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When I first started job searching, nearly a decade ago, my parents and grandparents kept pushing me to go in and ask for an application so they know that I'm interested. Instead, I was greeted with confused looks and the same "You're supposed to apply online" response. Even after telling them that it doesn't work that way anymore, my family still believes that walking in and looking the manager in the eyes is good enough.
My dad is one of these people who think you just have to show up at a random company with your resume and a big smile and you get hired immediately. The funniest thing ? He became a teacher at 18 until his retirement and never had to apply to a single job in his life.
I mean. I agree this is stupid. But not because everything is online. Knowing the right person is a HUGE way to get a job. Like even more important than it used to be I'd wager. It's just that that person isn't the random 22 y/o "manager" working 35 hr a week so the company so avoid paying everyone health insurance. You would need to know the owner, someone on the board, or someone with some pull in HR (and that last one is a strong maybe.)
Even if it does work that way, my opinion is it just shows you as desperate which is something you never want to indicate to a person you work for, since they can leverage it to take advantage of you.
Underrated comment. Creating an account at a companies website is a huge waste of time and is so damned draining. Getting a rejection letter is better than having to make an account.
i applied to panera bread a week or so ago, a part of their “interviewing” or seeing if youre good enough to get a response was a PERSONALITY TEST!!! They gave you images and no description just a vague stock image with “least like me and most like me” 😐
It's 🍌. I've literally applied to an office job that requires 0 driving and they REQUIRE a driver's license and valid insurance for the state I live in
This is means testing and likely originated to keep minorities out of jobs intended for white people. But because of how it's written, it is not interpreted by most as a racist question. So yeah, that sucks.
The trick for this is to say you have reliable transportation, and don't elaborate - jump into your skills for the job and why you'd be able to do it better than someone else instantly after you say it - do not let them ask for you to elaborate. Reliable transportation can be your neighbor who drives you, public transportation, a fucking bicycle with training wheels, if you can get there and it's reliable it's transportation!
@@izzabellasmith939Some jobs ask for reliable transportation, lots of jobs ask for a valid license, and a decent amount require no infractions over the last few years despite the job not requiring driving. They just need employees willing to transport and use vehicles despite it not being a part of the job.
Companies are crappy these days but even with that not so crazy as to hire a nobody from the internet without referrals. This is why all those job internet platforms are BS.
I’m 32, good looking strong guy. But I’m very shameful I don’t have a career. Makes me not want to do anything. Get anything brother. Anything is better than nothing
had a decent job before covid working at a vending company. worked hard, showed up every day. When covid came they told me i was safe, only to be fired that march. Still havent found anything as lucrative or flexible even after finishing my degree. Only jobs out there are soul sucking call center jobs or retail hell. I say all this to say that you are not alone
I'm 23, I managed to find work around Easter as an English teacher at a small private afternoon academy. It's relatively few hours and I get nothing during the summer, so it's barely livable, but it's something I genuinely enjoy so I hope I can keep it long enough to build up experience and be trusted in more viable teaching positions. Keep in mind, I had to study a whole degree in the UK (in econ and business which is unrelated but I mean, it's in the UK so it should prove that I dominate the language), spend years doing freelance tutoring, and only barely get it because the owner of the business is a life-long friend of my family and I'm also a former student of hers. So all that work, plus being lucky with connections and timing of the position opening, and it got me a €13/h job with barely enough hours to live off of if you ignore the fact that it's unpaid vacation for 25% of the year. Also, AI has basically destroyed all of the translation gigs my fellow teachers would take to make this situation livable with their skill sets. Working 6 6.5h shifts at a supermarket currently during the summer is utterly soul crushing though, I'm just gonna quit in August I think. I'm also lucky that I can stay with family and that I don't have to pay for a car. I'm worried because in my country, you need special certification to teach in public or semi-public schools, and I can only get that masters education if the government validates my degree which I got in the UK, but it's been just over a year since I applied for that and they still haven't validated it. Plus, there's a weird regional language that's basically mandatory to earn a high level certificate in, in order to be considered in so many industries. Because the regional government enforces it even though it's almost no-one's first language.
Don't feel bad. I'm 31 and still completely directionless. I still have no clue what to do with my life. Every job I've ever had was awful, and every job I haven't had sounds awful.
