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Child Support In North Dakota, Department Of Vindictive Women

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Earlier this week I received a Way2Go Card debit card in the mail, and I did not know why.  I tried to find out why I received this debit card that I did not request, and I wrote an internet article about it.

In response to my internet article, a woman who works for the State of North Dakota replied, saying something like child support enforcement payments might begin being paid using Way2Go Cards.  Later in the week, both North Dakota Job Services, and the North Dakota Department Of Human Services Child Support Enforcement, posted notices on their websites that they will begin using Way2Go Cards on June 1, 2017.

I was looking at the North Dakota Department Of Human Services Child Support Enforcement website, and I saw some things that I didn’t like.  I have met some men that have had tremendous problems involving child support, and here are some of the reasons why, that I found on the website:

Contempt of Court

An obligor who intentionally fails to comply with a court order for child support can be held in contempt of court.  Consequences for contempt of court can include jail time, fines, license suspension, and an order to complete work activities.

Criminal Nonsupport

An obligor who willfully fails to pay child support as ordered can be prosecuted in a North Dakota court for criminal nonpayment of child support.  Criminal nonpayment of child support can be a Class C felony, which has a maximum punishment of five years’ imprisonment, a fine of $5,000, or both.

Attention Women!  I don’t know how you think that taking away a father’s driver’s license is going to help them pay child support!  If they can’t get to work, can’t keep their job, and can’t get a job because they can’t drive, how are they going to pay child support?

Attention Women!  Once someone gets a felony conviction, they are barred from most types of employment!  How are they going to pay child support when they lose their job and can’t get another job because of their felony conviction?

There are many circumstances where women become pregnant and have children, and it was not a good idea:  Teen sex where pregnancy was unintentional, young couples where pregnancy was unintentional, relationships that did not work out, marriages that did not work out.  Sometimes it turns out that the father of the children was not a good person, not caring, not intelligent, not responsible, mentally ill, an alcoholic, a drug addict.

The father of the children may be unwilling or unable to pay child support.  Examples of fathers who may be unwilling to pay child support are assholes, bullies, mentally ill, alcoholics, drug addicts.  Examples of fathers who may be unable to pay child support are stupid people, idiots, imbeciles, fools, mentally ill, alcoholics, and drug addicts.

If the father of your child is stupid, an idiot, an imbecile, a fool, mentally ill, alcoholic, or a drug addict, he will probably not be able to get a job, or keep a job for very long.  Fathers like this will never, ever be able to be current with their child support payments.  Jail time, fines, and driver’s license suspension is not going to help them become current with their child support.  It may make the mothers feel better, the jail time, fines, and license suspension, but it makes the fathers not able to get a job, keep a job, or keep a place to live and transportation for themselves.

Jail and prison, is for criminals, for people who have committed a crime.  Fathers who are stupid, an idiot, an imbecile, a fool, mentally ill, alcoholic, or a drug addict, are probably not able to get a job or keep a job for very long.  They are therefore not very likely to always have money each month to pay child support.  This is not something that is criminal, that should result in jail time, fines, and driver’s license suspension.  This is only going to further reduce their ability to obtain or keep employment.

Prison time for not paying a debt?  I thought that we got rid of debtor’s prisons about three hundred years ago when the first colonists came to America.  I thought the first colonists and the first elected representatives in the United States all knew that you can’t have debtor’s prisons.  People have no way to pay debts when they are in prison.

I think that there are many mothers who like these laws, but they like these laws because they inflict punishment on the fathers, not because they provide support for their children.

Some legal methods to obtain court ordered money judgements and collection of debt are wage garnishment, bank account garnishment, liens on property, liens on vehicles, and seizure of certain types of property that are not necessities.  We don’t have debtor’s prisons in the United States.  We should not take away a person’s driver’s license because they owe someone else money.

Because of the irrational and punitive laws that got passed in North Dakota, I think that it should be called the North Dakota Department Of Vindictive Women.

How Dickinson North Dakota Is Controlled

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I first came to work in Dickinson in 2011.  I left to go work in Texas in 2012.  Then I returned to Dickinson in 2013, and I have been working here since then.  That is about five years that I have spent living in Dickinson.

Prior to coming to work in Dickinson, I had lived and worked in five different states.  I had worked as a laborer, engineer, estimator, inspector, superintendent, project manager, and as a business owner.  In my previous jobs, I had operated a backhoe, bobcat, compactor, crane, excavator, forklift, scissor lift, and snorkel lift.

The economy was bad in Idaho where I had been living, and I was coming over to North Dakota to work because of the oil boom.  I didn’t know exactly what it would be like, but I had a vague idea.  I wasn’t expecting to get my dream job, I was prepared to take what I could get.

I dropped my resume off at some of the oil field businesses on Hwy 22 in Dickinson.  The people at Marathon Oil Company were not nice at all.  The person at Key Energy Services was fairly nice.  An engineering company manager was very interested in hiring me, but he said he had to get approval from the company owners.  On the first or second day that I was in Dickinson, I got hired to work at an oil field service company, and this company would allow me to stay in my truck camper on the company property.

Looking back on it now, I was kind of timid when I first started working at this oil field service company in Dickinson, especially considering my previous employment and work experience.  It was probably better that I was a little timid, rather than being assertive and confident.

I used my experience to not get hurt, not get other people hurt, to help, and to stay out of trouble.  I was able to do everything that I was asked to do, and I was able to help make sure that projects turned out O.K.  As time went by, everyone else was getting hurt, making mistakes, and having accidents, but I wasn’t.  This caused resentment with my coworkers, and even my manager.

In time, I probably explained to my coworkers, that I had already worked as a superintendent and project manager on many large construction projects in the past.  But even though I explained this to them, I don’t think that they comprehended or understood, they probably didn’t want to.

I began to see pretty clearly, that the people from Dickinson did not want to acknowledge that anyone could have relevant education and experience that was greater than what they had.  Their way of dealing with someone who had relevant education and experience, was to make believe that it did not exist.

I wrote up above, that when I dropped my resume off at Marathon Oil company, the people there were not very nice to me.  I later learned through the years of living and working in Dickinson, that about 85% of the people working at Marathon Oil in Dickinson do not have college degrees in engineering.  Not only that, but with my work experience as an engineer, estimator, inspector, superintendent, and project manager on large commercial construction projects, I would have been one of the most senior and experienced people working for Marathon Oil in Dickinson.  Because most of the people working for Marathon Oil in Dickinson do not have college degrees, when they look at my resume, they just make believe that my qualifications and work experience don’t exist, and therefore they are much more qualified than me.

The second oil field service company that I worked for in Dickinson, I did my job as a crew worker, then began to do more what a foreman would do, and then more what a superintendent would do, without any acknowledgment or thanks from the manager or company owner.  Several times I identified and solved some big problems on projects, that the manager and company owner had not seen or known about.  I never received any thanks or acknowledgement.

Working for other companies in Dickinson, it was the same thing.  This is what they do in Dickinson.  This is a learned behavior in Dickinson, that is standard practice.  This is all about controlling people.  It took me several years of living in Dickinson to really see what was going on, and then another couple of years to become certain that this is what is going on.

The people who settled western North Dakota in the late 1800s were German and Ukranian Catholics.  Western North Dakota was very barren and harsh.  The settlers had such a hard time surviving, that they really could not afford to be hospitable to their neighbors.  There were so few resources in western North Dakota, that no one really got ahead.  The only way that anyone did better than their neighbors, was when their neighbors failed.  This is the origin of the belief of people in the Dickinson area, that they get ahead by other people failing.

It became prevalent in the Dickinson area, that people believed that they could be successful by other people failing.  My coworkers, managers, and the company owners were not about to acknowledge that I had education and work experience that made me knowledgeable, capable, and useful in getting work done and managing projects.  How could they be successful, if I was successful?

Another way of stating this, and explaining how this works in Dickinson, is that there is great effort put into keeping people down.  There is this belief in Dickinson, that if you don’t keep people down and try to control them, then how are you ever going to be successful?  How are you going to be successful, if you allow other people to become successful?  You have got to control people, and keep them down.

Trying to keep people down, is kind of a primitive and outdated belief in my opinion.  This is what kings, queens, lords, shieks, and slave holders used to try to do to people.  They tried to keep people uneducated and uninformed so that they are easier to control, which is also something that they try to accomplish in Dickinson.

When I was working in Tampa, the company owner required that each of the employees must read books about success and leadership.  This would never, never happen in Dickinson.  One of the books that I bought was titled “The Power Principle, How To Influence With Honor”, by Blaine Lee.  In that book, there were several chapters about getting out of other people’s way, letting them succeed, even if it meant that they would surpass you.  I was only 27 years old at the time, and I wanted to get ahead, how could I just let people surpass me I wondered?

I tried doing the things that were described in the book “The Power Principle” and within a year I was a superintendent, with an new limited edition Toyota 4-Runner as my company vehicle, and I was making about 40% more money.  Within another two years I was a project manager.  Whenever somebody working for me had a good idea or plan, I listened to them, I let them do it, I let them take charge of it, and I gave them credit for it.  Work got done better, faster, less expensively, innovatively, and with workers being happier, satisfied, and more motivated.  Who do you think got the credit for that?  Me, I got the credit.  But it all began by me getting out of other people’s way and letting them be successful.

I had a degree in engineering, I wasn’t a business major, I hadn’t read books about success and leadership.  Other books that I then began to read that had important information for me to consider were, “The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People”, “Gung Ho”, “The Power Of Positive Thinking”, “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, “Winning Through Intimidation”, and many books on psychology.  I realized that there was a lot that I did not know about being successful.

A common theme in many of these books about being successful in business, was the importance of how you treat people.  For instance, believe it or not, a business expert explained that it was even more important to treat an employee fairly, than a customer.  An employee, in most cases, has more opportunity to affect your business, than does a customer.

Other topics in these books were the necessity of taking a genuine interest in people, to seek first to understand others before expecting to be understood, to be aware of your emotional bank account with people, and the importance of always encouraging others.

The people in Dickinson are so determined to keep other people down, that education and learning is widely discouraged and belittled.  In order to maintain control, the company owners and business owners try to hire and promote people with no education.  This just perpetuates that lack of education and knowledge in Dickinson.  The business owners now, and the business managers now, do not have any business education.

They do not know that you are supposed to treat your employees well, because employees have much more opportunity to affect a business than do customers.  They do not know that you are supposed to encourage your employees.  They do not know that by allowing employees to come up with good ideas, present them, implement them, and give them credit, increases the efficiency and productivity of their business, and makes the employees happier, more satisfied, and more motivated.

There is a final principle that I will mention called “synergy”.  Synergy is the principle that people or businesses working together in a collaborative effort, can accomplish much greater things than they could accomplish working separately.

I will give an analogy to describe synergy.  Imagine that you have water, sand, gravel, and cement.  Could you make a wall only with water?  Could you make a wall only with sand?  Could you stack the sand on the water?  When you mix the water, sand, gravel, and cement all together, you can make concrete walls, houses, and buildings.

Not only do businesses in Dickinson try to keep their own employees down, they do not cooperate with other businesses.  There is no Synergy.  For instance, I described in some previous blog posts, that I do self employed construction work in my own business.  In the past couple of years, I purchased $1,200 worth of equipment from two locally owned businesses in Dickinson.  In the month of April, I talked to these two local business owners about buying more equipment from them, and both of these business owners were very nasty to me.

Why don’t these local business owners in Dickinson see, that if I buy the equipment from them that I need, so that I can complete my projects, so that I make money, that I can then come back and buy more equipment from them?

The town of Dickinson and everyone in Dickinson would be so much more successful if there was Synergy, where everyone makes an effort work together, so that collectively everyone is better off.

Schemes Of Women, Schemes On The Elderly

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This is something that has been bothering me more and more lately.  It is making me angrier and angrier.  This is a true story involving my family.

My mother’s parents were serious, sober, frugal people.  They were in their twenties during the Great Depression.  When they were in their 70s and 80s, at family reunions, my grandmother would not throw out the plastic utensils and plastic plates, she would keep them and wash them.  My grandparents never got over what it was like during the Great Depression.  Like many people who lived through the Great Depression, they were very frugal, careful with money, and didn’t like wasting anything.

My grandfather became an Electrical Engineering professor at a university in Florida.  In the summer, he did consulting work.  After about twenty years of working, he had saved up enough money to buy three acres of land on a lake in Florida, and build a home that he designed.

