WHY "NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE!"

[@JoshuaFluke1]

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[@SingleCHILDLESSHappyMovement]

​@ch-yq5ynYou young ones should keep quiet and produce more babies so we in power can exploit them in the future as wage slaves and abuse them by lowering salaries as they can start working by 14 years old legally. Us rich and people in the top 1% of income will call you evil unless you keep producing more workers, I mean start a family. We need to increase the labor pool each year and you must do your part as we are suffering by only having 80% of all the wealth and soon 90%. We need more yachts so let's use religion to guilt you.

[@SingleCHILDLESSHappyMovement]

You must do your part by having

[@SingleCHILDLESSHappyMovement]

more babies so we increase the labor pool

[@SingleCHILDLESSHappyMovement]

Never question the resulting exploited children into the future as workers or the exponentially increasing expenses for each child

[@DudeSoWin]

Bulletpoints on anything is like hard locking the numbers in as an ordered priority schema. You can look up any similar such ordering and do a side by side diff to see what is actually being discussed.

[@collegeman1988]

This proves the boss can make you wait all day and waste your time for a job interview, but if you’re just 5 minutes late to the office once you’re hired, you’ll be fired.

[@mushroomsteve]

And you're expected to show up dressed in a suit and tie while I have seen some of these interviewers wearing shorts and a ratty t-shirt to the interview!

[@adamd9166]

"It was a test of patience, and your company failed"

[@princessmarlena1359]

We can’t be on our phones, yet the interviewers take phone calls all the time during the interview.

[@pegcity4eva]

​@@mushroomsteveyup

[@neilmcdougall4927]

walking the tightrope in the circus

[@Dan-cm9ow]

4 people dodged a bullet, 2 are probably a few months from realizing the money wasn't worth their sanity.

[@hiflyer000]

Or a few months from getting fired and having the CEO brag about it on social media.

[@ShotgunWizard]

Either way, now they’re working for a sociopath

[@ADanZLife]

The people who stayed probably live in their car.

[@ChrisPTY507]

Those 2 are gonna end up in therapy after working for a manipulative psychopath looking for desperate candidates.

[@raptorate2872]

In this economy, sanity is something people are willing to let go of to survive

[@tonybp]

Samsung played the waiting game with me. Cancelled first interview after waiting 2 hours, fine. Cancelled 2nd interview after waiting 3 hours. When they called for a 3rd interview, I said no, the recruiter was shocked. She kept insisting I should go, even sounded desperate. I told her "Just because I'm unemployed doesn't mean I don't value my time, I wouldn't want to work for a company that treats me like this, anyway"... she kept insisting, I just hanged up on her. 2 weeks later she kept calling, I didn't answer. Later on, I found out this waiting game was part of the process all along and that they were really mad that I didn't go because apparently, I was going to get hired for a position they were having a hard time to fill. F em.

[@princessmarlena1359]

I leave the first time after waiting only 30 minutes and not give them a second chance. I don’t let them waste too much of my time.

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

If someone pays me good money to sit in a room and do nothing, I'll do it. Once, at least. But not on my own dime and my own time. It's disgustingly disrespectful and speaks to a culture of abuse. It's a filter to see how much crap you're willing to take. I take zero. None of us should have to take this crap. This is how we end up with cultures like Boeing where people are afraid to speak up. This is how corruption is maintained.

[@cpK054L]

@@tonybp they don't even hire their nationals, I find this story very hard to believe

[@CartoonMandates]

Thanks for naming names of this crap employer. This helps others.

[@eyeseev1]

Avoid working for Asian companies. They're toxic AF, worse than American ones. And I'm Asian.

[@axelmilan4292]

We don't have an employment problem. We have a toxic "leadership" problem.

[@markh.6687]

We also have a "lack of common sense" problem in American management. Sure you want to ask "why do you want to work here". But to be honest, they want to work and make money. These aren't dream jobs for most. They're laborer jobs. The applicants just want to feed and clothe themselves. Stop asking "where do you see yourself in 5 years?", or "If you were a caterpillar, could you whistle?". Ask if they can get to and from work. Ask if they have any skills or job knowledge from other jobs. But quit playing endless mind games trying to be important, or as if the games have any relevance to the job.

[@omarjimenezromero3463]

as a software developer and data analist, the biggest problems are: 1.- HR. 2.- Product managers. the others are the bosses and directives, who truly are not the workforce for the labor, because the less people are in that position, the less important to the client is their work, but contradicticaly, it affect more the company and the client's finished works..

[@TradingIsLife420]

Corporate monopolies that were never supposed to exist for THESE very reasons.

[@skyblazeeterno]

From a candidates point of view there is always an employment problem...more people looking for work than jobs. Capitalism and business loves unemployment

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

Greed.

[@5Demona5]

I went to a factory to interview once. They wanted to do a sewing test, so I sewed 3 shirts to show em what I could do and how fast. They wanted me to stay the whole day for free. I said "Can't do. I only made space for an interview today and have other plans for the rest of my day I cannot cancel." I was still hired, but they weren't happy they couldn't squeeze that free day. Then when COVID hit, we were sewing face masks and were required to make 60 masks daily. The supervisor expected me to do 90, because "I know you can do more." I bluntly asked "Am I gonna get paid more?" "Uh, no, but...." "Then I'm not interested in going past 60 masks" I left as soon as I found a better job

[@EmperorDecay]

It’s just sad they know exactly what they’re doing. I hope you got a better job environment

[@chozer1]

standing up for yourself is very good thing, full respect would do the same. dignity and honor is a sacred thing that should be protected

[@artemsverhunov7413]

30 masks more per day means that you need to add 1\3 of the salary for that day to my pocket. And that's minimum, because overworking is actually should be paid relatively more

[@OWnIshiiTrolling]

​@@artemsverhunov74131/2 more, not 1/3 more.

[@WutherWave-qc3ud]

You are built different🎉. When you reached the 60 mask quota what did you do during work hours :0 since you don’t have to do more. They really tried to overwork you wow.

[@erictalaveramartinez4160]

They say they are testing patience. They are actually looking for desperation.

[@RoboSapien2000]

Yup it is pretty predatorial and sick in the head...look for desperate people they can take advantage of.

[@theroamingcanuck49]

I finally woke up to this fact.

[@berrymint6384]

Patience would be BENEFITIAS Not ruins a person

[@g-dawg79]

My old boss in Silicon Valley would do this. He wanted to see if people would stand up for themselves or just sit around all day waiting to be told what to do.

[@SC-zq6cu]

They are testing patience, patience for the employer's bs.They are trying to find out how much exploitation they can get away with before they run out of suckers to milk.

[@alphacentauri8083]

If you see the words "culture, rock star, team player" on a job description, run away as fast as you can.

[@benb3799]

Add “ family” as well as “ability to multi task “

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

And “team” and “family.” And “well oiled machine.” Ruuun!

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

@@benb3799Yup. And “wear many hats.”

[@nonyabusiness3619]

"High energy"

[@ferretapocalypse]

Your forgot black belt.

[@jeremy6384]

"Oh look! people who dont stand up for themselves, and are not bothered by doing nothing all day, what a role model of an employee"

[@memorf]

Sad but true

[@CarlosPerez-rb5br]

role model of a slave...

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Hitting the nail right on the head. I think that's what they were looking for with all those personality tests they were pushing for some time.

[@LukaDonesnitch]

That’s so when they are ready to screw these muppets they don’t have to put in the contract there’s no lube.

[@wlonsdale1]

Sounds like a z'er

[@XperimentorEES]

Remember, if the company is 'always hiring' that means they're always loosing people for a reason.

[@b1zzarecont4ct]

Spell losing properly please

[@XperimentorEES]

@@b1zzarecont4ct You forgot the period at the end of your complaint.