"This email is on regard to Position at Company We're sorry, but you aren't a good fit for Position. We'll keep you in mind though if anything roast comes available at Company" *Resume sent in 3 years ago*
3:53 this pisses me off so much because NO ONE accepts CVs/resumes in person anymore, they’ve all got their own job website that needs it’s own login and they all suck
Right? I had a friend in my university class that was printing out a shitload of her resumes at the school library to drop them off at different companies looking for internships. She paid +1,000 mexican pesos (like 60 USD, so roughly half of a student's weekly budget here in Mexico.) for all of them, just to go back to class the next day saying no one accepted her resumes and was told to look on job boards :(... I kinda felt sorry for her, but I did tell her that no one took in person applications any more before she printed them out.
@@emilyau8023 This! Then you have to spend 30 minutes to an hour correcting each job application, and filling in the correct info. I Hate those autofill systems.
I am a recruiter as well. Early on, my boss was saying to only talk to people who have degrees. I talked with them and ended up convincing them to allow us to hire people with no degree if they seem like quality candidates. I have helped many people with no degree find work in my field. I think everybody deserves a chance.
Thank you. I have no degree only because I worked for one company for 15 years. I worked there starting at 16 in high school, and after trying 4 year university but not liking it at the time, I kept on with the same job from then on. Its people like me, who seem unqualified, but actually have 15 years of experience working and being loyal to a company, that need prospective employers to understand that a degree should not become a requirement. I understand that education is very important, but is it actually helpful to have a college degree when you're 10 years into a job where you only use a particular set of skills on a daily basis?
@@mustardofdoom they are told what to look for and get stuck in their ways/subconsciously judge people that do not fit the narrative. Many people are capable of doing different jobs. And many jobs have training so it makes no sense to me.
My own dad had this mindset, he had to approve all the candidates they would hire and if the HR came to him with a candidate that had no degree he declined them. What always got me is that he literally didn't spend the time to look at anything else, even on the people with degrees. He just decided that his job as "the boss" of that particular office was to make sure they had a degree. People are lazy, they get 118 applications and the bulk of the work looking through that pile is to look for reasons to exclude as many of the candidates as possible so they only have to compare two or three candidates.
I've been applying for 7-20+ jobs a DAY for over a month, did countless interviews, and only got one positive response. Yeah I wonder why everyone my age has severe depression and a warped idea of self worth.
it took me 6 months and well over 300 or 400 applications before i got a job... at a gas station. at least i have a source of income again 🤷 weirdly enough, it pays just as much as that one job tugg described that required 3+ years of experience in adobe. this is a very warped and depressing hellscape we live in. hell, it took 2 years for my fiancee to find work despite the fact she has over a decade of experience.
I fucking hate it when a job employer never reach out to you. Like even if I'm not accepted just say it to me. So I won't waste time thinking about if I'm accepted or not. For fuck sake
I applied for a job, and they emailed me saying they'll call to set up an interview in less than a week, a week passed, I called, and they said to just go on Monday which is their open interview day for anyone, I did, and they said they'll call me in a week to let me know if I have the job or not. No call, I called a week or so later just saying they aren't hiring anymore. My family kept saying to call to show I'm interested, and that's why I kept calling but it still pissed me off when they said they'll call me and never do.
It's ironic that you say that because in the 80s and 90s you didn't get any kind of notification that you didn't get the job. Not hearing back from the employer WAS your notification that you didn't get the job 😂
They don't have time. It's exactly why recruiters take like 5 seconds to look at a resume and they already know if your a candidate for the next hoop or not. There are too many workers and not enough good jobs. The sheer amount they have to get through is too high to even send automated responses of rejection. Not that I disagree. It sucks in anything you apply for job or otherwise to just have to assume the answer was no because no response for however long it's meant to take means no, but you also think "What if i missed something?" Worse to me is whey they say they'll contact you with a decision and never do. Like, don't lie about it, just say if you're chosen or considered, you will receive contact. If not, bye.
I just got a rejection from a job i applied to 2 years ago. I was obviously devastated that after 2 years of carefully reviewing my resume, deloitte finally decided to move on to someone else.
Job listings are a mislabled, lawless wasteland. Jobs would be tagged as "remote" but the description would say "FULLY IN PERSON POSITION." I saw entry level positions that wanted masters degrees and 10 years exp. WHY tag a job with the OPPOSITE of what it is. Who gains from that??
