging for a hot meal. And CBOT doesn't feel over-entitled? 

You realize that the CBOT is an office building, right?  And that its full of companies that rent office space?  And that those companies employ people?  Many of whom don't make "mad trader money"? 

Hell, even the traders there, by and large, aren't a part of the global cabal that is running and ruining everyone's life.

It is so weird to observe the 'istverse reaction to these stories.  Taking the reactions at face value you'd think the CBOT was a living, breathing organism singlehandedly responsible for ruining the economy and pissing on the little guy lying in the gutter.

The 'post-baby-boomer' generation-  is in for a BIG life lesson!
  NOTHING is owed to them!

So ... anything happen while I was gone?

Here's your chance to move on slap.

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Mature at 27?  You're obviously pulling my leg. 

you want your leg pulled ? she will charge xtra.

#obsession #stalker

Oh, and to the foriegn-ists out there, I've even stopped rolling my eyes at Navin's habitual idiocy. Now I just "like" any comment of his that just goes to demonstrate what a shrill, pitiable little extremist troll he is. He's just not worth any more of my -- or, I assure you, your -- time.

I love it.  The CBOT folks seem to be the only ones around the country who have gone toe to toe with these imbeciles several times and openly mocked them like they deserve.  Proof that the heartland has held on to the common sense that's starting to fade in the coastal areas. 

Mmmhmm. That's what it is. ::rolls eyes::

This is your standard thing, huh? ::rolls eyes::

Grandma, is that you? I thought Paw Paw told you no more internetting.

Yep, rolling one's eyes is the easiest way to suffer fools and their utter cluelessness.

Grandma, is that you? I thought Paw Paw told you no more internetting.

Just roll em, Me Maw, don't write it out with your double colons.

Christ, the only thing stupider than you typing out ::rolls eyes:: every third line is me arguing with your for doing it. What the fuck it wrong with me, I'm arguing with my Me Maw on the internet lol

What the fuck it wrong with me

::rolls eyes::

You need to broaden your repertoire.  You've already mmhmmd and rolled your eyes a few posts above.

In other words, that's my preferred method for suffering fools.

Yes, and they were all equally idiotic.

that's just like... your opinion, man...(rolls eyes). 

Yep, it like... is, man. ::rolls eyes::

And it hasn't become harder to become financially stable - people have just become more entitled.

The cost of education has sky rocketed. The cost of healthcare has skyrocketed. Workers are being asked to produce more, while making less (see links.) Real income has declined, particularly over the last decade. And to whom has gone an increasing amount of the spoils?

If anyone is suffering from being "entitled", it's you.

http://www.economist.com/blogs...
http://thepragmaticprogressive...

I hope "when you graduated college", it wasn't with a degree in economics.

"If anyone is suffering from being "entitled", it's you."

Really?  I am the one who bought an expensive house? car? had a bunch of kids with no way of affording it all, and then complained when that irresponsible behavior landed me in debt? 

No, I am not. 

Maybe I should have bought a Ferrari.  I'm sure you'd be OK if the taxpayers were helping me pay off a car loan I shouldn't have taken. 

The taxpayers are too busy paying for the actions of banker frauds.  Crack a paper?  Ever?

No, you're suffering from being "entitled" in that you're all ready to make sweeping judgments about the nature of a phenomenon of which you clearly have precisely zero understanding.

And by the way, people "who bought an expensive house... car... etc." and who wanted more debt than they could afford have existed since the beginning of time. What hasn't existed is a system that rewarded bankers for giving those people more loans than they could afford or a system that has punished its workforce with lower pay for higher productivity.

If you don't understand that there's a real problem -- and that its proximate cause isn't working people -- then neither I nor anyone else not suffering the same cluelessness as you can help you.

Being "entitled" has nothing to do with making sweeping judgement.  I'm not sure from where you pulled that definition of "entitled," but it makes no sense.

Anyway....
You're going to have to look outside of Wall Street to see why those loans were available in the first place (regardless of any bank profit from them). You might want to take a look at the artificially low interest rates set by the Fed in the past 15 years. 

The same thing happened (is happening) with your "skyrocking education costs" claim.  If you make loans available to everyone who wants them, the price of goods/services will go up.  This is some pretty basic economics that most people fail to realize. 

Being "entitled" has nothing to do with making sweeping judgement.

And your account is clueless. To wit:

You're going to have to look outside of Wall Street to see why those loans were available in the first place (regardless of any bank profit from them). You might want to take a look at the artificially low interest rates set by the Fed in the past 15 years.

