🤡 CEO SAYS "I DON'T GIVE CHANCES TO PARASITES" ( Because of a job gap ) |

[@JoshuaFluke1]

IMO If you're a grown ass adult and you have skills to do the job and they're still relevant, then the last time you 'worked' isn't. Read it for yourself - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6861333958920146944/

[@JoshuaFluke1]

@@slippyjet8979 True

[@Max-lf3tx]

He's truly a despicable person, people like him are the reason I had to lie about my job gap to help get a job.

[@lamprozbroz3133]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHuQYoWIg9abjK8 The Stupendium - Rest employed.

[@jasonforsyth5015]

I think the best thing that people everywhere can do to stand up to shit like this is not take the job. Let these positions go vacant. When the CEO's have to step in and get their hands dirty, maybe they'll have an appreciation for those they employ. In other words, fuck 'em.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

@@jasonforsyth5015 It's hard to know if you're going to end up meeting people like this.

[@vaderchief]

employers hate job gaps because it shows that person values other things besides employment. it shows they will not be a allow themselves to become a slave to a wage.

[@RDA8191]

5 years!?! Let's get real here, no grown man should have a 5 year gap without a job

[@MoonOvIce]

@@RDA8191 I had 3, tiny job market plus being overqualified and underqualified for most everything. "Should" is subjective.

[@_VISION.]

@@RDA8191 Why *should* they not?

[@TheJellyEl]

@@RDA8191 some people save money to have gaps AND LIVE.

[@nikolaizaicev9297]

@@RDA8191 What does a job gap have to do with the worker's skills and knowledge? Are you hiring a person to do a job, or you are hiring a priest? If anyone is unsure about the skills after such a big gap, one can always test that if he wants in an interview. This is the classical mistake of focusing on behavior instead of on results.

[@thatoneguy9364]

"Why do you have a 5 year gap?" "Well sir, I'd like to answer that question but I can't stop staring at that Halloween store clown wig you're wearing."

[@paulosah1317]

Based and redpilled

[@excaliburofgachagames9241]

Him:"Get out of here you..." "Parasite, I know. Like costume" Sirin:"Now die pathetic human"

[@rejectionistmanifesto8836]

After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.

[@Jguthro]

The Indian Boris Johnson lol

[@WriteMeASong7]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 💯

[@Yanchi_YT]

A lawyer talking about parasites. Oh, how ironic.

[@charlescox86]

Also a CEO. Parasite times two.

[@joshuagharis9017]

Yup

[@jessienunez7863]

😂

[@thomasschlieter5281]

Job gap means you have other things going on in life. Means you are not a good slave. Very simple.

[@AceDoesStuffOFFICIAL]

Why shouldn't there be a great resignation when you literally can't win? With people like this handling hiring. "got a job gap" - you're lazy "Have educational credentials but no work experience" - obviously you don't deserve to be hired "Have multiple jobs" - you can't be trusted "Worked the same job for 5-10 years" - why should anyone believe you know how to do anything else?

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Ima make this a video.

[@leehalloway8787]

@@JoshuaFluke1 Can't wait to see it.

[@BrickworksDK]

Exactly. It's a no-win situation. Sadly though, most of us can't afford to resign.

[@SirWilliamTambourine]

@@JoshuaFluke1 I have a business admin uni degree, speak 2 foreign languages. TL;DR: Offices didn't wanna pay me cos "no experience", factories considered me a flight risk. "Unpaid internship" here, "overqualified" there, I ended up with a 2-year gap. During my last interview this lady asked me WHY DIDN'T YOU LOOK FOR A FACTORY JOB TO KEEP YOURSELF BUSY? AREN'T YOU HUMBLE ENOUGH? - or sth to that effect. To which I answered 'I did... laser cutter operator, assembly line stuff, solderin' iron, packa-' WHY DID YOU APPLY FOR THOSE JOBS, YOU ARE WAY TOO QUALIFIED FOR THOSE. AREN'T YOU *PASSIONATE* ABOUT THE POSITION WE ARE OFFERING? So yes. Do a video about it: Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[@OCDTraci]

@@JoshuaFluke1 YES PLEASE!!!!

[@TheCivildecay]

A good friend of me quit his job to become a fulltime dad for his autistic son, while his wife kept her job to provide for the family. Calling someone that put his own needs aside to help his child get through daily life a parasite is just evil.

[@JohnDoe-fm6md]

That’s not what happened according to the story and we gave no reason to suspect it to be the case

[@---ii8hl]

@@JohnDoe-fm6md in sure a lawyer ceo would not lie or skew the info in any way.

[@imsorry9467]

That CEO looks like an evil anime character

[@9trogenta13]

I could see Gary Oldman play him.

[@majestic-skies]

he IS an evil anime character lol

[@amando96]

that dies in the first season

[@12litwin]

I know, right? !!!!!

[@rejectionistmanifesto8836]

After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.

[@ImTheBatchMan]

I had a 1 year gap from disabilities and injuries from my time in the Marines. That led to a 3 year job gap because I was too honest with employers. I got 10 interviews scheduled for this week because I started lying about my gap. It's absolutely mind boggling how much of an impact it has.

[@jimb12312]

The world is controlled by psychopaths. We are forced to play their game.

[@franz3810]

I had a 1 year gap bc I got sick and left my shit ass job to work part time. After that, everyone at interviews asked me why...

[@mickey8973]

What did you tell them out of curiosity? 5 years out of work in technology - you're pretty much starting over or better have a really good reason

[@jimb12312]

@@mickey8973 That's only true if you're doing frontend web development. Other types of development do not change significantly in 5 years. Enterprise Java hasn't changed much. Probably most are still using Java 8, released in 2014.