The home was simple, practical, and well built.  It was four bedroom, two bathroom.  It was a very long, single story house, with high ceilings, that was built into a hill overlooking the lake.  The back of the house was half way above ground level, and the front of the house was completely exposed.  The design of the house, and that it was completely surrounded by tall old oak trees, made it very cool in the summer.

My grandparents lived in this house from approximately 1950 to 2000.  During this time, my grandfather planted the three acres with about every kind of tropical and semi-tropical plant that you could think of.  Avacados, bamboo, bananas, elephant ears, ferns, lemons, limes, lillies, ginger, grapefruit, hibiscus, kumquats, oranges, roses, tangerines, tomatoes.

Not long after my grandfather died, my grandmother wanted to sell the house and move into an assisted living facility, she was about 90 years old.  The house was put on the market for sale.

The town had grown tremendously since 1950 when the house was built.  The property used to be on the outskirts of town, but it was now right in the middle.  Large custom homes in this area, were now being built on 1/4 acre lots, or smaller.  Just the land value of these three acres with about 1,000 feet of lake frontage in this city in Florida, was probably $800,000.

A person who I will now refer to as a weasel piece of shit loser, came knocking on my grandmother’s door, “Oh hello, I don’t know if you remember me, I grew up in this neighborhood.  I used to live right over there, I am so-and-so, my parents were so-and-so.  I see that your house is up for sale.  I always admired this house.  I would sure like to buy this house.”  My 90 year old grandmother vaguely remembered who this man was.

My grandmother discussed with my mother, and my mother’s two brothers, what their thoughts were on selling her house to this man who grew up in this neighborhood, at way below market value.  My mother, and my mother’s two brothers did not object to this.

Within a few months after the property closing, my sister went to the assisted living facility and asked my grandmother if she would like to go back to the house to visit.  My sister had been going to this house for 35 years, for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, family reunions, and weddings.  Everyone in my family had many memories and attachment to this house and this property.  Certainly, the owners who my grandmother had sold this house to for about $250,000, when it was worth more like $800,000, would not object to my grandmother visiting.

When my sister and grandmother arrived at the house, and knocked on the door, the wife was pleasant enough, though she was surprised.  She was there with her boyfriend.  Her husband, the man who had persuaded my grandmother to sell the house to him, she had kicked him out.

Even though my grandmother was 90 years old, she pretty quickly realized what a mistake she had made.  I don’t know if she ever fully grasped how big a mistake it was.  The whole intention was, that someone who grew up there, and had always admired the house, would get the house, appreciate it, and be able to raise their family there.  The reality was, she had just gifted $550,000 to people that she didn’t even know, for no good reason.

My mother, my father, my mother’s two brothers, their spouses, their children, my sister, and myself, we all had such very strong memories of this house and this property.  This property is not replaceable both in the memories, and what is physically there.  No one in my family could afford to pay the fair market value of this property.  No one in my family was scheming or treacherous enough to even think of suggesting to my grandmother to sell it to them for less than fair market value.

At the time, I could somewhat see my grandmother’s, my mother’s, and my two uncles’ thinking that at least someone who grew up in the neighborhood would get it and have a chance to raise their family there.  No one foresaw that his Bitch wife, would kick his ass out about one month after closing.

I am sure that the loan officer at the bank said to the man and his wife, “We have no problem giving you a $250,000 mortgage on this property, the property is appraised at $800,000.  The day that you close, you will have $550,000 equity in the property.”  That is all the wife needed to hear.  Her husband was a loser, going over there and trying to talk some 90 year old woman into selling him her house, that there was no way they could afford.  It worked.  This was a surprise to her, that her loser husband would ever accomplish anything, and now was her chance to cash out.

1. Wait for closing.  2. Kick the husband out.  3. File for divorce.  4. Division of joint marital property.  5. Force the sale of the house by demand for half of equity.  6. Collect $275,000, half of the equity in the house.

If you have elderly parents who own valuable property, print this out and give it to your parents, and to your brothers and sisters.  Don’t even consider doing anything like this.  It amounts to giving your life savings that you have accumulated over 70 years, to people that you don’t even know, for no good reason.

Skank Girls In The South

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Skank girls start out in life being disadvantaged and underpriviledged.  They are likely destined to repeat the tragic life cycle of their forbearers.

Often, they have some physical mark on them, a birth mark, freckles, or a scar that lets them know from when they are a little girl, that they are damaged.  They look in the mirror when they are seven years old, and they know that they will never be a cheerleader, prom queen, or a beauty pageant winner.  The scar on their cheek is so long and deep from the cat scratch, it will never go away.

Their mother gave birth to them when she was eighteen years old.  When they were three years old, their father got arrested and sent to prison for armed robbery.  Later that year, their mother was drunk and she ran into a tree with her Chevy Monte Carlo, killing herself.

The little skank girl has just vague memories of what her mother was like.  Her clearest memories are of riding around with her mother in her silver Chevy Monte Carlo that she was later killed in.  Riding around with the windows open, her mother’s long brown hair whipping around in the wind, stopping and talking to people, handing them packages.  The little skank girl knew that her mother was delivering drugs.

She was staying with her grandmother quite a bit of the time, before her mother’s death.  Her grandmother was only 42 years old, but she looked older than this.  Her grandmother always seemed to be anxious and worried.  Her grandmother was always worried that something was going to happen to someone, or someone was going to get into trouble.  This is all that ever happened mostly, in her grandmother’s life.

When the little skank girl’s mother died, it did not come as a shock or surprise so much to her grandmother.  The grandmother was equally as burdened with the death of her daughter, as she was with the knowledge that she would have to raise her granddaughter.  It was not the work, the expense, or the responsibility, that frightened her, it was that she didn’t know if she could stand raising another one of these girls.

Both of her daughters were dead.  They were very much alike.  They were pretty girls, and not bad girls, at first.  They were outgoing, adventuresome, fun loving, and not scared of anything when they were kids.  After they went through puberty, all the boys were interested in them.  They could not go anywhere without boys noticing them.  Rather than spending time with boys their own age, they went with boys who were older than them, who were wild, who had motorcycles, cars, and money.

There was nothing she could do to stop them.  She was a single mother, who had to go to work every day.  She was informed by the school that her daughters were not going to school sometimes, and sometimes leaving school early.  Her daughters were not scared of anything that she threatened them with.  She realized that if she threatened to kick them out of her house, they would just go and live with their friends.

The only way that the grandmother thought that she could cope with raising her four year old granddaughter, was to not get emotionally involved.

All of these things that I have described above, are the origins of skank girls:  being born to young, pretty, wild women; being the offspring of parents who are wild and don’t care; being raised by people who do not provide them with very much.

A young skank girl begins school in the South, with all the teachers and all the administrators knowing about her circumstances.  They know all about her father, her mother, what they did, and that she is now being raised by her grandmother.  They generally don’t approve of anything her parents did, and they can see the same thing coming from her one day.

Some of the teachers look at the young skank girl, and she looks exactly like her mother when they had her as a student.  Some of the women that drop off or pick their children up from school, look at the young skank girl, and know whose child she must be.  Since nothing but bad things ever happen to anyone in her family, they don’t want their children to have much to do with her.

After school, the other children may go to dance class, karate class, or piano lessons, but the skank girl has been instructed to go straight home, go inside, and remain inside.  The grandmother does not want any problems.  No, she can’t have anyone over, nor can she go over to anyone’s house.  She can’t go anywhere, and she can’t go outside and play.

The skank girl, because of her background, is not likely to be invited to any children’s birthday parties or play dates.  In school she listens to what other children do, and what their lives are like.  She listens to what it is like to go to Chuck E Cheese Pizza, Disney World, and Sea World.

Being deprived of being able to participate in the world, makes young skank girls become observers of the world.  As a six year old or seven year old, they become aware that the more affluent families, with both a mother and a father, are able to drop their children off at school and pick them up in the afternoon.  They observe that the unmarried school teacher women are more anxious and tense, than the married school teacher women who are more calm and confident.  Not being allowed to participate, and only being permitted to observe, gives young skank girls the opportunity to develop a more thorough understanding of the world than other children.  Also, they learn to keep their thoughts and feelings inside, because they have no one to share them with.

The skank girls growing up in a household where they aren’t given very much, aren’t paid attention to, are not allowed to participate, and have no one to talk to, makes them stronger, less able to be controlled, and more likely to do whatever they want.  As they develop, get bigger, and get smarter, they are more inclined to do what they want.  What are you going to threaten to take away from them, if they don’t do what you want, they never ever had anything.  What are you going to threaten to deprive them of, if they don’t do what you want, they were never allowed to do anything.

The skank girls might have been weaker and more easy to control if they would have been spoiled.  If they had been trained to behave and get a puppy, behave and get to go to a Hannah Montana concert, behave and get a Ford Mustang, they might be controllable.

The girls in elementary school have their friends and their cliques.  They want to be popular, they want to be important.  The skank girls don’t want any attention, they want to be unnoticed.  They are aware that they are being treated differently, and they know why.  In elementary school, the pale skinny skank girl may not have any friends.  She may have to sit next to the aloof overweight fat little boy at lunch, or the only black girl in class.  These circumstances only make the skank girl stronger.

By the end of elementary school, the skank girls do begin getting attention.  Boys, girls, and adults begin looking at them longer, trying to discern what they are going to look like, perceiving some beauty in them.

By high school, the skank girls are getting a lot of attention, attention that they did not want, and did not seek.  They are skinny, attractive, and quiet.  They are not fake, phony, gossipy, or childish.  Though they did not want this attention, it gives them a sense of power and opportunity.

The boys and the men take a strong interest in the skank girls.  The skank girls seem independent, mature, and more like adult women.  The popular girls, the cheerleaders, and the homecoming queens don’t like this, and they fear that their boyfriends will go after the skank girl.

The poor, skinny, freckled skank girl, whose mother is dead, and whose father is in prison, the men now want her, and the other women are jealous of her.

Way2Go Card Debit Mastercard Fraud In North Dakota

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On Tuesday May 16, I received in the mail a “Way2Go Card Debit Mastercard” with my name and an account number on it.  I was suspicious because I did not request this card, and I do not have any account with Comerica Bank, the card issuer.

This was not a credit card offer, it was a Debit card.  On the paperwork that came with the card, in the upper right hand corner of the paperwork in large bold print was “North Dakota”, implying that it was issued on behalf of North Dakota.  But there was not any explanation or even a hint as to why I was being issued this Debit card.

There were two telephone numbers to call in order to activate this card and choose a PIN number.  I was not about to give out my social security number over the telephone to someone that I did not know anything about, but I did try to call both of these two telephone numbers to try to find out what was going on.  Both of these telephone numbers were currently disconnected at that time, which made me even more suspicious about this Debit card.

I looked up the Way2Go Card on the internet, and I read several pages of search results.  The states of Virginia and Oklahoma had begun issuing Way2Go Cards in approximately 2012 in order for tax payers to receive income tax refunds.  I also read that the states that had begun issuing Way2Go Cards, had frauds and scams where people would fraudulently telephone tax payers and ask for their personal information in order to “activate” their Way2Go Cards.

I telephoned the State of North Dakota Tax Commission, and I spoke to three people in this office.  The State of North Dakota Tax Commission does not issue Way2Go Cards, they do not cooperate with any bank to issue Way2Go Cards, and they have never heard of the State of North Dakota ever issuing tax refunds onto Debit cards.

I telephoned a Dickinson Police Detective and left a voice mail message explaining that I had received a Way2Go Card, and that I thought that it was a scam.  I telephoned a Dickinson Press newspaper reporter and left a voice mail message explaining that I had received a Way2Go Card, and that I thought that it was a scam, they should make a notice in the newspaper warning people.  I wrote an internet article about this scam.

On the following day, Wednesday May 17, I had a brief telephone conversation with a Dickinson Press newspaper reporter.  She said that she had received a telephone call from a State of North Dakota employee, saying something like they had recently begun issuing Way2Go Cards for child support payments, that my internet article was a mistake.  I explained to the reporter that I don’t have any children, I don’t owe child support, and I am not owed any child support.

I again did internet searches about the Way2Go Card,  Way2Go Card North Dakota, Comerica Bank, Way2Go Card Fraud, and Way2Go Card scams.  For each search term, I read each search result that was listed, for several pages.  I never once found a search result that North Dakota was issuing Way2Go Cards, and I searched and read for about two hours.

