i wonder if family structures will change to be closer to that of India as children are forced to stay with their parents longer and longer
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"Our company develops AI. It has many uses and should substitute for human labor whenever possible."
"USE OF AI BY APPLICANTS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED!"
Real conversation, not exaggerated. Actually slightly toned down:
"We offer a competitive salary! It's $number!"
"I have 2 offers 10% higher, from a shipping company and a finance company, in the same city"
"We don't compete with the finance and shipping sectors"
"And 15% higher in one of the consultancies"
"We don't compete with consultancies either"
(I think I'm going to put Reigninh Monarch of Norway on my CV. I just don't compete with King Harald.)
Had a job interview once where they asked me how much I was expecting to make. I told them and they responded with "Yeah, I think we can do that." Then when they called me to offer me the job they had lowered it by a few bucks an hour. I took it because I had to at the time. They knew that people are desperate and this was their strategy with everyone. Fucking scum.
I've also noticed “competitive” seems to mean “just above what they believe the competition's minimum is”, and together they and their competition drive the wages down.
I'm just glad I never had to put up with corpo shit like that. I only work for smaller businesses with like at max 20 people. Pay is usually a bit worse at the start, but it's easier to ask for raises down the line and at least I'm treated like a human, not a number in lexware.
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.
There was an article about staffing agencies spamming LLM generated CVs to companies to saturate the market and convince companies that hiring is impossibly hard
Hell even without that hiring is really really hard. Im the IT manager for my company and I'm looking to hire for some level 1 help desk type positions. They don't need to be super experienced, but they do need to know things like "what is group policy" or "how would you troubleshoot this hypothetical issue". Basically they should be able to pass the Comptia A+ test, even if they dont actually have it.
My God I got over 600 applications within a business week! The vast majority of those applicants were from people with no experience, lots of experience in a different field!
Like I was getting these applicants from people who have 15 years of plumbing or machining experience. Or people who clearly haven't been able to hold down a job (if you bounce from minimum wage job to minimum wage job every other month, that's a bad look). Or on the other end of the spectrum, I was getting people with decades of sysadmin experience applying too.
I had to start having HR filter the top and bottom out of the stack so I could actually see useful data.
One of the best ones I ever got was an ‘engineer’ who described driving around in his van ‘fixing things’ applying for a machine learning engineer position.
I once saw an ad looking to hire someone with a BA that knew 3 computer programming languages for $8 an hour.
I know word, excel, powerpoint
/s
(but then again macros are a thing)
I know JavaScript, TypeScript, and ECMAScript.
entry level job; salary range $30,000 - $150,000 depending on qualifications and experience; 10 yrs experience required; high school diploma required, Phd preferred
apply today!
Phd preferred
Weird way to spell required
Sorry we’ve decided to move forward with other candidates (You’re not the VP’s son).
1 month later, the exact same job posting is listed again
New recruitment process, who this?
My last job had close to that range. There is a hiring range is typically 50-70% of the maximum. Below 50% is the developmental range for laddering underqualified internal hires. Over 70% is for very experienced, overqualified candidates. Generally employers won't go more than 85% of max because they need a couple years of cushion for salary increases. If they hire at max they know the candidate is going to be back on the market in a year.
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I'm getting sick of the invasive questions
"Gender?
Sex at birth?
Are you trans?
Are you gay? Bi?
Ever been depressed?
Abuse alcohol? Drugs?
Ever been arrested?
Ever been in the military?
Well what about your spouse?
Ever work for the government?
That degree you mentioned, we can't ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?"
NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE POSITION.
This is 100% occuring in the USA. Where I live and work.
Right out of college, I went through an eight hour long hiring process complete with a proctored exam, three different interviews, a psychological screening, and a meeting with the CEO. All for an entry level position that paid $25k. By the end of the day, I was the only candidate left to be considered and they didn't give me an offer.
I got a call and a quick phone interview two days later from a small independent IT company that quoted me $30k on the spot. I said I was considering a second position and - over the phone - the guy raises it to $35k. Took the deal. Started a week later.
Two months after that, I got a postcard in the mail saying I was no longer being considered for the first job.
This was in 2006 and its only gotten worse since.
Gender?
Present.
Sex at birth?
No, my first time was well over a decade later.
Are you trans?
Transtabular, from your position.
Are you gay? Bi?
I prefer professionalism to gaiety during interviews. This meeting isn't over yet.
Ever been depressed?
Not in the button sense, no.
Abuse alcohol? Drugs?
Neither physically nor emotionally. No, thank you, not now.
Ever been arrested?
Have you been?
Ever been in the military?
Even if I was, you're not getting veteran's benefits through me.
Well what about your spouse?
Even if they were, you're not getting veteran's benefits through them.
Ever work for the government?
Why, are you paying public service rates?
That degree you mentioned, we can’t ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?
I think it was sometime around when I graduated from college.
Bro, your answer is being filtered out by an algorithm, even before it gets the chance to be appreciated by some hr drone.
Oh, I assumed this was during an interview already. If a company sent me that shit prior to an interview I'd tell the headhunter to try again with a better company.
Most of these questions are illegal in my country, thank fuck
thank fuck
No, thank the government and the people who voted.
No, thank the workers who literally died fighting for worker rights, which forced the government's hands in order to keep the peace.
Died and often killed, don't forget that demonstrations are the compromise for a civil discourse. When not being treated civilly, it quickly becomes a mob and the lynching begins.
If you're in the USA, these questions are legal to ask.
Some are illegal (when did you graduate), but is asked very often anyways. Often times marked as required on Workday Job applications.
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Gender?
Sex at birth?
Are you trans?
Are you gay? Bi?
Ever been depressed?
Abuse alcohol? Drugs?
Ever been arrested?
Ever been in the military?
Well what about your spouse?
Ever work for the government?
That degree you mentioned, we can't ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?
I'm just trying to get an egg loan! There's people in line behind me!
I’m getting scam calls about my extended egg warranty.
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The fact that the majority of us are essentially forced to participate in the capitalist market means that we will always be at the mercy of greasy, compliant, ass-sucking 'bosses.'
We don't have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.
We don't have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.
What are you talking about? We have the freedom to not work and die cold and hungry in the streets just like the founding fathers intended!
Capitalism is slavery with extra steps.
Like gdog said, no, you don't actually. Being homeless is illegal in a ton of places.
We don't have that freedom either. We have the freedom to be constantly harassed or imprisoned for not having a paid residence.
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We need to have 4 years expirenece on techology version {current_year}
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