[@excaliburofgachagames9241]

Maybe I should add Walmart to my resume and then when they ask for a reference I can say, sorry my boss never gave me their name. Short staffed and all. Also corporate

[@unicornshampoo]

I couldn't find a job for 538 days because I wanted to have "integrity" and tell the truth. I lied I worked at some company I made up, and I got a job in 2 weeks.

[@grmpEqweer]

Hmm. 🤔

[@leehalloway8787]

I am almost to the point of stretching dates. I got laid off during the lockdowns and I've struggled to find a job since. The gap comes up sometimes in interviews and I'm always honest about it while trying to sound positive. The recruiters sometimes think that something must have been wrong with me since I haven't been constantly employed.

[@kenjiPhoenix61]

I had a recent gap of only a couple of months, and they made a big deal about it! Asking, “what did you do during this gap?” Like, I can't fucking get my mind right.

[@lonefriar4700]

@@leehalloway8787 Walk away from people with such a narrow view, they clearly are not going to be your advocate. Gaps are a very old fashioned way to measure a person's career. People who employ this with a straight face are using it as a cheap excuse to disqualify you. The moment they say Gap, you know it's a lost cause. Even if they ask you to explain it won't be good enough. Or worse, they'll use it as leverage for a lowball offer.

[@unicornshampoo]

@@leehalloway8787 Dude, just tell them you worked as Asynchronous Synergistic Information Systems. The HR chick was like "Oh yeah, I've heard of them". Just make a smarmy buzzword salad and get out there dude.

[@DrDurango]

After working for 12 years, I took one year off, and it became impossible to get another job until I lied on my resume erasing the gap.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

I had some gaps due to PUA, covid19; 2019-2020, 2021. I worked a summer resort job 2020; 3mo. WY. I went back on PUA for a few months.

[@krayziejerry]

I have a one year gap from my previous employer, did you erase it and said I still have the current job? But what happens when they do an employment reference?

[@DrDurango]

@@krayziejerry I clarified the situation during the interview process.

[@krayziejerry]

@@DrDurango Were you honest and said, I did it because I wouldn't get hired if I didnt? What did you say? I'm thinking of doing this too, because I can't even get an interview at all.

[@DrDurango]

@@krayziejerry I just told them that I hadn’t updated my resume yet. I just left my previous job as current. Don’t over think it. Your resume is just an advertisement.

[@barettoarts]

What a toxic boss. I can imagine he calls his own employee "parasites" if they were to switch jobs.

[@infdox9051]

The parasites are informal elites behind the corporate CEOs. About ~50 families run the world and are doing the reset right now.

[@I_like_Plants130]

Or if they ask for better pay

[@johnnyv.8256]

Probably calls them parasites because he has to pay them.

[@bodhipepe1867]

Probably also gets lots of business welfare too so he's probably a parasite of epic proportions the worst kind( the one that siffens taxes from the lower class by legal laundering that raises inflation more than any lower class welfare)

[@mathgasm8484]

you mean salary peasants?

[@harisahmad7613]

Getting job these days is just how good you can pretend to be someone else. Recruiters don't like you as you! 😔😔😔

[@ajaashley7666]

Then if you keep all of your jobs on the resume, then you will look like a job hopper and will receive 7 lashings. If you remove them to only have a few jobs on the resume, then you have these "job gaps" and you're STILL punished!

[@Ehlaar]

Gotta stretch the dates

[@moe433]

yes exactly

[@kasrakh86]

Yeah exactly. I think a lot of us are stuck in this dilemma. You're damned if you and you're damned if you don't. Like wtf do these employers want us to do.

[@asadb1990]

in Josh's famous words "my morals are as flexible as per my need to feed me and my family"

[@BrickworksDK]

It's a no-win situation. Have too many jobs, and you obviously have a problem fitting in. Have too few jobs, and you're obviously not pursuing you career hard enough. Have too long gaps, and you're obviously not skilled enough to get a job.

[@a.d.6637]

I had a job gap of like 8 years while I took care of my dad who got injured in Iraq. He became well enough that I wanted to go get a source of income. I posted it as a job on my resume. Veteran Caregiver. It might have been the reason I struggled finding a job even with my college education. I ended up just starting my own business and so if that fails I'm really screwed if I go back into the job market.

[@benjamincrew1949]

What's your product or service? I really want to go freelance, but I feel like I'll fall on my face without at least some professional experience under my belt.

[@AutisticMorty]

Josh, I feel like this situation personally triggered some PTSD in you. But I assure you, being rejected by an asshole is a blessing, because working for them is hell.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

You're not wrong.

[@verybarebones]

This also shows how society devaluing domestic work can and will hurt men too. This is what women have had to deal with for decades when trying to rejoin the workforce after having children. Taking care of your family isnt parasitism.

[@fifthavenue2105]

People like Arun are the reason why a lot of candidates lie in their resume.

[@demikpre]

yea because if he's interviewing with a CEO, his qualification probably brings in a decent salary. i would assume he has/had a savings set up and pretty much semi retired

[@mohammadmursalin6817]

India is full of people like Arun. My muslim relatives there are living in a holocaust because of the hinduthva BJP government.

[@namangadia9056]

@@mohammadmursalin6817 hey just wanted to say you and your friend that if you can please forgive us for making your life miserable like this. BJP is doing the same what Britishers did to this country, divide and rule, even I was little harsh towards the Muslim community but when I went to college and made friends I realised the amount of bullshit these ministers and these big news houses inject in this beautiful country of our. Pls forgive us if you can.

[@patatepowa]

I don't blame the employers, law is completely oversaturated, what are they supposed to do. People need to stop going into oversaturated fields blindly

[@mujtabanadeem3901]

@@namangadia9056 You are a good guy brother

[@mocowan6642]

I applied for a job last summer. During the interview they asked about my nine month gap. I told them the truth. I moved back home, and ended up taking care of my aunt after she was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away a month later. The person interviewing me said “I’m so sorry. That must have been difficult.” and that was it. Two days later they offered me the job.

