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The only thing worse than not having a job is looking for a job. (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
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Vent your rage and or employment woes. I am having a bad time looking for a job as an employed keyboard-jockie. Hate my current job can’t find another.

The employment process sucks, the ghosting sucks, the endless automations and inhuman interactions just to find a job. The quantification of every part of the job process is bonkers. Reading all of this fluffy nondescript job profiles is a job in and of itself

The meta-game of having to “optimize” your resume to be read by an A.I. or to having to use an A.I. for the application itself just sucks. All this work for an entry to middle level job that barely covers your bills is just soul draining.

All these employers want you to have 2-5 years experience and a masters degree for a starter position. It’s all just terrible.

It feels like “finding a job” is a skill in and of itself in a way it should not be. “Job hunting” is also a deeply solo thing, even using your professional and/or social network pits you against the “The Market”. It sucks so much.

“The Market” is so bad at everything. We could all more easily organize work and finding work if we all weren’t alienated independent nodes all forced into battle. Yet another reason planning and democratic processes are better than this weird tyranny of “the free market”.

Jump in this thread and be mad with me. Big mad.

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[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I always imagine what the world would be like if the people who's job was to manufacture the bullshit jobs like you described would be like if they actually did something with their skills. Literally anything other than what they are doing graeber . This whole world is so wack man.