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If you look at the course offerings on WorkForce1 http://www.nyc.gov/trainingguide you will find a very high failure rate and low attendance rate 0 or 1. The courses offered are constantly being changed back and forth and they do not reflect the reality of the job market whatsoever. The seminars required for the IT grant do not represent the real work force needs or marketplace.
I tried a breakthrough visit at New York State Labor Department, Varick street as I received a letter informing me about all the joy they would bring me if I visited them there. Before that a brag letter from the Governor about Obama's Pell Grant exalted how NY State had already been doing what Obama was just now doing. Huh and with who or whom? Haven't met a soul who has been so endowed Gov.
As to the New York State Labor Department Varick Street visit, I even called beforehand. Upon arrival I was told that since I had been recommended for training for [blank] by [blank] I would not be allowed to use the Varick street location. hmmm hadn't I discussed this matter with the representative at Varick before coming. I asked to speak to a supervisor and was given a petty bureaucrat who said no, no and no. I asked who to speak to about no Pell Grant offerings in the training guide. No. I even wrote to the federal government and the Pell Grant division of a school. No answer and No for the latter.
Isn't it true that since I am on unemployment that I have duly contributed to the support of this dysfunctional system and indeed pay taxes with each minimal unemployment pay and that I should have some input? Well, read up now, this is my input.
first request: ads that match to my education and experience. They were matching still I tried to appease this unknown management team and submitted new ads.
second request: ads that match to the sustainability factor in the certificate
again I send them ads that have Leeds in them
third request: what will it be?
The point is that WorkForce1's mission is to provide the training that is needed in order to get the job. This sustainability training was swapped out overnight for the facility management training. However once I receive the sustainability training there are many facility management and property manager jobs that I will be eligible for. The sustainability training is just an extra that lends to a very competitive advantage with sustainability leader employers. Without the certificate of sustainability and its training I will not not be able to get the job.
The sustainability training includes the facility and property management training so again as I pointed out in each application what is the beef?
I have been trying since May with WorkForce1 to get some training to place me out of the legal industry. My information technology training was nixed because they were doing away with the course. The paralegal training was nixed by my six agencies as being too low for my experience and get this law firms are only hiring "recent" grads at $30,000 or law school grads. When I researched ads I found the WorkForce1 paralegal training being offered was way below par. None of their paralegal training vendors are endorsed by the American Bar Association and no Pell Grant is offered by New York State Labor Force to allow attendance at such an approved training facility.
When the Labor Department cannot operate with fairness and just cause or any sense of reality or experience then jurisdictional intervention is needed from the New York Supreme Court.
Something is truly wrong with the system and who will help? Surely not Obama it is not his jurisdiction. He just gave them a couple of billion dollars and they tell me they did not use it for the WorkForce training. They used it to balance the budget. Perhaps that is why Obama did not make too much to do with Not the Shoe Thing Again gov upon their last meeting? Bloomberg probably does not have any input except to take credit whenever it can be easily obtained. Perhaps lol too busy getting those traffic signs up that say "Sidewalk Narrows." Yeah so many speeding pedestrians might miss the fact that you can only walk on the pavement as they speed by.
This State and City is a mess and who is going to fix it? Apparently jurisdictional intervention is needed. But people just sigh and say it can't be fixed.
So what is my alternative? It is just go on continuing the last six years of law firms using me on an as needed basis because the Labor Department says that's alright. That's right 7 days and 24 hours year upon year with no benefits, sick days, vacations or any social interaction with the firm. Mostly you will be dumped with all their filing and then when they realize they haven't the skills they need permanently you will be rushed over to mend things up. They don't want to pay benefits and they'll not be getting any extras because I am white and not covered by any quota system. Some of them hire long term temporary for three months and then let go for a week or so then hire back. Its the most outrageous racist age thing I've ever experienced in my life. Yet the Labor Department's actions are that's fine as long as your victim is white.