[@JohnDoe-fm6md]

Right. A reasonable explanation for a job gap would be accepted. This video and most of the responses seem to think that no explanation is warranted

[@LudwigVaanArthans]

​@@JohnDoe-fm6mdyes, no explanation is warranted to a company. Personal life is personal life, not something a company needs to care about, bootlicker

[@sciencetube4574]

"This guy had no job? Let's definitely not give him a job!"

[@milan51259]

Quite ironic. He wanted a job, but can't get one, because they think of him badly, because of "reasons" and "gut feeling".

[@JohnDoe-fm6md]

@@milan51259 they think negative of him because he has a 5 yr employment gap with no reasonable explanation

[@LudwigVaanArthans]

​@@JohnDoe-fm6mdsince when do companies require "reasonable explanations" about one's personal life? Thank fugg I don't live in the US but in an actual country

[@JohnDoe-fm6md]

@@LudwigVaanArthans it’s been 2 years so I don’t even remember this vid but I’m guessing from comment above bro had a 5 year gap where he didn’t work. That’s a large professional gap and is going to require an explanation.

[@TimesUp8888]

Well he didn't feel he needed one for 5 years!! If I'm not ready to retire, I have to work. I can't count how many times I've had to take a job I didn't want to pay the bills, and kept working on finding that right job on my time off until I found it. This never took longer than 6 mths. I agree with Josh 98% of the time btw, I'm a huge fan of this channel. But I suppose I found the 1 topic where I strongly disagree. I met these types before. They are Lazy ans Entitled.

[@frederika3013]

This is sick..... Thank you for the video. Its a nightmare out there seriously, thats why usually people don't have jobs for 5 years. Many people after huge struggles get burnout and they cannot function, mentally, physically. They simply are not capable. Who didn't experience severe abuse, family problems, health issues has no clue how complicated life can be.

[@Andrew_Sherman]

This Lawyer/CEO is now on my “Do Not Hire” list. What makes me laugh the most is a lot of these people cannot see their own hypocrisy. What goes around comes around……..

[@TomT-ds9vn]

" these people cannot see their own hypocrisy". Don't be so sure of that. They know but why change when you got all the money and power?

[@xela4854]

@@TomT-ds9vn you would be surprised how easy it is to blind yourself. Don't need the shine of coins to not see what's right there.

[@markarca6360]

Yes, he's a narc. Good to blacklist this!

[@TheAttendee]

You SHOULD hire him but before anything is finalized you "suddenly" find his social media posts and decide not to continue because of that. Sociopaths never learn until it slaps em in the face.

[@cb-gz1vl]

"Where were you for 5 years?" "I was in prison for cooking meth" "Oh well you weren't a parasite... you're hired."

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Lmao. You could just find that out in a background check tho

[@benjamincrew1949]

Hey, at least they were being productive, right? 😄

[@iAlwaysSpeakTheTruth]

I cannot stand employers, and will continue lying through my teeth until they stop playing these games. Nope I’m still lying.

[@iAlwaysSpeakTheTruth]

What I love about you Josh is you have a genuine heart and love and care for people. You’re passionate and understand and tell the truth. LIE LIKE HELL THROUGH YOUR RESUMES PEOPLE. DO YOU WANT TO GO HOMELESS? THIS IS REALITY I AM NOT KIDDING.

[@iAlwaysSpeakTheTruth]

Watching the rest of this video, hugs man. These employers are sick. Yes stop being honest…

[@batboy555]

Most companies don't check.

[@jaymartinez908]

CEOs, employers, companies and politicians lie all the time yet they expect loyalty from us. Sounds like a typical narcissistic behavior that we cannot tolerate anymore. I am happy that all of them people in power and top positions are getting a taste or their own medicine

[@imsicke1]

This guy should be sued for defaming. I wouldn't work for him anyway. Thats a toxic environment.

[@CryptoNChill]

Imagine if he made this post about a woman living off of her husband for 5 years. He'd be publicly spit roasted

[@JoshuaFluke1]

He said they're 'parasites' as well.

[@ThingsILikke]

He doesn’t like the idea of anyone making a lot of money.

[@franz3810]

I hope he gets roasted anyways, men don't deserve this treatment at all. I am a woman but it infuriates me

[@CST1992]

@@JoshuaFluke1 Looks like he's looking to get the people who agree with him sued. "Hey, I'm a lawyer - want me to take your case?"

[@zachroberts1988]

People like Arun want you to be good little debt slaves... doing anything else doesnt make his bank account grow!

[@MegaGraceiscool]

Your rant is exactly why I followed you Joshua. You say what we all want to say but wouldn't dare for fear of being blacklisted. Thank you

[@HoucKSF]

He's a lawyer who "specialises" in debt and loans. I wonder what he thinks of his clients.

[@kinstar]

Broke parasites

[@rejectionistmanifesto8836]

After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

Oof. He won't post about his clients online though :)

[@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult]

Joshua's rage was so satisfying and validating

[@serpent77]

Most of us have had gaps. And I'd bet money on the fact that less than 1% of us sat around and did NOTHING during that gap. We worked on cars, houses, education, knowledge, families, and more. And Josh is 100% correct I had a heart attack a little over a month ago, and should've died. The biggest thing that kept me around was my sense of humor, and one of the things that I laughed most about was remembering Josh's statement and chuckling that I really didn't give a shit that I had projects I hadn't completed at work. I cared about my fiancé, my kids, my dog, and the things in the world that were still being created that I'd miss seeing.

