last time i really exhautsed all my options and nobody was hiring wish me luck 🍀

  • ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I thought I was getting a job next week but after I sent a text message to the manager I immediately found out that they already hired someone else. I have e-scooter experience so I applied for an e-scooter role which goes beyond midnight. It’s a hell of a lot of responsibility, driving an electric van around pedestrians on pedestrian only streets lol and you’ve got to do it all night long until at least 2am. Maybe they prefer to hire a guy who chain-smokes cigarettes and has 100% perfect confidence driving at night while sleep deprived, taking no time to adapt due to the magic of nicotine? I would’ve been happy to take on 3-4 shifts on my first week and then go 40 hours a week after that but I doubt they’d let me.

    It was advertised as full-time but they also made it sound like the job was flexible. I thought that I’d be allowed to ease into the job and get used to the nightshift hours but apparently not. I guess you have to “hit the ground running” and not make any mistakes or take any time to adapt. It’s such a waste of time because I set up my old phone specifically for this role with a new sim and new google account, only to find out that within about 24 of doing the training, they had decided on someone else. I must have said something that sabotaged me. I guess you have to be 100% confident and not show anything that could even be mistaken for weakness.

    It’s a shitty job anyway, paid per task rather than per hour. I’d probably struggle to survive in the role. I’d have to give up helping my grandparents and visiting my cat once or twice a week, just for a job that doesn’t really offer me much. Maybe a few new games on Xbox every now and then? Everything else is spent on renting a noisy room with a bunch of assholes who always slam doors instead of closing them gently (she blames the wind but the door only slams when she’s entering or exiting her room).

    Having a job is hardly worth it, I’m going to get an second volunteer role instead. I’ve never been able to hold down a job in my life, it’s always so stressful and you’re not allowed to make mistakes or learn. Everything has to be done perfectly and I’m just sick of the impossible expectations that all employers seem to have these days.