Then, I went to the North Dakota Department Of Human Services website, Child Support Enforcement, and this is what it said:

“This fall, the North Dakota Child Support Enforcement Program is changing the way payments are sent to families. To meet state requirements that payments be sent as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, Child Support Enforcement will send payments by either direct deposit or electronic payment card. Paper checks will essentially be eliminated…..

What does this mean for me? You will no longer receive a paper check in the mail. Your support payment will either be direct deposited with the bank or credit union of your choice or added to an electronic payment card from U.S. Bank®, known as the ReliaCard® Visa®.”

The North Dakota Department Of Human Services, wrote on their own website that the support payments will be “added to an electronic payment card from U.S. Bank, known as the ReliaCard Visa.”

On Wednesday night I continued to do internet searches to see if anyone else had reported Way2Go Card frauds in North Dakota or elsewhere.  On Thursday morning, I saw an announcement on the the first page of search results for Way2Go Card North Dakota, that North Dakota Job Services will begin paying unemployment insurance benefits using Way2Go Cards:

“Starting June 1, 2017, Job Service will begin to deposit unemployment insurance benefit payments to the Comerica-issued Way2Go Card™ prepaid debit Mastercard®. The Way2Go Card prepaid debit Mastercard will replace the ReliaCard® Visa® prepaid debit card.”

If you are expecting to receive a payment from North Dakota Unemployment Insurance, or perhaps even North Dakota Child Support Enforcement, these two State agencies may be switching to Way2Go Cards.

When I received a Way2Go Card that I did not request, knew nothing about, with no explanation on the paperwork why I was issued the card, when I called both of the telephone numbers on the paperwork the numbers were disconnected, when I looked on the internet to find out why I was being issued the card and found no explanation, when I called the North Dakota Tax Commission and they did not issue the card, I cut the Way2Go Card up, and I threw it in the garbage.

Review Of Hairball Concert In Dickinson, North Dakota

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On Friday, May 12, Pound Em Productions of Dickinson, brought the band Hairball to the West River Community Center Ice Rink in Dickinson.  This is unusual for me, I have nothing but good things to say about this event.

I was mistaken about the Hairball concert, I had heard about it last year, and I thought that they had multiple bands that performed rock songs from the 1980s.  Hairball is the name of the band, it is just one band, and they performed for about 2-1/2 hours.

Here is a quote from the band’s website, Hairballonline.com:

“Hairball is a Rock & Roll experience you won’t forget.  A band puts on a concert – Hairball puts on an event!  The lights, sound, video screens, smoke, fire, blood, bombs, confetti, spiders, snakes & monsters (oh my) and the screaming hoards of rabid Hairball fans create an event – an event that hits you so hard, it’ll take a few days to recover! Rock & Roll will NEVER die!!!

Vocalists Bobby, Steve and Joe Dandy lead the band through a 2+ hour, mind-blowing, and drop-dead accurate homage to some of the biggest arena acts in the world. Van Halen, KISS, Motley Crue, Queen, Journey, and Aerosmith are but a few of the acts fans will see brought to life. The Hairball stage becomes an entirely new rock concert before your very eyes countless times throughout the night.”

The above quote from the Hairball website describes the band’s performance this past Friday night, better than I could.  The band played for about 2-1/2 hours, non-stop.  I was paying attention to other things at the concert besides the band, and I could not give you an accurate count on how many times a “different” lead vocalist would take the stage.  By “different” lead vocalist, I mean that someone would come on stage dressed as Kiss, David Lee Roth, Freddie Mercury, or Axl Rose.  But there were more than this, because they also performed Journey songs, and AC/DC songs.

I would estimate that there were about 700 people at the concert.  I believe that pre-sale tickets were $25, tickets at the door were $35, and I heard that the VIP tickets were $100.  There was a VIP area upstairs, and also directly in front of the stage in a corral.  There was a very large open area for general admission ticket holders that was plenty big enough for everybody to stand, and it wasn’t overcrowded.  About two hundred to three hundred people sat in the bleachers.

Bernie Marsh, owner of Bernie’s Esquire Club, was the supplier of beer.  There were two drink sales areas, each manned by about four or five people.  You could buy several beers at once, and carry them away in a plastic bag with ice in it.  Bernie Marsh was in a good mood, his son Max was in an O.K. mood, and I believe that I saw his daughter Marinna Marsh, wearing very tight, black leather pants.

It looked like Marinna, but damn her legs were skinny, and she just had a baby about five months ago, could that be Marinna?  Who else would get that skinny?  I tried to stay away from her, but when she came out to clear tables wearing those tight leather pants, all I could think about for five minutes was slapping her ass very hard.  I am still thinking about it.

About half of the women who came to the concert, dressed up like trashy women from the 1980s, wearing high heeled boots, black stockings, short skirts, ripped cut-off jean shorts, and big hair wigs.  About a third of the men dressed like rock band members from the 1980s, wearing zebra striped, and leopard spotted spandex pants, and long hair  wigs.

The Hairball band was very good, the stage set up was very professional, it was indoors and not cold, there were enough security personnel, you could buy a sack full of beers and go sit down, and there were enough bathrooms.  There was nothing wrong, no problems, no fights, and everyone was having a good time.  The women got drunk, became more social, and danced with everyone.

There were many local celebrities at the Hairball concert.  Brady Paulson, who has the local band Outlaw Sippin, performed for about 45 minutes with his band Kramer, a 1990s tribute band.  Brock White, the organizer of the First On First concerts in Dickinson was there, along with event organizer April Grant.  Kim and Heather Landis of the Mollies.  Vocalist Geliza Hoese.  Sammy Chavez.

Concluding Remarks About Hot Women

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Several days ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Disappointment With The Hottest Girl In Dickinson, North Dakota”.  In that blog post, I described that I liked the Hottest Girl in Dickinson, but after meeting her a few more times and trying to talk to her, I found that she was unwilling or unable to express herself in complete sentences.  She was very difficult to talk to.

She was good at making clever comments, saying funny things, being animated, being funny, and getting attention.  I began to realize that she was mostly interested in getting attention.  Eventually, perhaps because she became tired or bored, she more or less said that she thought that she was hot, that she was highly sought after, and that she could do whatever she wanted to.

I immediately lost interest in her.  I didn’t think that anything good would come from knowing her, or becoming friends with her.

Yesterday, I was sitting at home watching television, and I switched channels to watch a relatively new situation comedy called “2 Broke Girls”.  This situation comedy is about a young, dark haired, large breasted, lower class waitress, who befriends a down on her luck, young, upper class, tall thin blond girl.  Both women work at the same restaurant, and they also live together.

Watching two episodes of “2 Broke Girls”, the show was funny.  The two young women are constantly making lewd, vulgar, crude, sexual, racial, nasty, and inappropriate comments.  They are always having problems, doing something that they shouldn’t be doing, and getting into trouble.  After mid-way through the third episode, it was no longer funny.

Everything was funny and a joke to the two young women.  Many people were the targets of their lewd, vulgar, crude, and nasty comments.  They were always having problems and getting into trouble.  And all they would do was make clever comments, make stupid comments, and continue to do stupid things.  It was no longer funny, it was irritating, and I no longer wanted to watch this television show.  I hope that no young women model their behavior after women on television who behave like this, but I am afraid that they probably do.

This is very much how the Hottest Girl in Dickinson behaved.  Constantly making witty comments, suggestive comments, funny comments, and stupid comments.  And also always having problems and trouble.  Both the women on the television show “2 Broke Girls”, and the Hottest Girl in Dickinson, believed that they could get away with everything, and get out of anything, because they were attractive.

This attitude is repugnant to me, when women think that they are so attractive that they can get away with everything, and get out of anything.  This leads to nothing but problems and trouble.  I will give a couple of real life examples.

When I first came to work in Dickinson in 2011, I started work at a company one week before someone who I will call “Danny”.  Danny was 42 years old, and he came over from Montana.  I stayed in my truck camper on the company property, and Danny slept in a mini van that he had borrowed from a relative.  Danny had recently married a younger woman, and he left her with his Chevy Blazer back in Montana.

Danny started making about $1,200 per week, and he began looking for a town home for he and his wife to live in.  Danny called his wife every day to let her know how things were going.  With Danny making $1,200 per week, his young wife wanted to know if she could go buy a new Dodge truck for herself.  Danny told her no, he had to get a place for the two of them to live first.

Danny was in tears one morning, sobbing.  The company manager had to do something with him.  We all found out later that day what had happened.  Danny’s wife emptied every savings account, and every checking account, and took his Chevy Blazer to a Dodge dealer, signed over the Blazer title, though her name was not on the title, and bought herself a new Dodge 1500 truck, and she put it in her name.  She took about $24,000 and Danny’s Chevy Blazer, and she left him with absolutely nothing, not even a vehicle.  They had been married for about six months.  She told him on the telephone, to go fuck himself, that she was done with him.

If that would have happened to me, I would have cut her head off.  It would have been a mistake for any woman to think that she was so attractive that she could get away with everything, and get out of anything.  I would expect someone to kill me, if I did something as bad as to take everything that they owned.  It is irritating to me, and it angers me, that any person thinks that they are somehow exempted from the same rules as everyone else, and that they are excused from the consequences of what they do.

Two more, real life examples:

When I was an estimator and project coordinator at a specialty construction company in Florida, one of the new young crew workers went to work on a construction project about three hundred miles away.  This was before people had internet capable cell phones, and on line banking.  This young man would endorse his pay checks, and mail them back to his girlfriend.  He talked to his girlfriend regularly on the telephone after work, and he reminded her to please mail in his truck payment.  She never made one truck payment.  His truck was repossessed while he was working out of town far away from home, and he didn’t even know it.  You go girl!

When I was in high school, one of my father’s friends named Jerry went to work in Saudi Arabia for over one year.  He sent all of his money each month back to his wife.  He expected to have about $40,000 in the bank when he got home after working for over a year in Saudi Arabia.  When Jerry got home, he didn’t have any money at all, his wife had taken up with another man while he was gone, and she and her boyfriend had spent all of the money that he had sent home.  What’s wrong with that?

You can’t expect anything good to come from women that don’t take anything seriously, make stupid comments about everything, and think that they can get away with everything, and get out of anything.

Reasons Why I Hate Working As An Engineer

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I have had such a horrible time going to school for engineering and working as an engineer, that I do not recommend it to anyone.  In Germany, where engineers are treated with as much respect as medical doctors, it might be worth it.

In high school, I had to do well in Algebra and Geometry, in order to be allowed to take Trigonometry.  I had to do well in Trigonometry, in order to be allowed to take Calculus.  When you are a kid, especially in Florida where I grew up, you want to go outside and play.  You want to ride your bike, skateboard, go fishing, go surfing, play tennis, but you can’t if you have six hours of homework every night after you get home from school at 3:00 p.m.  I had so much homework because I had advanced placement English, advanced placement Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, Latin, and French, which require reading, studying, and understanding before you even begin doing problems and writing.

I graduated first in my high school class, and I got a scholarship to a small private liberal arts college in Virginia to take pre-engineering and general education classes.  The requirements to transfer to Georgia Tech or the University of Virginia after three years were, three more semesters of Calculus, one semester Differential Equations, one semester Linear Algebra, four semesters of Physics, two semesters of Chemistry, one semester FORTRAN programming, and one semester Electricity.  In college, you would like to have fun, but you can’t if you are on scholarship and have to have very high grades to get into an Engineering School.  After my last class of the day at about 3:00 p.m., I had about six hours or more of homework.

I was envious and somewhat resentful of the other college students that were able to have a lot more fun because their major was not nearly as difficult, the Business, Communications, Economics, Education, English, History, Journalism, Political Science, Psychology majors.  I might as well include every major, except for pre-medicine.

Before anyone starts to say that I don’t know how difficult the other majors were, I had to take English with the English majors, Accounting with the Business majors, Political Science with the Poli Sci majors, etcetera.  When the grades were posted at the end of the semesters by the last digits of the social security numbers, on a list of one hundred to two hundred people, there would be one “A+”, which was honorary and had no more grade points than an “A”, and the “A+” was me.

At the small private liberal arts college in Virginia, it was very easy to do well.  The professors were mostly agreeable, helpful, and encouraging.  They wanted everyone to do well both in school and in life, and hoped that all of their students would put in the effort to be successful.  The other hugely encouraging factor, was the young women at the school.

The school was very, very expensive.  Most of the young women at this school were from very wealthy families, or upper middle class families.  Most of the young women were very friendly, pleasant, and encouraging to me.  These women dressed very nicely, and were very decent, polite, and civil.  Most were attractive, some were unbelievably good looking.  Whether they were from the Northeast, or the South, whether they themselves were serious students or not, they were all very encouraging to me.  They admired hard work and trying to be successful.