[@markh.6687]

(Sarcasm Warning) No, the company is growing so fast because they're "inverting the paradigm of trans-national AI workflow management" or "creating value by cross-applying Schroedinger's Box to back-office management systems" that they need more people in Sales to offer this "ground-breaking game-changing product" via telesales, because "it's one weird trick to transmogrify your revenue stream".

[@jenniferburchill3658]

​@b1zzarecont4ct I've had autocorrect do that to me with the word "losing", plus other crazy things. And autocorrect keeps right on changing it despite your wishes.

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

But they always tell me they're growing!!

[@sunnydayempire6964]

If the company doesn't respect you at the start, they never will.

[@ChaadFairservice20022]

It's a job. You want respect!? Earn it.

[@kael7953]

@@ChaadFairservice20022 Slave mindset

[@khaledomar6019]

​@@ChaadFairservice20022respect is given and then earned

[@nikolaybelousov1070]

​​​@@ChaadFairservice20022 there's a concept of basic respect in all civilized societies. It is the only thing preventing other people from blocking you in a parking lot, cutting the line in front of you at a shop and not serving everyone else at the restaurant before you. So I agree we should do away with it.

[@sarikagoode1505]

Interview is like a first date. Both parties should put their best foot forward. If one is disrespectful and conniving, you know that’s only going to get worse as the relationship progresses. Get out immediately when red flags are proudly flown.

[@Maryland_Kulak]

There is an epidemic of sociopathic bosses. I’m 58 years old and never had a problem for decades. The last two jobs I’ve had though, the bosses were a psychopath and a narcissist respectively.

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

Agreed. They are absolutely nasty pieces of work. Tear you down to justify not giving you the slightest pay increase. I laugh when people say that we all need to work until we're 70 in order to afford to pay out social security to everyone. Good luck! You hit your mid 40s as a woman and get dumped, or god forbid you go through menopause. Ain't no support for that hell on earth. Older men are considered 'in the way' of younger men's careers. And if there were a healthy social safety net, sure, fine. But there isn't. We will all be lucky to be working in our 50s at this rate, broke and homeless by 60.

[@Maryland_Kulak]

@FarBear-by6rwThat’s a great skill to have!

[@tubalcain6874]

I hear you! 💯 agree. I'm 66, still pushing my boulder, and will do so into my 70s, so it is what it is. I've run into the same scenarios, especially the last 20 or so years. Insanely passive aggressive types.

[@Krlowanigu-mg6eg]

Please give advice. I cant see it on time.

[@kerim.peardon5551]

@@Krlowanigu-mg6eg Talk to a trusted friend; a disinterested third party can see things faster than you can. I have a friend who was driving a big rig for his "friend." We talked on the phone about once every 3-4 weeks and over time, I noticed he never got time off to come home and visit his friends and adopted family, even though he drove through our area sometimes. He was working more and more and he had no free time. In fact, he was driving more than was legally allowed. I questioned him on how his boss and the dispatcher they worked for was rigging that. I started sending him job offers for local reputable companies that paid well and promised weekends at home or some sort of 4-on, 3-off rotation. Then his dad died shortly before Christmas and he was on the fence about going home to Poland for the funeral and the holiday--namely because of how his boss/"friend" would react to him taking off a couple of weeks for the first time in over a year. And I was like, honey, if you were a woman, I'd be warning you that you're in an abusive relationship. And I pointed out how he was being isolated and kept from friends and family, and the things his boss was telling him about how bad the job market was for drivers was obviously not true. And I sent him some videos on people describing what it's like to be in a relationship with a narcissist and how his boss said similar things. When he talked to a guy friend of his, he told him the same thing I did. Long story short, he went home and, maybe between me and his other friend talking to him, and him having some time away from his job, the blinders fell off and he came back with a plan to get out. He worked a few more months to save up money, then quit. It's always easier to see things like that from the outside. As my friend said about it later, he was only hearing what his boss said every day, and he was really believing it. But when he got to occasionally talk to me and his other friend, we were able to show him that what he was hearing wasn't true and he didn't have to stay there.

[@aaronsmith9009]

Some companies seem to think they can squeeze a gallon of juice out of a single lemon

[@BillyViBritannia]

They can, that's the problem. Two lemons stayed.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

What audacity these employers have complaining how people want something for nothing. I guess they don't know how to use a mirror.

[@BuildingMakingDoing]

I’ve met plenty of managers like that. Mostly boomers.

[@vsgfilmgroup]

And when they can't, the problem is that the lemon is faulty.

[@markd.9538]

If you give blood, the human body goes to work and makes more. Then they can keep juicing. That is how these companies think.

[@xx-qv9tp]

The people leaving are the smart ones. Who wants to work for a toxic, petty boss who plays mind games with potential employees, let alone the ACTUAL workers? Time is money, and if the employer wants to play that game, then I’m not wasting my time

[@daveblackman816]

Yep exactly. I can’t even stand when they have these 3-4 interviews for the same job. Like who cares.

[@Dan-cm9ow]

This is going to bite a lot of the companies (like Dell) who are using "return to the office" as a way to cut employees without paying out severance. The subservient lemmings who think Who Moved My Cheese is profound will stay, and the most talented people who actually have options will leave. This takes a few years to really show up but is usually a one way path to having a bad product.

[@Delimon007]

@@Dan-cm9ow Just go look at any game company and the same thing has happened to multiple of them. Hell Blizzard is a PRIME example of that!

[@toshitosliba4737]

@@Delimon007 I have worked in 2 different game studios as a software developer, even though those companies are nowhere near the grandiosity of companies such as Blizzard, EA, and others, I can tell that you're right, especially the last company where I was, that even have the audacity to not even want to pay my salary and yet demanding me to develop 300+ mini-games and work on a game like that alone as a programmer, the CEO not only was a delusion, but a real narcissist, still today I am fighting a legal case to get my salary of 2 months that he didn't paid...

[@ADanZLife]

I'm so glad I'm self employed. I got out of the having a boss crap over 7 years ago and I can't imagine having a job where someone else tells me what to do. The worst job I ever had was working for Mars. I will never buy a Snickers, M&Ms, Wrigley's, or anything else they make ever again.

[@MarjaMariachi]

Listening to bosses whine that "nobody wants to work anymore" annoys the crap outta me. There's a photo floating around which collected newspaper clippings of that phrase. The newest clipping is from 2022, then 2014, 2006, 1999, 1981... and continues to 1894. Society as a whole isn't lazy, and they weren't in the past, either.

[@MarjaMariachi]

I found the pic on the Reddit sub r/damnthatsinteresting with the "nobody wants to work anymore" title.

[@larkc7677]

Exactly - I’m a Boomer and my manager said that to me in the 1980’s. He complained about schools turning out kids who didn’t show up prepared to work.

[@wacky3314]

I see more that schools doesn't teach anything that companies want and companies do not want to provide for any training so basically everything is to figure out on your own and nobody says it to you when you are child and then somebody call young people lazy

[@hiro_444]

We're all in matrix. It's ridiculous how ridiculous stuff like this keeps repeating itself every generation

[@sarikagoode1505]

Society has never been less lazy than it is now.

[@madara360101]

The phrase “no one wants to work anymore” has shifted the blame onto the common folks actively looking for employment instead of the employers who think they did something unique by by eating candidates times

[@eeaotly]

"No one wants to work anymore" applies to the HR too. If they would want to work, they would be able to find good employees.

[@thedroplett214]

​@eeaotly .That company leadership is very toxic. It happend to me to work into a factory that gives you no tools, but they still want you to do the job.

[@rebekahfunches6876]

Trash

[@LeeHawkinsPhoto]

If they’ll steal your time on the interview, they will DEFINITELY steal your time on the job.

[@sole__doubt]

Its not your time from the second you punch in to the second you punch out. Dont like that idea, its all good, start your own business.