Suffice it to say, it's apparent you're not one from whom I think people should be taking advice about what others "fail to realize."

"it's apparent you're not one from whom I think people should be taking advice"

I'm a millionaire in my early thirties.  How about you?

Didn't think so. 

"I'm a millionaire"

lol.  Yeah, you and every other John Galt libertard on the internet.  

he's a loser , living in his parent's basement , watching porn all day

Mmmhmm. ::rolls eyes::

I'm a millionaire in my early thirties. How about you?

Didn't think so.

I'm in my early thirties, have worked in the financial industry for over a decade, and enjoy both the knowledge of this topic that you clearly don't possess and an amount of financial comfort well past the point that I feel it necessary to embarrassingly brag about it on the interwebs. How about you?

Didn't think so.

But by all means, continue to fill us all in with what you think you know. Winners need somebody to trade against.

"Let them eat McJobcakes"

This is the second or third time that the CBoT has dropped things onto the protesters, yet I haven't seen the action nor the aftermath of all the litter (I have direct view of both the CBoT and the protesters).  Maybe next time someone should also snap a picture of them dropping the stuff on you? 

Holy shit! It's Joseph "what's that" Mainwaring. I wish SportsCenter would make a nickname out of my last name. I would use it all the time.

If only there was CAPTCHA to test IQ before posting replies

Sadly IQ would not have been a problem. It's more of a maturity issue.

Well this really proves that they are the 1%. They'd definitely rank in the 99th percentile of any Pitiable Fucking Dick quotient.

Please. Occupy is allowed to make whatever dramatic statement they want and no one can criticize.  This is just theater in the other direction.

And if news reports are to be believed, most of the #occupiers use the McDonalds bathroom to take a poop.  It's good enough from them to shit in, but not to work in? 

Get over yourselves.

Please. Occupy is allowed to make whatever dramatic statement they want and no one can criticize.  This is just theater in the other direction.

And if news reports are to be believed, most of the #occupiers use the McDonalds bathroom to take a poop.  It's good enough from them to shit in, but not to work in?

Get over yourselves.

Great comeback. This isn't that universe and there's a different takeaway and you're rolling your eyes.  Truly you've undermined my comment.

End of story, throwing Mickey D's applications down to the occupiers is the best comeback to their theatrics I've heard.  And who knows, maybe one of them made the smart move and actually tried to get a job.

And who knows, maybe one of them made the smart move and actually tried to get a job.

the Occcupy Chicago losers are underqualified for McDonald's

Thanks for filling us in, you Captain of Industry, you Titan of Commerce.

Take your pitifully transparent delusions of grandeur elsewhere, you trash.

fuck yourself you leech of society , non-working class-warfare , welfare queen

Stop fighting, you guys are BFF.

Mmmhmm. Idiot. ::rolls eyes::

Mmmhmm, that's what I am. ::rolls eyes::

overeducated, undermotivated, hyper-entitled. That's how the Empire of the United States fell. 

I think the problems began when a tiny percent of the population increasingly extracted wealth from the economy while offer nothing of value in return.  It's unsustainable, and its why McJobs are the only option for so many.  Historically, gross income inequality has eventually led to some pretty gruesome situations for the 1%.  Maybe the traders need to be reminded?  I guess history is a wimp subject though, too bad, they may have learned about some over-educated French guys too......

More importantly, the Rev and Navin are on the same side. And the world ends . . .

I wouldn't say we're exactly "on the same side". Same half of the continuum (embarrassingly for me as it is) sure. But that's about it.

#solonely #beggingforattention

It is amazing:  I completely agree that income inequality is a problem but completely disagree about the root cause.  You need some serious education if you think this falls entirely on the backs of traders.  Like any other industry, there are big differences between the poorest and richest, the biggest and the smallest.  Your inability to distinguish between any of the "finance types" is the result of a sickening stereotype you've developed in your mind.

You need some serious education if you think this falls entirely on the backs of traders

I never said that.  Why don't you quit being hysterical.  It's obvious from previous discussions that you seriously don't know what caused the financial crisis, or are willfully ignorant on the subject. You used the same fallacious logic before, conflating fraud, speculation etc. with "banking". If we paid attention to you we'd think that Gordon Gekko and the guy at your local credit union were the same person.....

You clearly have no fucking clue what caused the financial crises.