When I had to transfer to the College of Engineering at the University of Florida after three years of pre-engineering, it was horrible.  The University of Florida was the hardest school to get into in Florida, and once you were there, it was all about getting students to quit.  At that time, there were 35,000 students at the University of Florida, and all of them were either smart or hardworking, or both.

They just could not allow all of these ambitious young people to become accountants, architects, archeologists, attorneys, doctors, engineers, and programmers, they had to eliminate most of them.  This was the most horrible, fucked up thing, that I have ever had to deal with in my entire life.

Everybody at the University of Florida had to have very good grades to be there in the first place.  All of the students in the College of Engineering had to have already completed so many semesters of Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Physics, Chemistry, Electricity, and Computer Science with at least a very high “B+” average in order to be admitted to the college.  Now, after three years of college, the University of Florida was going to try to get rid of most of the engineering students by making them fail or by making them quit.

“Statics”, not “Statistics”, was the study of forces on stationary structures.  All engineering students had to take this class, whether they were going into civil, chemical, electrical, industrial, or mechanical.  Statics involved very complex mathematical equations derived using Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, and Physics.  It was probably twice as hard as Calculus.  About 40% of engineering students failed the Statics class on the first try, I did.

Probably about 20% of engineering students quit engineering the semester after taking Statics combined with their other engineering classes.  The course work was just too hard, especially if you had a job, and especially considering what you would be paid if you ever did graduate with a degree in engineering.

In about the fourth year overall of an engineering student’s education, in the first year of being admitted to the College of Engineering, you would need to take Thermodynamics I.  After about 20% of the engineering students quit after taking Statics, about another 20% quit after taking Thermodynamics I.  About 40% of engineering students failed the Thermodymics I class on the first try, I did.

This was very sick and sickening.  Many students who had to work, could not pass Statics and Thermodynamics because they did not have the time to study for these classes and their other classes.  In college, there is a rule of thumb, that for every hour you spend in class for a course, you will have to spend two hours studying at home.  But for Thermodynamics I, for every hour spent in class, you would have to spend four hours studying at home.  The other engineering classes had one hour class to three hours at home ratios.

There were many very, very intelligent, hard working students, that were good at engineering, that dropped out of the University of Florida because they were unable to complete the courses the way that they were taught and administered.  This is the way that the University of Florida wanted it, this is the way that the College of Engineering wanted it, and this is the way that the different engineering departments wanted it.

These young people that worked so hard in high school to take all the preparatory mathematics, physics, and chemistry, that had made very high grades in college Calculus, Differential Equations, Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Programming, were being forced out of the College of Engineering by the way that the courses were taught and administered.

Most of the College of Engineering professors, could not care less whether the students were following along with what they were teaching.  They were bored in teaching, teaching Statics for ten to twenty years gets boring.  It got so boring, that the professors decided to video tape one class session live, with no students permitted to ask questions, and then the video tape was shown for the next eight sessions of Statics that day.  Remember, 40% of engineering students at the University of Florida failed Statics on the first attempt.

Thermodynamics I was about twice as difficult to pass as Statics.  Thermodynamics is a difficult subject to learn and understand.  At the University of Florida, they had one professor from the Mechanical Engineering Department, that taught Thermodynamics I, and Thermodynamics II.  He was crazy and sadistic.  He had a good understanding of Thermodynamics, as he taught it, because that is all he taught for twenty years, and he wrote the book that was required for the course.

If you could understand the the principles and equations of Thermodynamics I, and use the equations correctly, you were only half way there.  When you went to the two hour test session, with all 400 to 600 enrolled students, the test questions would be a riddle, inside of a puzzle, with some tricks.  And, there would not be enough time given to complete the test problems.

This was horrible, insane, and sadistic.  About half of the class would be people like me, who were having to take the class for the second time.  All of our studying and understanding of the material didn’t matter, because there wasn’t enough time given to complete the test problems.  There would typically be four problems on a test, that involved first understanding what the hell he was talking about, what engineering principles could be used, did you have enough information to begin using certain equations, what could you do to possibly calculate more information to even begin, and then trying to solve all kinds of unknowns, to then use those unknowns in subsequent equations.

The calculations for each problem would completely fill one or more sheets of paper.  You could only spend 1/2 hour on each problem, but the calculations would take forty-five minutes to one hour for each problem.  Most of the four hundred to six hundred enrolled students would not turn in their tests when time was called.  The teaching assistant would have to go take the tests away from everyone.  The twenty-two to twenty-five year old female engineering students would be outside the auditorium crying.  They and their parents probably had spent and borrowed about $40,000 for college in the past four years, and now they weren’t going to be able to continue because they could not pass Thermodynamics I.

Thermodynamics I was twice as hard as Statics, and Thermodynamics II was twice as hard as Thermodynamics I.  In Statics, there might have been 300 Mechanical Engineering students enrolled each semester.  In Thermodynamics I, there might have been 200 Mechanical Engineering students enrolled each semester.  In Fluid Dynamics, it would be down to 120 Mechanical Engineering students enrolled each semester.  By the time of Thermodynamics II it got down to 80 Mechanical Engineering students enrolled.  The end result, the University of Florida produced about 50 Mechanical Engineering graduates each semester.  I made it, I graduated.  I didn’t go to graduation because I was so disgusted with everything.  My whole experience at the University of Florida was horrible.

Please remember, there are a tremendous number of very intelligent and hardworking students that get admitted to the University of Florida, which is a very hard school to get into.  Many of these students would make very good accountants, architects, attorneys, and engineers, but the University of Florida makes classes so difficult to pass, that many students drop out.  It is not just that the material is difficult to learn and understand, it is that the classes are taught and administered so that many people will fail.  One of the techniques that they use in the College of Engineering, is to not give enough time on tests for the calculations to be completed.  Another technique, is for the problems to be couched in a riddle, couched in a puzzle, with some tricks.

If the University of Florida has any reputation for being a “good school”, it is not due to the quality of education, it is that you have to be extremely intelligent, hardworking, and don’t give up, in order to graduate as an accountant, architect, attorney, or engineer.

School was horrible.  Even though I described it just now, most people can’t imagine how bad it was at the University of Florida Department of Mechanical Engineering.  I wasn’t willing to go through that kind of shit for very long working as an engineer, but I did for a while.

One of my first jobs out of college was working for a bridge construction company.  Based on information that I received about length of span, required width, required loading, contour of crossing, elevation of bridge, and type of abutments, I would prepare an AutoCAD drawing of the bridge, and make a cost estimate of the bridge.  The owner of the the company that I worked for, required that I precisely specify all of the bridge material and quantities, and send these to material suppliers to get price quotes.  The owner did not want any surprises about material costs.

I would take a lot of pride in being completely accurate and painstaking in all of my designs, calculations, and material take-offs based on my designs and calculations.  So many times, when I was expecting to get out of the office at 5:00 p.m., an asshole employee who was not painstaking or careful, (a business major), would come to me and tell me that he was wrong about the bridge span, width, or elevation.  My design, my drawings, my calculations, and my material take-offs would all be wrong.

Instead of getting to go home in a couple of hours, I would have to stay at the office until 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m., in order to re-do all my designs, calculations, and material take-offs, that I had already done so carefully and painstakingly the first time.  This reminded me so much of college, when I was so tired of staying at my desk studying, and all of the business majors and marketing majors were out having a good time.  The business major that had given me the wrong information, had already been out to eat, and was home in bed by the time I was leaving the office because of his mistake.

This is how things will always be for engineers in the United States for a number of reasons.  If you don’t want to be poorly paid, treated badly, and disrespected, then don’t be an engineer in the United States.

An example of how engineers in Dickinson, North Dakota, are treated and disrespected, most of the oil companies and manufacturing companies in Dickinson hire and give the title of “engineer” to people who don’t even have a knowledge of basic chemistry and physics.  They could not make any sense of a periodic table of elements, chemical formula, or calculate forces.  The people and employers in Dickinson love to disrespect and mistreat degreed engineers.

Disappointment With The Hottest Girl In Dickinson, North Dakota

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In a previous recent blog post, I wrote about meeting the hottest girl in Dickinson, North Dakota.  I wrote that I am normally not very interested in “hot” women, because they are so much trouble.

Several months ago I wrote a blog post titled “List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson, North Dakota”.  The criteria for being on that list, was that the woman be attractive, civil, decent, and respectable.  Being “hot” was not one of the criteria.  I would not put any woman on that list that would bring dishonor to the other women.  Some of the women on my list of attractive women in Dickinson, I have known for more than several years.  I am not disappointed or displeased with any of the women on my list of attractive women in Dickinson.  I am proud of them, and the way that they conduct themselves.

After only spending a few hours with “the hottest girl in Dickinson, North Dakota”, I not only have lost interest in her, I am repulsed by her.  I am ashamed of myself for not having better judgement.

I was infatuated with her for about ten days.  I looked forward to seeing her.  I was able to speak to her some, but not as much as I would have liked.  What little I was able to say to her, she had no interest in.  When I was around her, I was able to listen to what she had to say to other people.  She seemed witty and clever.  She also seemed to have a good attitude, and a good disposition.

I talked to two of her women friends, who I have known for a couple of years.  They did not have anything wonderful and amazing to say about her, which surprised me, because I thought that she was impressive.  I concluded that these two women friends of hers were just jealous.

When I got another chance to speak to “the hottest girl in Dickinson, North Dakota”, nothing that I had to say was very interesting to her.  I instead ended up talking to someone from the South, like me.  The person from the South, wanted to talk to me, more than I wanted to talk to them, because I was there to see the girl that I was infatuated with.  I ended up talking to several people that I had no intention of talking to.

The other people that I was talking to, what they were saying was not very interesting to “the hottest girl in Dickinson, North Dakota.”  What they were saying, was completely reasonable, intelligent, and they were expressing things that were important and significant to them.  I began to realize, that the hot girl, was not willing or able to talk about anything.  She could make faces, make funny expressions, say stupid things that were funny, but not have a conversation that involved speaking in complete sentences to express a point, opinion, or convey much information.

The hot girl’s behavior was all about getting attention.  The way she acted, and what she said, was all about her getting attention.  She had gotten my attention by wearing tight jeans, a tight tank top, and by making witty and clever comments.  This worked in getting me to like her.  But when I tried to find out more about her, it was painfully difficult.  Like I said, she was unwilling or unable to talk about anything, only able to make funny comments and funny faces.

Finally, what she did manage to reveal about herself, was that she thought that she was hot, that she was highly sought after, and that she could do what ever she wanted.  This was all I needed to know.  I no longer wanted to have anything to do with her.

What I was hoping to find out, was what kinds of things she liked to do, what did she enjoy, what did she look forward to, what did she want to do.  From finding these things out, I could know more about what kind of person she was.  Was she honest, trustworthy, reliable, compassionate, considerate, kind, loyal, affectionate, hardworking, ambitious, open minded, educated, intelligent….?  My answer was, no.  Since her perception of reality was that she was hot, highly sought after, and that she could do whatever she wanted, I could not expect anything good to come from her.

On my list of attractive women in Dickinson, there are some women that just happen to be hot.  But these hot women, tone down their hotness for the sake of other men, their husbands, and their children.  They disregard their hotness, and they work hard, educate themselves, advance in their careers, take care of others, are considerate to others, take an interest in others, pursue hobbies, and are involved in the community.

I should have known better.  There are expressions in the Bible about “strange women”, whose path leads to destruction and her ways are death.  Does a good tree produce bad fruit, and a bad tree produce good fruit?  A tree will be known by its fruit.

They Hide Jobs In Dickinson, North Dakota

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I recently wrote several blog posts explaining that there are much fewer job advertisements in Dickinson this April, than there used to be in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.  I gave some comparisons on what jobs were advertised this April on the websites for North Dakota Job Service, Indeed.com, and Careerbuilder.com, compared to past years in Dickinson, North Dakota.

A local Dickinson reader, who works in pre-employment screening, wrote some comments to my blog posts about there being fewer job advertisements in Dickinson.  She stated that I was not completely correct about there being a work slow down in Dickinson.  She wrote that many local companies were hiring, that I might be unaware of this, because many local companies were not placing job advertisements on North Dakota Job service, Indeed.com, Careerbuilder, or Monster.com.

