Job update

Got my underground papers now ...just need to get my foot in the door...can anybody help me out??

From everything I've heard, it's a bad time. Coal is slow. I think Burrhead got laid off last week and my gf's, sisters husband hasn't worked in over a week.

Zack said you just put in your paperwork at the Paramont office he'll go by and put in a good word for you. He said they're almost always hiring...

The Paramount office where Crutchfield is? I went there and they sent me to the unemployment office and Im already on the red hat list there. Is that the place your talking about going to? I would really appreciate any help.

Things are real slow right now. It may pick up in a few months.

Zack just they just hired 6 at Paramont mine #26 so just go by the unemployment office put in your app and he'll go by and talk to them for you.

Alright thanks, I appreicate that. Yeah Im already on the list up there at the unemployment office. I asked em if I could fill out an application and they told me no that they wasnt accepting any right now that all they are doing is keeping names on the list. She said I've already taken all the steps that I possibly can which is only to be on the list. Now Im just waiting for em to give me a call. I spoke with a boss today at a mine over in the Clinchco area(dont wanna say the name bc I dont wanna jinx myself) but I told him my story about the things thats going on right now and that I'll work any days, any shift, as many days and hours as I can and he told me to call him back in 2 or 3 days and he would help me out. I really hope so bc Im needing a job in a bad way but I have faith that its going to come thru bc I have a couple connections that are helping me out and hes real close with one of em so we'll see how that goes. But I still want to talk to as many mines and people as I can just in case this dont come thru. I want to have as many options as I can get bc the more ya got, the better chance you have of something coming thru.

Call Daniel Bates.

Yeah thats what everybody says, Ive been trying to get ahold of him for a while but seems the only way to get ahold of him is at the gas station in appy on wednesday mornings so Im gon try and catch him down there this Wed morning.

Arch's Cumberland River Coal ran an ad in last Wed Post (12/18) for people

Heavy Equipment Mechanic
Heavy Equipment Operators
Underground Electricians
Underground Face Positions
Underground Maintenance Foreman
Underground Production Foremen
Ad says to apply thru the Norton VEC or the Ky office of Employment and Training

Jobs are scarce anywhere, our office is full of people. The lay offs are brutal right now, if Eastman was to eve go under, Id be afraid of what would happen.

I understand Mullican is cutting second shift.

Eastman, I was told, was cutting contracted workers..