I’m applying to jobs constantly, filling out applications like a machine, tailoring each individual submission to the company I’m looking at. I’m getting jobs that just don’t say shit, no response, so I follow up and then they suddenly act like they give a shit or they just outright tell me the position is no longer available. I call these places, and I don’t get an answer. I email them, and I don’t get an answer. This is often leaving me to have to go there in person, only for them to tell me “lolno”, and what the fuck is decent about that?
Listen, I understand company managers can be “busy”, but is there any shred of decency in you that can make you hold the empathetic viewpoint that maybe people applying for jobs are looking around for jobs constantly? We don’t have the time to hunt you down to get a definitive answer. It’s no pain to shoot an email or a text and just ring my phone to spare me from some bullshit.
This emotionally daunting process is the worst. It’s only made even more horrendous by the fact that I’m trans and need to filter out and avoid jobs that are going to disregard any respect for queer people.
Don’t even get me started on jobs that lie on their postings, either by omission or outright. I see this place telling me “This is a full-time position!” when they actually put this shit up, and right before an interview, they email me to clarify that it somehow is explicitly part-time now. This is so fucking insane. Some things like that are literally fucking dealbreakers for me. I don’t have the best transportation in the world to be led into the assumption that I can work two separate part-time jobs as easily as some other people could. And obviously, those fuckers that completely omit payment information are the worst.
Every candidate in this shitty capitalist system wants to work to make a living and not give a shit about more than they have to. This stress I’m facing while being unemployed is ultimately worse than any shortcoming I could have that makes these employers not want to consider me.
All I’d really have to say to them is that they have to fucking treat me with basic human decency, respect, and give me access to wages and hours I can keep myself alive with because I’m in a bad spot enough as is. Even if I were in a stable job, I got a ton of other things to work out. Employment is, by no means, a panacea for all I’m going through, but it’ll help me get on a path to work towards alleviating pain and distress in other areas.
These companies are merely conveying to me that this system needs to be burned to the ground if bosses are too greedy and disrespectful for the sake of their profits, with them absolutely throwing so many people under the bus when those people can perform the functions of these jobs just as well as any other.
I can’t with how picky these motherfuckers are.
I feel for you, comrade. I’ve been looking for jobs for more than half a year by now and all I get is denial mails saying the exact same things you mentioned. I remember being told that getting a Master’s degree would open all doors for me and that I’d get a super mega great job out of it. Now whenever I get a reply, I’m either too inexperienced, bc I haven’t worked yet and “just studied” or they say I’m overqualified for the job, even though my degree makes me the perfect fit for the job. It’s not ending, and I don’t see it ending any time soon, if ever.
I’m not sure for how long I can still stand this bc it keeps killing me, very slowly and agonizingly.
what if you remove the degree from your resume?
i knew someone who had a philosophy degree it made them basically unemployable. nobody wants a philosopher working under them, but pretending to have been intermittently employed only did the trick.
I’ve considered that too but afaik there’s a rule in my country that you have to prove your work and education history. Omitting something isn’t an issue, but to substitute that with anything else would require paperwork that I just don’t have. (And my potential employers have a right to ask for said paperwork.)
It’s fucked, intentionally so.
ya that what I mean just remove it. if you didn’t have any job at all just say you were out of the workforce doing personal things. imagine you were taking care of a sick relative full time but you don’t want to talk about it.
Again, not a bad idea, but I’d have to explain away 9 years for both degrees.
Edit: And as someone without any work experience whatsoever, I don’t see how omitting the degrees would really help improve my CV.
But you have friends on Lemmy who will gladly vouch for your history of consulting work for them