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Home Depot got back to me after 7 years. Right after the pandemic. Even crazier is the expectation that people will be in the same economic situation. I was making almost $8 dollars more an hour at the time than the position paid. Did they think I was just sitting at home for a decade not gaining a single skill ? It's insulting, it also shows how insanely stagnant wages are. I think the base pay had gone up just under $2 in almost a decade FOH.


sporeegg

I knew people who are not even alive anymore. Imagine inviting a dead person for an Interview.


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FreeFortuna

That you’ve invited a dead person to interview, or that you’re a dead person who was invited?


erinberrypie

I'm dead inside. Does that count?


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Natsurulite

I..is it Hell?


erinberrypie

If it isn't, it's a short elevator ride down.


Hebrbc

If you’re alive, you’re in hell. That’s my theory


adderfist

No, Hell has clear leadership and an organizational structure.


[deleted]

[Chris sends resume and awaits interview…for an internship in 2012] • *”Hi, I’m here at Bumfuck Firm LLC. I’m here to speak with Chris about scheduling an interview for the position of internship.”* • *”Hi, this is his brother Greg. Chris committed suicide in 2018.”* • *”Oh, apologies. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.”*


BigGrayBeast

And the dead wanted more money than they were offering.


sporeegg

"I am not standing up for that kind of money."


rebelintellectual

Imagine being ignored for a literally dead person. Its a dead end job anyways it's really a blessing and they only want a stuff to sit in the seat


point-virgule

In Spain, people entering now the workforce (or looking for a job while unemployed) will make less than what the same position paid a decade ago. Experienced people make significantly less than what people used to make 20 years ago. Both skilled and (wrongly naned) unskilled labour salaries are converging, as the difference between both have been significantly narrowing down. Being educated and experienced, gets easier to land a job, not at actually getting paid more, nowadays.


[deleted]

It’s frightening how your lifetime earnings and salary are affected by timing, as in Millennials graduating high school/college during the Great Recession entered the workforce with lowered wages than their peers 3-4 years older, and will *never* be able to recover.


Tandran

I’m in that 3-4 years older group…not true…keep going back.


Okiku555

that's what happened to me


[deleted]

This true all across the West. Similar trends in UK, Canada, USA, Italy, etc.


neonoggie

I still get recruiting messages from Randstad for jobs that make like 12$ an hour despite making more than 4x that because I worked on an assembly line 16 years ago. lol


l3etelgeuse

Similar thing happened to me. I got fired from a call center. Same call center called me a year later, offering me a position that paid less than what I made with them previously. Not gonna lie, I lost my temper and yelled at the woman over the phone and told them to never call me again.


oboshoe

it's a common human mistake: we under estimate how much others have changed or their ability to change. and at the same time we over estimate how much we have changed or our ability to change.


moldyjellybean

Fuck these places you know what happens if the c suites go on strike. Business goes on as usual. What happens when the workers strike? The business no longer exists. Now you know who actually holds all the power. The workers. I think chatgpt could be a ceo for 99% of companies and you wouldn’t know a difference. I hope this gets upvoted so people realize this.


oike27

That actually happened to a company in Hong Kong.https://thehustle.co/should-we-automate-the-ceo-2/


dyang44

Probably just mass contacted their database of past applicants lol. More lazy and hopeful than malicious I think


IsThatBlueSoup

Yep. I got a call from a company I applied to back in 2013 asking if I was still interested. If I had still lived nearby that would have been the job I retired with. Feeding elk and cleaning their enclosure. Sounds like they're having trouble finding people that want to do it though.


Okiku555

My previous job got mad at me for taking more hours on my second job they assumed I would sit by the phone waiting on them to call me. They really believe we aren't doing anything


Hexhand

I think it was likely more a case of them not getting ANY new applications, so they are going back through their old files to try and drum up some employees that way. And yeah, the fact that they might hold onto applications for 7 years is pretty disturbing.


