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hypertown @lemmy.world

1y ago

job rule

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Rookie numbers. I get emails asking me if I am interested in jobs I haven't done in twenty years.
- I got one not long ago asking if I want to fix printers for $15/hr.
  No offense, buddy, but there's not a time that I would have ever accepted that.
  
  McDonald's in VT pays more hourly wtf
  
  Never had a job I would be so down to do something like this, but instead I have to go through interview after interview just for them to say they found someone better qualified, come on it's just bussing tables it doesn't require a PhD 💀

I get this but with college offers.
It's like "tour our campus this weekend!". My brother in christ I am 5 years into a 4 year course.

Getting a job is a lot like getting a girlfriend. Your personality matters more than your qualifications.
- This has been very difficult for my potentially autistic ass.
  
  Personality mirroring and lots of smiles 🙂
  
  It can be done. I am autistic, and I’m usually able to fake it well enough to get hired by somebody. Then I try to optimize in ways that reduce the amount of effort I put in to the image.
- I can confirm, I'm very charismatic and have a job I in no way deserve but I'm happy doing it.
  
  I literally got my current job by going to their main office downtown and handing in my resume in person. The receptionist told me to wait for 5 minutes and then they had me do an interview the same day.
- So you're just an economic incel

So yes?
- I mean this is exactly it, right? If instead of posting a new job, you canvass the people who applied months ago, then anyone who says yes has been out of work for months and will probably accept whatever shitty wages and conditions you offer. You are guaranteed a strong bargaining position.
  
  This a actually worked out for a co-worker. He interviewed for a position and the interview went of like 6 hours. He waited 6 months and never heard anything. He applied for another position at my company. Different team, lower pay and not in his specialized field. He got that job. Another 3 months and the boss for the first job called him and said their initial hire didn't work out and asked if he was still interested.
  He laughed and said he was already working but would be interested. The boss asked where he was working. He replied "I'm actually down stairs".
  He got the job, more money then the initial offer and he was happy in the new position. Probably an unlikely event and I wouldn't recommend trying to duplicate it.
  
  The odds of somebody who was interested 6 months ago to be interested today are much larger than the ones of any random person. And you already have their contact, and already made some kind of screening.
  The amount of malice people go out of their way to put on other people's acts is incredible. Nobody cares about you enough to be out to get you. If you don't want the job, just say it.

This somewhat happened to me. I applied to teach at a college. A bout a year and half later they call me up asking if I was still interested.
I say yes, get the job. New dean comes and then tells me that they have no positions available for me.

I got a rejection email from a job I applied to in November. It took them six months to say no.
I'm not sure what they expected? But I found a job less than a month after I applied, they never even called me for an interview.

Working at Tesla be like...
- It is safer to be homeless than to work at Tesla
  
  Shit, at this point it might be safer to work homeless than be at Tesla 😂

If I do this I don't get the best responses.

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