[@LeeHawkinsPhoto]

@@sole__doubt right, and so they should pay what you’re owed when you’re working. A whole lot of companies don’t do this! They have you working after hours or on your breaks and they do not pay you for it, and they don’t pay overtime when it’s due. Look into it-wage theft makes all other property crime look petty, as it’s in the BILLIONS. This happens to low wage fast food and retail workers and it happens to professionals, such as in healthcare. Companies get away with it and have come to expect it.

[@sole__doubt]

@@LeeHawkinsPhoto The agreed upon salary is what they owe you, nothing more nothing less. If you are in that position its probably because the skills you have arent that valuable. Thats the issue here, the utter lack of competence in the younger generations.

[@Hideyoshi3241]

@@sole__doubt last time I checked unpaid overtime isn't legal no matter the case and the employer will have to pay damages if reported

[@sole__doubt]

@@Hideyoshi3241 Good thing I never even mentioned anything about "unpaid overtime."

[@mushroomsteve]

"Fast-paced" in a job description is always a red flag. Translation: You'll be wearing six different "hats" while being under constant time pressure and having to put out 7 different fires all at once!

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

Yeah. We're understaffed, so you'll be doing the job of three people, and getting bad performance reviews because you physically can't do the jobs of three people. Saves us money thooooooough!

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Dynamic! 🤔 I like jobs or events where I can move around, work independently. I had a night hours security/armed job 🚓 2021 like that. No mgrs, new 2021 Toyota Tacoma with 7000mi. 40hr week. Sun to Thu. Listen to XM radio 🛰 , had AC. Checked client sites. No schedules or hassles. My job ended due to the mgr screw ups, owner-ops wanted to end my patrol job.

[@SuperiorMind]

Hah - been there done that twice. "Fast-paced" - and it was exactly as you describe. At one, I had to manage, receive, stock, and prep all orders for an entire warehouse by myself and keep up with 12 delivery drivers. I lasted 6 days and the drivers said I lasted longer than anyone they've seen in months. The boss was an abusive narc sociopathic ...(words too hot for utoob).

[@gotinogaden]

And your salary will match the work of exactly 1 person on top of everything else.

[@WonkyTonkBotty]

@@gotinogaden If even that.

[@aldntn]

Unprofessional. "Nobody wants to work anymore" all the while laying off old guys.

[@Peaches-i2i]

Old guys are the last ones getting laid off. The young men who come in, work hard, and do the most get let go first.

[@a_lost_one]

@@Peaches-i2i No, they lay off the old guys because they're being paid the most, and hire the young ones willing to work hard for peanuts. The practice is called 'two-tier hiring.'

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

@@Peaches-i2i Nah bro. Women reach 45 and get pushed. Men reach their 50s and get pushed, while some child comes in who knows nothing, and doesn't work unless you stand over him, and does half the job on half the wage. Don't worry, that'll be you one day too. Trying to get a job with a healthy resume, a great worth ethic, worked hard all your life for absolutely nothing, with zero prospects because no one values your experience. Working as a Walmart greeter because you aged out twenty years before retirement due to age discrimination. The men you're thinking of are the managers. The few in control. Everyone else is a wage slave living at their mercy.

[@amireallythatgrumpy6508]

@@Peaches-i2i Americans work hard? LMAO nope!

[@cs0345]

@@Peaches-i2i Guys in their 50s really are getting laid off, (not without severence, btw) and essentially forced into early retirement because of age discrimination

[@staceycarroll7973]

LOL.... some companies. For those who don't know. You arrive 5 minutes early. From the start time of the interview, you give them 15 minutes. Meaning, if the interview starts at 7AM, you arrived at 6:55AM. You walked into the building and told them you were there. (the reason you arrived 5 early is so that the interview starts at EXACTLY 7 AM. This gives the secretary or whoever time to go get the dude, and gives that person time to finish up whatever they're doing and start thinking about the interview so that it can start on time.) At 7AM, that 15 minute timer starts ticking. At 7:15AM and they haven't arrived, you enquire about the Interviewer - Hey, man, seems like he's kinda busy. Do you have an ETA? Secretary - Just another 5 minutes. The interviewer gets 5 more minutes! At 7:20AM, you walk up and ask if the dude needs to reschedule. Secretary - No no, it'll just be a few more minutes. He's on his way. They get 5 more minutes. At 7:25, you walk out if that interviewer hasn't shown his or her face. Let me tell you, they're sure gonna piss and moan if you would have arrived at 7:01AM, and they are now 25 minutes late themselves. Go get breakfast and move on. There are better companies.

[@KNIGHTJUMPS]

How about NO. The POS new he had an interview to conduct at 7 am. They get zero from you or I.

[@unicorn73212]

Yeah if a business person is late sometimes I'll walk out on the interview or appointment because that tells me they must not be that eager to hire anyone or lease an apartment to you if they went on lunch when you scheduled an appointment or tour. It's your cue to walk out because I have substance abuse problems I'm whiny if my needs are not met first I'm not going to meet with you. They might not think they need us to stay open but they do.

[@MrMisanthrope84]

Either the interviewer is too overloaded to come interview you, or they're terrible at time management. It's a major red flag either way. Run.

[@KaiserAfini]

Well said, its all about etiquette, professionalism and respect for each other's time.

[@R53Hole]

@@MrMisanthrope84 They could also be taking a dump 💩

[@IgorRockt]

German IT guy (with about 40 years of experience) here. If an interviewer doesn't show up 15 minutes LATEST after the scheduled time, I'll just leave. If there is a secretary (or someone else to talk to), I will most probably tell them that I won't work at a company which is so badly organized that they cannot even keep the scheduled time for a simple job interview, and that they shouldn't bother to contact me again. Additionally: I'm a professional, they want something from ME (my expertise and work), I don't want anything from THEM (they are not the only company in the world where I can make money). If they treat me like a beggar or unprofessionally in any other way, I'm out of there before they can even say "But...".

[@LV-1969]

I would be using that for when I got hired. Boss: "Why isn't your work done?" Me: "Patience..."

[@metallord6960]

It is a virtue.

[@KNIGHTJUMPS]

Lol awesome 😂😂😂

[@Oleksa-Derevianchenko]

Yeah. You could also quote some ancient Chinese thinker about patience being a crucial feature of a great leader (while implying you're doing him a favour)

[@Species-lj8wh]

Time is more important than money. Once I hit 35 that was the thing that was the most oblivious. You can work 50-60-70+ hours in a week and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But that year is gone, and no amount of money will get it back. If you don't respect your own time. No one else will.

[@Steinersthresholdguardian]

And health is more important than time.

[@wacky3314]

Yeah it is nice that at 65 you will be able to buy bunch of prostitutes or ride a cruise ship but you can also loose your years when you have most health and energy by working on things without any visible outcome

[@RoboSapien2000]

excellent point and day of your life is a day of your life gone, and wasting it on some POS company is not worth it...we are over this game....people in the past might have ben mentally weak to put up with the sadistic abuse that has come with others exploiting, using, abusing people to work for nothing but it is time we break this cycle.

[@keithparker1346]

​@@SteinersthresholdguardianI would argue time is slightly more important than health...but both are vital

[@keithparker1346]

👏👏👏

[@1337penguinman]

Too many companies act like they're doing you a favor by paying you at all. "Prove to me you want to work then we'll discuss what benefits we can offer you." Uh, no. Tell me what benefits you are offering me to help me decide if I want to sell you my time and skills.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

If you are in this position, good for you, you made it. Many are not

[@eeaotly]

That is why you search for a job when you already got a job.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

@@eeaotly Right ! or at least keep your eyes open and maintain and expand contacts. Moreover, in professional fields, when you do have a job you look more valuable to employers, than when you are an out-of-job desperate seeker.

