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

Practically every job listed on these sites serve no purpose from people you never had time to actually know. I couldn't invest into it myself due to the mental instability I often experience so I find other ways to get around. The skills I have been building up for years (drawing, mathematics, music making, etc) don't even apply to these jobs anyways so I'd rather not waste it on a poor man's slave wage job especially if I have severe anxiety and paranoia.
 
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Chromeo said:
You go to the store and they have a table and balloons and flyers and there's signs in the windows BEGGING for people to apply. So you grab a flyer or talk to a manager and every fucking time it's just "Go to our website lol this isn't the dark ages, are you retarded?"

So then you go to their website, which is either so grossly over-engineered it takes 20 minutes of menuing to find the job listings, or so outdated and broken you physically can't use it. If you actually can use their website and get to the jobs, they have maybe THREE (3) listings total (which is somehow dire enough to justify all the balloons?) and one of them is for a store manager that they're not hiring from outside to begin with.

The other two jobs are something super vague like "Store Associate" and are described solely with vague corporate platitudes that don't mean anything so they can work you to death doing every possible task in the store and you can't ever say it "wasn't in the job description." If you ever hear back and get hired, that's when the REAL fun begins; your hours will be juuust short enough you won't get any overtime BUT long enough (or erratic enough, like 2-11's followed by 7-4's) that you'll feel like you never really get a break from work. Of course that's only until they cut your hours so they can have part-time employees work that shift because part-time employees don't get benefits and are thus cheaper to employ!
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White Collar has similar (if not the EXACT or worse) issues you just listed so it isn't any better.

Paragraph #1 is thrown right out the window because 99.9% of companies go through temp agencies that "filter" applicants and pick only the "best" ones. majority of those temp acencies are ran by nothing but women (no joke, there's a Randstand building a town or two over where I live and the last time I was there, everyone working there was a woman who did things so ass backwards. Normally it's phone interview then in-person, but they were so desperate to fill in the position I was looking for it was "COME IN NOW PLZ K THNX!!!" and then after they had me sit doen in front of a computer to fill out the paperwork, they THEN interviewed me and told me about their company). Otherwise the people working there put on an act and pretend to actually give a shit about helping you (and to be fair, there probably are a small section that actually do give a shit, but it's like a 1 in a million odds) so they just treat you like a number rather than a person.

Paragraph #2 is the same. You either go to sites that use a fuck-ton of scripts and are constantly tracking you, or they're one of "THOSE" sites that ONLY work on Internet Explorer (or at least a clean browser with no addons). If you're a linux user like 5-10 years ago, you were pretty much fucked unless you knew someone that had a windows pc.

Paragraph #3 is the same jargan they use for job search sites like Indeed. It's multiple paragraphs long of their company history (that let's be honest, nobody really gives two fucks about), and then what the company actually does, and then what you'll be doing. However they are all flawed because...
  • Sometimes they will combine TWO seperate jobs into one and call it "administration". Meaning that if you are solely applying for Data Entry (which is grunt paperwork duties that have little to no communication with anyone... great for introverts), then expect to do secretarial work ontop of that now because you're no different than anyone else. And don't expect decent training either, anything phone related you're not going to know EVERYTHING even after a week of training, and good luck trying to ask for help WITHOUT getting chewed out because you're "bothering" other people. Only time I ever had it easy on the phones was in IT because that shit is fairly straight-forward (if it's an issue i know, I'll help, if not, I'll tell them to create a ticket, or make the ticket myself, and then send it off to another tech).
    • P.S. don't expect a pay-raise for doing said two jobs, you'll never reach that $20 an hour mark. They will try to soft-ball you into accepting $17-$18 the MOST if you're really fucking good at what you do.
  • When they are describing the job in the post, majority of the time they will ALWAYS use fancy big words to make it sound like the job is some high-class shit, not realizing this turns-off a lot of people because they don't know wtf the post is talking about. It's like these companies never hard of "broad strokes" (i.e. do A, B, C, asnd that's it... instead it's A, semi-bullet, number 1, B, number 2, with a peppering of terms you'll have no fucking clue what they are).
  • MANDATORY OVERTIME - A lot of jobs either don't tell you about it or do but THIS is the thing they are mostly vague about. Basically, if a company has a deadline to meet but they haven't gotten there yet due to either...
    • One of the sections in the "Conga Line" (or whatever they decide to call their Looney Tunes operation) being completely backed up, so you have to wait for THEM in order to do any actual work. This sucks even MORE if your department is at the tail-end of it all (e.g. working for an IME company as the data entry letter printer for the doctors and claiments but can't do jack shit if the cases aren't created yet because that department's stack is sky-high and/or had one case with issues that is holding up everything else)
    • The clients that the company works for decided to be lazy assholes that dump EVERYTHING on the company at the last hour (e.g. working for a payroll company that has a rule that all clients are SUPPOSED to have their shit sent in by x amount of time or else they are charged a late fee... which doesn't mean shit since said company never enforces it because they are afraid of loosing any clients because of that).
    • The companie's system being so incompetent, it takes HOURS for it to get back on track, so you're sitting there with your thumb up your ass. Either that or they are testing out a new system and rather than dedicate a few people to said new system, they do it company-wide and (eventualy) EVERYTHING get's fucked up so the work has to be done all over again
 
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Maybe it works like that in USA, but it's not as easy as EU:
* Thanks to EU regulations, companies have to pay a lot and give a lot of assurances, so they will use any workaround to get around these
* There's also a lot of rules companies have to abide to, unless they outsource their work to pajeets. Thank you, EU!
* Again, thanks to EU regulations, there's a lot of migrants and african refugees, meaning the lowest of the jobs will most likely be given to a 'no visa' african who will do the work at low low cost and doesn't know his own rights
* There's no secretary or low level jobs; all low level jobs have been replaced with "unpaid internships", and interns get thrown out after their 4 months of practice
* Europeans are actually racist, so finding a job in a nearby country is nearly impossible if you are not a native and currently reside in that country
 
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I like when recruiters on linkedin go the extra mile and wax about what interesting experiences I must have had at X company and how they have heard good things about it, in an attempt to ingragiate themselves when X is a fictitious company that has never existed. Purely invented to make myself look better.

It makes me feel like a hot girl on tinder where people will try to make my profile sound interesting despite it being worse than basic bitch.
 
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Gravityqueen4life said:
why yes, i love working 18 hours a day for pennies. how could you tell?
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Our cost of living is much lower, so it's a pretty good deal. As for working long hours, it's just like your own country's so-called "Protestant work ethic". Our people find meaning in their lives through labor to make Socialism with Chinese Characteristics a reality.
 
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