[@zking2929]

Yeah most of us can't AFFORD to do nothing and typically hard working

[@ThingsILikke]

Making like going to a job is the only productive thing there is

[@AaaaNinja]

I'm willing to bet that the candidate mentioned a few things he did during the gap and Arun is calling those things NOTHING in his own account because he personally decided they are nothing.

[@businesscat4435]

@@AaaaNinja 100%! I bet you're right. Men are great when covering their butts on stuff like job gaps. It's us women who are overly honest and we suffer because of it. I cannot imagine any guy just saying they did absolutely nothing for 5 years. Even if he did do nothing, so goddamn what?

[@businesscat4435]

@@manco828 I hate the tech industry. I swear they hire just to fire.

[@kausalkraken5951]

Best advice for people that have job gaps and/or want to find themselves but want to buff up their resume: Start an LLC / Business. Start a website for your business, and say it went under/like working for a startup. If they want to call the boss, let your friend do it/you are the boss. OR JUST LIE

[@davidnichol4735]

Can confirm this is a recipe for failure. The HR people throw you out like a rotten potato, and engineering managers ask you more and more meaningless questions until you have no clue what the answer is so they can confirm their bias that you don't know anything because you don't spend your whole day coding like a "Real Engineer"

[@ThisisFerrariKhan]

@@davidnichol4735 actually this does work for some fields. The problem is you think that “engineering” is the ONLY job field in the world.

[@StarContract]

Best advice here, deserves a pin of fame

[@tvdavis]

@@davidnichol4735 It worked for me. HR didn’t know the difference, and my cover letter and resume had the buzzword bingo they were looking for, so that got me to the interview. Once there, you gloss over the LLC you operated and push the skills you have that meet their needs.

[@reijigamer]

@@davidnichol4735 I had interviews like this. Also, they would ask if I did any personal software development projects outside of work as the hiring manager likes candidates that work on personal projects. I like software development but I don't need to eat, sleep, breathe it especially to be a competent employee. Also, when do you expect an employed person to have time just to do this especially since I spend most of the week (60-70 hrs) working. This just lead me to quit software development completely.

[@alexgodeye3031]

I think they shouldn't be banned from linkedIn, they are doing us the favor of publicly showing their true colors.

[@mika274]

I didn't know Joshua was banned from LinkedIn but it makes total sense. I am glad you have pushed enough buttons to have this done to you.

[@eligoldman9200]

It’s so hard to find a good boss because the good ones keep their employees and don’t need to hire any one.

[@KennethSee]

This is so true it hurts.

[@AFuller2020]

If you have a good boss then you also have a bunch of slackers that do nothing. The old saying good jobs have a lot of bad employees and bad jobs have tons of good workers.

[@Seattle-2017]

Damn true. Timing is everything; good job opportunities come along, you just have to be in the right place at the right time.

[@CST1992]

That's a stupid analogy.

[@CST1992]

@@KennethSee It's absolute bullshit. A company that doesn't need to hire either is not expanding or no one is retiring or it's shrinking. Any company worth working for would be hiring someday. You just have to wait for your chance.

[@skip0]

“Mind explaining your employment gap on your resume?” “Nah I don’t think I’m going to explain the non laboring periods of my life.”

[@minuit6305]

The man looks like Moe from the 3 stooges. Job gaps should be the last thing he should be worried about.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

acutally lol'd

[@edwardwongks]

I hired several staff with job gaps. All the time it is to take care of kids. I respect them even more because they value family and have built up organizational skills and are very stable (you'd have to be to look after kids!). If anything they are even more motivated to do well at the job to make up for this gap. It's OK, assholes like Arun can reject these "gap" candidates and pass them to companies who would appreciate them more.

[@symbol767]

Real talk, if a dude like that can own a business, we all have hope. Look at that hair, what the heck...

[@elitecoder955]

Why do judge people on things they can’t control ?

[@neckbeardo1233]

lmao true

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

@@elitecoder955 He can control the type of toupe he wears, fam. He can also control his piss-ant attitude regarding job gaps. We're judging him on things he can very much control.

[@elitecoder955]

@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 Well I guess anyone can judge anyone on the basis of whatever the hell they dislike lol

[@Arkantos117]

Sometimes I feel like self employment gets treated worse than unemployment. They're clearly intimidated by people that can make a living without kowtowing to some overpromoted desk jockey.

[@benjamincrew1949]

They don't want someone that can throw off the shackles whenever they feel like it because the second they start trying to pull crap, they know you'll be out the door.

[@RDA8191]

He wasn't self employed. He was living off his wife, big difference. The guy is a loser, clearly

[@Arkantos117]

@@RDA8191 I didn't say he was self employed. Also there's nothing wrong with the wife paying the bills.

[@astrotecn]

@@Arkantos117 yeah there is lmao

[@coreymckee8497]

I was told once, that I almost wasn't hired because of my personal email address, how petty can these people get?

[@kenn756]

What now?

[@PokeMultiverse]

Similar story when I gave my friend a reference when they applied. My chef comes over and says, "so... youre friends email is SouleaterXD? He's not like a satanist or something, is he?"

[@paulosah1317]

@@crowhomestead7552 That's bulshiiit. There are better ways to screen people than to use pettiness. Employers are just too lazy to screen people the proper way.

[@YTTraveler777]

High competition dude. Deal with it.

[@paulosah1317]

@@crowhomestead7552 In my country, some companies use aptitude tests similar to GMAT/GRE to screen people then put the cutoff mark to a high point. It's better that way than to be disaualified for petty stupid reasons.

[@faisal-ca]

I was once told that a potential employer didn't like the fact that I stayed with one employer for too long. In their opinion working for multiple employers means you worked on variety of projects and environments. I skipped them and found a better job with a better employer. I stayed with one employer because they kept bringing me challenging projects one after the other. I am hiring manager now and always make sure I give a clear shot to everybody who has the right skills and attitude.

