Is it just me or have we become a race of sad shit-eating slaves?

calvinvshobbes · 3 months

Employers get to be picky when each job posting yields as many as 400 applicants.....

MusicPorn · 3 months

Everyone is agreeing here. I've never seen this happen on Reddit. What the fuck is happening?

Canalize · 3 months

Just know, I FEEL YOU

ronintetsuro · 3 months

Yeah, that's how it feels BEFORE you get a job.

Because there are so many people looking, employers think that gives them carte blanche to treat their employees like dogshit.

"Oh, you don't like it? Well, why doens't baby hike up his diaper and just find a new job? There's so many to choose from, I'm sure you will fight your way to the top of the pile and find something where they will powder your vagina every hour. No? They get back to your 14 hour shift with no overtime and shut the fuck up."

sailfaster · 3 months

this is why everyones eventual goal should be to work for yourself, its far from the apocalypse, but were brought up that x degree gets y salary and yada yada yada, and it all turns to bullshit once a recession happens.

kubananas · 3 months

In bad times, you have to lower your standards but keep looking. Maybe you will get the chance to throw the scraps back in someones face and tell them "this dog shit isn't good enough, I'm worth more than this." You might not get that chance for a really long time, but at least you'll have a job in the meantime and when you do get the opportunity, it'll be sweet, sweet vengeance.

Left-Hand-Path · 3 months

You are not alone, my friend, you are definitely not alone. And yes, it is the apocalypse.

CubicleM0nkey · 3 months

Only if you give up your humanity and will to persevere.

pujuma · 3 months

yeah I want to fly a fucking plane into my work place

iveseenthings · 3 months

Ha, I came here expecting to see downvotes and anger and sarcasm about this statement, instead it's all people basically commiserating and agreeing, or at least trying to offer hope. I don't know if that's a good or bad sign for us.

At least when the zombie/nuclear/holocaust/apocalpyse/revolution comes we know we can all band together.

OP and Ronin are both right. We fight like dogs over rotten scraps, and the "winners" soon realize there's not much to celebrate.

I'm a college grad just on my way back for applying for even more jobs, this time at a factory and a restaurant, and was thinking much the same. We have to grovel and beg for the worst low end jobs, just to even have a chance at an interview for a job that doesn't even pay the bills, much less one that could even be considered to give gainful income. The only thing getting harder sometimes to find than jobs is the gas money to go apply for jobs that will cover the gas.

I was also thinking how I've never worked a job for more than 10 dollars an hour, yet I can't say the number of times that if I've even HAD down time at a job, that a manager would come along and say something along the lines of "I can always find MORE work for you to do..". Yet those at the very top have "business lunches" and don't even know what a time clock is, don't have to clock in or out, never hear "smith, you were 4 minutes late today!", on top of all the other perks. And not to mention they're getting even more stringent and trying to push for even more drug testing for welfare/social programs/low end jobs.

"What's that dog? NO ALE FOR YOU! You wallow in that filth sober."

At least black people knew when they were slaves, Americans remain clueless; willfully ignorant of the red white and blue dick that's getting jammed up their ass.

OP can keep the meth, but hand me a gun when the apocalypse comes. Lets do this.

Diffie-Hellman · 3 months

Even when working, I'm invested in the future of the company, but I know that I give them more loyalty than they give to me. The cards are stack in the house's favor at all times. You can be fired for any reason at any time, but if you quit, exercising the exact same rights, it often becomes a black mark. That said, I have no problems talking about my terrible experiences working as an IT guy at General Electric. I have no problem knowing that if a better job threw me an offer, I would jump ship with a two week notice. I know that HR is NOT there to serve your interests, and to really get something done, you may have to skirt them completely.

On another hand, many companies do not want to be the next GE, Google, Microsoft, or Dell. They want to do what they do with the end game of being bought out so that their board gets rich. That's the end game. Be bought by a big guy, because you make more money selling a company than running one. The next thing is that you should not expect to work at one company until retirement anymore. A job change is the new raise. You should be thankful that someone is paying you for your hard work and the skills that YOU have built.

Welcome to the new workforce.

neurorex · 3 months

The worst part is that most of them don't even think this is a problem. They have every justification they can scrape up on asking off the cuff questions and think they've discovered the holy grail of employee selection. There's no problem with treating applicants with disrespect and no regards because they think there is no consequences from it.

And they're happy to keep going this way.

KDIZZLL · 3 months

America is a 3rd world economy.

Top 3 employers in America.

1.Dept. of Defense(Military)

2.Walmart

3.McDonalds

A service industry economy is the definition of a 3rd world economy, couple that with our failing monetary system,dept,spending and the looming hyper inflation bubble and you have all the reasons in the world to bet against America's dominance in the world.

The writings on the wall America, you just don't have the eyes to see it!

Loki_SW · 3 months

Well considering how most likely your application was a very impersonal submission of a resume to Monster or CareerBuilder why should they take the time to answer? Plus with an average posting getting over 400 responses what do you expect them to do?

Instead focus on how to make yourself a more attractive candidate who has companies calling you for jobs you didn't even apply for.

woodrail · 3 months

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.” ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

KingStacey · 3 months

Just curious... how many follow-up e-mails have you sent after applying for a job?

Making the safe assumption here that your answer is "zero", then why should the potential-employers be obliged to call YOU back? Because you spent 5-minutes blindly blanket-emailing a resume to 20 places?

giveitawaynow · 3 months

The attitude, "I deserve a job damnit! I can't possibly have the notion that may be I'm responsible for making money on my own, with friends, with families, with co-owners, with investors, etc." is very much alive in the western world. Also the whole "I just graduated with a degree in history! I deserve a job! Rabble rabble rabble" is prevalent in society too.

Disclaimer: I own a small business and have two full time jobs (full time-ish, I kind of hack my way around working less than 60hrs/week). Never had any problems with employers in interviews. May be it's not them, may be it's just you who sucks.

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