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.
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 left out some vital info. I’ve got two decades of IT experience. I said there’s not a time but likely I would have taken it right when I graduated because I was making $10/hr to be out in the sun and get screamed at by a moron. But they wouldn’t have wanted me because I hadn’t been in IT for 20 years at that point.
Good luck, friend! I don’t know the beginning job market anymore so I have no advice, but I really hope things go well for you.
It’s so bad I’m communist now :/
McDonald’s in VT pays more hourly wtf
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.
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.
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 🙂
I usually last about 6 months of masking before I break. The best job I ever had was at a college where seemingly lots of people were “different”.
Sadly the campus closed down.
I’ve found that if I can mask long enough to prove my competence people overlook my being a fucking weirdo when it slips off. I do work in IT though so I’m kind of middle of the pack as far as weirdos go.
Well, all jobs refuse to even have an interview with me
So you’re just an economic incel
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.
If I do this I don’t get the best responses.
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.
Working at Tesla be like…
It is safer to be homeless than to work at Tesla