[@arcsaber1127]

should've taken that job, and quit right after training or 6 months

[@marcelrobinson]

And people wonder why there is/was a "Great Resignation"

[@zking2929]

Riiight!

[@PierreMiniggio]

ikr

[@tvdavis]

They can’t figure out how people are managing it, and it is blowing their minds! This CEO is a prime example: “What do you MEAN you haven’t worked as a wage slave for FIVE YEARS?!? Let me call you names because surviving without a master, err, boss is just crazy talk!”

[@StrayTato]

Is, present tense.

[@manjeet7595]

I left my job in december 2020 because of depression, after that my whole family got covid in april and couldn't do anything for 3 months. Last month my father got cancer, so going to hospital almost every single day for his treatment. In december 2021 i'll complete one year without any job. And such CEO will not hire me because i didn't do nothing for one year. But I'm doing alot like taking care of myself, my family and upgrading my skills except a job. Thanks josh for exposing such shit people.

[@Helicopterpilot16]

When jobs need your entire life history, there's something wrong. Employment has become very inhuman and portrays people as expendable cells. If the job treats you like dirt and you feel like so, do what you can to change environments. Even if it means a downgrade. I couldn't handle living such a life for the majority of it.

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

Over population has made things unnecessarily difficult, it was heading downhill when employers wanted to see things like your da facebook. People should have been waking up back then.

[@jimb12312]

@@Parlimant_Strifey You mean mass immigration of IT workers and outsourcing?

[@The0Yapster]

@@jimb12312 There is nothing you can do when it comes to outsourcing. I'm an immigrant IT worker , I would accept rough hours and lower than average pay just to renew my visa and then apply for citizenship, I m willing to work for the bare minimum to achieve that but can you blame me ? I have nothing left back home. I would label myself as above average by any metric when it comes to software development. I mainly use English to read tech-books (which is my third language) and I'm working in a country using its native language which is my fourth... I understand the frustration, but immigrants that are taking jobs in first world countries usually made much much much higher effort than the natives. I personally spent all my 20s to compensate for the shitty education I got when I was young. This situation is in the best interest of big-tech companies and therefore I doubt that it will change.

[@doodoostickstain]

I legit did just this, and it's sound advice. i feel much more job satisfaction as a cashier at a general store now than i did for the past six years as an insurance software developer, (and 2 years unemployed because greed and idiocy) AND i enjoy coding again, like i did before the corporate BS killed it for me. I actually have personal goals and motivation now i mean who knew? Now I'm super excited at the prospect of making my own software and having it generate income, or if that doesn't seem to work out, sky is the limit :D

[@Helicopterpilot16]

@@doodoostickstain Letting the ego die is painful but really reveals why so much suffering is in vain. Lessen the amount of power over your head and find a smaller scale workforce. I'd much rather wash dishes than to work at a factory where I'm just an expendable little cell.

[@swelarsson86]

I was home with my first kids in 2 years because i had money for it and my wife had a good job, should i be punished for that?! This is what i hate about our society

[@csuporj]

Yes, you should be punished. Everyone who is not a workaholic, even if he has billions of dollars, and affords job gaps, should be punished. Slavery is maintained by punishing job gaps, thus the slaves work constantly even if they have millions of dollars, because they fear of becoming homeless due to a job gap.

[@sublimetrance]

I noticed this guy is a lawyer. Lawyer says it all.

[@healthyblend2048]

Agreed

[@cristianjuarez1086]

Yes, absolutely disgusting

[@linagarett]

It honestly sucks how the law is being taken over by psychos who fight for selfish gains rather than altruism and justice.

[@livery955]

@@linagarett Yep. We live in a country where law destroys justice, ironic isn't it

[@gamingguru2k6]

"Don't have a job? We won't give you a job! Our job postings are only for employed people. You better not be job hunting while we employ you. That shows major disloyalty."

[@l8Os]

There was another viral LinkedIn post (literally like 100,000+ interactions) where CEOs and recruiters were talking about how they’ll never hire recent college graduates because they don’t have enough experience to be hired for entry level positions.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Link?

[@l8Os]

@@JoshuaFluke1 I’ll do some digging but this was probably like 2 weeks ago. And I didn’t interact with it because I was afraid my current employer would judge me (they look at my LinkedIn page because we’re a small company and whenever you comment on posts it’s like the first thing people see when they go to your LinkedIn). So I have to pick and choose what posts I interact with. But if I do manage to find it you would have an absolute field day ripping it apart. Even an hour long video still isn’t enough to get halfway through all of the insane comments that followed the post. The amount of out of touch hot takes was truly a sight to behold. A bunch of CEOs all saying the classic “Amen 🙏” responses while normal people were like “how are we supposed to get experience if nobody gives us a chance?”. There were a lot of people telling really touching stories and one I remember was some woman who graduated like 5 years ago and still hasn’t been given the chance by any employer for a real job. And I kid you not the suits got so angry in the comments of her post telling her she’s a wimpy millennial afraid to work at McDonald’s to get business experience. Another thing I kept seeing were responses along the lines of “it’s not their job to teach you or train you it costs them too much time and money.” Essentially saying they don’t want to invest anything into their employees and expect you to just come with years of experience. And this goes into a bigger issue of college becoming more and more meaningless to companies, all while tuition costs become more and more inflated. Anyway I’ll try to dig it up because you’re the first person I thought of when I was reading it.

[@lisar915r9]

Do you remember this CEOs name? I want to look him or her up.

[@YTTraveler777]

@@lisar915r9 to doxx? You should leave it alone.

[@lisar915r9]

@@YTTraveler777 no. I just wanted to respond on LinkedIn.