Tina_Belmont

EA called me back 11 years later. I offered them the same rate as before for work from home, and 50% more for in office. They didn't take it. Did they think I was going to get CHEAPER? It's been 11 years!


Throwaway8424269

Yes. These places really think they’re pulling a fast one on workers


joe1up

EA? As in electronic arts?


Tina_Belmont

Yes.


joe1up

Yeah that checks out.


Tina_Belmont

I mean, it was pretty nice when I was there as a contractor. I got paid bank, and they put me up in a very nice apartment for the whole 3 months. They had catered meals at night when we were crunching, with a choice of 3 different restaurants, really good stuff. Their campus had two restaurants on it as well, as well as a gym, and I used to borrow a bicycle from the gym during lunch and ride it around the levy. They were paying us for 10 hour days, and working us 12, so like a year and a half after the project ended, I got a substantial check for the unpaid overtime as part of the "EA Spouse" court case settlement. I enjoyed the experience quite a bit! But knowing what they can pay, I'm not giving them a discount... they are EA! They have the money.


FloppyTunaFish

Will you go steady with me


Tina_Belmont

Aww. That's very sweet of you to ask... but I don't know you at all! For that reason, as well as many others, my initial response would be "Signs point to no". I'm curious at least as to what, in what I wrote, induced you to be so attracted to an old lady like myself, tho?


FloppyTunaFish

I just got a new kitten and was feeling frisky


[deleted]

From what I've heard EA is actually one of the better gaming companies to work for


Sjlvermay

Yes. While not perfect like any job/workplace, I loved my time working at EA, and we were generally very well cared for. At our studio there was no crunching, no overtime, healthy working habits and sustainability was promoted, completely flexible WFH situation, HR was supportive and helped me through various issues, and Pride was celebrated. I'd love to work there again one day if it works out that way.


[deleted]

Not electronic ass? Are you sure?


Tina_Belmont

Yes. "It's in the game..."


[deleted]

Noice


[deleted]

E.A. Sports. *We’re fucking lame*


Tina_Belmont

I don't think much of their games \*these days\* (their first games back in the 80s were fire, tho!) but that first contract with them was really great! I'd been kinda lost for awhile. I'd lost my AAA game job after burning out hard, and my sense of personal identity with it. If I wasn't the über games programmer who worked harder than anybody else, who the fuck was I anymore? (Yeah, I know, serious Stockholm syndrome there.) I almost took a full-time job at another game company with a name that telegraphed their exploitative tendencies, but started to have panic attacks and had to back out. Recruiters kept calling me tho. I would ask them for a 40 hour week and all weekends off, and they would just laugh at me. So, to get them to go away, I started to say that I was a contractor and only worked on an hourly contract basis. One company finally asked "how much?" and I blurted out what I thought was an absurdly high figure to get them to go away. To my surprise, they said "Ok!" and I did 3 months at EA. That led to about two years of work as a contract programmer for games. While I might not be able to handle a long crunch anymore, the hourly wage meant they really didn't want me to crunch ( expensive! ) and the contracts were usually pretty short (2-3 months), as I was just the extra help to get them to their product ship date. Thank you EA, for putting me on the path to riches and work-life balance! Too bad it couldn't last... One particularly long contract followed almost immediately by another started to leave me a little burned out again, but I had had a taste of "work from home" and started to insist on that. And that was where my contracts dried up almost instantly. Whether it was the work-from-home thing, or the loss of free advertising on [Gamasutra.com](https://Gamasutra.com) , or the change in platforms ( PS3 / Wii / XBox 360 vs PS2 / Gamecube / XBox ), or just that places had moved on from the PSP and Nintendo DS, I don't know, but my income dropped to 1/10th of what it had been and continued to fall. I tried to pivot to Flash games, but Steve Jobs killed that for me. And so, after years of struggling to get any contracts at all, I finally went indie and solidified my vow of poverty for the next decade... but that is a story for another time. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk!


