Anon applies for a job
Posted by AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 63 comments
Posted by AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 63 comments
Mr_Arthtato@reddit
Experience doesn’t do shit neither. Ive got 2.5 years, master’s degree and my skills are at mid level, extensive portfolio in well presented website, active github profile the whole 9 yards. I’ve never seen anyone even remotely care that I have a masters degree, or consider it experience.
Hr doesn’t care to even respond. I am only left guessing. Maybe too little experience for mid level, too high level for junior. (Not like they have legitimate junior role listings anyways) I’ve shipped titles, but theres always someone with more experience.
I am monkey paw Goldilocks of employment.
BirbsAreSoCute@reddit
I don't think I've ever seen a programming job that actually cared about what level of higher education you have. It's all about experience, proficiency, and what languages you know
L003Tr@reddit
A degree in what?
Mr_Arthtato@reddit
Comp sci, what else?
L003Tr@reddit
IT? You know what no matter how little money you're willing to work for there will always be someone in asia willing to work for less money right?
Reading_username@reddit
Just put the fries in the bag bro
Neither-Phone-7264@reddit
THEY DONT EVEN WANT ME ANYMORE AAARGH
Phoenix732@reddit
There's people out there genuinely arguing that the hatred towards HR is rooted in misogyny and not, you know, having to deal with any goddamn job recruiter/HR person ever
The_Slake_Moth@reddit
Said it before and I'll say it again because I wish someone had told me sooner:
Been there 5 months now. It's not a good job and it's certainly not for everyone, but the pay is at least a lot better than fast food or retail where I live and it is something to put on a resume.
AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit (OP)
Working for amazon is underrated honestly. In my country they pay more than college grads.
Valuable-Habit9241@reddit
just Bartleby and die
southwest_barfight@reddit
OP never applied.for any jobs, spent more time making this post to assist the mental gymnastics that allow them to continue being NEET
Due-Bid6242@reddit
This happened for an entry level… crash out is valid.
Zednoxs@reddit
ummm you're supposed to network and get jobs through le nepotism, do you even socialmaxx bruh fr fr?
just give em the firm handshake and stare into their soul
CertifiedSheep@reddit
Every job I’ve ever gotten was from knowing someone. Hundreds of online apps went straight in the trash, but when you know someone working there suddenly they’re bending over backwards to get you in. The game is not fair at all, but that’s life. One day I’ll help my friend’s kid get a job and it will come full circle.
BEWMarth@reddit
This is what radicalized me
ChoiceFudge3662@reddit
This is quite literally what I’ve been told to do, some employers may want a recommendation and my brother has told me to just get someone to lie for me and say that I can in fact do the job. (obviously don’t do this for something serious, only do this for getting your first job, once you have actual experience at a few places you won’t have to lie)
YoungDiscord@reddit
That's how a friend of mine kicked off his career
He had to lie that he had experience
He's good at his job but if he hadn't done that nobody would hire him to this day.
Reading_username@reddit
Unironically helped a friend get a tech job with no experience like this once.
He needed a job, I vouched for him for the open position on my team. He interviewed and somehow didn't seem totally incompetent.
Hiring supervisor came and asked me to confirm. "Yeah yeah he's smart and a fast learner for anything he doesn't know"
Gets hired.
Later told he was hired over someone far more qualified just because he spoke English natively instead of as a second language, based on my recommendation.
Felt kinda bad but also had a lot of fun working with him.
But yeah nepotism and networking beat everything else for sure.
WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit
“Should have been daddy’s special boy-princess and you could have got a cushy job easy peasy! 💅 “
igerardcom@reddit
>TFW not daddy’s special boy-princess
Why even live?
IrregularrAF@reddit
Fr, I just discovered the power of le union. I’ve already been in three and they all sucked. But I’m in one that has let me use like 60 days of FMLA, from a chronic neurological problem I happened to develop a year ago. Somehow I’m not fucking fired yet.
But I just learned my favorite coworker, who assigns me the title of best friend has a sister who’s single and he wants me to meet her badly.
Why is it relevant? Turns out homeboy is related to the regional manager and is literally unfireable. So may as well marry in at this rate, since I’m already a loser that’s dying and constantly missing work. Besides heard she LOVES EVERYTHING I LOVE $uicideBoy$, Bring Me The Horizon, omg she sounds amazing. Gonna meet her soon. 👅
YoungDiscord@reddit
Anon doesn't realize that the only way ypu get your foot in is by lying about having experience, then after the first job you actually have experience.
It sucks but its not like employees make the rules here, the employers and their dogshit unrealistic expectations do.
bdrwr@reddit
Every company wants trained employees; no company wants to pay for training.
NetStaIker@reddit
Which is hilarious, cuz they’ll hire you and immediately train you “in the right way”
Why not just hire the dipshits with no experience then… the experienced hires already have opinions on how shit should be done
igerardcom@reddit
Then how is one supposed to gain training?
This sounds similar to a mu-kōan....