The worst to me are the fake companies. I can't say how many times I Googled the company's name only to find that they don't have an address, company website, or any Reviews. You can report them, but who knows if these websites will actually do anything, and then more will just pop up so the whole exercise is meaningless. Weeding through all the fake companies was probably the worst part of my job search
I recently sent in like 40 applications and the ONLY reply i got was some dude from a RV company being like ‘oh, thanks, didn’t realize we left this old posting up:)!’
@@arpiabu-alrub7484There's nothing fundamentally wrong with a company changing their priorities half-way through and closing some positions. It is also normal that some of them advertise the job on 5 platforms and then forget to close the application somewhere after it has been filled. The problem is the scale of this stuff. If anything, applying online should be made illegal, so that jobs are limited to those who live nearby. It's brutal, but letting the entire world apply results in thousands of applications, which are impossible to filter through.
not to mention the fact that if your resume isnt formatted perfectly for the HR ATS software, it could just get automatically rejected without any human ever seeing it ever. that was THE most demotivating fact i learned while applying for jobs
HR clowns are peak cockroaches. If their management every found out about 10% of the bullshit they get up to, they would be appalled. Litterally happened with my dad once.
Don't forget to add the entire job description in white on the application so the ATS gives you a positive match, also more recently adding chatgpt instructions supposedly also helps. It sucks that we have to do this but if they don't play fair neither should we
@@artemisiakyrell7727 Some ATS, like at Jobot, will highlight relevant keywords so if you are just hiding everything in 'white' text they'll see what you're trying to pull
Recently left my job due to having a mental breakdown. Turns out everyone loves setting you up for one but is so shocked when you have one. Thanks for giving me a few giggles to help keep me going through this awful time, hopefully it will end soon. In the getting better way, not the other way I could have meant that...
Oof I know how you feel mate. I recently left my bartending job because of the stress my assistant manager put me through. Leaving because of a breakdown sucks but it's not the end of the world :)
When I applied for a 3 year apprenticeship (Germany) as an office worker, they wanted me to create a full presentation on how offfice based companies can maximize their success in reaching younger audiences for job applications. I did and they didn't took me. I feel like I just gave them a free consultation on how they can improve their company.
@@dannydogs4385 That's not gonna happen, I believe you aren't familiar with the german work culture. In short, as a trainee you are basicaly crawling through mud, working full time 3 years for 600-800€ (about $600-800) a month, to acquire a degree which is needed to get jobs that are above the minimum wage cap. There are well known customs too, like as a trainee you are overall poorly treated and degraded to do the shitty stuff, cleaning toilets, managing coffee machines and so on, it's very common in Germany and it seems that nobody cares and says, that's just how it always has been. I believe in some countrys this might be the same, but the trainee time is shorter and you can faster get to a decent wage.
If you apply to a graphic design position, they will usually ask you to do an assignment to see if you're the right fit, which is basically just several hours of unpaid work and does not guarantee you to get hired at all. Edit: Just got to the part at the end where Tugg talks about these and yup, that's right, and it's not just the US. I live in Europe and it's just as bad.
I hear this happens a lot in storyboarding as well, which is why The Animation Guild is pushing for paid tests. Unpaid tests are garbage and should not exist
Heck yeah. I did this for a high corporate position. Giving them days worth of work and recommendations via presentation. I was rejected, and they have my ideas and resources. And never had decency to respond how I could improve. I’ll always regret that 😂
Jobs used to ask for your portfolio, aka a sample size of your best work. Try to show them that instead, if possible, like an attachment on your resume
@@markmickman good idea. This one in particular, had a business case. Asking how to better reach their audience. I will refrain from giving too much valuable info to them in beginning. Thanks 🙏🏽
I am a manager of a small office at a college (higher education administration). We’re fully staffed with 5 people, including me. I had a vacancy for my mid-level position. HR wanted me to require a master’s degree. I refused, as it really wasn’t necessary. HR still posted it as, “bachelor’s required, master’s preferred.” Ugh.
I hate how inconsistent that stuff is. Sometimes preferred virtually means required but other times I've applied to jobs which say they require certain grades (like they right it down as a key point with capital letters) and they let me go forward without possessing that strict quality.
@@kag2576 right? After a certain point I lost that hesitation of like "oh I don't meet most of these criteria" because most of the time the description is bs. Like what's the worst they can do, not hire me? They probably weren't going to anyway.
