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lumberjim · 12-04-2014, 03:12 PM

____________________That makes me want to cry.
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Gravdigr · 12-04-2014, 03:13 PM

Die, screechy scum, die!!

footfootfoot · 12-07-2014, 07:32 PM

So I'm registered with two state labor job banks and have been looking now for some months. Today I searched for jobs with a min salary of 25K (~12.50/hr)

They want degrees in engineering and multiple years experience in the field.

The warehouse forklift job (min wage) only requires a HS diploma but requires a year of warehouse experience with pallet jacks and fork trucks, with NO OTJ!

Where the fuck are the jobs?

Last week I applied for a bakery job, the online app took 45min to fill out for a minimum wage job that expected three years of bakery experience AND full knowledge of health and safety codes for restaurants, determining product pricing, and ordering and maintaining inventory. Oh and also culinary school experience.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-07-2014, 08:06 PM

It's catch 22, foots...

infinite monkey · 12-07-2014, 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

So I'm registered with two state labor job banks and have been looking now for some months. Today I searched for jobs with a min salary of 25K (~12.50/hr)

They want degrees in engineering and multiple years experience in the field.

The warehouse forklift job (min wage) only requires a HS diploma but requires a year of warehouse experience with pallet jacks and fork trucks, with NO OTJ!

Where the fuck are the jobs?

Last week I applied for a bakery job, the online app took 45min to fill out for a minimum wage job that expected three years of bakery experience AND full knowledge of health and safety codes for restaurants, determining product pricing, and ordering and maintaining inventory. Oh and also culinary school experience.

I hear ya. I've been going fast and hard for a few months now. I'm not tryin' to be Pope. Or even astronaut. But the scrutiny is really intense. No probs with the interviews or skills tests, or the background checks or the piss tests. There's always one more thing. (Columbo...but one more thing...)

It's crazy.

I have some good tugs lately but who knows if they'll pan out? Just make sure you can dance like Baryshnikov if'n you're 50 or older. It's very important you can do that.

:hugz:

Sundae · 12-08-2014, 02:19 AM

Note to my downstairs neighbour.
Either get up or switch your flipping alarm off.
You had me searching the flat for MONTHS thinking it was mine. Now you've moved it, which proved it.

Now I can deal with Dana sleeping through a nuclear attack. Because I love her, she can sleep through my snoring, and anyway when we share a room in Glasgow, she's near enough to for me to brain her. [see different thread for reason I try not to share, inc sleep talking and screaming meemies - poor Limey]

So anyway, downstairs neighbour.
Switch it off or I'm sending the boys round. And that includes Carrot.

Griff · 12-08-2014, 07:02 AM

I hear you foot. Somehow we're in an economy where you have to stay on your original career path regardless. Good thing we're middle-aged white guys because we have all the advantages.

Undertoad · 12-08-2014, 08:12 AM

Yeah. For a long time with me, it was, why do you want to work at a cafeteria making $12? We have plenty of high school kids willing to do this job. All along I thought that, because I'm heavily overqualified, that means I automatically get any of those kinds of jobs. It turns out you always have to fit the preconceived notion of what kind of person will fit that job.

In "American Beauty", Lester can't actually get that fast food job. In "Office Space", Peter can't really get that construction job.

Clodfobble · 12-08-2014, 09:46 AM

Part of it is they also assume that the minute you get something better, you'll leave and have wasted their time.

This is why I think I'm probably a low-level sociopath--lying would be my very first instinct in this situation, to the point that I'm confused when other people don't do it. Just say you have no job history. You never moved out of your parents' house, but now your mom has finally died and your dad has kicked you out. Act a little dumb, not a lot but slip in "ain't" and "got no" a few times. If they have a preconceived notion, all you have to do is fit it.

Gravdigr · 12-08-2014, 04:22 PM

Sadly, that makes more than a little sense.

footfootfoot · 12-08-2014, 05:55 PM

I'm with you on the lying 100%. Unfortunately my vocabulary gives me away; words that I think are ordinary, everyday words, are not so everyday. I highly edit my work history, especially when I realized if I mention a job I took as a stop gap they will reason I worked for 15 bucks an hour before so they'll offer me 10.

