SPEAKOUT

I CAN NO longer keep this in. Having been unemployed here in Cape Girardeau since July, and having gone out every day trying to find employment in your town, it's a little frustrating. You go to an employer, you spend an hour and a half of your valuable time taking this little test, filling his application out, interviewing with him, and even though you're way overqualified for the job, they decide to go ahead and hire somebody they all know. This is not the first time I've applied at a company where this has happened. Or, the other thing Cape employers like to do is to give you an application and say six months down the road is when we're looking to hire somebody. I need a job now, not six months from now. I also have a degree. It's no wonder the young people in this town leave Cape Girardeau. Employers do not treat their employees fairly, they do not know how to hire, they do not know how to fire employees. As of this exact moment, I went down and bought a St. Louis Post-Dispatch paper. I'm looking for employment in St. Louis, not Cape Girardeau. You just lost a valuable employee to this town.