I h8 the fact that there are so many sheep getting worthlessness degrees abd applying for jobs like this letting delusional entitled hr departments justify their insulting demands
bro I went to interview for a 5 yr exp job and I had 7 yr so I though no problem. The hiring manager was like "you are replacing a 25yr veteran, you think you are good enough? go ahead, impress me. I didn't read your resume so just go, impress me". Literally with eye roll as soon as the interview started. XD Red flag all over.
@@maximidze2286 it was pretty toxic manager. XD he actually kind of got angry I wasted his time because I didn’t have what he wanted. The thing is, he reached out to me after finding me on LinkedIn for interview lol. And I was 100% honest about my skills. I can’t say who it is but it’s one of the faang companies. He actually legit made me feel bad about myself 😅 had to take like a 3 day hiatus from job search to recover but boy I’m glad he didn’t hire me cause he is too toxic lol
@@ChiakiNanami736 Look, it's a tough economy. We need 30 years experience in Rust, 3000 years experience in C++, and knowledge of Ancient Aztec. Yes, this is a Junior position. Pay is $20/hr. Overtime is unpaid. We are firm believers in 2810, you work 28hrs a day, ten days a week. Yes. It does cause temporal paradoxes, that's what the Ancient Aztec is for. You pray to one of ten forgotten deities to help you with Paradox eaters, and if you're a lucky, they will not eat your heart. The gods. Paradox eaters will annihilate you from all timelines forever. Look, I got hundreds of potential sacrifices... I mean candidates, lining up for this job.
I have two degrees and 20 years of experience. I took 5 years off of working to care for my mother throughout her cancer battle. It took me NINE MONTHS and dozens of interviews to get a retail position I first had at the same company I worked for as a teenager back in 2001. The system is broken and yes, they are trying to reinstate feudalism and slavery. They've made that very clear.
Yep! They basically had a person who took over someone else's job after that person quit, and the company refused to replace the 2nd person. That happened several times, and now they want a person to willingly take all the responsibilities so the business can say "you signed up for this when you applied, so I don't understand why you are complaining. You need to become more efficient and organize your time better." Source: It happened to me
My grandma literally could not process the thought that applying online is the only way now. She just thunks your sitting there being lazy while you're on your 120th application
I wish I could go through the hell of interviewing, but employers don't even let me get that far. Recently graduated with a master's degree and I've never felt less qualified for... anything. I want to be able to use my degree but all the jobs that would use it also require me to have 5+ years of experience and/or a big load of nepotism. I hate existing.
Ah. You're what they call 'overqualified'. My sister did that to herself. She got a masters and suddenly HR was very wary of her. She ended up moving to a very similar job just in a whole new district, and it worked out. But yeah, its a lose-lose kinda thing, where they are suspicious of you wanting to get paid a ton I think.
As jt5wg said, you're 'overqualified'. My uni had a field trip to a local company where they informed us that they like to hire students because of their young and fresh insights/knowledge (and probably a couple of more reasons that I'm forgetting). However, they said they refused students who studied higher than a bachelor degree not just because in some scenarios they have to pay you more, but because the way you think and your knowledge has narrowed into a niche, which makes you highly specialised but lacking in everything else. It's pretty much 'A jack of all trades is a master of none, but better than a master of one.' The only people I've seen successful with master degrees are those who go into the workforce first then do their master degree alongside work, or have become a researcher at a university.
Is civil disobedience not specifically government-opposed? Like it's not illegal to strike, right? It's just exercising one's rights (not that that should factor into whether you do something, I'm just saying neither the government nor your employer have any power to force you to work)
@@johnstanley3939 you have a legal right to strike (in the US and EU). But more importantly I think it's important to know that not all laws are just. It's a grave mistake to conflate legality with morality. Do something because you believe in it
even the fast food chains are starting to do this "record a 1 minute video of urself explaining why you want this job" + "fill out this long ass questionnare thats basically ur CV" bs
I noticed that too. For some companies, they requested a minute recording, and it felt so awkward and disrespectful that I just withdrew my application and rejected their company immediately. If you don't show enough respect to candidates to have a one-on-one conversation, then you do not deserve my attention. I think it's entirely disgusting and it's just another tool for companies to use to openly discriminate against candidates before they even had a chance to demonstrate their actual skills and personality.
@@colechapman6976 I hope you find a small business with integrity that you can work for. That is literally the only type of business I find that will not seek out the bullshit responses. Its only the mom and pop shops who wouldn't ask for this kind of thing anymore.