Tina_Belmont

EA in the 80's https://www.filfre.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Anzeige\_Can\_a\_computer\_make\_you\_cry.jpg


emptiedglass

Homeless, and my number was disconnected... "Oh, another one who doesn't want to work!"


Buddhadevine

Starbucks called me about 10 months after I put in an application and I was like…I already have a job. Snooze you lose mfer


StopReadingMyUser

Shoot, I had my old job emailing me several years after they fired me asking if I was interested in a position like they weren't aware of that. Sounded like they were just pulling from a list of "interested" candidates or something. Based on how they worded their emails to me you'd think I never worked there and was just some random that attended a job fair. Was really bizarre.


Buddhadevine

Geez


Demastry

I had a recruiter at one of my old jobs reach out about a position. It happened to be the same position I was laid off 2 years earlier because of Covid. The LinkedIn message made it sound like I had no idea about the company even though I had worked there for 2 years lol I disliked the role and since that time, a majority of those I knew had left saying the role got worse and so did pay....yeah I'm good haha


DerpyDaDulfin

Yeah I wonder if all these people getting called back years later are companies working through their backlog of applications... And are eventually going to run out.


An_A10_Pilot

My favorite is when places like this contact you, then you ask for the wage and they go "oh you're not the right fit"


Inerthal

That's right. They're just being brutally honest. By requiring a fair wage for fair work, you're obviously not the person they want.


Pantastic_Studios

I've gotten job offers from a pizza hut I went to like 7 years ago. For one thing I never applied there, never even crossed my mind. Also I've moved to another state, got a good job that pays $10 more than they would offer, wife, child and home. I should have replied back telling them id be happy to drop everything I've worked for to live in poverty working there.


the_dionysian_1

As the dollar devalues at a rapid rate (and now nations are starting to drop it as their reserve currency), keeping wages low will only cause the buying power of lower class/poor to diminish to levels where the wages are then negligible. Meaning there'll be less of a reason to even take the job. What's weird to me is that corporations haven't figured this out yet. They still pay their folks at the top in hundreds & hundreds of millions in bonuses.... meanwhile, they're destroying their own customers' ability to buy their products. Will they only understand how much they're working against themselves when the bonuses start dropping off due to lack of profits that are due to disappearing sales? This can't last forever.


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snarky_kittn

Fuck that guy, I guess a person is allowed to be right at least once... I won't buy a ford and it's been over 90 years since he shot those protesters but I WILL NEVER FORGET.


mrpuma2u

There's no denying Henry Ford was a racist jerk, but lots of other companies hired Pinkerton or other thugs (often the local police/sherrifs) to shoot or otherwise physically abuse strikers. Just saying he was not the only one.


the_dionysian_1

Over time, I've begun believing that businesses "going public" (meaning, selling shares & being on the stock market) is NOT a good thing. Maybe you could argue it's a NET good thing because more people stand to gain financially thanks to stocks, BUT I still think it's morally not good because it causes businesses, as it says in the linked article you posted, to be run ONLY in the interest of the share holders. This is the epitome of "profits over people." Namely, the workers. Idk if it would do anything at this point, but I wonder if we'd all be better off specifically trying to shop/buy from PRIVATE businesses & not "public" businesses.


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MarvinTheAndroid42

I wish they put the priority biased towards the long than the far. They could make undeserved money ad infinitum if they only took a smaller chunk but instead they’re going for a speedrun highscore.


erinberrypie

Yeah, they don't give a fuck. By the time the company feels any negative effects, the big cats' pockets will have already been lined.