[@wacky3314]

Because they want somebody with all the skills but paying him and treating him like student intern 😂

[@brandon-qc1ul]

@@wacky3314 Funny, but sometimes that true IRL.

[@Ross_Schmidt]

If someone had me wait for 6 hours just to offer me the job, I would take it and do nothing until I was fired, thus returning the favor while getting paid for it.

[@lil_kozy7773]

Look i never said i wouldnt work, but why does every company demand 100% blind loyalty? Im just here for a paycheck, give me my work and leave me alone

[@CD-vb9fi]

Yep, I once walked out of an interview where the person interviewing me was late. It told them "hiring is a two way street, I am interviewing them too and if they will treat a potential employee this way... I don't want to find out how they will treat me as an employee". That company was Fry's. They are now defunct. Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 2021.

[@theplasmacollider6431]

I worked at Fry's for more than a year. On my first day, they told us we needed to bring our own pens. Small red flag but I should have paid attention. It was such a toxic workplace. Other supervisors would yell at you for anything and I had to yell back and get aggressive with them for them to treat me with respect. Salespeople would steal each others' commissions and customers would always throw a fit to try and get discounts. Basically, I had to treat the supervisors and customers like garbage to get any respect. To put the cherry on top, one day when Randy Fry came in to inspect one of the stock rooms, he saw items teetering dangerously on higher shelves. He commented jokingly that he wouldn't do anything about it unless someone got killed. Anyway, when I quit I put in my 2 days and walked.

[@richardjcranium]

I worked at Fry's for a year and a half. One of, if not the worst companies I've ever worked for. I was actually happy when I got fired for not making their ridiculous sales goals.

[@Deneteus]

These recruiters are gatekeeping the jobs.

[@yesmayhem]

It's a monopoly. I was hired on one project as a placeholder until a Visa came through. I wasn't told by the recruiter. How did I know, my first day off the project another recruiter called me for a job he never got around to processing me for. Instead, he told me on the sly, "They hired you waiting for a Visa."

[@bluegoat6323]

They want to give it to Arnold, the CEO’s son

[@rollingdudes8859]

I HATE WORK!!! WORK HATES ME!!!

[@deltamiArt]

@@yesmayhem and THAT is why our job market is the way it is, because corpos want to hire cheap foreign labor that they can abuse and discard at will without any of the risk that comes with hiring american citizens and permanent residents. Because they'd HAVE to offer us more substance/benefits and less BS.

[@thepro08]

@@carolinetheherbalist narcisists playing tyrans as hard as they can with daddies money..... changing the world ..... for worse. boomers had a great economy, houses that costed 1 -3 years work... big houses...... with grass.... sindicates. no stress. no u need to hit impossible target also notice as most of these complete garbage companies are sales companies that should be in jail for firing 90% of people they hire just to take the living soul from them...

[@BangMaster96]

C - Cocky E - Entitled O - Officer

[@Steinersthresholdguardian]

O - Orifice

[@tzatzikiv812]

​@@SteinersthresholdguardianI was just about to write that! 😂👍🏻

[@billtomson5791]

Oligarch.

[@stevenotero2627]

Cocky Enitied Oppressor , C.E.O

[@tzatzikiv812]

@@stevenotero2627 Oh this is perfect! 😎👍🏻

[@antwarior]

i was trying to get a job at a local McDonald's, walked in and spoke with the hiring manager for 2 seconds, all he said to me was to sit and wait 30 minutes goes by, i got up to make sure he remembered i was there and he yelled at me and said i told you to wait, i sit down in disbelief and while watching him across the counter for a few minutes doing absolutely nothing, i walked out immediately because it wasnt like it was rush hour and he was busy, he was just literally standing there in one spot which blew my mind cause i was there to be hired to work, didnt have time to play games and thats exactly what i felt like he was doing to me

[@stronensycharte64]

I just tried to get hired from multiple pizza places, these people say theyre hiring, i apply, go to an interview, the manager, who isnt even a local and who was moved into the pizza hut to "help", says he didnt know they had an interview scheduled, we talk for a bit, i talk about my 3 years of experience doing forklift and my other 2 service jobs i had when i was a teen, says he'll tell HIS boss to call me to move forward on the hiring process, havnt had a call back in 7 days so i call them and tell them to call me, another 7 days later still no call back, and when people wonder why places are shuttering locations and downsizing, BLAME MANAGEMENT, these people cant organize a business if they were getting PAID to do it, incompetent weirdos.

[@ca_kay]

Remember, everyone, that Teddy Roosevelt once went to an interview in the pouring rain. When the interviewer failed to show up, he left a note letting him know he showed up even when the other one would not. This was meant to be a professional F U to the cowardly interviewer. It is now considered impatient to be treated with the same basic respect that TEDDY ROOSEVELT believed that people deserve.

[@eeaotly]

Nowadays, in case of rain, you have a phone / email / chat app to use to announce a reschedule in a polite civil way.

[@johnnymcgeez5647]

But making you wait for hours for no reason or explanation is nothing more than psychotic mind game. Its sickening. Job is supposed to be a serious thing that both parties agree upon and not have one party play sick games with you. You show up on time for your job interviewand if they dont show up on time then they are not the serious one.

[@eeaotly]

Sounds like Teddy Roosevelt was in an extremely low moment of his life and later on holded grudge to that unprofessional. Otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned this. I hope that after that experience he has learnt that one should never throw the one's precious stones of skills and talents (patience included) in front of pigs...

[@BenvolioCapulet9]

Teddy had a pretty impressive resume

[@akulkis]

​@@eeaotly Roosevelt was very much a man who looked out for the common people.

[@sagenosnibor9173]

This is the same type of employer shouting that employees are exploiting the companies time, meanwhile the interview process is set up to waste the applicants time? Wtf🤔

[@JaySmith-pv2mw]

This isn't a test of how well they can do the job, but of how desperately they WANT the job. Two very different things.

[@sscaesar3569]

The clown CEO watched some movies and tried to make shitshow

[@mypackmypower1996]

exactly i don't understand why people ignore that just think if employer knows you are desperate then you are the best candidate regardless of your skills and degree, why? because then they can use that desperation against you and can make you their rat to behave properly and will remind you everyday that you will be fired so fear and desperation will make you stuck in that rat hole forever.

[@sscaesar3569]

@@mypackmypower1996 pretty much😂😂 some people read one or two lines of leadership books and they think they know the whole world

[@mypackmypower1996]

@@sscaesar3569 its so true look at the motivation ted talk BS 🤣

[@stevecarter8810]

When you can't measure effectiveness but you can measure the wage bill, you offer peanuts and get monkeys

[@glennjgroves]

If they don’t value my time when I do not work for them, they are not going to value my time when I do work for them either.

[@1108-g1q]

A decade ago a particular hotel brand starting with H had an HR manager who started all new hire orientation groups by saying that making people wait for hours was their interview strategy. Like you said, it is designed to weed out people who are not desperate. It sets the tone for the worker to accept an environment of disrespect.

[@ZhanTodorov]

Interesting. I had an interview for an opening at a certain H named hotel brand this February. I was left to wait for 1h in the hotel lobby, after which I just got up and left. Personally, I assumed the management was just rubbish, but knowing it was a tactic, I’m sorry I didn’t leave sooner. What a circus….

[@frankprit3320]

major red flag. that tells me, that this company will disrespect its employees and treat them like s#it. that's somewhere you don't want to work.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Also hiring managers who tell you that they need to pass the paperwork to the manager but you find out later that the manager was never given any paperwork.