This made me angry, because I have seen this before in Dickinson, where local human resources personnel try to hide job announcements, in order to make these jobs only accessible to their friends and relatives that they tell about the job announcement.  I copied the reader’s comments to my blog post, and I pasted her comments to a new blog post, to bring attention to her comments.  I wanted all of the out of state workers to see this, and be aware of this.

I wrote in response to this reader’s comments, that I had seen this before in Dickinson, where Dickinson State University, the City of Dickinson, and Stark County will “hide” a job announcement.  Instead of placing the job announcement in the most widely read job posting sites such as, North Dakota Job Service, Indeed.com, Careerbuilder.com, or Monster.com, they will post the job announcement on an obscure website where no one will ever find it.

This practice that the local human resources personnel in Dickinson have, of meeting a city, county, or state agency legal requirement to publicly advertise a job announcement, by placing the job announcement someplace where no will find it, except for the people that they personally tell, is illegal.  I will explain why it is illegal.

All employers in the United States, both government agencies and private companies, are required to comply with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which states that employers can not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, age, color, sexual orientation, or disability.  I believe that it can be proven that the human resources personnel at Dickinson State University, the City of Dickinson, and Stark County are guilty of violating the EEO laws.

DSU, the City of Dickinson, and Stark County often post job announcements where they can not be found by normal people, conducting a normal job search.  It can be shown that the human resources personnel are deliberately and intentionally trying to hide job announcements, for job openings at publicly funded institutions and government agencies.  It can be shown that the human resources personnel are deliberately and intentionally concealing job openings so that there are very few job applicants, and not openly advertising to get a large number of applicants with relevant experience and relevant education.

One reason that the local human resources personnel are deliberately hiding job openings, so that they do not get a large number of applicants with relevant experience and relevant education, is because their intention is to hire friends and relatives who would not be the most qualified applicant if the job opening was fairly and openly advertised.  This practice is called “nepotism”, and this practice is unethical and illegal in hiring at publicly funded institutions and government agencies.  These jobs are supposed to be open to everyone.

When the human resources personnel in Dickinson hide a job announcement, and only tell certain people about the job opening, they are violating the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.  They are practicing discrimination, and this discrimination is illegal.  They are only telling people that they are “comfortable” with getting the job.  The EEO laws are meant to ensure that jobs are open to everyone, that there is no discrimination.  When a job announcement is hidden where it is unlikely to be found by a normal person conducting a normal job search, and only certain people are told about the job opening, this allows discrimination against Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, homosexuals, transgenders, people from out of state, or anyone that they don’t like.

For the past six months, I have been very interested in what new job openings are posted in Dickinson, North Dakota.  Three times each week, I normally look at job listings on North Dakota Job Service, Indeed.com, and Careerbuilder.com.  For the past two months, I have also been regularly looking at other job posting websites such as Rigzone and Monster.com.  Twice each month, I do a Google Search, for specific job titles in North Dakota, which turns up jobs from other job posting websites.

I look at all the different job posting sites, so that I can see what is going on in my industry, what is going on in North Dakota, and to look for job openings for myself and for others.  There are three people in Dickinson, that I each got hired to work with me, and later got them hired to work with someone else that I know in the same industry.  There are three other people in Dickinson that I got hired to work with me part time.  Whenever I see these six people, we discuss and compare what job openings we have seen advertised for the industry that we work in.

Yesterday, I discussed with two of these people that I have gotten hired before, what job openings that I had seen advertised, and what job openings they had seen advertised for the industry that we work in.  Both of these people are lifelong Dickinson residents who are currently unemployed and looking for work.

Today, I again reviewed North Dakota Job Service, Indeed.com, Careerbuilder.com, and Monster.com for job openings.  Then, I did a Google Search, for a specific job title.  I opened every job posting website, on page one, page two, and page three of the Google Search results.  I looked at approximately six, less well known job posting websites, and reviewed all the job announcements.  The six less well known job posting websites, all had job announcements that were shown on Indeed.com and Monster.com.

On about the third page of Google Search results, on about the seventh job posting website, I saw the job listing website for LinkedIn.  On the LinkedIn job posting website, I found a 30 day old job announcement from Dickinson State University, for work that myself and my friends are looking for.  I then asked my friends who work in this same industry as me, if they had seen this job announcement at Dickinson State University, and none of them had.

The two lifelong Dickinson residents that are unemployed and looking for work, that I had a discussion with yesterday about job openings in Dickinson in our industry, they were unaware of the 30 day old job announcement at Dickinson State University.  These two people look for job openings every day on the internet, and they talk to local people they know about job openings in Dickinson.  Each of these two people attended Dickinson State University.  This job opening at DSU, was for work that each of them had been doing recently.  They couldn’t apply for this job, because they didn’t even know about it, though they are lifelong Dickinson residents, former DSU students, and they look for job openings every day on the internet.

Also on LinkedIn today, was an eleven day old job announcement from Stark County, that neither myself or any of my local Dickinson friends have ever seen before.  How can this be good, that neither myself, or my friends, who frequently look for job openings on the internet, and discuss what job openings are available, never see the job announcements that Stark County hides?

I should probably file a complaint with the North Dakota Attorney General’s office, that Dickinson State University, Stark County, and the City of Dickinson are not complying with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, by hiding job announcements and only telling people that they know and approve of, about the job announcement.

If You Come To Work In Dickinson, North Dakota, You Must Plan On Leaving

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If you come to work in Dickinson, North Dakota, you must plan on leaving.  This is probably the most important advice that I could give to anyone.

I first came to work in Dickinson from Idaho, in 2011.  I have lived in Dickinson for almost five years now.  Something that I now realize was a mistake, was that once I had been here for a while, I tried to settle in, to be comfortable, and I tried to make a life here.

When I first came to Dickinson in 2011, I ended up staying in my truck camper on company property where I was working.  My goal was to make as much money as possible, and then return to my home in Idaho when I had made enough money.  I brought over one extra vehicle, so that I could drive around after work and on weekends without moving my truck camper.  Making money, saving money, and bringing just the bare minimum of personal belongings to Dickinson, these were all good ideas that I should have continued to follow.

When I came back to Dickinson in 2013, by the winter I had moved into a house.  I purchased an additional vehicle in Dickinson.  I bought a couple of kayaks.  I bought some mountain bikes.  I later brought over from Idaho, two extra trucks, two equipment trailers, and construction equipment.  I began doing self employed construction work, in addition to my other job.

Instead of making money, saving money, and going back to Idaho when I had made enough money, I tried to make a life here in Dickinson.  I tried to have a normal life in Dickinson, because it looked like I was going to be here for several years.  I began trying to do things that I enjoyed doing elsewhere, riding my bike, kayaking, fishing, going to the gym, going to restaurants and bars, trying to meet women, driving jeeps out to nowhere.  This turned out to be a mistake, trying to make a life in Dickinson.

I have been writing blog posts for a little over 2-1/2 years, and I have written very few good things about Dickinson, and many, many bad things about Dickinson, North Dakota.  Primarily, the local people are unfriendly, uncooperative, hostile, hateful, uneducated, very greedy, and they raised housing prices 400% to 500% to gouge the out of state workers.  There is a shortage of women and a scarcity of attractive women.  The restaurants are not very good, and the waitresses and bartenders hate their jobs, hate their customers, hate white men, and hate Dickinson.  The police follow everyone leaving restaurants and bars hoping and trying to arrest them for something.

I tried to make a life here in Dickinson, and this was a mistake.  Dickinson is not normal, and it is never going to be normal.  There will always be a scarcity of attractive women in Dickinson.  The restaurants and bars will always be bad with waitresses and bartenders that hate their job and hate their customers.  The people here will always be unfriendly, uncooperative, hostile, and hateful.  I guess that I thought that I would try to persevere, and try to make things as bearable as possible while I was living here in Dickinson.

Things are so bad in Dickinson now, that I can now see that I had made a mistake when I changed my plans from working, saving, and leaving, to trying to do things, have things, and become involved in things here in Dickinson.

There are very few job openings in Dickinson now, even though this is the busiest hiring month in Dickinson.  My job is not very busy, and I am not making very much money.  Once I had brought extra vehicles, trailers, and equipment to Dickinson, my local landlord began being difficult and causing problems, thinking that I was stuck here, and that I could not leave.  Once I started taking my extra vehicles and equipment back to Idaho in preparation for moving out, my landlord changed his attitude.

Without having some of my equipment that I moved back to Idaho, in order to do my self employed construction work, I had to re-buy equipment from local businesses that I had bought this equipment from last year.  I was shocked recently when two local business owners that I had bought equipment from last year, were very nasty to me when I talked to them about buying more equipment from them.  I regretted having spent over $1,200 at these two local businesses.

These two local business owners being so nasty, caused me to think about what I am doing in Dickinson.  Just about every involvement with anything and anyone in Dickinson has been negative.  The local people are so unfriendly, the women are unattractive and unfriendly, the waitresses and bartenders are so unfriendly, the local business owners are nasty, and the police follow everyone around trying to arrest them for something, I guess that it was a mistake in trying to make a life here.  I just should have brought the bare minimum of belongings over here to Dickinson, and tried to have as little involvement as possible in Dickinson.

I recommend to out of state workers, do not move to Dickinson, just plan on staying here while you have a job.  Do not buy a house in Dickinson.  Do not pay a lot for housing, get just the bare minimum for housing.  Try to get a lease that allows you to break your lease by giving notice and paying a penalty.  Try to bring a minimum of belongings to Dickinson.  Be ready to leave Dickinson.  Try to make as much money as possible, to save as much money as possible, and to spend as little as possible.  While you are here, try to research some place better to move to.

After living in Dickinson for almost five years, with everything that I have seen, learned, and experienced, you can’t have a normal life, or a good life here in Dickinson.  Don’t get trapped here because you have bought a house which you will be unable to sell, or because you have spent your money on a new car, motorcycle, or boat.  Plan on saving your money so that you will be able to leave.  Don’t accidentally get trapped here in Dickinson.

Risks Of Having Any Involvement In Dickinson, North Dakota

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When I first started this blog website over 2-1/2 years ago, in my first blog posts I wrote that the local people here in Dickinson were unfriendly, uncooperative, and hostile to people who came from out of state to work in Dickinson.  I wrote that the local people here in Dickinson hate people from out of state, and anything that out of state people say to them, only makes them dislike out of state people more.  I also wrote that the local people here in Dickinson, hate each other too.

I have lived in Dickinson for almost five years now, and it just continues to be demonstrated that the local people here are unfriendly, uncooperative, hateful, and hostile.  Because of my experiences here, and what I have seen and observed in Dickinson, I would recommend to people from out of state, to not get involved in Dickinson.

I recommend to people from out of state who come to work in Dickinson, to plan on having as little involvement in Dickinson as possible.  I understand moving to Dickinson to work.  Due to the oil boom, there were higher paying jobs with more overtime hours, than other places in the United States.  I came from Idaho to work in Dickinson.

When I first came to Dickinson to work in 2011, I just planned on making money, saving money, and returning to my home in Idaho.  When being hired at my first job in Dickinson, my employer had told me and another man from Montana, that the company would provide housing for us.  I had bought a truck camper to put on my truck before I drove to Dickinson, so I just stayed in my truck camper on the company property at first.  My local Dickinson co-workers, began complaining to the company that it was not right or fair for the company to provide housing for me and the other out of state worker.  It would not have harmed or cost my local Dickinson co-workers anything, for the company to provide housing for me and the other out of state worker.  However, my local Dickinson co-workers complaining because they were hateful, hostile, unfriendly, and uncooperative, caused the company to not provide housing like they had said they would when I was being hired.

Next, my local Dickinson co-workers began complaining that it was not right for me and the other out of state worker to be able to stay in a camper on the company property, for free.  I explained to my local co-workers when they complained about me staying in my camper on the company property, “I have a home like you do, but my home is in another state.  I have to pay all the same housing bills as you do, house payments, property tax, home insurance, and utilities, for my home in Idaho.  I don’t want or need two homes.  I can’t afford to pay for two homes.”

I found out at the first company that I worked for in Dickinson, and at the second company that I worked for in Dickinson, that the local people hate people from out of state.  Anything you say, or anything that they find out about you, just makes them hate you more.  Even saying something innocuous, just makes them hate you more.  Anything you say, or anything you tell them, they will spend all day trying to figure out how to use it against you.

After everything that I have experienced in Dickinson for the five years that I have lived here, I need to warn out of state workers, to plan before you ever arrive in Dickinson, to have as little to do as possible with your local Dickinson co-workers, and have as little involvement as possible in Dickinson.  The more that people find out about you in Dickinson, the more problems you will have.  The more that you become involved in Dickinson, the more problems you will have.