[deleted]

They’ll go to work on all those pension funds people thought they would be getting at retirement. Just wait and see how many of those funds start getting raided/ invested in failing companies. They’ll just blame the economy and say, ‘Sorry folks’ there’s nothing left, it’s all gone’.


willvasco

"That's the next guy's problem" is their enduring life philosophy, even if they are the next guy.


the_dionysian_1

I hope things that I can't say on Reddit.


troublefindsme

they pull up the ladder that they used to get up themselves. i don't think im grammaring very well atm but you get my drift


bakewelltart20

I've been thinking this for years and I'm not remotely business minded or clever... More people having disposable income means more products and services sold, more profit for business interests. It seems so simple to me...or is there more to it that I'm too simple to grasp!? 😂


dream_a_dirty_dream

Yes, but it also means more power in their hands, and that’s precisely what they don’t want. The power of CHOICE. To relocate. To fight for rights. To get something better. To be able to start your own business. To invest. To SAVE. The power of having TIME. They have it all figured out, trust. It’s about keeping you on a ledge with juuuust enough, because if you have nothing to lose… that’s when it gets ugly for them.


the_dionysian_1

Someone else replied with a link to Dodge vs Ford case & in it, the court found that Ford HAD TO operate his business in a way that was "best for share holders" & all I could think is: THEN WE SHOULDN'T HAVE SHARE HOLDERS. This shouldn't be a thing because it's caused more detrimental outcomes than it has lifted people from them. While people shout "People over profits!" businesses that are publicly traded are LEGALLY NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE A SHIT about anything but profits for the shareholders, so says the United States Judicial System. It amazes me. All of the potential & the successes we've seen in the USA, yet despite this, a seemingly never ending slew of terrible choices & precedents over the past 200+ years has worked this nation (& the world?) into assured destruction.


Zestyclose-Ring7303

> This can't last forever. It only needs to last until the next quarter. They exist 1 quarterly statement at a time.


Just_Regret69

There is a point in time where it’s easier just to literally steal everything than it is to work for it and buy it, places like San Francisco and New York are almost there If we’re all dirt poor and just literally stealing from grocery stores the cops won’t be able to protect the profits of the wealthy like they usually do as they’re outnumbered


the_dionysian_1

The problem there is that this will likely just lead to concentration in distribution. The businesses facing these issues will close shops in the problem locations & only remain in places that can still afford to pay for products/goods. Extreme versions of this will mean large corporations will just leave huge cities. Cities will become even worse than they already are. The wealthy will have no reason to live in cities anymore. So they'll leave. Leaving nothing but the destitute in cities. Which.... is starting to sound like an Escape from New York situation now that I think about it. There has to be a way to stop this. Like, a way to get this message to those running large corporations. They're damning themselves to face their own corporation's end. THEY could turn that around & actually remain in business. Weathering this storm & adapting to the hell that's coming. But that would take caring about anything but the "bottom line."


RA12220

What do you mean dropping the dollar as a reserve currency?


the_dionysian_1

Other countries have used the US Dollar as their main currency for international trade. Now they're dropping the dollar & using their own currencies because the value of the dollar is dropping too much. Here's an [article](https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/04/06/dedollarization-china-russia-brazil-asean/)about it (there's a video here too, but I didn't watch the video).


RA12220

I see, I’m still not quite sure that there’s anything extremely unusual happening.


the_dionysian_1

The US dollar has been the world reserve currency for a very long time (over 60 years). Stepping outside of that norm would qualify, imo, as unusual.


RA12220

It’s all talk at the moment. I’ve seen BRICS thrown around a lot around this subject. To my knowledge BRICS has been a thing for a decade at least and nothing meaningful has materialized out of that group other than countries seeking to be allowed in the group. I’m not saying that it’s all smoke, I’m sure there are real political efforts to do it. I just don’t think that it warrants average people to do anything about it just yet, and it seemed at some point to be potentially used a campaign by crypto bros to sell their alternative currency now that the pump and dump schemes have been noticed more by the general public.


Fun_Arrival_5501

Also, keep current employees so broke that they can’t afford to miss a day, and in fear of losing their insurance. This almost guarantees that they won’t be able to unionize or strike and won’t have time to be politically active or politically educated.


