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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 22 days ago

Job seekers commiseration thread

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Job seekers commiseration thread

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 22 days ago
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Post here if you’re looking for a job and getting no bites

BLS revision shows annual hiring was overstated by 911,000 jobs

Turns out there was nearly a million less jobs then previously thought

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  • GayTuckerCarlson [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Just lie, say self employment as like… Anything. IT services are great for this because nobody can fucking check anything if it doesn’t exist anymore. Or just “painter and decorator” is pretty good. Gardening services. The kinds of things you can cold call people for and there’ll be odd jobs people need doing.

    Pretty much anyone could pretend to have done a variety of IT services as self employed without any ability to verify any of it. Say you were the top seller for search optimisation services on Fiverr. It’s impossible to verify and easily makes more than enough income for one person a year to justify it.

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      Yep “my uncle hired me for landscaping” nobody asks more.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      think-about-it unironically, thanks

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        No worries, it works and is actually a selling point to some. There’s no need to admit unemployment ever.

  • GayTuckerCarlson [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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    Ive been to double digit job interviews this year and gotten nothing, I’m going back to school instead now lmao agony-deep

    I went to a job interview and got ghosted by HR, I sat in the lobby for half an hour before stealing a magazine and leaving

    Another interview was 3 hours long (agony-mescaline) and they ghosted me

    I got a rejection email 4 months later so thats something I guess

    • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      man the ghosting kills me. how is that in any way professional

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Professionalism is when we make you eat endless shit and you never complain

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    I got myself into a situation where I needed a job NOW and almost two years later I’m still delivering boxes for Amazon. Gonna put my diplomas up in the un-air-conditioned cargo hold

    Looking for a job on top of 10 hour days in 100 degree weather is just too much…

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    i applied to about a thousand jobs over the course of 2 years but i gave up, it was ruining my mental health

    no one wants to hire someone who needs disability accommodations

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      • TheSpectreOfGay [hy/hym, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        they say that they’re very accepting and accommodating, but at the end of the day a capitalist will never do something that’d hurt their bottom line. making money is way more important than throwing scraps to the people making them that money

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          • TheSpectreOfGay [hy/hym, she/her]@hexbear.net
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            cuddle i feel you, went through about the same myself

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      This is real, the moment I say I have Autism, I’m not getting hired and it fucking sucks.

      Been volunteering in Community Radio for a while now, it doesn’t pay but it’s at least shit to tide me over, but atp I doubt I’ll ever have a job that isn’t volunteering, thank god for parents and the albeit small Canadian Social Safety Net.

      • TheSpectreOfGay [hy/hym, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        basically same for me, im trying to get on disability aid and just volunteer places

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Where do you see yourself in 5 years? layoff-stare

    Either fighting in the revolution or dying in the water wars.

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m honestly surprised more people aren’t going postal at workplaces. There’s a lot of wannabe Charlie Kirks that love to make people jump through hoops for $12/hr

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      Guns and ammo are pricey these days, much like everything else

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        Capitalism solving the mass shooter problem by making people too poor to afford guns

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          the guns are easily affordable, its the ammo that’ll kill ya

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            Oh just like razors and inkjet printers and phone contracts and smart TVs and fucking everything else in this scam zone we all live in

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        Do they have Temu guns? Pew pew for the penny pinchers?

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    If they say “We’ll let you know by Friday” then you didn’t get the job

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]@hexbear.netM
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    I spent 2 years looking for a tech job, with 10 years experience in the roles I was shooting for. Its fucking ROUGH out there. Luckily I started working for a nonprofit via Americorps right now, but if there’s any people who want to apply to software companies, hit me up and I can share some sites that aren’t on the beaten path that got me some interviews.

    It fucking sucks, and im underemployed now but im in the “at least its something” camp, plus its good work so hopefully this next year let’s me career pivot into homelessness work

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      same… im about 1 year in and though i’ve had a few interviews, they’ve all been real WTF moments… 4 years ago all i had to do was think about looking for a job and i’d have 3 offers lined up… now i get the first interview, the guy can’t find my resume, doesn’t listen to a word I say, doesn’t know anything about the job he’s interviewing me for, and then i get the rejection afterward. this is the craziest shit

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      Is hiring.cafe one of those sites?

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        No, I was thinking more Idealist and whatever Angels List (the job board for tech startups) rebranded to

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    My contract ended early where I was working and I’ve been applying to things nonstop for the last two months, not a single place has responded to me.

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    I couldnt even land a job DRIVING A FUCKING TRUCK.

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    I’m not yet looking for a job, but I’m not looking forward to getting into it side-eye-1

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    If I end up losing this job because of bullshit I’ll just start selling shit again lmao

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      Told myself if i lose this job im just gonna teach

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    I spent almost 2 years looking, then I lucked out and found out that my old job from about 20 years ago was open again. My old boss was even still there. I’d probably still be looking otherwise.

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    Why don’t they just ask chatGPT since it seems to be ingrained into every single other part of the hiring process now?

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