It was a confluence of bad policy, bad mortgages and bad risk taking that caused it.  You and your ilk seem bound and determined to pin it only on speculators or risk takers.  While they certainly played a role, I would argue that their role was secondary to the problem of bad policy and bad mortgages.  You'd rather not argue practical points, though.  Keep on scapegoating, Navin...

I tend to agree, though I'd say that bad policy begat the bad mortgages: relieve lenders from being concerned about the long-term health of the loans they write, and you set yourself up for big, big problems. De-regulation, which gave banks the ability to heavily securitize it all, in essence allowing them to write the loans first and worry about their quality later (or never) was the match that kicked off the inferno.

The other pieces had always been in place. There had always been more consumer demand for debt than banks had previously been willing to extend. And there had always been speculative forces in place who, given the supply, would gobble up those products and their derivatives and repackage and resell them. The only ingredient missing from that recipe for disaster was commercial banks' being allowed to fuel the fire with a whole shit-ton of mortgage debt. And once banks didn't have to act like banks anymore (or, really, once the whole regulatory concept of commercial banking was done away with), the brakes were off.

But ultimately, that policy of deregulation was also given birth by the financial industry. They said they'd police themselves, market forces would correct any overextension, and ultimately deregulation would lead greater, broader growth -- if all we did was just let banks not have to be banks anymore. They got exactly what they wanted, and just like every other time in history when common sense banking regulations were done away with (or financial institutions found creative ways to circumvent them), look what happened.

So people who blame "people who got more loan than they could afford" aren't entirely wrong. People who blame "speculators" aren't entirely wrong either. Without both those things in place, this kind of a crisis simply can't happen. But the thing is, those two things have always been there! Always! And what changed was that deregulation allowed banks to not act like banks anymore. There's your cause.

Excellent analysis.  Spot on.

Mmmhmm. ::rolls eyes::

The CBOT deserve to have those applications shoved down their throats.

Hah.  It's nice to see a little jab back, for the sake of humor.

Yeah. Well, if they are so 1% where did *they* get the McD applications? Exactly. Left over from the crash when all of the CBOT types were shitting themselves too...

A McDonalds worker is at least productive at something.  These finance guys are just parasites that add little or nothing to society.

And Occupy [fill in the blank] protesters are productive at what exactly?

they're good at ... smoking pot ... complaining ... taking art classes for 4 years and complaining that their lack of jobs is our fault

You're apparently only good at being approximately as stupid as Navin.

NYU or Columbia probably , Einstein

product of rape ? inbreeding ?
parents abandon you ?

Mmmhmm. That's it. ::rolls eyes::

You're probably an affirmative action product from Chicago , who got himself a job at the CME or CBOT for Hull Trading as a clerk or back office asshat .
Your buddies all thought you were a big swinging dick , and your mom worked three jobs to get you through school because your dad left when you were two years old .
Now you're full of bile and unemployed , railing against the Man , just like the garbage that you are

can't argue with the Rev , he's a chimp

Um yeah, no. I'm white, had an entirely normal childhood, am fully and gainfully employed at none of those places, not particularly pissed at "the Man", and pretty clearly smarter than you. Not that that last part takes much, obviously.

very well stated ..... public school ???

Thanks. And no. But given your poor grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and general cluelessness... home school?

Hopefully, changing minds, votes, and policies.

Depends on what they do, they are a diverse group of people from all over the U.S. and the World.  Personally I work for a manufacture that actually makes products here in Chicago. 

What do speculators do again?  Gamble?  Rent seek?  Is there something tangible going on here?  Or is it just shifting real/fake assets around?

They help your employer obtain the funds it needs to pay you. 

And how do they do that?

Really, how's that.  By speculating on futures? Let me know when you actually come up with and answer: Never.

Again, nice friends slap.

#wormsofafeather #squirmtogether

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Even people as wrong about most stuff as those clowns can easily tell you're a fucking moron.

I'm sure hell will freeze over before any of you three worms come up with an honest response.

Frozen yet, idiot?

Wow, you are completely mad/delusional.  

Typical.

If Navin doesn't understand it, it's either evil or doesn't exist.

You too, how do they pay my paycheck?  Put up or shut up jagoff.

You, being an idiot, must be under the impression that your paycheck gets paid with money that your employer directly takes in. In reality, given the delays inherent in things like accounts receivable, it's very likely that they have a line of credit or use other debt to finance things like payroll, fixed expenses, raw materials, etc. And where do you think those debt instruments come from, smarty?

Yeah, that's what I thought. Idiot.