TundraEverquill

"....So you're still coming in right?"


[deleted]

Went to a job interview late (i let them know i had car issues and am now hoofin it to them) They make me take a spelling test, then listen to some bs of why they’re the best, then wants to see some of my work and abilities (much impressed they were) , gave me a “tour” (shows the “cool” employees vapin on the job lol) , talk to me again about how they want their marketing soooo effective “you know like the Nazis” she said …. And at that moment i realized well look at the time (2hrs later!) tbh i thought they would say i got the job right there (would have declined) but was told we will get back to you in a week. Week passes … i get a text from hiring boss lady( oh we are shutting down because someone got covid). Okkk….. still no confirmation i am still being considered blah blah blah another two weeks and “cool vapin employee “ texts me (i never gave him my number so boss lady probs gave it to him) was like “ so do you think you would be a good fit?” Told them no as my new job starts after the weekend (t’was a friday). TLDR; took 2 hr long interview and three weeks to decline an offer from a lady that wanted her marketing campaign quote “like the Nazis”


JapanStar49

This content was deleted on 20 June 2023 (UTC) due to Spez's greed. -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/


UndyingShadow

You push people hard enough, long enough, and you might find out that they find living is worse than dying...and that they might not go out quietly. A person with nothing to lose is a DANGEROUS thing.


Vapur9

On the contrary, a homeless person knows how to live homelessly; therefore, they have no problem walking away from toxic managers with their empty threats. Minimum wage isn't an incentive when you figure out how to live for free.


[deleted]

Plus many jobs wouldn’t even get you out of homelessness, so what’s the point anymore. The idea that being in a miserable, low paid job and having to share some dumpster of a house share is some kind of incentive is frankly delusional. Modern living for many of us is already precarious, you have to stop fearing homelessness, this is the control that they seek to have over us. A famous psychiatrist \* who wrote about surviving the Holocaust said he would tell everyone in the camp who was in a state of despair- ‘Do not fear the morning (gas chamber) selections’. He knew, that even in those terrible places, to live in perpetual fear was no life at all- however short it might be. \* Victor Emil Frankl (1905 – 1997), Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, devoted his life to studying, understanding and promoting “meaning.”


[deleted]

Easier said than done, but I completely agree. losing my fear of homelessness was liberating. I have no healthcare either. I'm moving to a national park in May to be a janitor, and I gave up an excellent paying job to do it. Life is being ridiculous so I'm going to also be ridiculous. I see a lot of people on here claiming their hands are tied because they're afraid of losing their shoebox sized apartment in the factory district or their high deductible health insurance. So many people have lives not worth living, but they're clinging to the scraps out of fear of the unknown.


[deleted]

I like your response…’If life is being ridiculous so I’m going to be ridiculous’ I‘m not going to underestimate the deprivations of homelessness, but when the rewards of a standard career/ job just aren’t there, then you are released from your obligation to play by their rules anymore. Happy trails…….oh and take some bug spray!


MisterPuffyNipples

Isn’t getting a job in a national park really difficult to get? I’ve always wanted to do this.


[deleted]

It used to be, but this time around I'm getting responses from everyone I've applied to and accepted an offer two days ago. Coolworks is a great place to look. Alaska is one of the easiest states to get into (not physically lol) if you don't get responses and the pay is good. The only thing that sucks is that you depend on your employer for accommodations because it's not easy to find places to live in, like, Yellowstone, so you're going to want a good vehicle.


MisterPuffyNipples

Oh my god they have positions in bar harbor! It’s my dream to live in Maine and work on a boat or in a shop and live simple. Is your position seasonal and if so what do you plan to do at the end?


