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Who knew that was the good ending

So here is the problem I think.

In a sane world, you would put up a job ad, 5 people with relevant skills apply, you interview them and select one. If I'm a candidate, I'd have to send in 5 applications to 5 companies, and do an interview with each to find a job.

But then recruiters today won't even start interviewing with 5 candidates applying, they wait until at least like 100, of which they will call in like 20. So the company needs to do 20 interviews, I as an applicant have to do 20 interviews, and write 100 applications on average.

But since most places won't call me in, even if I'm qualified, since they will wait until an arbitrary number of applications and then won't call in everyone qualified, I need to send in as many applications as I can since I need to pay the bills next month, so all companies will receive hundreds of not-really-qualified job applications as well.

Then again, companies want to simplify the problem from their side, so they automate resume checks. This errs on the side of false negatives, since there is barely any cost to filtering out a good candidate versus not filtering out a bad one. Then, when recruiters realise they don't have to check applications by hand anymore, they increase the arbitrary "no interviews under 100 applications" number to 1000 or 2000 or whatever, the more the better, right?

And then add AI checks, AI applications, malicious companies advertising with no actual job just to "check the market", staffing companies making fake applications to flood the market and make it impossible for companies to hire from outside them, and other shit.

You end up with people submitting dozens if not hundreds of applications per day, for months, and they will of course not be able to even keep track of each application and each interview. Imagine you've been ghosted 2000 times over 6 months. Would you make sure you don't do the same to some recruiter that will statistically most likely ghost you anyway? Or fuck off, clear your calendar and be happy that you're done with this shit?

Does the bill create a requirement to post the hiring wage range so as not to waste everyone’s time?

Hey, we're going to have that in the EU starting next year

Sorry to make you sad

Problem is that the EU industry is profiting off Vucic big time. It was the same with Orbán, but now it's everyone's problem so the EU gave us a chance to get rid of him.

I know. What I'm saying is that your experience isn't universal.

I have a feeling that this might not be the best economic system ever

This morning, the BLS released its monthly jobs report, showing that the economy added just 73,000 new jobs last month—well below the 104,000 that forecasters had expected—and that unemployment rose slightly, to 4.2 percent.

How fucked is that if you think about it. There are more jobs, but less employed people? I know the answer is that pay is so low, many people hold multiple jobs, but touting this as an achievement is perverse.

People are on Windows because of inertia.

If you look at just PC gaming, Steam charts show that the big competitive kernel-level AC titles are way down, the biggest one is the newest Rainbow 6, with 80k players of the 36 million people active on Steam right now, 10 million being in-game. Funny thing is, the biggest Steam title is indeed a competitive online shooter, CS2, but it runs fine on Linux.

If it was competitive gaming that was the only reason people aren't on Linux, most other segments would have seen a mass migration already. Competitive games can't explain why 95%+ of the community is not on Linux.

The housing crisis hits them hardest. The lack of entry level jobs and the abysmal nature of entry level pay. The state of education, particularly higher education. The lack of representation itself.

Who is campaigning on bringing house prices down? On forcing higher wages and better conditions on entry-level jobs, and forcing companies not to eliminate entry-level jobs en masse with AI? Affordable quality education?

I thought that the US charging people with terrorism willy-nilly was already par for the course

Vucic will throw as many people under the bus as he needs to to cling to power.