At the first company that I worked for in Dickinson, my employer asked me what I thought about Dickinson.  I knew what he was getting at, he wanted to know if I was planning on staying in Dickinson.  I said the only positive thing that I could think of, I said that I thought it was nice that Dickinson had a lot of undeveloped land and was not over crowded.  However, what I was thinking in my mind, was that I was not about to try to stay in Dickinson.  The least expensive old one bedroom apartments rented for $1,500 per month if you could even find one available, and it would be in a wretched building and a bad neighborhood.  I was not about to sell my quiet peaceful home in Idaho on five acres, in order to buy a horrible shitty townhome in a bad neighborhood in Dickinson for $120,000.

What employers and local co-workers were always trying to find out, was how invested and how trapped were you going to become in Dickinson.  The employers and local co-workers knew that the out of state workers would have to pay 400% to 500% more than they did for housing, and they really enjoyed this.  The local people in Dickinson are hateful and hostile to out of state workers, and they actually enjoyed and took satisfaction in knowing that the out of state workers were being taken advantage of tremendously on housing.  The employers and local co-workers were very interested in finding out what your plans were.  They wanted to find out if you were going to stay, they enjoyed finding out how much you had to pay for housing, and they wanted to determine how financially burdened and how trapped you were becoming.

Any hesitation or resistance that an out of state worker showed to becoming committed to paying for extremely high housing, was seen by employers and local co-workers as an indication that a worker was not planning on staying, and they didn’t like it.  They didn’t like it because you might be planning on quitting your job and leaving Dickinson, and they didn’t like it because you deprived them of the satisfaction of being taken advantage of by the local people, one of them.

I recommend to out of state workers, and I have been recommending this for the past 2-1/2 years, do not buy a home in Dickinson at this time.  The home prices are still very high.  The oil boom is over.  The number of oil field jobs may stay roughly the same, or there may be a decrease in oil field jobs.  There are a tremendous number of newly completed apartments in Dickinson, and the occupancy rates at these new apartments is below 50%.  Housing prices will continue to decline, home prices will continue to decline.  Do not buy a house in Dickinson now, because in two years houses in Dickinson could easily be worth 20% to 50% less.  Also, you face the possibility of not being able to sell your house in Dickinson.

I saw that the employers in Dickinson and the local co-workers were interested in what the out of state workers were going to do for housing, because they enjoyed finding out how bad the out of state workers were being gouged by the local people, and they were looking forward to the out of state workers becoming trapped here.  The employers wanted the out of state workers to get into an expensive housing lease or mortgage, so that they would have no choice, they would be stuck here and have to work for them.  The employers were also looking forward to the out of state workers getting into an expensive lease or mortgage, being stuck here, having to work for them, and then employers being able to drop the pay rates.

When I found an inexpensive and stable place to live in Dickinson, I brought over from Idaho, two extra trucks, two equipment trailers, and equipment to begin doing self employed construction work in Dickinson.  I later regretted doing this.  I was again taught the lesson to have as little involvement as possible in Dickinson.

My landlord became more difficult and disagreeable, once he saw that I had so much equipment and property here in Dickinson, that I could not easily leave, that I was stuck here.  When I started moving my equipment back to Idaho in preparation for moving out, my landlord changed his behavior immediately.  I regretted becoming invested in Dickinson, trying to do business here, bringing vehicles, equipment, and personal property here, then a local person knowing my situation, thinking that I was stuck here, and then trying to take advantage.

When I had to re-buy $800 worth of equipment that I had just taken back to Idaho, from a local equipment dealer in Dickinson that I bought this equipment from last year, the local business owner was incredibly shitty to me.  A few days ago when I was talking to another local business owner, who I had bought a generator from, this local business owner was also incredibly shitty to me.  I regretted doing business with these local business owners in Dickinson, and I regretted trying to operate my business in Dickinson.

When I began to think about my experiences here in Dickinson, I regretted just about every involvement in anything here in Dickinson.  Going out to eat at restaurants, going out to bars, the staff are not friendly, and the customers are often very trashy and low class.  Leaving restaurants and bars, the police in Dickinson are very aggressive in following people, hoping and trying to arrest them for something.

Public recreational places like Patterson Lake and the West River Community Center are often not good places to be, because of misbehaving people and hoodlums.  Business owners that I have bought multiple pieces of equipment from have turned out to be very unappreciative and nasty.  Co-workers that I have tried to be civil to have caused me problems.  Local people that I have tried to be friends with, have shown to be unhelpful and greedy.  People that I have helped, have been unappreciative and have caused me problems.

If I had good sense, I would follow my own advice, and try to have as little involvement as possible in Dickinson.  Don’t go to restaurants and bars in Dickinson.  Don’t go to locally owned businesses in Dickinson.  Try to spend as little money as possible in Dickinson.  Pay as little as possible for housing in Dickinson, don’t get on a lease, and don’t buy a house.  Don’t go anywhere, stay at home, and only go to WalMart when you need something.  Try to save as much money as possible so that you can leave Dickinson and have a normal life elsewhere one day.

A Local Reader’s Reply To My Blog Posts About Dickinson, North Dakota

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I have copied and pasted a local reader’s comment to one of my blog posts about employment and Catholics in Dickinson, North Dakota:

First of all, I did not say that your facts about how many jobs posted was incorrect.  I meant your facts about me, my family, and my life.  Second of all, here is another example where you need to open up that closed mind of yours.  You are absolutely correct that it is not the same as it was in 2011-2014.  But that does not mean that it is not picking up.

There is a big difference between then and now.  At that time we had such a huge influx of people and no housing, that of course the hotels were full.  Since then the housing market has caught up and more hotels have opened up, along with many people leaving when it slowed way down.

I don’t believe that job service has someone scouring the internet looking for jobs that have been posted. That would not be a good business practice. Again things have changed. Companies are holding job fairs, utilizing tv and radio, posting on social media.

I read your post to a business owner who says he won’t use job service. He had in the past and didn’t receive one application from there. It is starting to be an outdated service. Yes people network and of course they want someone they know to work along side them.  This is something that happens everywhere not just Dickinson.  In a different post, you complained about businesses in Watford City hiring lesbians. North Dakota is a right to work state and employers are not allowed to discriminate against you for your sexuality or religion. Also, in the end, a business owner is in it for the money, and will not hire someone they know if it is not a good business decision.

Alright and now the Catholics….. just let it go already.  You are grouping so many people into your bs prejudice.   Yes a very large part of the population here is Catholic. But they aren’t all out to get you.

You said something about how the settlers discouraged kids from higher education.  This is not true.  99% of these people were farmers.  The local schools went to 8th grade.  Once you finished that, you were expected to help out at home.  Many of these families had 10 plus children along with all the farm work.  Mouths need to be fed and work needed to be done. Again things today are very different than they were 100 years ago.

Now about the housing prices going up, this is simple supply and demand.  Anyone regardless of religion, race, sexuality, whatever would do the exact same thing.  If people are willing to pay it, they will charge it.  This would happen anywhere. There was also a comment about the Catholics having vacant land that could be used for low income housing or a homeless shelter.  These people bought this land and it is theirs to use how they see fit.  I highly doubt that anyone anywhere would just give up land so that apartments could be built.  If you want to buy it that’s a different story.  I assume you have a bed, why don’t you give it up to a homeless person tonight?

I wanted to post this reader’s comments, so that more people can read them.  The reader spent some time putting her thoughts together in these comments.  She wanted to express her point of view, and she wanted to disagree with many of the things that I wrote.

It would be useful for out of state workers who are considering moving to Dickinson, to read this local Dickinson woman’s comments.

There are just a few things that I want to explain to the author of the comments, Ali:

Yes, I have let a person in Dickinson that did not have a place to stay, stay where I live, when he did not have any money.  Eventually when he did got a job, his rent was based on how much he could afford to pay.  When his truck broke down, I let him borrow my new mountain bike, which he damaged, and I did not make him pay for it.  Because he used the same shower and bathroom as me, I got athlete’s foot fungus from him.  Helping people is sometimes inconvenient.  His name was Mike.

Mike was Catholic.  He went to Catholic Mass in Dickinson at least twice a week.  He tried every Catholic Church in Dickinson, Richardton, and Belfield, and at each Catholic Church, the people were very unfriendly to him.  I repeat, he went to every Catholic Church in Dickinson, Richardton, and Belfield, and at each Catholic Church, the people were very unfriendly to him.

At one Catholic Church service, the priest said, “Reach out and shake the hand of the person next to you in fellowship.”  When Mike reached out to shake the hand of the woman next to him, she scowled at Mike and stepped back from him.

At my home in Idaho, I have let a person stay in my home without paying rent or paying utilities for several months, because he did not have any money to pay.  It caused me some problems and inconvenience.

It does not hurt me financially to let people stay where I live, or stay in the home that I own.  I would still have to pay insurance, property tax, and utilities anyway.  I am not wealthy, and I don’t have a high income, yet I was willing and able to help others.  Besides the Biblical teaching “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, there is the common wise saying, “There but for the grace of God, go I”, which means, the same thing can happen to you.

Many of the property owners in Dickinson are financially well off, and their properties were long ago paid for.  They could have charged reasonable rent, or increased their rent by 100%.  The rent increases of 400% to 500%, are what the Bible refers to as “usury”.  “Usury” is lending money at interest, but as it is used in the Bible, it means any manner of taking advantage of others financially.

The Catholics in Dickinson committed Usury, a very bad sin, and no amount of denying it, or trying to justify it, changes the fact that it was Usury.

There Should Be A Gay Bar Called Baker Hughes In Dickinson, North Dakota

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In 2011 the international oil field service company Baker Hughes began constructing a very large facility on Highway 22 on the north side of Dickinson, North Dakota.  The facility consisted of an administrative building, warehouse buildings, and shop buildings.  The site occupies approximately ten acres of land, and the facility probably cost at least $50 million to construct.

When I first came to Dickinson in 2011, the only large truck stop was Tiger Truck Stop.  The Baker Hughes fracking and wireline specialty trucks would travel together in a convoy to go to Tiger Truck stop to fuel up.  All the Baker Hughes personnel when they are on duty, wear blue/grey Baker Hughes coveralls, which I believe have two silver reflective bands on each sleeve and each pants leg.

The Baker Hughes international oil field service company, is a pretty straight and serious company, which is why I think that there should be a gay bar in Dickinson called Baker Hughes.  This gay bar should also be on Highway 22, like the real Baker Hughes international oil field service company.

This gay bar should be in a big warehouse building, with a large sign out front, in the same letter style as the real Baker Hughes.  For legal reasons, maybe the gay bar sign would have to say “Baker & Hughes”, with the “&” being as small as possible, not even noticeable.

Inside the gay bar, the bartender men would wear coveralls identical to the real Baker Hughes, with one exception, the back bottom of the coveralls would be cut out to expose the bartenders’ bare asses.  Truck drivers making deliveries to Baker Hughes, would stop at the first Baker Hughes that they came to.  The truck drivers would go inside with their delivery paper work, and say, “I have a delivery for Baker Hughes.”  The bartender would say, O.K., let me come outside with you to see what you have.  Then, the truck driver would be like, “Holy shit man!  Why are you wearing coveralls showing your bare ass!”

Young men from Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Idaho, and Utah, would arrive in Dickinson, and want to go to Baker Hughes to put in a job application, and they would stop at the first Baker Hughes that they came to.  Arriving at about 2:00 p.m., the young men would be anxious and nervous about going to ask about a job at Baker Hughes.  They might be surprised to see how friendly the Baker Hughes people were, handing them an application to fill out, and offering them a Coke.  After about twenty minutes of filling out the job application, and handing it to the Baker Hughes person, the Baker Hughes person would say, O.K., let me go get the manager.  The young man job applicant would be like, “Holy shit!  How come your coveralls are cut out showing your bare ass! What kind of place is this!”

There would be many a young man from Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Idaho, and Utah, calling home saying, “I don’t think I want to work in the oil field after all.”

Likewise, on Karaoke night, drag queen night, talent night, all kinds of gays and transgenders wearing flamboyant clothing would be showing up at the real Baker Hughes, banging on the glass front administration building yelling to be let in.  Very openly gay men would always be showing up at the real Baker Hughes wanting to fill out job applications.  The real Baker Hughes would find that they could not try to discourage this in any way, because trying to ask about someone’s sexuality to find out if they were at the wrong place, could be construed as discrimination.