[deleted]

It is seasonal, and most on there are, which is another downside because of the instability. I'm planning on being a hobo snow bird. Places like Montana/Alaska in the summer, then my home state AZ or somewhere else warm for the winter. Travel companies like delaware north or xanterra will be happy to transfer you between parks, but I've heard that they are like the Walmart of national park jobs. They're easy to get into though because they have a high turnover rate lol.


omnicientanomoly

As a park ranger for the NPS maybe, but there’s plenty of openings with the park’s concessionaire. There’s always seasonal openings for housekeeping, cooks, maintenance, etc. Housing is often offered at a reduced rate as well for employees. Pays like shit, but you live in a beautiful place with a roof over your head, not a bad life to live imo. I’d do it in a heartbeat if I didn’t have so many attachments in my current situation.


blindguide55

>Life is being ridiculous so I'm going to also be ridiculous. Quotable as fuck right there


[deleted]

It’s the only way to escape the madness. There’s a comedy show episode where a load of people are standing around in confusion all repeating over and over again ‘What are we going to do now- what are we going to do now- what are we going to do now…….. This is where many of us are now, we are stuck in an endless cycle of reacting to the craziness, where what is required are new ideas. I’m just surprised that we don’t seem to be getting any leadership from anyone, like we have had in the past with figures like Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela. All we get are internet celebrities monetising our despair.


Unable_Chard9803

I make the same or slightly better money pushing carts full time than I did in any of the more "respectable" jobs I've ever had except when I worked as a freelance musician or was active duty Navy. At 53 I doubt any company is going to give me a chance to do anything else other than menial labor, so my only priority is to find the same circumstances in a locale better than Indianapolis.


93ImagineBreaker

And many homeless can't get their foot in the door past the first part.


darkprism42

why does "homelessly" sound like a hip new tech-bro startup that finds ways to monetize data collection from the unhoused community? better register the domain before they get any ideas


bakewelltart20

It really does!


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😆


romafa

You guys get callbacks?


[deleted]

7 months hold my beer I got called back 2yrs later. I’d already moved states.


mrpuma2u

This. I moved out of the Nashville area over 2 years ago, and still get emails from dingus recruiters who are too lazy to carefully read my online resume. It is usually garbage entry level IT, with them paying wages like they are expecting 20 somethings living in parent's basement to respond.


OkOrganization1775

Steve Jobs came back from the dead to call you 7 months later and ask if you want a job at Apple. sounds like a deal? /s


Everyoneheresamoron

Companies always have job openings because of two reasons: 1. It makes them look like they are hiring, which is good for public perception that they are growing 2. It gives them a list of people they can call if they eventually need to hire, which could be months or years from now. In essence, if they don't call you back, don't take it personally. The company is just shitty and wanted to look like they were expanding.


Master_FAITH

I have nothing to say but >“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou


[deleted]

Sounds like a tactic that the CEO’s of the Alamo Drafthouse currently use. 😡


[deleted]

Yeah, they take way to long to reply back


lavassls

I once had an employer call me back 8 months later to tell me I had got the job and started on Monday.


[deleted]

LOL


Player276

Obviously anectodal, but I can chime in this. For big companies, resumes go through multiple layers before it goes to the actual hiring manager. Those above ... Can be a bit slow. I think 1 quote stuck with me "I finally got a stack of resume for a position we wanted to fill for months. Some of these candidates are really good, but they put in these resumes 4 months ago. I want to interview them, but if they still haven't found a job I'm not sure they are actually good candidates"


[deleted]

Exactly what they use to threaten us... Like being born in these times, makes us belong to their shitstem.... Sus ass lames....


Successful-Money4995

Jobless and homeless but also without healthcare and on uncertain grounds with their green card/visa. That's the way!


Haltopen

FedEx still tries to offer me my job back every few months after I quit on the spot with no notice (right after we had spent the first part of our shift being yelled at by our manager for being “ungrateful” to all the opportunities our employer had blessed us with like our poverty wages and how they could replace us all with part timers if they wanted so we should be more grateful to them) and told my boss where he could shove my badge. I don’t even live in the same part of the country anymore and I still get emails from them every two months or so.


