I hate the whole concept of references. I don’t want to ask a favor from someone in my past. I don’t want to keep contact info for former bosses or co-workers.

Our society is like:

Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

Have personal responsibility.

Your success or your failure is 100% due to your good or poor choices.

Employers: “By the way, you are going to need help from some strangers in your past in order to get a job with our company.”

Companies are constantly trying to figure out how to pay workers less. I would absolutely take less money if the hiring process didn’t have so much hoop-jumping. How has capitalism not figured that one out yet?

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The entire application process is a song and dance that some ghoul in a lab cooked up to break down and exhaust the unemployed because they like their warm bodies barely awake and low energy enough to never rise up.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      So what you’re saying is that you can’t fill out simple forms. Too much trouble? Not worth the hassle to follow some rules and exhibit common sense? And what exactly did you want me to pay you to do?

      Simple applications are how the stupid and lazy are weeded out. Can’t pass the first test? You’re not getting the second test, which is an interview, where you have to talk to another human being and show base social skills.

      The effort to hire a single employee is stupendous. You should try it sometime, weeding through 50 applications where morons can’t even capitalize their own name. “Spell your surname?” “Uh…wass that? Like a nickname?”

      But you feel your part is too strenuous? I wouldn’t hire you to fry potatoes.