[@wacky3314]

​​@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 the worst is dealing with HR. You want work and you are dealing with some young intern girl who gives you questions. 😂

[@rw7264]

Asking for employees with a high level of professionalism while being completely unprofessional and wasting their day. Seems about right.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Florida, DEO up until late 2000s only required 2 job search filed each week. Gov Rick Scott R-FL made them up it to 4 mandated job searches. 😒 .... Florida DEO funds ran out after around 12 weeks.

[@rhbruning]

We have a CEO pandemic.

[@janelleg597]

Leadership pandemic

[@somethingclever8916]

They should be replaced with AI

[@steyraug96]

"Leaders" these days are just Dark Triad A-holes. Narcissistic. Machiavellian. Psychotic.

[@CartoonMandates]

LinkedIn in everyone is a CEO of their own company for 10-12 years! At least Facebook has a funny description for working for yourself.

[@LilacMonarch]

​@@somethingclever8916ChatGPT would make better decisions than these CEOs

[@alexalam8364]

There's a difference between patience and stepping on people's dignity. Wasting people's time by making them wait a whole day is humiliation.

[@15thobserver]

Had a job interview like this once. more than 10 years ago now there was a giant hurricane that rolled through florida. My interview was set 3-4 hours before they estimated the first waves of that storm would get to my town. I waited an hour for the interview, asked twice if the interviewer was going to show up, before the person got to me. They told me because I didn't have enough patience that I wasn't a good fit for the company. I told them it was rude to waste my time and he said the same to me. Also the news was wrong and I had to brave the storm to get to my car and back home.

[@cameronperry8446]

The audacity to think that no one has anywhere else to be is insane. I’d be pissed and gone after an hour. I honestly don’t believe even two people stayed for 8 hours. That’s ridiculous.

[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

Eight hours? It was ELEVEN hours.

[@toabettertomorrow7949]

They must’ve been extremely desperate 😨

[@SuprousOxide]

Wonder what the receptionist was telling them when they asked how much later the interviewer was going to be...

[@SuperiorMind]

Hard to believe, yes. Maybe they fell asleep from boredom? It almost seems like the kind of test you'd use to see who's lacking common sense.

[@KNIGHTJUMPS]

Either I Interview right at 7 am sharp or I am gone.

[@ubcroel4022]

Just did a fake interview 2 weeks ago, got an email today that despite being the 'most qualified applicant' that they went with someone who was more 'catered' to the job. AKA it was just a nepotism hired.

[@cpK054L]

Stop being antisemitic and love India, bro!

[@leonrobinson8180]

​@@cpK054LWho mentioned India you racist?

[@cpK054L]

@@leonrobinson8180 stop being a racist you golem! Ukraine needs money too

[@cpK054L]

@leonrobinson8180 majority of fake job posting are done by Indian data miners.

[@cpK054L]

@@leonrobinson8180 > fake interview

[@JayTheArtfulDodger]

It's almost as if shit testing prospective employees is a massive red flag.....

[@grazynawolska8160]

If you'll take disrespect from day one... it's a green flag for the company that you'll tollerate disrespect all the time 🇨🇨

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Ah... it is. They wanna know if you'll be an ass-kisser.

[@prestonhurst]

Companies do not give a shit about you. They care about their image and their profit.

[@ms_cartographer]

It's also dedicated, hard-working employees being punished with the worst tasks, and being given the shitiest hours. It's being treated differently and less fairly because you don't have children. It's being blamed for things your coworkers screw up because they are friends with the managers. It's having to beg a coworker who usually gets weekends off because they have kids to cover a weekend for you for once because you have COVID-19, and the manager can't be fucked to cover a weekend for you because it's their birthday weekend, even though that manager gets practically every weekend off and you have worked almost every weekend for the past 8 months.

[@timjarvis9078]

That sums up my entire 20s pretty much I’d work extra hours cover shifts put in the extra mile and got zip nudda zilch out of it. Then when I wanted a day off or weekend hell even leave early to go to an appointment I got given full blown grief and made to drive all the way back to work through traffic to cover the last 45 mins when it wasn’t required. I had managers who did sweet fuck all email me all their tasks that they should have been doing to me to do or have a go at me while playing some online game on their phone. When asked for a weekend off got given attitude like what you want someone with kids to give up their time so you can go drink etc.

[@h3ll0gudbye]

Older generations will tell you, "you're being lazy. it's just how things are." Just because something is common, doesn't mean it's right.

[@lizsmith9949]

That's not how things used to be. I'm a member of the older generation, and I can't remember ever waiting more than 15 or 20 minutes for an interview. Expecting people to wait around all day is absolutely insane.

[@wacky3314]

Because they were at job interview last time 20 years ago or before companeis started to use internet 😂

[@johnnymcgeez5647]

@@lizsmith9949 Yup.. I dont know why but back before social media theese things were so much easier. People were more open to just talking and in fact, many jobs i got in my life were not gotten by chasing some paper trails. What i did was basically just show up at the company that I chose, went trough the front door and asked for a job. More times than not this lead to ladies who worked at the desk calling the boss who then came down and talked to me for few minutes and taking my info. This was basically a semi job inteview done already and even if they didnt need workers right now they often times ended up giving me a call even months after i signed up... Nowdays its online hiring and algorhitms and total inhuman bs... Its all about that damn CV and some damned machine algorhitm that scans for right words in your resume so there is a high chance that it will get archived before any human even sees it.. And even if they see it they still cant judge who you are based on a piece of paper so you could actually be a really good fit but they might not even see it because there is no face to face anymore..

[@A_Toastonawhiteplate]

The fun thing with the old generation: they are also trying to quit and go into retirement earlier...so they also don't want to work anymore...

[@akulkis]

While committing the fact that things were never like that before.

[@Windsongbyrd2273]

This is not a new tactic. 30 yrs ago I walked away from a handful of interviews due to the blatant disrespect of my time and inlet them know it.

[@celiashen5490]

Indeed. Also happened to me once in the 90s.

[@JohnDoe-ld7ud]

The smart leave. The loyal stay. The loyal arent usually smart. Its a saying I stand by. Companies don't understand loyalty. They sure do love abusing it.

[@amireallythatgrumpy6508]

The smart avoid America.

[@LilacMonarch]

Oh no they understand it, they know exactly how they can abuse it

[@AkaiAzul]

​@@LilacMonarchCompanies do practice loyalty. To the all mighty dollar. :/

[@suetrublu]

I went through cycle after cycle of starting at new jobs with total commitment, only to be chumped by employers who overworked me throughout my entire career as a mental health counselor. So glad that's over now.

[@hanuman9]

Had been trying to get a job in tech after 12 years off the industry as an entrepreneur; after looking at what the market looks like right now, I'm better to spend my time rebuilding my business somehow. I'd be better at hiring others than working for others. The upside of an environment like this is, I believe it would be easily to get top talents if you just treat your employees right and allow them to work remote.

[@EdwardMidcrest]

This is not something new. This happened to me 20 years ago. Showed up at 8:00 AM and lunch came around and I was told the boss went to lunch and to wait for him to come back. I thought, "Wow, he could have invited me out to lunch for a lunch interview" which was popular back then. I immediately left saying F*** this company and the next day this guy called and asked if I knew I was scheduled for an interview yesterday. I said I was there and did not appreciate being left to waste an entire day of my life. I asked him why he did not interview me at the time promised. He got pissed and started lecturing me and I told him he was an inefficient manager and hung up. Thank god I left.

[@KC2ATE]

Happened to me once. I was really trying to get promoted and drove four hours to an office in my company in another state thinking I might relocate. I got up before dawn and drove there for a 9am appt. The director basically blew me off and made me wait all day. At 4:30 she finally interviewed me and it was basically a 30min gaslight session. I was so pissed driving home that night.

[@lunam7249]

sound like some broken glass windows were in full order

[@NuggetOfDino]

I've been waiting 7 years for Dad to come back from buying cigarettes at the store. Do I get the job?