SawedoffClown@reddit
You're gana have to lie, not because your unqualified or whatever but the great big filter is going to be an HR rep who doesnt actually understand what your job is. So you pretty much just have to tailor yours to what an HR rep would think is ideal.
With the decline of Unionized labor came HR to make sure that such efforts would never again happen. They are not for you they are managing you as a resource.
FarResist8177@reddit
And it's only going to get worse
hagamablabla@reddit
Does the horror scale linearly or exponentially?
TaserDonut@reddit
all we know is that it's not P-solvable
LasyKuuga@reddit
Ypu know its bad when even anon needs to find a job
the_capibarin@reddit
The official motto of the 21st century
ABigFatPotatoPizza@reddit
It’s all nepotism now. Whether you went to an Ivy League or you’re an H1b from India, the only way you’ll get a job is through connections.
That very brief era in which you could rise above your social station from skill and merit alone is gone. All you can do now is adapt or die.
ABigFatPotatoPizza@reddit
It’s all nepotism now. Whether you went to an Ivy League or you’re an H1b from India, the only way you’ll get a job is through connections.
That very brief era in which you could rise above your social station from skill and merit alone is gone. All you can do now is adapt or die.
WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit
AAAAAAAGGGHHHHH! YOU CAN’T FUCKIN WIN!
Valkyrie17@reddit
Who tf is looking for applicants with less experience?
Raleth@reddit
Being overqualified is a thing.
bell37@reddit
I’ve seen it before. Too qualified can be interpreted by some hiring managers as “I don’t really plan to stay here longer than a year and will job hop to another position the moment an opportunity comes up”
stumbledalong@reddit
Anyone looking to underpay.
WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit
The few jobs listings asking for recent graduates
Blasteth@reddit
Anon doesn't know that the way 99.9% of people get good jobs is through connections and nepotism.
Voodoo6Speed@reddit
you're competing with millions of people willing to work for less, duh
giantspacefreighter@reddit
That wojak is doing more to radicalise the masses against capitalism than lenin could’ve ever dreamed of
DreamlyXenophobic@reddit
We could have had global communism if lenin been shown the wojak
Reading_username@reddit
Nah, early 20th century ruskis and eurocels weren't ready for wojaks yet.
They didn't even get the Kilroy memes until britbongs and American G.I.'s tagged em all over bombed out ruins during WW2.
Would have been wasted on the uninitiated.
throwtheclownaway20@reddit
Capitalism requires people who are permanently destitute so that they can serve as an ever-present living reminder of what will happen to the rest if they disobey their masters. So, in order to keep enough people homeless that they're visible, but not so many that they're able to organize, they have to make these ridiculous, self-contradicting systems.
chainshot91@reddit
Trick is to find the ceos daughter and get em pregnant, that way they hire you so the grandkids don't starve
DoctorPrinny@reddit
In my experience, you are more likely to get a job if you are directly interviewed by your team leader. HR can talk a lot, but you will most likely get ghosted.
TheGoldenExperience_@reddit
solution just fucking lie
you have nothing to lose
Slide-Maleficent@reddit
They start using AI to filter resumes?
You start using AI to fabricate fake references, repeatedly mass-submit resumes and reverse engineer the filtering they use so you can force through the filter.
Arms-race, baby. The only loser is anyone who pays the continually rising energy prices of the cold war - meaning everyone.
TyrannicalKitty@reddit
Just show up and start working at this point.
Lie on your resume.
Nothing matters anymore
centurion762@reddit
They just want to be able to say no Americans are qualified and use H1B hires.
No-Section-4385@reddit
Those jobs require social credits..
And anon doesn't have enough.
StormOfFatRichards@reddit
There should be a legal penalty for hiring internally after posting a public ad
Dog_in_human_costume@reddit
The CEO of a company sent his CV as a joke for one of the openings and they didn't even call him back
soiboi64@reddit
Ive hired a few dozen folks, a lot of first time jobbers. They are often graduates from uni or college, and have had a part time job at some point. That's all I'm looking for
drxyouth@reddit
I do find it interesting that it is a certain archetype of woman that populate all these HR roles too
Skailon@reddit
A dude posts on 4chan. It's not a problem of experience. It's just a polite way to refuse a sociophobic fool.
ur_moms_boy-toy@reddit
In accordance with common sense, we have to assume the recruiter doesn't know that.
Augussst4@reddit
Found the recruiter
K_U_N_A_I@reddit
The "People / Hired" graph is wrong. It should be a steep exponential function instead (people increasing, hired stagnating).
Yes, Im probably autistic
RussianBot101101@reddit
Literally just keep applying. 99% of the time, they don't even know what they're looking at. If you're able to show up in person, keep going over and over again. If they have multiple recruiters, nice, that's a bonus. Regardless, a lot of places are so bogged down in corporate bureaucracy that you can probably speak to the same person 3 times and they won't remember you for the first 2 until they actually gain interest in you.
I've done this for (almost) every job I've gotten.
RidledTart@reddit
That why I used an advanced technique called LYING