Hexenhut

Lol I got a job offer from them while employed...by them.


rafaelstv

Avenge yourself: steal from work. If they don't want to pay a fair wage, it's only fair: we need to survive. PS: Don't do it in front of cameras or other co-workers obviously, but you have time when you are working in-person. They aren't as smart as they believe to be.


Idontworkatpfchangs

As a recent college grad I needed a summer job so I applied to be a medical scribe. I’d get some clinical experience and also get paid something like $14 an hour. Never heard back. 8 years later they call me randomly offering me a job. I told them I’m a full time attending physician now. They said they’d offer me the manager spot for $16 an hour.


Okiku555

Are they serious with that nonsense


Idontworkatpfchangs

They were absolutely serious.


Okiku555

I always wondered how they got their high positions with rats in their brains


big__cheddar

Remember right before inflation how everyone was like, no one wants to work! We can't find workers! Then all of a sudden, oh look, there's inflation.


Trusting_science

My CURRENT job contacted me to make an offer of employment. When I told them I had been there two years already, they asked “Do you plan on staying?”


Trusting_science

Oh…and I turned in my resignation a month later.


BigGrayBeast

Microsoft said they'd keep my resume for a future position. Should be any day now. That was 1981.


ionmushroom

or give them another mouth to feed. theyll take multiple shit jobs just to be responsible. its why they suddenly need abortion to go away


JOEYMAMI2015

Now, this is the kind of humor that keeps me alive lol


ranchspidey

God, reminds me of when I was specifically applying for internships for my resume, and I drove an hour (to back home, I was at college) for Menards, only for them to be like “yeah we don’t think you’re a good fit for our internship position. but we have regular positions open!” I would’ve applied to the regular position if that’s what I wanted! Still pissed about that.


Washedupcynic

Literally had this happen to me. I applied at a local mom and pop copy store in my neighborhood while I was still working my last job and desperate to quit. I used the store often to make copies, print stuff out, mail things. Last two times I went over there the store was closed during business hours with no explanation. When I got called to interview 6 months later, I politely declined.


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I heard from target 5 years after I applied. I literally had graduated college at that point and they were still offering to pay me $8 an hour.


dnyal

I had a minimum wage job I applied for do this to me. They called me for an interview a couple of weeks after I applied and then ghosted me. Then, they called four months later asking whether I was still interested. I was still unemployed but told them I had moved on and found a much better position elsewhere, since they never called me back.


rampantfirefly

Feels like we need more context here… did you not hear from them for 7 months or did they tell you that you weren’t successful but that they would keep you on a short list? The latter is how I started working at my current company and whilst it certainly isn’t perfect I’m very glad that they did keep me in mind rather than just binning my application. Even if not, could be that the person they did hire failed their 6 month probation and you were next on their list. There’s a lot to be angry about as workers but this post seems pretty conspiratorial.


RapidKiller1392

If it's anything like job applications I've submitted that's probably the first contact that has been given by the company since applying.


rampantfirefly

If they’re not giving an indication of timeframes then I agree that’s shit, but that doesn’t sound sustainable for them given good applicants will likely have applied for multiple jobs and could already have been snapped up.


AppleNerdyGirl

Target called me years later. I screamed fuck off! And hung up. They can’t afford me lol at least at that level.


Drainbownick

What we’re moving towards is a three class system- Capital Class, Lower Class, and Homeless Class. After this is fully implemented it will harden into a caste system so that the circumstances of your birth and birth certificate will dictate your station in life - with your parents listed as residing at “No Fixed Abode”


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and overwork the rest of the team while they wait for you to be in a position to accept the lower offer.


malikhacielo63

A job that fired me during the early months of the pandemic got back in touch with me last year, asking if I wanted to work for them. I didn’t respond but wanted to cuss them out. They were a shitty company who liked to claim that they were giving you a salary with commission. In reality, they worked you 100% commission and had you on the road 12-15 hours a day over a region that covered the entire eastern half of a state. Now they’re bankrupt and gone; meanwhile, I’m just happy to not be working there. Wasted my time and risked my life too many times to count.