[@tvdavis]

Funny thing is, they always want to ask what you’re currently making to use as a benchmark, but if you lost your last well-paying job, and instead of being a “parasite”, you went out & took any job you could get until you could find something that matched your skill set, they’d use THAT against you, too. Basically, if you’re not currently working, you’re crap. If you are currently working and you make low wages, they want to pay you crap. However, if you’re working and making a good salary, then suddenly they DON’T want to base your rate on what you make. That’s why they never want to tell you the damned salary until they’ve made you jump through a bunch of hoops. If you’re making $65k, they don’t want to pay you $95k, even if that’s a fair market rate for the position.

[@Zachary-Daiquiri]

Are you really surprised this dudes line of thinking is as bad as his haircut? 100% he is making this story up too. Classic virtue signaling.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

If it's fake, then it says even more about him than what we already know.

[@jeffshackleford3152]

I could see that hair if he was 20 but not at 50.

[@MoonOvIce]

@@jeffshackleford3152 At 20 neither. Most "hairdos" look ridiculous on anyone. Men should either have short hair, really long hair (shoulder length is not acceptable) or no hair. Women have a little more freedom, but it looks ridiculous too when they go overboard.

[@MCGrassblock210]

This is one of the reasons I can’t find a job, on top of entry level jobs not being entry level, and not having any experience because I can’t get hired to get any experience.

[@benjamincrew1949]

Yep, same here. I've been told my experience and knowledge already exceeds entry level work multiple times, but because my experience isn't "professional", it doesn't count.

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Ugh, right? I've legit seen so many 'entry level' jobs that demanded previous years of experience in a field I'm interested in. It's so dumb... I basically have to lie to get into the industry.

[@darkmob1159]

Agreed

[@CEA9234]

It's insane thst instead of interviewing you properly and assessing your skills, they choose to look surface level at continuity of work. Like seriously? If you're a serious professional and have strong skills, and hard work ethic should Some random time out due to lay off or sabbatical or some circumstance DISQUALIFY you from consideration? It's insane. If you are a stellar candidate for the job that gap stuff really shouldn't be a huge deal. Who cares? You can do the damn work!

[@errrzarrr]

They can't forgive the fact that someone dare to step out of their corporativist chains to enjoy life or just do personal needs, like taking care of a relative or going thru a terrible disease.

[@serpent77]

It's that concept of "human capital" they expect that like stocks, you have to show growth, even if only on paper, to be worth anything.

[@jeffweingrad4658]

I went to a legal pre-law thing once, and the ONLY advice that the Human Capital recruiter said was that the first thing she does is look at the dates on your resume to see if there is a gap. Which then starts a series of questions about what did you do when the economy was crap and no one was hiring (remember 2008-2012?) or (2020 spring?). Which predictably yields no answers. The whole purpose of recruiters is to keep people out. Examining how many spaces you use after a period is a new one some are taking up to deny your application. I used two. I'm automatically kicked out.

[@ThatGuyDownInThe]

how are you people honestly siding with a guy who literally did absolutely nothing for 5 years. What?

[@jeffweingrad4658]

@@ThatGuyDownInThe he applied for jobs where creeps like this ignore you for five years prior to mocking you. We side because we've dealt with parasites before and know the game.

[@DRNT940]

The whole "who am I to judge" then "parasite" in another. That "ceo" is a parasite.

[@XcaliburReborn]

Interviewer: I can see you’ve been working for the last 4 years at your current employer but between 2014 and 2016 you had a 2 year gap. What was that for? Me: was retraining in nunya. Interviewer: what’s nunya? Me: nunya fuckin business Asking about gaps should be illegal. I’m selling my job experience, that’s all. You don’t get to know about my personal life until we’ve built that rapport through working together and even then there’s limits to separate work and personal life.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Yuppppppppp

[@BrickworksDK]

It should. As should asking about martial status and if you're planing to have kids. Actually... I think the last one might actually already be illegal in some places... Still though, it won't stop employers asking the question.

[@hayuseen6683]

@@BrickworksDK Actual employers have tried tracking people having kids in other ways, like data mining and being super creepy tracking periods.

[@benjamincrew1949]

This is because they don't want people with the freedom to decide to leave. If you can get by with a two year gap, they know you'll probably leave the second things get crappy.

[@spookyskellyskeleton609]

@@hayuseen6683 lol what? Dayum

[@thawdani]

"i obviously didnt hire him" sounds like a win win to me

[@pr00de]

Send in a fake resume that hits all the marks he wants, set up an interview, ghost him

[@amateruss]

Tell him you don't even sleep because you are afraid you might get a job gap.

[@lalayastill610]

:)))

[@jutau]

Josh in this video is RAWR! Thank you for speaking for the many voiceless people out there.

[@pookabunny9824]

been unemployed 6 years. by the second year when i could apply, i got grilled at interviews. i was bullied and harassed out of a job and my mental health declined. i also had to take care of my great grandma for a year and a half full time until she passed, but since then i've been focused on my mental/physical health and have tried to hold jobs in the past when i wasn't ready...i even have doordash to cover the gap but that doesn't mean anything. i'm honestly considering lying because theres not way someone will hire me.

[@miguelcoronel7672]

Just lie

[@lisar915r9]

That's terrible.

[@franz3810]

just make up a story, not something too elaborated...just don't let them win

[@ML-yn9yu]

Sometimes you have to lie to get the job.

[@火災のアイスクリーム]

Plain and simple, lying is da wae

[@Clockwork0nions]

When I first got laid off at the start of the Pandemic I 100% lied about my dates.

[@Tenacity38]

From July 2020 to October 2021, I hiked and completed the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail. I turned down a job from the US Department of Energy, in order to do this. I could have claimed unemployment during this time but I did not. All of my expenses were out of my pocket. Now I'm having trouble finding employment due my gap year. I think I'm the furthest thing from a "parasite".