[@jonpick5045]

You get a new Dad called Shane who drives a Camaro.

[@daveblackman816]

Translation: “it’s totally fine that we get a high off wasting peoples time, it makes us feel good. We love the people who we can take advantage of, and people who think they have lives and have freewill?? Pssst!!”

[@michaeledmunds7056]

On the other end of the spectrum, if you go to a "hiring event", and the recruiters take some basic information before hiring everyone in the room, that's also a bad sign and you should not show up. Companies do this when they have literally no standards or are desperate for disposable employees, or both.

[@xenosayain1506]

Wtf. My latest interview went well when i thought i saw red flags. Applied at a finance company who did a round 1 interview asking about my background and how it would apply to the job. 15 minute conversation, and i was then asked to do an iq test, cognitive test, and computer skills test. Then came the 2nd interview.(in person) They asked my weaknesses, strengths, goals, covered all benefits, answered all my questions, and then did a deep dive into roles of the job and if I'm willing to do them. Went over how my resume to ask how it would apply. Told me i'd know in 72 hours if i got thd job or was denied. I got an offer later that day. I feel i found a diamond in a coal mine after that story.

[@MrSubsound90]

I've seen this trend of disrespecting applicants before the pandemic, but it seems like the pandemic really supercharged this kind of behavior. If you're not desperate....you aren't wanted. Recruiters love to say I have incredible skills, then call me horrifying things when I won't take their shitty job with a 40% pay cut...then call with another job like I won't remember the interaction.

[@hiflyer000]

When I was laid off during the Great Recession of 2008 I went through so many humiliating and demeaning things by potential employers that it completely destroyed any bit of loyalty I would ever show a company. I've had employers try and pull nonsense like that when I try to find jobs today and I just end the interview the second that happens and move on.

[@MrSubsound90]

@hiflyer000 yeah, that was a bad time. I just got my masters and one interview was so bad I went looking to see if I was on candid camera. The interviewer asked what I was doing and I flat out told them because the job was a joke.

[@amicaaranearum]

Also employers: We don’t want candidates who seem too desperate.

[@wacky3314]

But then they will not take somebody lack some skills because he would need too much training

[@_nimrod92]

We have a trash employers epidemic.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

That's been going on forever.

[@wacky3314]

​@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398not at all. When my parents were working in 90s everything was completely different

[@markh.6687]

Assuming the jobs are actually available; lots of companies and recruiters are posting simply to keep their HR and recruiters busy. There are studies about what percentage of job listing are just filing files.

[@BusltinNinthies]

Time to implement A.I. to replace employers

[@Acewhip]

Yup! All the work I'm seeing right now is 20% lower wages too, while all these companies are posting record profits AND they want us to drive an hour to be IN office and do video meetings with the offshore team that they've pushed all the work to for cost...

[@steyraug96]

Well, the numbers are records, but the value is lower ... It's still ridiculous, check C-level pay. Where I am, they haven't even paid industry standard wages for years, and now they're looking for us to work 60+ hours a week - on salary. Found out last Friday that I'm replicating other people's work, and I'm told to do my version over... And over ... And over.

[@map3384]

I’m a school teacher with a masters degree from an excellent private teaching college. I’m semi retired so I work as a substitute for about $190 a day. When I want I take a day off. I took a sub job at local middle school. Got to the location 20 minutes early to read the lesson plan. I’ve worked at this location many times. 45 minutes into the day I was told my services wouldn’t be needed. So for 45 minutes I worked for free. Now it’s too late to take another sub job for the day and I’ve already wasted the gas. I went on the substitute website and blocked any further jobs from that school. The complete lack of respect was jaw dropping. Even school districts treat teachers like trash.

[@Tail_sez]

EVEN school districts?! I thought it was common knowledge that they treated teachers like trash. My mom told me many horror stories from her time as a teacher, and I've sworn to never touch a job teaching anyone but adults.

[@yurikendal4868]

And so do their states. Jailing teachers for teaching basic dignity

[@SciHeartJourney]

I have zero patience, and that’s my secret to getting things done! For me, there’s no waiting until tomorrow. I’m all about seizing the moment and maximizing productivity. Employers are usually impressed by my work ethic and how much I can accomplish in a short time. But here’s the thing: don’t expect me to sit around doing nothing. That’s a surefire way to frustrate me. I’ve quit jobs that didn’t keep me busy because they wasted my time. It’s a pattern I see often. Companies expect punctuality but don’t care if I’m left with nothing to do, leading to boredom and dissatisfaction. The irony is they do care when I leave because I’m not challenged enough. If you want to test my patience, you’ll quickly find out I don’t have any for idle time. I thrive on being busy and productive, and if my current job doesn’t provide that, I’ll find one that does-even if it’s with your competition.

[@SoulsJourney]

I've never been kept waiting for an interview, but at one interview, I was in the room with the hiring manager and some random guy suddenly blew into the room, sat down and started rapid-firing questions at me, didn't wait for answers, and after a few minutes got up and left. I was never told who he was, his name or anything. I related this to a friend who worked in HR at the time and she gasped and said, "A STRESS INTERVIEW!" Like, interviews aren't stressful enough?

[@LudwigVaanArthans]

Some idiots that do nothing for anyone came up with a idiotic idea and other idiots are applying it. That's HR in a nutshell

[@Dratchev241]

I had a place try and do that to me, lady doing the interview was nice, then some random guy barges in and starts asking me rapid fire questions, I looked at the lady doing the "interview" and said to her "I didn't know you guys had a methhead problem in the area." pointing at the dude then asking if I needed to call the county dipatch to send pd to remove the methhead. The guy was not amused, I wasn't amused as well. and dude really didn't like getting called a methhead and I told him well, if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck it sure as fuck ain't a dog. I didnt get the job. but man some of these people in management positions are trips.

[@theguest103]

incel behavior. take these managers out of the workforce, some of us want to get shit done.

[@chriscampbell9191]

Probably some bullshit idea thought up by some bullshit HR consultant group that has nothing to do with how you'd actually perform on the job.

[@Terranova339]

Respecting your own time, and not putting up with someone that takes your time hostage is the way to go.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Preach! 🙌

[@Gizziiusa]

agreed. So they showed up by 7 AM. How long would you have waited before asking whats going on ? then finally leaving ? i'd say 8:30 to 9 AM im inquiring. 10 AM im out the door.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

I am reminded of a time when someone said that they had waited for some time only to have someone come to get them, giving them the impression that they were taking them to be interviewed, asking if they had their paperwork. The guy led him to the door, sending him on his way.

[@heyitz_rj]

0:30 the reality is, all interviews nowadays are desperation filters. I’ve had interviews where if I asked a lot of questions and stayed firm on my expectations of the job I could visibly see the interviewer becoming more irritated lol. It’s sad but, companies seem to purposefully only look for desperate workers willing to put up with anything to keep a job. When will companies realize that a desperate workers isn’t a good worker. A desperate worker is eventually going to quit and not in a good way. A desperate worker is probably going to quit without even saying anything. A desperate worker isn’t going to ask questions and mess things up for your company because of the fear of being labeled “difficult”. No one wins when you are desperate for a job or workers. So don’t let companies gaslight you, the people that they hired instead of you were more willing to suck the boot (and other things). A good company won’t do that to you.

[@Dontstopbelievingman]

Some have started openly saying it in the job adverts, basically admitting the workplace is toxic, that they don't respect any form of diversity, and they only want people who are willing to be slaves. This is what happens when as a society, we place borderline psychopaths and narcissists in positions of power, and value only the most destructive competitive behaviour.

[@GramGramGenX-ln5sc]

Apparently these companies have no problem abusing workers and a revolving door hiring policy. Anytime. I am looking for a job, I take note of companies I see constantly hiring over the years that stay far far away from those.

