I’m probably past 300 now. Luckily my province has a robust welfare system else I would’ve lost my stapler.
Anon needs a job
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snoons@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
My experience feels kinda like getting a job I apply to is easy but 99% of adverts are fake.
If I hear back from them I will have a high chance of getting the job, but almost never hear back from them.
idriss@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I know places that I worked for or kept an eye on after interviewing and reaching final stages (talking to founders) doing exactly that
Place A (I worked for): 13 job entries permanently open although they are not hiring and didn’t hire a new person in over 2 years
Place B (I worked for): 1 job entry looking the same for the past 7 years, last one hired for that position started 3 years ago
Place C (open source project with enough funding to hire people): 2 positions permanently open but didn’t hire in 3 years (Rotki)
Place D (similar to C): 4 jobs (CVAT)
Place E (failed Open source + enterprise plan project): 1 job (SuperduperDB)
(I can’t disclose the first 2 for obvious reasons)
So it feels this how it’s gonna be now I guess
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
a lot of job listings are fake, yes. as in their is a legit job, but the person they will hire for it will be someone’s kid who already works there, or another insider.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Why do they do this? Just hire that person if you are going to anyway.
Worked in companies where the owners family for hired for multiple roles. As long as they are not incompetent I don’t really care that they didn’t send out fake job adverts. If they were incompetent then fake job ads won’t help.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 6 days ago
From the messages I get, I suspect there are scammers scraping Indeed for vulnerable individuals. Sometimes I get legit texts from companies looking to hire in my field. Other times I get texts from… questionable sources. They promise numbers that don’t make sense for entry level, in fields I don’t work in, usually calling themselves “sales” with the promise of being able to work from your phone. They give me “join my pyramid scheme” vibes.
So yeah, there are real job positions, fake job positions, and scammers looking to expand. What a fantastic job market. /s
sirico@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Bet they didn’t even try nepotism
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I am so lucky to have my job, I have it purely because the company was desperate at the time. I’m amazed they haven’t replaced me with someone more competent.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Hilariously, it’s cheaper to keep you, a know value, then risk on a potential new hire who looks good on paper. You never know what kind of work ethic a new person is gonna have.
Nautalax@lemmy.world 5 days ago
After a spell of being a NEET I managed to wiggle my way into my old job despite being a fresh out of college grad … they were desperate to hire because they couldn’t hold onto people willing to be regularly on-call, occasionally flipping to nights and working twelves at random and extended times in the worst site of that industry in the worst state of the union, AND it was legally required so they had to have it. Each time they hired someone they had to not only spend usually two years training them while they were on intro engineer salary before they could become useful, but also spend a few tens of thousands of dollars on contractors to teach classes and the valuable time of qualified people as mentors. Then after the trainees got qualified it was like coin flip odds of them either staying for a couple years or instantly booking it and the whole investment wasted.
The bosses were constantly showering the qualified people remaining with promotions, raises and golden handcuffs and so on to placate people to please stay and not have them do more rounds of interviews, even when the people weren’t that good. Of course, that also meant it was a great way to develop the resume for an exit artificially early too.
Talked to a doctor there, there was a deal for foreign doctors to be stationed in undesired places like that in exchange for progress towards getting a green card. On finishing their time the department they joined could be on the verge of dissolving from the older people ditching so then BOOM program director by attrition rather early in their career. Which then looks great on their resume when sent to someone else so the cycle continues lol.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
So insane when i read these. I feel for y’all, that would really suck to apply that much. You could try moving to a smaller city?. Ive been hired at every job ive applied to, and I’m not even a programmer or crazy smart engineer type. And now I make almost as much as those folks. Its either dumb luck or I just give off good first impressions. If I had to apply now though, I bet I’d have a harder time because of tech bs and I’m old.
Ive only lived in cities ubder 200k people.
sobchak@programming.dev 5 days ago
Ive been hired at every job ive applied to
That’s crazy. Straight out of high-school, I spent about six months driving around and applying to a job or 2 every day before I got a job (applying to pretty much every business in the small towns I lived near; McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Walmart, factories, everything). Now, I’m an unemployed software engineer, and I’ve probably applied to > 500 jobs, and still no luck (I think every job posting gets > 1000 applications in this job market). The vast majority of the time, I never actually get a chance to even talk to a person to impress them with my awkwardness and anxiety :)
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 days ago
different people live in different worlds, and are unable to understand other people aren’t them.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Ah, I do feel bad for ya. Tbh you probably deserve way more pay than me. I can’t do any of that stuff.
Maybe there is just too many people in the world wanting the same job. Idk how to fix it!! I’d be all for automating everything as much as possible but that just leads to us being destitute slaves with no agency even worse than now. At least right now we have a tiny bit of power with our labor, which is all we have against the ruling class
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 days ago
I think a person without a job can’t often afford to move to a different city. Moving within the same city is already expensive. Moving to a different city costs something like $10k, and then a lot of places won’t rent to you unless you can provide proof of employment/income.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, it does suck. There needs to be more assistance for those people
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
it’s dumb luck, or you were born into money and have the social connections to get high end jobs.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Socially awkward, 0 friends from school , not born into money, (was never given an allowance or any if the sort, moved out at 17.)
A big part is that I’m good at making people like me (insecure), working hard, and willingness to learn. That sounds boomer, but goes a hell of a long way. And again, I think its because of smaller cities. I would never live in these million person cities myself, and I probably would have no chance there.
That said that was years ago before the world really went to shit. So I’m sure its a lot worse now.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
145 is pussy shit bro you got to think in terms of 10x
Hikermick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Maybe take a shower and don’t wear pajama bottoms to that job interview
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Application isn’t even close to an interview
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
So tired of telling the older crowd—including my parents—that shit no longer works that way…
Olap@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Nah, it does. Service industry though, or independent retail. Get a stack of CVs, pound that shoe leather. Bars, restaurants, smaller shops, cleaners, gardeners are all good candidates. Be prepared to work a shitty job. Turn up and smash it. Next job will easier to acquire
Zombie@feddit.uk 6 days ago
You mean the bars that are shutting at 2 per day?
The restaurants that are being replaced by Deliveroo?
The shops that are replacing humans with computers or are so small they’re only hiring 1 or 2 people out of a pool of thousands?
The jobs that the government is paying £3k per business to employee under 24s therefore locking out anyone above 24?
Or the gardening jobs which entail cutting down any chance of wildlife surviving within our gardens and then spraying the desolation with herbicide?
Apart from a cleaner I’ve done all of those jobs in my time, and it’s not like it used to be. I’ve also been on unemployment relatively recently and that system is utter bollocks, which gives you nowhere near enough to buy groceries let alone pay rent, electricity, etc. Not to mention the waste of time going into the job centre every 2 weeks to be told to keep looking.
Get with the times old man, it’s not like it used to be. At least not in Scotland, where we’re both based.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Sir, we dont take kindly to hard work around here.
/s
It really depends where you are. Also, I’m not sure I’d want those shitty jobs when tbh, I have a lot more value to offer than stocking shelves. Even in my current job which is very specialized, I’m always wanting to learn and grow more.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 3 days ago
I’m pretty sure it actually does work this way in many places. Young people these days barely have any social skills and that just clashes with the boomers that are running things. So if someone confident and charismatic finally comes along, they’ll likely get the job. But I’m also not in America and Americans tend to be pretty loud and outgoing anyway, so it may not be true for the US.