Why is looking for a job so miserable? - Who do we blame? Recruiters, lazy HR, millenials, boomers, zoomers?

[xX_rAcE_wAr_420_Xx]

Recessions and economics aside, because this is a trend that has been going on for a while now, and although it's worse lately it's not new.

All the job-hunting sites are AIDS, whether it's LinkedIn or Indeed or Monster or whatever. You put up a resume, shotgun apply to shitty postings that don't tell you what the job is or what you'll be making, and never hear back. You start to hear from recruiters, and it's either a white woman offering you an entry-level job, or some pajeet e-mailing you saying "HELLO WE FIND YOUR SKILLS TO BE VERY NICE FOR EXCELLENT ROLE, PLEASE ATTACH RESUME AND REPLY IF INTEREST" for a 3-month contract position unrelated to anything you're good at.

Once you wade through those, and find actual decent job postings, knowing whether or not you're wasting your time applying is an entirely different crapshoot. Most of the time, the reason they're asking for someone with 5 years' experience for an entry-level position is that the previous guy was there for 5 years, and the colossal retards in HR just go "well we need to replace him with someone similar". Every candidate who qualifies and gets into the interview process learns they'd be making $20 an hour and bails, and suddenly they're dumbfounded they can't find anyone to bite. Somehow nobody involved in the entire ordeal can figure out that nobody with the skills they're asking for will settle for what they're paying - that's why the last guy left, incidentally.

Companies don't want to invest in long-term employees, barely pay over a 3% COLA each year, then wonder why they have such high turnover. Every faggot job site wants you to submit a 2-page fanfic of how well you suck dick, on top of spending an hour re-entering shit from your resume into their janky web form that refuses to accept special characters for anything. Robots skim through your application and look for specific keywords, discarding anything that doesn't autistically fit a checklist they have. It feels like all of these problems stem from every HR department being full of useless cunts, but can it be that simple?

(yes im mad lol)

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

It's da jooz falt

 

[Celebrate Nite]

LinkedIn for me personally is a waste of time. I haven't gotten a message from someone who WASN'T a bot of some sort.

The pajeets are the fucking worst. Anytime I see a name that sounds retarded I just stick it in my spam folder. Last week I gave it a good cleaning, but this is what it looks like this week.

 

[Phenomena]

It's hilarious but the last two jobs I had I found on the craigslist. Decent companies, good bosses and compensation. I had absolutely zero luck on Indeed, Monster, LinkedIn while spending 100x more time filling shitty forms over and over even for positions I am way overqualified. Job postings on craig's are usually coming from smaller companies without HR department and bureaucracy so there is much higher chance to get a response.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Why is looking for a job so miserable?

Because the end result isn't worth it, your effort helps someone else and it leaves you tired and with just enough free time to prepare to go back to work.

 

[Socrates]

I've had good results with Indeed personally. I don't think job hunting has ever been a pleasant task, but the alienation caused by the process going all digital definitely doesn't help.

 

[The Last Stand]

You're telling me. It took a month or so to find a job after college. The worst part is that they never get back to you in a timely manner.

"OH, there are help wanted signs all over!" Job searching is not as simple as that. Also, is it something you want to do for a year or so? LinkedIn is notorious with pyramid scheme nonsense.

 

[Apochrypha]

I quit my last job about a year ago because I needed to get an eye surgery that I had planned for months that my boss didn't want to accomodate for, even after telling him ahead of time multiple times a week. It would take me a month to fully recover and I hated working there anyways so I just quit. After I got the surgery I started job hunting for ~4 months, applying everyday for literally any job that would take me. I heard absolutely nothing back, and the one time I did and came in for an interview, the manager was straight up 1 hour late and did not engage with me at all. I walked out.

Job hunting is a joke nowadays and really ineffective, either you hear nothing back at all or you get an email saying they don't want you anymore. It's amazing that companies complain about a lack of staff and hiring issues when they pull shit like this. In the end I went back to working for the same place but at a different location, which was actually very nice.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

It sucks because you spend ungodly amounts of time and most likely will not get a response from half of them. Then you will get rejected from shitty jobs your overqualified for.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

I blame myself because I'm way too picky. Extremely picky. Was almost impossible finding something that I felt comfortable trying.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

For me it's HR. Those cunts and are always the thing that filters me from getting hired because they're interview questions are always a fucking faggot personality test and I lie like George Washington. Beyond that it's how damn long it takes to get a response for my application, any cock sucking email to ask when I'll be contacted, and when I do I don't know it's them because I've given up hope on them calling or e-mailing back and they aren't calling from any of the contact information they've provided so me answering a call from them is a happy accident of me going "fuck it" and deciding to answer the random ass phone call.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

You just need some cheering up. Look at the lulzy side of the job-hunt.

 

[Moths]

"5 years for a entry-level role"
Yeah trying to apply for any IT related role and you will see even level 1 helpdesk postings have this trash

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

I've had times in which I spent months looking for a job and it is demoralizing to be repeatedly ghosted or receive "we have decided to move forward with another applicant" messages. I used to joke about piles of emails with the aforemented message coming from the same company that trained me to be a nursing assistant, but then I got the same treatment from other companies. Most jobs never respond. Indeed has a quirky feature in which they show your applications as "read" by employers.