I went for an interview at a grocery store, and didn’t even get that. I have submitted countless applications and resumes over the past year, even though mentally I know I can’t anymore. What else can I do? I am homeless and about to be on the street. I read so many of these stories of what people are going through and it’s sad and insane. When you can’t buy food, buy soap to take a shower or do laundry, shit that can make you feel like a loser.
I have been unemployed for a year. I have some disabilities that make most jobs inacessible. The only job I had was because of a friend. This system sucks so much.
Our economic system actually REQUIRES a certain amount of people to be jobless to maintain the extractive relation between capital and labour. And that's not even some socialist theory. Its litteraly neoclassical econ 101
For a year? Then you're no longer included in the 4% unemployment rate. 12% of the population are unemployed but the employment rate is whittled down to look as good as it possibly can by excluding more and more people.
I applied to Checkers which is a fast food restaurant and they wanted 7. count it. 7 years of customer service experience. I havent even been able to legally work for 7 years. Thats suppose to be like a high schooler's first job. Expectations are WAY to high.
Apply anyway. I'm being interviewed next week for a job I don't meet qualifications listed for, but when I pointed that out they said no worries and scheduled the interview anyway. At the very least, if the interview is easy for you to get to, its good to use them to practice.
My most hated thing on job applications is “Why do you want to work at Big Company Ltd?” Which in my opinion loosely translates to “Please blow smoke up our company’s ass for one paragraph”.
Every time I filled this out, I get this little bit of my soul shaved off. I started out answering a bit to honest, saying stability of the pay and benefits was what I was looking for. LOL. Obviously never got contacted by the companies when I answered that way. The second I started bullshitting the corporate style answers, I started getting contacted. I feels so dehumanizing but I gotta pay rent so. . .
@@---jt5wg the only way to answer that is to explain what skills you have and how it can help the company for that role. "I have 7 years experience dealing with negotiation or code optimization with c++ on UI and this is how I can contribute in this role....". It's a hard one and require some deep thought about the position they want. :/
That's why you dorks don't get hired, you're soft and blowing smoke. You're fake. Say this: I want to work for your company because I feel my skills could make a big impact, and it's also a good way for me to meet other talented individuals who I can network with. Etc. why do you actually want to work for a mega corp vs a small start up?
I miss the old days when you just ran around with a stack of resumes and walked into every business asking if they were hiring like that was so efficient damn it
Thank god it's not like that anymore, exactly the least efficient way to prospect for a job ! And thank you for reminding us how much beter it is now, thanks to the internet we can apply to places we didn't even know existed around us or further away and employers can actually leave ads online for us to instantly find.
I tried applying the online way looking for my first job. It didn’t work. So i just started walking around putting in applications for a lot of businesses. And it worked. You can still do this kind of thing if you are applying to local places. Any huge franchises will usually have online only applications.
@@joeydrew528yeah, that’s how I’ve got most of my jobs. I initially had the opposite experience where applying for jobs online never actually got me the job. Shit just got lost in the shuffle every time. It’s finally worked now
@@insertnicknameherejob ads online are very entitled and demanding. They require ridiculous things for an entry level job, they have all those stupid "must be a motivated and positive team player" when they're only offering 40k a year and the job sucks ass. I was told to look though two websites from different businesses I walked into and they didn't even work. All systems suck, employers suck, jobs suck, the rich folks demanding a tonne on your part while paying you less than living wage all while offering cringy advice as if they didn't just work in daddy's company all suck.
It sucks that you still got to fill out a full online application to every job just to get nowhere. I have to spend 30 mins filling out everything thats already on my resume just to be auto rejected
I hate that we're supposed to act like companies are doing us a favor by employing us when there company can't exist without us. I am currently hunting for a new job while still employed at my current one. I want to transition out of the field I am in but it feels like there is nothing unless you've already worked in somewhere for 3 years. Very sick of job hunting and wish there was a system that protected workers rather than companies.
I'm fairly certain that the whole, stupid, obviously broken thing is going to collapse in on itself in the foreseeable future. The economy is *not* doing well, nor is the labor market "robust" or "booming" like the propaganda about it suggests, and people can see that, even if they don't understand the reasons (but some YT econ/finance related creators are talking about the why now, and it's really telling). Big companies are struggling (except maybe Walmart, but them doing well is literally an indicator that the rest of the economy *isn't*), and instead of _hiring_ people, so that more people have money to spend on their dumb products and services, they're laying off _more_ people and/or _freezing_ hiring. They're shooting themselves in the foot, doing the same dumb, myopic thing they always do where they prioritize short-term gains or avoided losses over long-term stability (let alone ethical or moral behavior; they seem constitutionally incapable of that), and I expect over the next few years we will see some shocking bankruptcy filings by companies almost nobody would believe today could fail (I half expect the parent company of this platform to be one them).