I had more to post on this topic but I'll get too angry.

Undertoad · 12-08-2014, 06:44 PM

"How did you get fired from the pool job Footer?"

"I told them that we needed highly delineated lines of authority to maximize productivity, and that emptying the trash liners was Ashley's bailiwick."

footfootfoot · 12-08-2014, 08:25 PM

snortle

DanaC · 12-09-2014, 03:47 AM

Heheheh.

monster · 12-09-2014, 09:29 AM

with you too foot. or is that three foot?

12-04-2014, 03:12 PM	#5716
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	____________________That makes me want to cry. _________________________________\ __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

12-04-2014, 03:13 PM	#5717
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Die, screechy scum, die!! __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

12-07-2014, 07:32 PM	#5718
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	So I'm registered with two state labor job banks and have been looking now for some months. Today I searched for jobs with a min salary of 25K (~12.50/hr) They want degrees in engineering and multiple years experience in the field. The warehouse forklift job (min wage) only requires a HS diploma but requires a year of warehouse experience with pallet jacks and fork trucks, with NO OTJ! Where the fuck are the jobs? Last week I applied for a bakery job, the online app took 45min to fill out for a minimum wage job that expected three years of bakery experience AND full knowledge of health and safety codes for restaurants, determining product pricing, and ordering and maintaining inventory. Oh and also culinary school experience. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-07-2014, 08:06 PM	#5719
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It's catch 22, foots... Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-08-2014, 02:19 AM	#5721
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Note to my downstairs neighbour. Either get up or switch your flipping alarm off. You had me searching the flat for MONTHS thinking it was mine. Now you've moved it, which proved it. Now I can deal with Dana sleeping through a nuclear attack. Because I love her, she can sleep through my snoring, and anyway when we share a room in Glasgow, she's near enough to for me to brain her. [see different thread for reason I try not to share, inc sleep talking and screaming meemies - poor Limey] So anyway, downstairs neighbour. Switch it off or I'm sending the boys round. And that includes Carrot. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

12-08-2014, 07:02 AM	#5722
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I hear you foot. Somehow we're in an economy where you have to stay on your original career path regardless. Good thing we're middle-aged white guys because we have all the advantages. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-08-2014, 08:12 AM	#5723
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yeah. For a long time with me, it was, why do you want to work at a cafeteria making $12? We have plenty of high school kids willing to do this job. All along I thought that, because I'm heavily overqualified, that means I automatically get any of those kinds of jobs. It turns out you always have to fit the preconceived notion of what kind of person will fit that job. In "American Beauty", Lester can't actually get that fast food job. In "Office Space", Peter can't really get that construction job.

12-08-2014, 09:46 AM	#5724
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Part of it is they also assume that the minute you get something better, you'll leave and have wasted their time. This is why I think I'm probably a low-level sociopath--lying would be my very first instinct in this situation, to the point that I'm confused when other people don't do it. Just say you have no job history. You never moved out of your parents' house, but now your mom has finally died and your dad has kicked you out. Act a little dumb, not a lot but slip in "ain't" and "got no" a few times. If they have a preconceived notion, all you have to do is fit it. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

12-08-2014, 04:22 PM	#5725
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Sadly, that makes more than a little sense. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

12-08-2014, 05:55 PM	#5726
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	I'm with you on the lying 100%. Unfortunately my vocabulary gives me away; words that I think are ordinary, everyday words, are not so everyday. I highly edit my work history, especially when I realized if I mention a job I took as a stop gap they will reason I worked for 15 bucks an hour before so they'll offer me 10. I had more to post on this topic but I'll get too angry. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-08-2014, 06:44 PM	#5727
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	"How did you get fired from the pool job Footer?" "I told them that we needed highly delineated lines of authority to maximize productivity, and that emptying the trash liners was Ashley's bailiwick."

12-08-2014, 08:25 PM	#5728
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	snortle __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-09-2014, 09:29 AM	#5730
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	with you too foot. or is that three foot? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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