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97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
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97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by Sick n Tired on Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:53 am
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2011/06/04/97_year_old_finds_employment_in_ri_after_17_months/
WARWICK, R.I.—Count 97-year-old Mary Poncin of Warwick among the long-term unemployed who have finally found work.
Poncin has been hired as an official greeter at Kent Hospital in Warwick after nearly 17 months of being unemployed. She was laid off in January 2010 from a position in retail sales.
Poncin's first job was as a waitress at a Rhode Island diner in the 1930s. She earned $1 a day.
Poncin will greet patients and visitors at the main entrance of the state's second-largest hospital and provide directions and other information.
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by DesperateInRI on Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:00 pm
You have got to be kidding me! Speechless!_________________
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by Jerry on Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:35 pm
Sick & Tired wrote:http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2011/06/04/97_year_old_finds_employment_in_ri_after_17_months/WARWICK, R.I.—Count 97-year-old Mary Poncin of Warwick among the long-term unemployed who have finally found work.
Poncin has been hired as an official greeter at Kent Hospital in Warwick after nearly 17 months of being unemployed. She was laid off in January 2010 from a position in retail sales.
Poncin's first job was as a waitress at a Rhode Island diner in the 1930s. She earned $1 a day.
Poncin will greet patients and visitors at the main entrance of the state's second-largest hospital and provide directions and other information.
Now the GOP will say "Great! See what we mean? She don't need no stinkin' Social Security!!!"
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by Sick n Tired on Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:18 pm
Its sad, they wont see that she is 97 and still has to work!! SS isnt enough for most people and they still have to supplement their income. Its not like they are getting enough to live on. 
The lack of respect for the elderly is disgusting!! They are part of our history.
The lack of respect for the elderly is disgusting!! They are part of our history.
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by americatheneedy on Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:32 pm
Jesus!! makes you want to die young to read that.
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by disgustedwithgovt on Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:07 pm
Wow, and I thought some of the Greeters at Wally mart were fairly old seniors.
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by mscpateach on Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:50 pm
Is that what this country has come to? A 97 year old needs a job to survive in America?
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by DesperateInRI on Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:53 pm
By the way, just in case some of you were wondering, this article is NOT about me! 
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by Sick n Tired on Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:59 pm
DesperateInRI wrote:By the way, just in case some of you were wondering, this article is NOT about me!
Are you sure? 
LOL JK!!
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by DesperateInRI on Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:24 pm
Sick & Tired wrote:DesperateInRI wrote:By the way, just in case some of you were wondering, this article is NOT about me!
LOL JK!!
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by Sick n Tired on Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:53 pm
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Re: 97 Year Old In RI Finds Employment After 17 Months
by DesperateInRI on Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:59 pm
Sick & Tired wrote:
I'll bet you can't do this -------->>>>
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by Sick n Tired on Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:04 pm
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by DesperateInRI on Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:06 pm
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by Sick n Tired on Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:08 pm
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