Here a trick: if an employer ever asks why you were unemployed for a long time just say you were self-employed with Uber and chose to not include it on your resume since you refine your resume's work history to be relative to the job. Use doublespeak on your resume to make your negatives seem positive: "I have had many jobs the past year" "I have a lot of knowledge to offer in regards to my diverse employment background" "I just sit at home playing online games" "I have experience in working in a team environment" Shit like that.

Spoiler: Where to find guaranteed work

The only easy time to get any job guaranteed is during back-to-school/holiday season for retail. Retail needs corpses to pick up the slack. The month of November is THE month to get full 40 hours so people with weekends off or are afraid of working holidays are suckers. Never believe there is nothing to do during these times.

If you are an autist who doesnt like interacting with people, apply for mail agencies like UPS warehouse, FedEx warehouse, Amazon sortation, and USPS warehouse positions. Store fulfillment (people who gather online orders) have to interact with customers but it is mostly questions about products, where to find things, etc so great for people who want solitary work.

Spoiler: Self-Employment Tips with Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc

If you choose to be self-employed via Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc, you need the following:
- a reliable car with good gas mileage, good tires, and refill gas every day
- insulated bags for preserving frozen foods and warm precooked meals
- a collapsible cart for transporting without hurting your back
- a dolly for transporting heavy items again dont hurt your back
- lunch times best times
- start in the morning so algorithm targets you
- use a cheap, non-OLED display phone
- bring a charger in your car
- a reflective vest or jacket for evening work so niggss dont hit you with cars
- dont be rude to restaurant and supermarket employees
- dont wear the Instacart lanyard because employees will be rude to you as a result of experiences with others d
- mark your vehicle if driving for Uber, Lyft, etc

Spoiler: Mobile Detailing

If you are further interested in starting your own business but for cheap, mobile detailing is a thing you could do. There are tons of videos on Youtube of even kids age 18 just buying steam cleaners, vacuums, carpet cleaners, portable generators, pressure washers, and going around cleaning cars and houses.

As money is made, they expand into more professional tools, buy modular vans, and hire employees to make even more money. A good car detail can typically run customers $100-500 per vehicle. You could also do what the youtubers do and film the process and make extra money with a youtube account.

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

Here a trick: if an employer ever asks why you were unemployed for a long time just say you were self-employed with Uber and chose to not include it on your resume since you refine your resume's work history to be relative to the job.

When I had a bad employment gap years back, I must've tried out dozens of excuses just slinging shit at the wall hoping something would stick. Unfortunately no matter how legitimate or reasonable your explanation might be, I swear they just see gaps and assume you're a lazy fuckup with a drug problem or unmanaged mental illness. Eventually the only thing that worked was straight up inventing a fake job history, which should be even easier now that working remotely is so common and accessible.

Worse comes to worse, go to a temp agency. The ones that place general laborers for low wage work will set you up fast with a job that might be kind of shitty, but sometimes work is work. If you show up sober to the intake and can read well enough to fill out the paperwork yourself you're already an excellent candidate.

 

[Meat Target]

Most of those job-hunting sites can lead you into MLM scams. I almost got roped into one. They prey on desperate young people just out of college.

For those not familiar: multi-level marketing (MLM) companies are sales-based legal pyramid schemes. They'll use vague corporate-speak to rope you in ("be your own boss", "be part of a team", etc), only to have you living with your co-workers in the same apartment, selling shitty knives or DirecTV at a booth in a Walmart.

Here's a documentary on them:

And a subreddit called r/devilcorp, which will give you some specific names.

As for getting a legit job? Networking. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Churches, clubs, family, friends, etc can be potential avenues for getting in a good word.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

If you choose to be self-employed via Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc, you need the following:
- use a cheap, non-OLED display phone
- bring a charger in your car

Also make sure to optimize your cell phone that it's not using a lot of resources (e.g. turning off other apps that run in the background and/or ones you don't even use in the first place). Im serious about that one, if you're not tech savy, find someone that is to do it for you. That Uber app doesn't just EAT battery, it deepthroats that shit whole. If you start at 9-10 in the morning, by the time 1pm shows up, you'll be down to 20% or below, even if you use a charger that's giving you a "turbo" charge.

if it wasn't for that, you could easily do this shit full time, unless that doesn't bother you, in which case you can take like an hour break to charge your phone then hit the road again.

 

[Dyn]

You guys are being precious faggots just call literally any labor hire company and they'll find you work within a day or two, no matter how many employment gaps or mental illnesses or drug addictions or enormous gang-related swastika face tattoos you have, and it'll pay a hell of a lot better than Uber or entry-level IT.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

You guys are being precious faggots just call literally any labor hire company and they'll find you work within a day or two, no matter how many employment gaps or mental illnesses or drug addictions or enormous gang-related swastika face tattoos you have, and it'll pay a hell of a lot better than Uber or entry-level IT.

I did hiring for a people acquisition company. Can confirm lol. One guy showed up to work drunk three days in a row, and a fellow manager noted that he was 'cheerful and team oriented' because of it. Shit was hilarious.

 

[Big Al's Famous Pork]

You don't get to tell people to reboot and collect a paycheck anymore.
Get some real trade skills and quit crying.