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Workforce Central Florida, a back-to-work agency run by local businesses but funding by the state, is handing out six thousand red superhero capes to local unemployed, part of a $73,000 campaign called the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge”involving the comic character “Dr. Evil Unemployment”. The capes themselves cost $14,200 and foam cutouts of Dr Evil Unemployment, another $2,300
Sigh.
To get your cape, you must take the What Superhero Are You Quiz on Facebook, become a fan of Workforce Central Florida on Facebook, tweet a job posting from the WCF, recommend someone on LinkedIn with the word Super and… get a photo of you with a foam cutout of Dr Evil Unemployment.
Wrong on so many levels, from a wasteful use of public money, to a diminishing of the real problems of unemployment, to the fact this is contextualised in the manner of a campaign that might work if the unemployed were all seven years old. Oh and doesn’t actually do anything to help an unemployed person get a job, other than what the agency does anyway, unless they start introducing radioactive spiders into the building.