Young men could work at the Dickinson gay bar Baker & Hughes for a year, or a couple of years, and then go down to Oklahoma or Texas, and apply for work at oil field service companies, stating that they had worked for Baker Hughes in Dickinson.

Before long in Oklahoma and Texas, oil field companies would be saying, “Man, I don’t know what they got going on in Dickinson, North Dakota, but I have never seen so many queers working in the oil field.”

Answering A Reader’s Questions About Employment And Catholics In Dickinson, North Dakota

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A reader who lives in Dickinson, has left a couple of comments to my blog posts, and she disagrees with most of what I write about Dickinson.  This does not surprise me at all.

To summarize the indicators that the oil boom is over in Dickinson, that there is a work slow down, and that employment is way down:

  1. The busiest time for hiring in Dickinson, is March, April, and May, just before the spring, summer, and fall work season.  From Friday April 14 through the end of the day on Friday April 21, there were a total of seven new jobs posted for Dickinson on the North Dakota Job Service website.  Seven new jobs!  In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, there would have been a total of about thirty to forty new jobs posted for Dickinson on the North Dakota Job Service website during a one week period in April.  (Note:  North Dakota Job Service receives job notices from employers, and places job announcements, but, they also go and search several other job posting services and import those job advertisements into their system, to include these job announcements as well.)
  2. For the period from April 1 through the end of the day on April 21, there were only five new job listings posted for Dickinson on the website CareerBuilder.  Five new job listings, for the entire month!  In April, the busiest hiring month in Dickinson!  In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, there would have been about thirty to forty new job listings posted on the CareerBuilder website for Dickinson during the first three weeks of April.
  3. Today, I looked on the international oil industry website Rigzone.  On Rigzone, there were twenty-three job listings for Williston, six for Dickinson, and three for Killdeer.  A total of thirty-two job listings on Rigzone for all of North Dakota.  In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, there were usually sixty to eighty jobs listings on Rigzone for North Dakota in April.
  4. The job posting websites Indeed.com and Monster.com have much fewer job listings for Dickinson than they did in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
  5. In Dickinson, during the months of March, April, and May, in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, the underground utility locating company ELM would have to place repeating job advertisements every other week in order to hire and train enough underground utility locators to respond to all the construction locate requests.  This year, in March and April, I have not seen one job advertisement from ELM locating.
  6. In Dickinson, during the months of March, April, and May, in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, all the oil field service companies would place job advertisements, companies like Timberline/Liberty, Weatherford, Steier, Bob’s, Key, Titan, SM, Champ, K&R.  So far this year in March and April, I saw one job advertisement from Steier, and no job advertisements from these other oil field service companies.
  7. The three Family Fare grocery stores and WalMart in Dickinson, went from staying open 24 hours per day, to closing at night in 2015, because they no longer had enough business to stay open 24 hours per day.
  8. At the Theodore Roosevelt Airport in Dickinson, they went from having two airlines, United and Delta, each making two flights per day out of Dickinson, down to one airline, with currently only about twenty-five passengers per day out of Dickinson.  The one remaining airline, United, tried to cease operations in Dickinson in approximately 2016, but they were forced to stay by the Federal government enforcing an “essential air services” regulation.
  9. The newly completed hotels in Dickinson, went from sometimes having no vacancies in 2010 and 2011 at $180 per night, to where they now have 80% vacancy at $60 per night.

 

To explain what the Catholics have done in Dickinson:

  1. The homesteaders that settled Dickinson in the late 1800s, they were German and Ukranian Catholics.  The Catholic Church was the main cultural and societal influence in Dickinson, from the beginning.  The Catholic Church did not teach, encourage, or foster, the teachings of Jesus Christ, such as “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”, “So as you do to the least of my people, so do you unto me”, and “What profiteth a man that he gain the whole world, let lose his soul?  And, what shall he give in exchange for his soul”.  Instead, the Catholic Church taught hatred, hostility, unfriendliness, and it fostered jealousy and greed.
  2. In order to maintain its control, and in order to help its henchmen maintain control over people, the Catholic Church in Dickinson discouraged higher education, and tried to make the people in Dickinson fear and mistrust higher education.  The Catholic Church did not want people to read the Bible for themselves, interpret, and understand the Bible for themselves, lest they find out that what the Catholics were doing was evil.  With a lack of education, people in Dickinson could not get ahead, learn about other places, learn about new things, and they would continue to be trapped in Dickinson, unable and not knowing how to escape.
  3. The Catholic Church encouraged and fostered the people here to be hateful, unfriendly, uncooperative, jealous, and greedy.  When a neighbor was having difficulty, this was not taught as a time to help him, this was taught as a time to withhold help.  A neighbor failing, dying, or moving away, was the opportunity to seize his land and his possessions.
  4. Only with the one hundred years of teaching and fostering hatred and greed by the Catholic Church, would prepare these evil Catholics in Dickinson to begin raising rent and housing prices by 400% to 500%.  All Christians are supposed to help their fellow man, and do unto others as you would have them to do unto you, but in Dickinson they had been taught nothing but evil!
  5. The Catholics, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic associations in Dickinson, made plans to not allow the great abundance of vacant land in Dickinson, to be used for affordable housing, or housing for the homeless.
  6. The Catholics collude in every way possible, how to take advantage of the out of state workers.
  7. The Catholics collude in every way possible, how to manipulate, connive, and scheme to advance themselves, and hinder, undermine, and impede others.

What this local native from Dickinson wrote in her comment to my blog post, was that it was inaccurate for me to cite the few job postings on North Dakota Job Service and CareerBuilder, because the local employers weren’t posting their jobs there.

Yes!  Yes!  I have seen this before in Dickinson, North Dakota!  For employment with the City of Dickinson Police Department, and Dickinson State University, they don’t post their job opening in the local newspaper, North Dakota Job Service, CareerBuilder, Monster.com, or Indeed.com, they post it where no one can find it, except for the people that they personally tell!

Sometimes, the people who work at City offices, County offices, or State offices in Dickinson, they don’t want to post a job opening where people can see it, they don’t want to have a bunch of highly qualified applicants.  They want to tell their fellow Catholics, their brother, their uncle, their nephew, where they have hidden the job posting, so that no one else can find it and apply.  They don’t want people with relevant job experience and relevant education applying, they want their inexperienced and uneducated relative to get the job!

There Are Some Things That Women Don’t Understand About Women

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I recently wrote two blog posts where I mentioned my decision to not romantically pursue the women on my list of attractive women in Dickinson, because I like them, and I do not want to ruin their life.  In the past, several women have made comments to my blog posts, writing that they were sure that women didn’t like me.

There are some things that women don’t understand about other women.  Many times, women can’t see what other women find attractive in a man.  In order to explain this, I will focus on just one reason in this blog post.

I am going to try to not be insensitive about this.  I am writing this partly to explain my point, and partly to give women information that they need to know.

In a state far, far away, I was doing self-employed construction work on a very expensive house, in a very wealthy and exclusive neighborhood.  The owner of the house, was a successful medical doctor about my age, who owned and operated several medical facilities.

His wife, was also about my age.  She was very beautiful.  She was thin and athletic, very much like a fashion model in appearance.  She was very friendly to me.  She liked to talk to me.

When her husband was away at work, she would wear a white button up blouse, that was unbuttoned, and no bras.  She would wear short, cut off jean shorts.  She would sit and talk to me, so that I could see everything, and when I would get caught looking, she would just smile at me.

I liked her, and she liked me.  We would talk the whole time that I worked.  She told me very early on, that she had just had a hysterectomy.  She could no longer become pregnant.  She invited me to her second home, a couple of hours away, in a resort town.

I liked her, and she knew that I liked her.  I just never began kissing her and making love to her, though that is what she wanted.  I was partly scared that her husband would come home, he could leave work whenever he wanted, and he would throw her out of the house.  I did not have a good place for her to live, and I did not want her to lose everything that she had.  I could not come close to replacing everything that she would lose.

After having more experiences like this with other women, that recently had had hysterectomies, I came to find out that the estrogen replacement drug, Premarin, does in fact work very well in replacing female hormones.  This drug works so well, that the women who are taking it, find healthy males to be very attractive, and they begin to have sexual attraction that they have not experienced in years.  Plus, they have the urge to have sex, and they have absolutely no chance of becoming pregnant.

So, something that some women don’t understand about other women, is that there are times in the lives of women, when they are very attracted to men and want to be romantically involved, and the reasons aren’t apparent to others.  Just one reason, the topic of this blog post, is female hormone replacement therapy.

Unfortunately, I know too much now.  I know too many ways in which women are vulnerable, so I have to be very careful not to seduce women, or I would ruin their lives, and the lives of their husbands and children.

I have complained about there being a shortage of women, and a scarcity of attractive women in Dickinson.  I never have wanted to take somebody else’s girlfriend or somebody else’s wife, that is why I complained about prostitution not being allowed in Dickinson.  It wasn’t that I couldn’t get a girlfriend, it was that I didn’t want to take somebody else’s girlfriend or wife away from them, and then I wouldn’t have a place to keep her, or maybe I wouldn’t even want to keep her.

 

(To those who read this blog post and think, “You idiot!  Why, why didn’t you have sex with her!  That is what she wanted!  That was the chance of a lifetime!  She couldn’t get pregnant, she wouldn’t leave her husband”…..  I felt like I was doing the right thing at the time.  I still sometimes see her, and she still likes me, and I still like her, and I am glad that it turned out this way.)

For Those Of You Who Don’t Understand The Oil Boom, Read The Book, Moby Dick

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This past weekend, when the HBO channels were free, I watched the movie “In The Heart Of The Sea”, about the whaling ship the “Essex” from Nantucket.  The story of what happened to the whaling ship the “Essex”, inspired Herman Melville to write the novel Moby Dick.

I recommend reading the novel Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville, and also watching the movie “In The Heart Of The Sea”, about what happened to the whaling ship “Essex”.  They both tell the same story, but in slightly different ways.

The final voyage of the whaling ship Essex took place in 1820.  The town of Nantucket where the Essex sailed from, was one of the largest docking ports for whaling ships in North America.  North America was experiencing a “Whaling Boom”, which was an Oil Boom.  The whole point of whaling, was to boil the whale blubber to reduce it down to whale oil.  Whale oil was the biggest source of oil in the world at that time.

The book and the movie portray the ship owners in Nantucket as greedy capitalists, in the middle of an Oil Boom.  In the movie, it shows that the wealthy local people, would insist and make sure that their sons were captains of the whaling ships, whether they were qualified or not.  (This scenario is similar to the Oil Boom in Dickinson.)

The First Mate, had to be highly competent, to make up for the shortcomings of the ship captain who was in his position due to his family.  The harpooner, also had to be highly competent, because they wouldn’t get any oil without a good harpooner.  The First Mate, and the harpooner, stood to make a lot of money if they produced a great many barrels of oil.  (The First Mate and the harpooner are kind of like a drill rig boss or a tool pusher in this North Dakota Oil Boom.)

All the men on the whaling vessel would be away from home for one to three years.  And there would be no good food, and no women out at sea.  (Just like going to work in Williston, Watford City, or Dickinson.)

The men who manned the whaling ships, would experience great danger on the job, and great physical hardship.  The men who manned the whaling ships, did it because they had no viable economic opportunity where they had come from.  The men had some hope and expectation that they would strike it rich.  (This is exactly the same as what happened in Williston, Watford City, and Dickinson during this Oil Boom.)

Scenes in the book, and in the movie, where a whale gets harpooned, and the whale drags the men in the whale boats, sometimes smashing the whale boats, this is the same as riding in crew trucks on Highway 85 and Highway 22 during the Oil Boom in North Dakota, it was the same thing and equally as dangerous.

In the book Moby Dick, and in the movie “In The Heart Of The Sea”, there is a great white whale that attacks the ship Essex, and sinks it.  Later, when the men are stranded in their smaller whale boats, the great white whale follows the men and attacks them again.

I like to compare this great white whale to the Catholic Church in Dickinson, the great evil beast.

Then, the men end up cannibalizing each other.  This same thing is going to happen in Dickinson when all the businesses close, and there is no money in Dickinson, the people here will begin cannibalizing each other.

I Wouldn’t Get Married And Have Children In Dickinson, North Dakota

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In my previous blog post, I wrote about meeting the hottest girl in Dickinson.  Normally, I am not seriously interested in hot women, because they are so much trouble.  Other men are after them all the time, and it is stressful and difficult to keep a hot girlfriend.  They are propositioned all the time by men, and they end up getting lured away.  This would be especially true in Dickinson, because there is such a shortage of women, and such a scarcity of attractive women.