[@JKTProductionzIncNCo]

Even if you took unemployment pay nothing wrong with that. You paid for it already. Nothing wrong taking it back when you deem it necessary. It's like calling retired people parasites because they rely on pension. I mean this is absolutely insane.

[@segamanable91]

PCT?? Damn!

[@timm1583]

You will not be worried about that "gap" when your old and telling stories of your amazing year. let's keep it real a year on trail even in the hard days is so much better than holding down a terrible job for a year.

[@SuWoopSparrow]

Always take unemployment. The people who talk bad about something like that are often times the most hypocritical people in any given room.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

The replies here make me happy.

[@timmy7201]

I know two siblings that both had issues finding work after a 14 to 15 month employment gap on their resume, they went on a world trip with their mom and terminal ill father. Both parents where in their 50's, the father worked his whole life and never got to enjoy his pension...

[@Black_Benz2023]

Awesome video Josh. Totally agree with you about the negative stigma attached to job gaps. It's a personal issue for me too. Besides, maybe someone has a serious health issue (cancer, heart condition, etc) and they took several years off to get better. And they do not want to disclose that to an employer who will reject them for that. I hate to say it, but lying and stretching' the truth on a resume is a MUST and most employees do it. Those who are honest may not get ahead. Employers reject & discriminate candidates for any minor reason. Most employers lie about the jobs.

[@Masami_Salami]

0:13 He's already trying to get a job, so isn't it a bit counter-productive NOT to give him a job?

[@SirSpoon]

That dudes hair and outfit makes him look like the bad guy in a dystopian cyberpunk story

[@AFuller2020]

Labels and monikers? How progressive!

[@SirSpoon]

@@AFuller2020 Inability to grasp subtly and humor, especially against gatekeepers? Sad!

[@andreaw357]

😆😆😆

[@markdepaor4956]

the ceo guy looks like an anime villian

[@PhoebusApollo]

I like that the attitude is that a prospective worker in a job interview is a parasite for leeching off of others during their unemployment gap - their presence in the job interview is literally to find the work that would declassify them from being a "parasite". It's such a nonsense perspective.

[@ellisjackson3355]

Hah. Exactly. He's too high on the smell of his own farts to realize that though

[@elmartilo1686]

Shaming someone with a job gap looking for work is like shaming an overweight person going to the gym.

[@butcherpete2286]

Imagine thinking a job gap is an issue. Like..... dawg I was out there loving life. Feck off. I rescind my application have a good day

[@butcherpete2286]

@@manco828 didn't say someone was. But a job gap shouldn't be a barrier to a 6 figure income, so long as the meet the education and experience requirements

[@ThisisFerrariKhan]

@@manco828 because there are more jobs in the world than the small handful of tech jobs that exists. This video was made to help PEOPLE, not solely “engineers”. Use some common sense. Also, those tech jobs are going to keep dwindling because that’s the nature of technology, the incessant need for automation is going to have tech employees revisiting these videos in a few years once programmer pay gets slashed and network engineers become saturated. Especially you tech workers that live in India or these other oversaturated markets outside of the continental United States.

[@nishadnadkarni7874]

This legit pisses me off, how could one be so crazy, small minded and hypocritical and yet have control over hiring people.

[@TheIgnoredGender]

I hate the job gap bias. I mean, how does your degree, experience, and willingness to work not matter? If you tried to find jobs and were not hired, that is beyond your control. Yet this is held against you.

[@mushroomsteve]

The job gap and the drug test (read: pot test) are two forms of discrimination that should have ended decades ago.

[@franz3810]

@@mushroomsteve drug tests are forbidden where I live, but companies still do them

[@mushroomsteve]

@@franz3810 Kind of like age discrimination here, only in this case, you can actually prove a violation of the law. Does not mean drug tests shouldn't be banned and violators sued/prosecuted.

[@kireek3773]

I was once out of work for 3 years for reasons, when I did get back into work I was considering a very good worker by various other staff, I was there for nearly 10 years before I left for another job.

[@krayziejerry]

How did you explain the job gap? I have 1 yr gap

[@heyyayyo]

What did you say about the job gap?

[@leej1759]

Thank you for speaking up for us with job gaps! Many of us struggle because of disabilities, but we live in such a toxic work culture.🙄

[@LegacyUntouched]

a lawyer calling someone a parasite....now that's a good joke

[@ivantuma7969]

I experienced this after my company closed their local division ... laying off about 200 of us. I wound up taking a 15% haircut in salary and a downgrade from Engineer 4 to Engineer 3 at the new company. That was two days before my severance ran out. Accounting for inflation - I just caught up to where I was in 2019. I'm in a tech lead position - but they used my lack of 4 year degree as a wedge to keep me at level 3. Didn't help that my mother was dying last year, so I had to take 3 weeks of paid leave (you can't predict life).

[@berrex5152]

i hate corporate with a passion

[@KennTollens]

I had a job gap and covered it up the time by saying that I worked for a temp agency. They put me on odd ball jobs and there were long gaps, but on the resume, it looked like one continuous job because. I didn't break down each job, just that I was employed by the temp agency from date x-y.

[@JOJO_THE_PROGRAMMER]

Keep doing the god work's Josh

[@AkshayVinchurkar]

This issue is same as people changing jobs and hr ask them why you change your last job.

[@jaggirl]

Exactly. I had a job gap cause I took care of my children until they were school age. Years later I had another job gap cause I was a carer to my mother in law who had dementia. Made more sense for me to be the carer, as my husband, her son made more money in his job. Damn those people. They're the parasites.

[@joncomas]

That's like crying for people to come and lie to his face.

[@dreamrider7128]

Seriously at this point I would rather work at a coffee shop while building my personal brand than continuing being part of this rotten industry.