[@daisukeakihito9832]

I remember job hunting after getting fed up with Uni, after more or less a year I was so fed up with interview and HR garbage, amongst my most hated were random most outrageous thought up scenarios that had F all to do with the job I was applying for like an interview demanding I try to sell him his own pen... while I was applying for an IT job that would never come in contact with a customer and rarely ever anyone from other departments. Or being borderline insulted by claims of needing to be more dynamic and flexible and other corporate speech for "We need a slave, not a worker." I got so fed up in fact that on one of the interviews after months of this BS and ghosting and false promises I was once again premised with nonsense... so? I snapped and confidently/formally tell the interviewer to spare me of that garbage sit against me look me in the f*cking eye like a man and cut all the random pointless sh*t and presents me with actually useful information so I can do the same. 24 hours later, I got the job and am now closing in on 10 years in the company.

[@FrozenKnight21]

Employers complain that they cant find any one who wants to work, while at the same time rejecting anyone who has self respect.

[@jlogan2228]

also if you just sit in a waiting room for almost 12 hours, it only shows you have NOTHING else to do and thats what they really want. No family, no other commitments, they want the person who can live in that damn office and work 18 hour days if they say so

[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

And get paid for 8 hours a day.

[@TheCorporateKindergarten2023]

It is a high school bully power play. Disgusting. I can imagine working for him.

[@Ptpop]

I went through the exact same Thing. Went to a “job fair” for an entry level IT position with a company located in an office building in downtown Cleveland. The lobby was backed with mostly young men dressed to the nines….me 53 years old at the time and my friend 63, were the oldest in the lobby. After several hours we were the only two left sitting there. After several hours of waiting,We were told that they weren’t taking any more interviews and that we could go home. Can you say age discrimination?

[@Tail_sez]

EvEN tHe oLd PeoPLE dON'T WanT To woRk AnYmorE WhAT Is THe WoRLd CoMInG tO 😭

[@ryanTDG]

When I was 12 (1999) I got my first "job" at a local mom and pop c-store who hired me to help stock & sweep. In a day I was able to get a workers permit, legal paperwork and was working there a few days later. They paid me above minimum wage and let me and my friends have all the fountain drinks we wanted. They treated me like I was one of their own and knew everybody that shopped at their store. They were involved in the community and well beloved That store was put out of business by Walgreens and Walmart. I applied at Walgreens at 16, and sat down at their computer to take hours of assessments and tests. A week later I got a call for an interview. Days after that interview, I got a call for a drug test. Days after that drug test, I got a second interview and was offered a minimum wage job. I learned then and there the big difference between local business and big corporations. Big corporations don't have to play by the same rules as everybody else, they simply don't care

[@mackenzieneal1660]

No job is worth forgoing your moral principles. Same at my current job asked me to work late and I refused because there was an individual who was dumb enough to threaten me for refusing to build with defective product. I told them don't ask me to work with someone like that and don't ask me to build defective brakes. They have been quiet for the past six months.

[@returningwhisper]

I hope the two that stayed got dog biscuits for being such good pets.

[@screwtape6954]

Omg omg. Ive been saying this for a long time. Im glad some one else noticed this. A job is a job not slavery. You hire talent not slaves

[@miketeacher9016]

I believe this episode. Several years ago on the internet a big major Wall Street company wanted to hire some stock brokers. They did essentially the same thing. They told about 20 people to report for an interview at 7 a.m. sharp at a downtown hotel meeting room and no one showed up until 10 p.m. I find this totally unacceptable.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

1000pm ? Or 1000am? When employers need to remind you what to wear; 👔 that's a 🚩 . I did security jobs where guards had 80% of their body ink, or were old, had O bottles! 😯

[@miketeacher9016]

@@DavidLLambertmobile It is correct as written -- an HR person showed up at 10 PM. Meaning they made them wait for 15 hours!

[@xXYannuschXx]

My coworker told me a good story (slightly OT): he once applied for a job as an IT Server Administrator, which required at least 5 years of experience. First they had him do a written test, as if he was applying for an apprentice position (pretty much standard for such positions here in Germany), then had an interview with a subordinate of HR, then heard nothing from them for 2 months, then got invited to the final interview with HR and some managers, which took 2h according to him and then they offered him a salary 20%(!) lower then standard for such a job and that the salary would increase (without this being in the contract mind you!). He simply replied with "Thank you for wasting 6h of my life." and left the room without them even replying. No surprise "Nobody wants to work anymore" if this is how people are treated.

[@ReaIHuman]

It isn't that people don't want to work, it's that they refuse to be abused by their employer. But it's easier for corporations to blame their victims vs admitting their company is full of incompetent narcissists, that take advantage of employees.

[@pinballanon8531]

that's the definition of patience. willingness to put up with disrespect.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

More like the definition of being a willing sucker.

[@GhostofMrsMuir1443]

No, that’s the definition of charity and giving grace. Do it for people, but not for faceless Corporate goons.

[@EmperorDecay]

Aka longsuffering but its actual suffering

[@the_last_blue_shiba]

That's not a test of patience, that's a test of allowing your employer to disrespect and belittle you.

[@MHKing03]

I understand managers are busy and shit happens, but waiting 12 HOURS for them to show up because they want to play mind games is deplorable. I might give them 30 minutes leeway at most, by that time I would give them a piece of my mind and flip the bird before storming out.

[@jackhargreaves1911]

HR departments are a big reason why no-one wants to work in corporations any more.

[@chriscampbell9191]

it's gotten even tackier with the use of AI in the process. Even if they get something wrong, there is no email, no phone number to text or call, especially when a lot of the communications are with online robots. In some companies, the entire HR is AI now. HR was bad enough. Now that it's AI and all online based, it's even worse.

[@fishercourt]

So, you have never worked in a Human Resources department, and so you are assuming everything that you hear about HR from what sources? The internet? Unfortunately, you come across as having an attitude issue that will cause you to be unable to keep a job. You might want to adjust your attitude if you plan on being successful at any job.

[@chriscampbell9191]

@@fishercourt You ever dealt with HR bullshit when working at a corporation? I have. And that was even before it became an AI botfest. So have millions of others. Why do you think the OP isn't speaking from experience? And what the OP says is true. Modern day "application" for a job at your average large company is all done online. They've outsourced their application process to AI, where there is no human interaction whatsoever. The last time I applied for a job at two of the biggest corporations in the country, there was no human involved in the process, all communication was with AI, recorded voice robot calls and text bots. And those communications even disagreed with each other. At the biggest company, the only humans involved in the process were the security guy at the door of the small warehouse like office where I was to be drug tested, the drug test woman, and the other guy who photographed my ID (they needed a human to look at the person and the ID, I guess, for legal purposes). All other decisions were made by computer program, with no contact back allowed in the case they were wrong. At another massive corporation, I had to deal with two separate company websites that directly disagreed with each other. One said there was a job open in a local store. The other website said no, that job doesn't exist. You want to work at a place like that? At a company that can't even figure out if they have a job open at a store or not? And the websites, of course, are designed and run by HR. Another reason "no one wants to work anymore" is because 30% of the jobs listed in the US are 'ghost jobs'. They're not real jobs. They're fake. Used to give the impression to stockholders that the company is growing, or to give the impression to workers that they are easily replaced. Ghost jobs are a form of lying to the potential workers. Another stroke of corporate, HR genius.

[@chriscampbell9191]

@@fishercourt HR comes up with the BS described in the vid. And HR now uses AI and text bots and online 'application' processes that conflict with each other, where there often isn't a human to call or email if they get something wrong -- which often occurs. Who wants to work for a company that operates like that? And how do you know the OP hasn't had to deal with HR on a corporate level before?

[@j.wright8157]

Another reason why, "Nobody wants to work anymore," is because from the time you clock in, to the time you clock out, the value of the dollar you just worked for will have gone down in value!🤬

[@RKS92101]

it's abuse and total disrespect of their time.