But this hot girl that I like, has many more good qualities besides being hot.  She has a great sense of humor, she is very funny, very entertaining, and she says that she does not get upset easily.  She has already been through a lot in life, which has made her more mature, and self-reliant, but not jaded and mean.  She is about 30 years old, and she has lived and worked in several western states.  She was born and grew up in a resort town in one of the western states.  Like me, even though she really liked the town where she came from, she just could not make any money there, and she had to come to Dickinson to make money.  I believe that she has been married once before.

I like her so much, that I had to stop and seriously consider what I wanted to do about it.  I realized right away that I am not in a position to get married in Dickinson, so I had better just leave her alone and not try to pursue her romantically.  That would be the best thing to do, for both me and her.

I came to Dickinson in 2011 to work and make money.  There were more jobs here, and higher paying jobs here, than in Idaho where I own a home on five acres.  The only way that I was able to save money each month while working in Dickinson, was to stay in a camper on the company property where I worked, or live in similar low cost housing.  Right now, I live with an older homeowner in Dickinson, in what is not a very ideal situation.  But I put up with very rough living conditions, in order to make money and save money.

The young women that I meet in Dickinson, housing is very important to them.  Ever since I came to Dickinson, housing has been extremely expensive, and good housing is scarce and highly sought after.  The young women here were completely willing to pay up to 60% of their income on housing, because it was the most important thing to them.  The most I ever paid here in Dickinson for housing, was 25% of my income, because housing here was not the most important thing to me.  The most important thing to me, was to pay all of my bills, especially things like property tax and insurance for my home in Idaho.

One of the biggest things that women here in Dickinson look for in a man, is his ability to pay for housing, and his ability to upgrade their housing situation.  How much money does he make, and how much of this money can he contribute to housing.  Women look at me, I’m not married and I don’t have any children, and they expect that I would be able to contribute 60% of my income to housing, like they have had to do.  They look at me, and think in their mind, that their $1,500 per month that they pay for housing, combined with the $2,000 per month that they can get from me for housing, would pay the rent on a nice house in Dickinson for the two of us.

There is no way that I would get on a joint and severally liable lease in Dickinson, for even $2,000 per month.  Right away, this would cause a huge conflict with a girlfriend.  Good housing is so important to women, that they would be outraged, and start to get very ugly about my unwillingness to spend as much as they wanted to on housing.  They would be thinking, and maybe even yelling, “Do you think that you are going to be with me for free and not have to pay!  I will just get somebody else who is willing to pay for me, you aren’t, you cheap piece of shit!”

I have been in the situation before, where I have had to move in the middle of a lease.  For my own apartment, I have had to give thirty days written notice, pay rent through the thirty days, plus pay one month rent as a penalty.  When I have been on a joint and severally liable lease with someone else, who wanted to remain in the house, I have had to pay my half of the rent for the remainder of the lease, in that instance it was five months.  Can you imagine being in Dickinson, not being able to get a job, and being on a one year lease for $2,000 to $3,000 per month, and your “Hot” girlfriend decides to leave you because you don’t have any money, and she is always getting propositioned every day by guys who do have money.  Leaving you solely responsible for the rent, even though it was her that insisted and required getting a place that cost $2,000 to $3,000 per month.

Right now, there are very few job openings in Dickinson. The jobs in Dickinson are also lower paying than they used to be, with much less overtime.  Working for any business or oil field company in Dickinson now, there is no guarantee that you will have your job next month.  I think that it would be a huge risk for anyone to try to have children in Dickinson now.  I think that it would be very careless and stupid.  I would never want to put my wife and children in a situation where we were unable to pay rent, pay utilities, pay bills, and buy groceries.

No matter who you think you are, and how much money you have been making over the last several years, most of the people in Dickinson can’t be certain that they will keep their job, or be able to find another job if they lose their job.  I have lived and worked in seven different states.  People think and tell themselves that if things get too bad, they will just move to another place to find work.  When you try to move from one place to another, you can be completely mistaken about the number and availability of jobs where you are moving.  Just because you move to some place that you think will be better, doesn’t mean that it will be better, it may in fact be worse, because of things you didn’t know or didn’t account for.

So having children now in Dickinson would be a mistake, because you don’t know if you will be able to keep your job, or find a replacement job.  And, there is no where in the United States that is having a boom right now, where you can go to work and send money back to your family.

Living and working in Dickinson for five years now, there hasn’t been many chances to meet likable women, because of the shortage of women, and scarcity of attractive women.  Now, one of the few times that I meet a woman that I really like, I have to decide to leave her alone, for both her sake and my sake.  Women want nice housing so bad, and I don’t want to pay what it costs here in Dickinson, especially because of uncertain employment.  Nor could I see getting married, settling down, and having children in Dickinson.  Living in Dickinson is just like doing time in prison, most of the normal things in life are absent.

 

The Hottest Girl In Dickinson, North Dakota

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If you go and read my blog post titled “List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson, North Dakota”, in that list I include women that are very beautiful, respectable, civil, and decent.  I consider many things about a woman before I include her on that list, in order to preserve the integrity of the list, and to not bring dis-honor to the other women on the list.

I have a high enough opinion of the women on my list of attractive women in Dickinson, that I would forgive each of them some transgressions, committed in the heat of the moment.  I would not condemn these women for following their heart, when their heart is true.  However, I don’t fear that any of these women on my list will persist in bad behavior for very long.

Being “Hot”, was not part of my criteria for being on my list of attractive women in Dickinson, though a few of these women just happen to be.  It was not supposed to be that kind of a list.  Being beautiful, respectable, civil, and decent, that is what I was looking for.

A woman being “Hot” is not something that is important to me, or something that I want.  I would not want, or like, my girlfriend or wife constantly getting all kinds of unwanted attention.  This would cause all kinds of problems and conflict for both myself and my wife or girlfriend.  For instance, I would not want my girlfriend or wife being propositioned all day, every day, everywhere she went.  I would not like this, and hopefully she would not like this either.

The women on my list of attractive women in Dickinson that just happen to be Hot, they do a pretty good job of toning down their hotness by dressing and behaving very modestly.  I admire them for this, and think that this is very considerate of them.  Not distracting men and causing car accidents, men to fall off of roofs, or fights.

I don’t want to reward women for being Hot.  I would like to discourage women from being Hot.  And I don’t want one.  I don’t want to deal with the problems of having a hot girlfriend.  Just when you start to get attached, they get taken away from you.

However, I have become more and more distracted by a woman in Dickinson who is about 30 years old, her name is Mary.  Before I ever saw her or met her, people would ask me if I had met her yet.  These people that asked me this, told me that I would like her.

I heard about her for six months before I ever saw her.  I did not expect to ever see her, because I was told that she had moved away.  Then one day, a young lady walked by me very quickly in about half a second, and I knew that had to be her.  In about half a second, I knew that everything that people had described about her, was true.

She has medium length black hair, she is thin, about 5′-8″, she has an athletically muscular build, and long legs.  She is funny, and funny acting.  She is quirky.  She dresses very interestingly.  From unusual shoes, vintage jeans, neat T-shirts, and funny behavior, she is very interesting, animated, and entertaining.  I like her.  She cheers me up.  I look forward to seeing her.

She has a fiancee, supposedly.  That doesn’t surprise me.  When no one was around, I told her that I liked her, I thought that she was pretty, and that I liked the way she dressed.  I was telling her this to get this off my chest, and to warn her that I liked her.  She acted nonchalant about this, but I could tell that she appreciated my compliment.

I tried to stay away from her mostly, especially because she has a fiancee.  Then, now that it is warm outside, she got a tan, and she walked up to me wearing tight jeans and a tight tank top that wouldn’t stay pulled down all the way, showing her stomach and lower back, and I could no longer stay away from her.  I followed after her, after thinking about it for about forty-five seconds, I had to, I couldn’t help it.

I had thought that she was funny, quirky, animated, entertaining, and pretty.  I had not fully noticed how big her breasts were, how small her waist was, and what nice hips and bottom she had, until she wore those tight jeans and tight tank top that wouldn’t go down all the way.  I suppose that she wanted me to see and wanted me to notice, that is why she came up to me.

I followed after her and caught up to her because this is something that I felt that I had to do.  I have been living in Dickinson, North Dakota for almost five years, and there is a shortage of women and a scarcity of attractive women.  Just once, or just one more time, I wanted to go and look at and see a “Hot” beautiful woman.  Myself, and any other person that saw her that day, would have agreed that she was probably the hottest girl in Dickinson.  I just hadn’t known it.  She let me know.  So now I know, that in addition to her being funny, entertaining, and pretty, besides that, she is the hottest girl in Dickinson.

As I explained in a previous blog post titled “Reasons Why I Can’t, Couldn’t, Wouldn’t Marry Codi, Kit, Kaycee, Marinna, or Kristi”, I don’t want to mess things up and ruin things for any of the women that I like.  I could not stand it, knowing that I messed up the life of some woman that I liked, after she trusted me, believed in me, was counting on me, and depending on me.  I don’t want to mess Mary’s life up, and that is the only thing that I see happening, but I can’t help liking her and wanting her.

Now that I have thought about it some more, the women on my list of attractive women in Dickinson, I like them, and I have a good opinion of them.  Some of them I look forward to seeing, I think about them, and I want them.  But I would just rather keep it that way, to like them, look forward to seeing them, to think about them, and to want them, rather than trying to seduce them and having some kind of disaster.

Only Seven Jobs Posted This Week On North Dakota Job Services In Dickinson

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On Friday April 21, I received a comment to one of my blog posts from a 31 year old local woman in Dickinson, North Dakota.  This woman was from a local family that had lived in Dickinson for several generations.  She had graduated from the private Catholic Trinity High School in Dickinson.  She later married a man who came to Dickinson from out of state to work here during the oil boom, and she later became divorced from him, though he still lives here in Dickinson.

I could not find a woman who is a more perfect representation of local women in Dickinson, coming from a family who has lived here for several generations, being Catholic, and having graduated from Trinity High School, and making the comment, “The oilfield is not dying it’s picking up.  Companies can’t find enough workers to fill all the open positions.”

No matter how many articles I write exposing the lies and misinformation in Dickinson, North Dakota, that are spread in attempt to lure people here to take advantage of them, the local people persist in spreading these lies and misinformation.  “This oil boom is going to last for the next twenty years.”  “Everyone is making $100,000 per year in the oil field.”  And, “The oilfield is not dying it’s picking up.  Companies can’t find enough workers to fill all the open positions.”

This week in Dickinson, North Dakota, for the entire week, from Friday of last week to the end of the day on Friday of this week, North Dakota Job Services posted a total of seven new jobs this week.  Seven new jobs!  For the entire week!

April is the busiest time of the year in Dickinson for new employment.  Dickinson goes through a cold and snowy winter where a lot of outdoor work is postponed, and then there is a rush in April to hire workers for companies to get their work done in the Spring and Summer.  In 2011 through 2013 in Dickinson, during the spring, there were typically thirty to forty new jobs posted each week on North Dakota Job Services.  Then in 2014 through 2015, there were typically twenty to thirty new jobs posted each week on North Dakota Job Services.  This week there were seven!  A huge drop in new job postings!

It wasn’t just North Dakota Job Services in Dickinson.  For the month of April 2017, for the entire month up until April 21 on the website CareerBuilder, there were only five new jobs posted for Dickinson, if you don’t include enlisting in the National Guard.  Only five new jobs, for the entire month of April, on CareerBuilder for Dickinson!

Several years ago on the website CareerBuilder for Dickinson, North Dakota, there would have been approximately one hundred new jobs posted during the month of April.  For most towns the size of Dickinson not any where near the oil field, these towns probably had more new jobs posted in April than Dickinson’s five new job postings.

The local Catholic people here keep lying to everyone to try to get them to come to Dickinson, North Dakota so that they can rip them off on housing, and try to take advantage of them with their evil schemes and plans.  But people will quit coming once they find out that there are no jobs in Dickinson.

The businesses here in Dickinson will begin closing, one after another.  The commercial warehouses and industrial buildings will become vacant.  People will abandon their homes in order to get out of Dickinson.  Then the Catholics will begin killing each other and practicing cannibalism.  They will all get what is coming to them.

Don’t worry about me, I will leave before the cannibalism starts.