[@xristinarose2409]

Yea job gap is one of my biggest fears that might happen. Some already question me because i have a 2 month gap o.o

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

I'm glad that he came right out and said it. For every one that comes right out and says these things, there are 10 more that think it, act on it and DON'T say it.

[@ElectroPunk79]

You are awesome , Josh ! Thx for another great video. I was almost for 10 years self employed as a restaurant owner. I give everybody the chance to proof that he can do this job. But never called an employee a „parasite“. That’s disgusting.

[@JoshuaFluke1]

You're awesome.

[@menopillion9853]

If you take a lower position, the next job will be less likely to take you so you are often better off with the gap than the perceived demotion.

[@AFuller2020]

Define lower.

[@eagle-wingedturtle201]

For people with kids, a lot of times childcare is so expensive that if both parents are working, one of them is simply paying to be away from their kid. It's not really worth it so usually the woman (but not always) ends up leaving the workplace. Regular people do so much work outside of their employment because we don't have on-home nurses, maids, cooks and more to do all of those jobs to maintain our homes in our off-time. If you were off because you were taking care of other people why not call yourself a team manager ;)

[@coolcorey13755]

That guys hair is a lie.

[@zking2929]

🤣🤣

[@andreaw357]

Lol no doubt 😆😆😆😁😁

[@paegun]

This guy would literally never find another job in his life if everyone though the same way this CEO does... He's being condemned to "parasite" status through no fault of his own at that point

[@TomT-ds9vn]

A CEO calling someone else a parasite. That is too funny!

[@ThingsILikke]

“Parasite?” It’s his wife! Their money as a couple is each other’s money! It’s literally the contract of marriage!

[@bthegawd8113]

I think he meant the applicant was a simp not a parasite

[@ThingsILikke]

@@bthegawd8113 The guys wife pays all his bills- that’s furthest thing from a simp. A simp would be paying all the bills of a Russian internet girlfriend he never met

[@bthegawd8113]

@@ThingsILikke ah your right. What will be the appropriate term then?

[@ThingsILikke]

@@bthegawd8113 Lucky, privileged. House husband if you want a term- but his wife made enough money so that he didn’t have to live a lower quality of life at a crummy job. It’s great that you never need to worry about money and many people’s dream.

[@bthegawd8113]

@@ThingsILikke well any man who stays home while the wife is working is a low testosterone beta male. A loser in my book.

[@LeftoverSundriesMan]

Job seekers are quite insidiously caught between the hammer of the Gig economy gradually eroding availability and security of full-time "permanent" positions, and the anvil of employers who expect workers to have full-time past work history, because that somehow will make them more loyal to their new prospective employer.

[@MrCandyman1997]

The post by Arun does not violate linkedin policy. How does calling the unemployed "parasites" not violate a policy, maybe they need to look at that.

[@deepak8586]

Its automated by bots they are not bothered what shit goes into linkedin if they did by now all these kind of people would have filtered out haha

[@Perfidion]

It's LinkedIn, the malignant tumour of the internet. Their standards are subterranean. I actively avoid that place because it makes me nauseous.

[@Seattle-2017]

@@Perfidion Oh come on; you don't see the value of a bunch of CEOs and marketing specialists photographed on a golf outing, or holding up some useless award?

[@RDA8191]

Yeah, see if you can get him censored. Such a strong generation you guys are 🤣. So pathetic. Arun hurt my feelings by speaking the obvious truth that a man who's too lazy to work for 5 years is a lazy turd. "Maybe we should try to get him kicked off LinkedIn". You're going places in life. Very resilient

[@Seattle-2017]

@@RDA8191 It's a two way street. The CEO wants to trash an applicant publicly, people can, and will, trash him right back. Sorry to hurt Arun's feelings.

[@Hellohellohello803]

Another reason for a job gap is studying. Employers will look at your work experience dates and assume that you were doing nothing in that time.

[@StarHelix-]

Imagine actually being 50 years old with a k-pop boyband haircut, expect to be taken seriously because you run a law firm, and then calling other people parasites because after five years they're unlucky enough to come to you for a job. Absolutely disgusting.

[@moosehead482]

projection. Lawyers are the ultimate parasites...

[@RDA8191]

Imagine being a grown man who doesn't work for 5 fucking years. Let's get real, that's pathetic

[@andreaw357]

Lol 😆😆😆😁😁🤣

[@AxeKick80]

My life is not one endless dance of employment for the amusement of others 🤬

[@lisar915r9]

Good one. I love it.

[@Numantino312]

that REALLY sums it up! we work, or don't work, for our own reasons. "i swear, by my life and my love of it, that i will not live for someone else's happiness, nor will i expect someone to live for mine" Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

[@jasjas-rm9kc]

Job Gap? If they want to hire you, they'll hire you. One time I "retired" for five years to do whatever. When I wanted to go back to work, I just told the truth. They wanted to hire me, though, so the girl in human resources just put down that I had been a 'consultant" during that five years. I got the job.

[@cristianjuarez1086]

Its so frustrating how non transparent, non honest it all has to be, also thats so cool you got the job, i respect that girl!

[@LionsMayday]

How ironic that biggest company parasite CEO talks about parasites.

[@ztjaenisch]

I retired at 33. Didn't work for years and I have never been asked about the gap. The real question is do I qualify and do I want to work there.

[@RDA8191]

"Retired" or hopped on unemployment for the rest of us to carry you on our backs? Big difference. I keep hearing people who quit working pretending they retired. So clearly you're a millionaire

[@SuperMatt2112]

Josh is fired up today Good on you man and thank you. you make some valid points for sure.

[@thebigb1286]

Sadly, the best way I've heard to stop job gaps is to declare a leave of absence if you can. You're still " employed" but your not getting paid and can do what you want. You're an adult, you ought to be able to stop. We're not supposed to be like gerbles on speed. We can stop and make our own decisions.