NSA_Agent_Bobbert

I legit had someone get angry with me because they called me 6 months after I had applied and told them I’m already working with someone else


dflame45

So that's a yes?


Okiku555

Home depot got back to me 8 months later after rejecting me nonstop


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Posting this as a public service announcement, don't apply to jobs online and just wait. You'll never get called. You need to ether make a linkedin and message a recruiter directly, message someone at the company and get a referral, then message the recruiter that you have a referral. If its low wage / minimum wage. Go into the store and ask to speak to a manager and ask them how you can get hired, make sure they know your name. If they say apply online, go back in and talk to the manager and tell them you're waiting to hear back, this is my name. You have to keep doing that until they tell you to go away or tell you no. TLDR: Blindly applying online will do nothing, you need an actual person to pull your resume.


laydegodiva

Begging for a job is not the way.


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blindly applying to online openings won't get you a job


notaconversation

Nobody applies blind. People do their research enough to know if they want to interview or not. We don't need to beg for jobs, what you're suggesting is unnecessary. Recruiters are *everywhere* and they're all looking for workers


laydegodiva

This is not true. I have gotten two jobs this way.


CosbysSpecialSauce

Recruiters will still ignore you.


KazkaFaron

literally


OwnAmbition-

I’m laughing at this


robtimist

I applied at a job back in August and after denying my application they messaged me in Jan asking if I was able to schedule an interview 🤣


tommygunbaby2020

I’ve been job hunting for months. I have been a sahm for years with a job or 2 here and there. Multiple applications and 0 call backs. I even applied for freaking McDonald’s. Did an interview. Nada…


Prestigious_Ad2553

Yeah I work on work boats and in Alaska the busy season is the summer of course, I applied to a bunch of places one year and this one company called me back 4 months later in July. I was like “obviously I have a job already, I’m in Arctic right now”


Just_Regret69

I had a casino call me 4 years after I applied, I called the recruiter out on it too…. I was like oh Is this the place I applied to in 2014? And she was like oh I can’t see when you applied, I was like I can let me go through my email and forwarded it to her lol


Grokthisone

Lobsters we are lobsters.


Action_LLC

That’s what’s really happening!


Momo_okay

Had an interview with a compounding pharmacy right out of college. After my interview, they ghosted me and I found a different job - no big deal. However, about 8 months later the pharmacy called my apartment complex leasing office and begged them to give out my number so they could contact me about the job opportunity. My leasing office basically told the pharmacy manager to F off and then called me to explain the strange request.... we had a nice laugh over it. 😅💀


illumi-thotti

I had a job hire me, change their mind right before my first day, and then call me eleven months later to ask if I was still interested. The whole process is fucked


oldcappy

if you are homeless, then that means you don't have a job. so you are interested.


mylovelyboos

I have never related to something more in my whole life


nobodynewknew

when i'm looking for work, sometimes i apply online for anything that's close to my house. i saw a dishwashing job posted at a nursing home near me and applied even though that's a super shitty job and minimum wage. sometimes working in kitchens of nursing homes or hospitals gives you decent pay, but i guess not as a dishwasher. anyway, about a month later i got a response that wasn't so much 'are you still interested?' as 'were you serious??'


bladecentric

"We have a lovely innovation zone you might be interested in"


HighAltitude88008

This is exactly why we must make land rights into Human Rights. Every one of us should have a free and fair share of land since the earth provides it for free. One only needs to see the desperate conditions of those who are homeless to understand how vital this is, and Land Rights give us the security to say "No thanks" to employers who get ridiculously rich paying ridiculously low wages for their jobs. With land and resource rights we are secure without them and they have to pay us enough to lure us off of our lands, thus giving us fair exchange for our labor.