[@neilmcdougall4927]

what school preps us for, no?

[@zionismisterrorism8716]

All I get are "Sorryy, Sorry, we are moving ahead with a different candidate. So Sooooorrryyyy"

[@princessmarlena1359]

“I hope he robs your company blind!”

[@visionforetold4568]

Apply as a gay black woman, you will get the interview

[@moniqueleon4632]

Just want to let you know I recommended you to my 19 year old son who’s just joining the workforce. I’m 52 and have been a victim of a lot of corporate crap, and was on the hamster wheel. Got into microdosing after my burnout, and started to see what a senseless existence I was living. You are an inspiration to me and I hope to both my sons. The other one is going for an electrical apprenticeship - he is 17. Some of your ideas and comments on WFH and office space maybe opened up for housing makes so much sense and it mirrors many of my own thoughts. BTW - I have listened to your story with your family. I can resonate, a lot of people can. I would love to see you interview Dr Gabor Mate. He’s relevant to what you have to say, and will resonate I think with your viewer. Love your work, and I would be so proud if you were my son. I’ll adopt you from afar.

[@ZetaReticuli_]

It really comes down to that people are tired of the BS. If there is no reward, people don't want to do the work, especially even when basic survival becomes questionable, when taxes and inflation are eating away at your wages. Then you don't even have that benefit, so why bother? Things have gotten so bad, you are practically better off buying Lottery tickets than you are applying for a job, or even taking classes to make yourself more marketable.

[@woodificould]

What happened to the math in that first one? 6 ppl interviewed. 3 ppl left. They hired the "remaining 2". Did one person just go missing?

[@yeahbitchezzz]

"By 3:00pm, 3 had left. By 6:00pm he met only 2" That one person left somewhere between 3 and 6pm

[@adamm751]

By 3:00 pm, there were 3 people left. By 6:00 pm, there were only two. The third person left between 3:00 and 6:00 pm

[@paulcostache6733]

15 degrees from Harvard and Stanford, a lifetime of study and loans and the CEO thought it’s all legit…

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

He likes being lied to.

[@JudithRBos]

Yeah, or this is a Peter pan who keeps doing studies on his fathers money, because he can't handle growing up... He's not going to work very good...

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

@@JudithRBos How many Ground Hog Days did that guy burn?

[@amicaaranearum]

This has to be satire; there are significant overlaps in attendance. (“Built different” is certainly one way to describe someone who simultaneously attended Oxford, Yale Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania.)

[@gaerekxenos]

​@@amicaaranearum There are ways to have those overlaps that can be somewhat valid with online courses, but... that list does feel a bit inflated, even if it is somehow valid -- I would be skeptical regardless, with line after line of Ivy Leagues. The thing I would be curious about would be how long that person lasted in whatever position they got accepted in

[@jakeschutz6342]

Can't spell culture without cult

[@laurencefraser]

That would be because they're both derived from the same root word. Some roman thing where the cult of (whichever god) was a significant part of what made the local culture what it was (though the meaning of the word cult at the time was... related to but quite different from it's modern usage).

[@tigerlily2941]

Thank you for this insight.​@@laurencefraser

[@GramGramGenX-ln5sc]

At best I would be looking for a cup of that promotes work, not culture. If I want culture, I'll listen to the jazz or classical station on my way to work.

[@billtomson5791]

And U R.

[@tigerlily2941]

@billtomson5791 well obviously all words require letters.

[@johnsmith1953x]

*I would send to that employer a bill of $1,200 with 23.32% interest per month* for 12 hours of work.

[@YDV669]

Plus transportation and meal costs.

[@gg.6633]

I’m so glad we collectively decided to call this out.

[@thomasyunick3726]

My cousin will sabotage the company after 3 strikes........ He knows what he is doing and has put a few under for good. nothing illegal he just exploits them at their own game and has won numerous cases in court that end up dragging in other employees that also end up suing. After his 5th wrongful termination win ( or settlement) in an at-will state he is doing something right. He has turned his career into going after bad bosses and also he has a lawyer that loves it too. He can do the job without the BS these companies insist on dragging him into an he gets last laugh.

[@Ezzzz-dabest1zillion]

The amount of times I've gone into dirty, worn out office interviews where I was misinformed about their interview process yet treated like I'm just not hungry enough

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

I think the entire job-hunting/hiring process is one big ego-trip for the employer/hiring managers etc.

[@iceonthesun8880]

I don't dress to impress anymore. If they hire me, cool. If not, oh well.

[@jamesdrake3651]

Nobody wants to hire.

[@Cross_Malaki]

This is the real issue.

[@FirstLast-vr7es]

They want to hire. They just don't want to pay... Or treat their employees like human beings.

[@CoryPchajek]

They want to hire foreign workers. The local job postings are just a formality so they can claim to the government they can't find anyone locally.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Nobody wants to be a decent employer.

[@neilmcdougall4927]

No one wants to play tug of war??

[@qcbelzebuth7083]

This is not a test of patience, it's cruelty. CEO wants punctual people and they can't even be punctual themselves. No we can't tolerate this kind of BS anymore.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Exactly, it’s piss poor leadership.

[@codefinity]

Thanks!

[@JonnnBullion]

With markets tumbling, inflation soaring, the Fed imposing large interest-rate hike, while treasury yields are rising rapidly-which means more red ink for portfolios this quarter. How can I profit from the current volatile market, I'm still at a crossroads deciding if to liquidate my $125k bond/stocck portfoli0

[@ConfusedBiscuits-ee6iy]

It’s precisely at times like these that investors need to be on guard against the next certainty. You don’t have to act on every forecast, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor that can provide you with entry and exit points on the shares/ETF you focus on.

[@ConfusedCheeseBoard-kx7tc]

Right, I've been in constant touch with a fiinancial-analyst since covid . You know these days it's really easy to buy into trending stock`s, but the task is determining when to buy or sell . My advisorr decides entry and exit commands on my portfoliio, I've accrued over $300k from an initially stagnant reserve of $150K.

[@YuvalGunnery]

please I want to invest but I don't know any F/A that can help me, can you leave behind the info of the lady you just mentioned?

[@ConfusedBiscuits-ee6iy]

marie slopiey donner is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name on google. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to appointment.

[@ConfusedBiscuits-ee6iy]

she's mostly on Telegram, using the user name

[@botodeov57]

What it also says...is the folks that stayed will never be offended by being made to work overtime for FREE!!!!

[@perezident14]

I had an interview where they had scheduled 30+ people at the same time, got upset when people weren’t dancing around when the CEO came busted in playing music, and then we had to wait while each interview was conducted 1 by 1. I walked out.

[@danielburgnerjr]

One of my biggest pet peeves in job searching is employers being late or no showing me. I had a recruiter reach out to me after their client no showed me and had the nerve to express shock that the interview didn't happen. I resorted to calling them out on their incompetence and hung up on them.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Some people are un organized jerks. I worked for a "veteran" who had huge $$$ federal security contracts. I honestly felt like a 14yr teen age girl was the CEO, mgr! 😡 Bizarre texts, rants, high turn over, wierd emails, changes to SOPs, mobile apps. The guy even had his Florida D security licensed denied. 📂 Not suspended or review. Not allowed! Not licensed to do unarmed security 🚔. 0.

[@crocodilemedia2]

What a lot of us have to realize is, the very people running these orgs and hiring people are the worst among us. Fake, glib, "rock stars" who're just insecure and scared the person they hire will surpass them. They don't want to hire someone who'll threaten their own success. Feels like another bubble in a long line of them. I'd say, become self employed or work a lower paying job with less responsibility until these companies get more desperate.

[@yurikendal4868]

They will from poor countries we abuse