Another possibility: what if the manager had a bias and immediately lied to turn away the applicant because their race/gender/appearance/eyc.
Anon applies for a job
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JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 2 months ago
nutsack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
or autism
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or instead of just immediately playing the bigotry card on some green text…
Person could have walked in and was drunk, or high. Having worked in kitchens way back when I have seen both with great regularity.
Person could have walked in and been immediately inappropriate especially with the front house.
Maybe it was an actual high-end restaurant where it requires somebody to have actual skills,
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
then just say “you’re drunk go home” not pretending like the application didn’t exist
Bipolarsilence@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sadly some ‘jobs’ post positions just to collect resumes and sell the data. Just kicking us while we’re down really 😮💨
JameUwU@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Happens a LOT on LinkedIn. Be wary of recruiters who seem to immediately want your resume and nothing else before providing you with information.
Pandemanium@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Lol restaurants don’t have time for that shit. Who would buy that kind of data from a restaurant anyway? Even if you had more than 200 applicants a month that would probably net you less than $10.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If it’s a chain I could definitely see corporate setting up some automated system to do that.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’d definitely start prank calling that place to waste their time.
Superfool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone is getting a lot of no-show reservations.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
It’s especially annoying in public funded jobs because they’re often required to interview a bunch of people even if they’re already intending to give it to someone internal
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone is about to have rats let loose in their restaurant
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Where is the joke? Or the punchline?
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
looks in mirror
TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not really a similar story, but the OP brought it to mind.
I once applied for a position as a software developer. It said “Java and RPG.”
I hadn’t done any Java in about 4.5 years at the time. And I’d never so much as touched RPG.
When they asked if I’d done any Java programming, I responded that it had been a few years, but I’d be “brushing up” on it. I wasn’t completely new to it.
But I said since I’d never touched RPG, I had been studying that in preparation for the interview.
And the interviewer looked at me funny and said “why?”
I explained that it was in the job description for the position I’d applied to. And he basically facepalmed, exasperated at whichever department was responsible for the job listings.
I’ve worked there for almost 8 years now and haven’t done so much as a single line of RPG.
Then there was the time I applied to a job listing for a Python developer. I showed up and they asked if I had any C# experience. I told them I’d never touched C#, but am a quick study. They said they were migrating away from Python to C#. Said it as if I shouldn’t have applied if I didn’t have C# experience. But I don’t know by what logic they expected me to have been able to intuit that given that the job listing said nothing about C#. Just Python.
Basically, I’ve never applied to a job that didn’t have glaring inaccuracies in the listing.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Same experience here.
I’ve learned the basics of 15 different database, coding, web design languages over the course of many different tech jobs … because my job description would just randomly expand into something new within 2 months.
And of course, I had to teach myself all this, with only one exception of an actual competent manager who actually properly trained me.
Nothing is ever documented, or the documentation is wrong.
One job I had as a data analyst for the executive level of a logistics company. The person I was replacing had coded some extremely high level reports wrong and was double counting some categories such that total, global revenue for the company was overestimated by about 30%
I fixed it and explained the fix.
Not a single executive of this world wide logistics company seemed to notice.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Is this why 85% of nurses are rude and generally unpleasant to work with?
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I once a applied for a job that said C# .NET in the title, the requirements listed embedded systems programming qualifications, and their automated hiring thing gave me a little “aptitude test” asking questions for a tech support role. Literally one of the questions was if I would be able to install antivirus software on other employees’ computers.
fadedmaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And this is why you never say no to a job posting just because you think you’re not qualified. Apply anyway. You might be exactly what they’re looking for and be an otherwise great fit.
Every job I’ve had except for my first retail job I have not met the posted requirements, but I’ve been able to either learn on the job or proved in the interview process that I know the subject matter despite not having the degree.
Skates@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Um… No. If the company doesn’t value my time by posting a correct job listing, I don’t want to work for them. These are the same HR people posting the jobs who will then have trouble organizing a good work environment, or making sure people aren’t abused/harassed in the workplace.
When a company tells you its HR department is full of idiots I think you wanna listen to them.
KellysNokia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I once was hired after being offered the job because I had at the time extensive LDAP knowledge. In the three years I was there I never touched LDAP.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ok, then let’s say you give me a coffee so i haven’t come here for nothing and we look if you could use me somewhere else while i drink that coffee."
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Different, but still hiring fuckery
Friend applied for a job, database admin, HR called to set-up and interview. Two days later he got an email from the IT department, of that company, telling him that they weren’t actually supposed to be responding to applicants for the position. He emailed asking if the posted position had been filled, and then received weirdly worded response saying yes, but implying that it never opened for that particular job post. Then they stopped communicating with him. They were just posting jobs they weren’t hiring for.
He passed it all off to a link for, employment law, at the city chamber of commerce. Not that anything would be done.