Me too, I'm working but hunting for jobs. I realize after a week that I need broader skills so I'm brushing up python from datacamp, learning lessons from udemy/coursea, and I plan to try out new work projects that expose me to the new skill I need. I don't like my job but it pays my bill so I will just use the company just as it has used me for 7 years.
Im in the same boat. TRAPPED in retail and I literally cannot get out no matter how hard I try. Noone will give me a chance anywhere, and now I have so much retail experience that it looks bad to employers. We really do need drastically updated workers rights laws, because this is complete bullshit
I'm so happy you made this video tugg. I've been ghosted by multiple jobs, including one that I already did an interview for. They never called or emailed me for any reason. I'm still struggling. Not even walmart responded
hang in there bro everyone experiences these things in life some people take longer some people take sooner to get jobs just make sure to keep your mental health a priority and focus on yourself im going through the same shit but hopefully it gets better your not alone
I feel you. I've had one interview over the last 5 months. Never even sent me a "no thank you" email. At the beginning of March, I went to my aunts house several hours away to hide because there was so much coming down on me at once I couldn't deal with it.
Are you calling or emailing back after interviews? My personal rule is to attempt contact if you don't hear anything after a few days to a week. Being persistent by calling/emailing shows further interest and has resulted in getting the desired job for myself. My friend told his sister to do this and she got the job.
I applied for a government position at the VA hospital. I kid you not, a question for your background check is "are you a terrorist?" and they give you a yes or no option to pick. Who would WILLINGLY tap YES to that question?!
When i was applying for US visitors visa, they asked on the application form Are you a terrorist?, Are you a drug dealer?, Are you into human trafficking? Are you engaged in Espionage?, Are you into money laundering? Even if you are one of these things, most people will just check No
Funny you mention it but many government positions/visa applications occasionally have the question "have you ever been a member of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party/CPSU/CCP etc?". This may sound like a weird question to ask but digging into history you will see that our beloved government has collaborated and openly employed people from those backgrounds, but still when they apply they must fill out said form and truthfully answer the question (kinda like how astronauts have to do a declaration form when they return from their mission). So it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to have that question on there.
Hey man appreciate the comment but are you a bot? This seems very bot written. If someone’s botting nice and supportive comments on my RUclips (like my mom)and my whole career is a lie I’m gunna crash out
@@biggtuggtug you’re such a breath of fresh air to RUclips keeping your humor funny and relatable. You’re the only normal guy on here.
There are too few creators who will tell a subset of their audience, "you're and idiot! Get out of here!" Holy shit that first job you described is NOT entry level. There's a guy at my work with basically that exact job, and his title is something like creative director and he's making like $200k. That's a seriously heavy lift of a job!
IN a recession they can get someone with that experience desperate for a job whose unemployment is going out. In 2009 these jobs got filled sadly. It will spread as other employers will feel ripped off paying your friend 200k when they can get the same work done for 41K
This is a common problem with linked in. When the job is posted (usually by means of some API interface) and the seniority is not provided in the transmission, the job defaults to entry level just because every job must have a seniority level. The system doesn't know any better. That's why on this platform you should never filter jobs by seniority, this metric is indeed trash.
The brutal truth is that they saw you as a potential threat to THEIR own careers. One thing that's not spoken of enough is how protectionist HR departments and company middle managers are of their jobs in the face of newer generations of workers who are in all likelihood better educated and sometimes more relevantly experienced than them entering the job marekt. Whenever anybody tries to give you the excuse of "you're overqualified", recognise that it's just the polite way of them saying "you're too good for ME to handle, I don't need YOU to come in and threaten MY JOB SECURITY." It's BS.
@@Nelsonwmj I can totally see that be a thing. On my new job, some people asks for a reviews and then tget upset when you point out flaws even if it's in a friendly and constructive manner. Why the fuck did you ask for review if you're going to get all defensive?
Oh yeah, luckily I had my hopes and dreams assassinated in 4th semester of university, so I could look for shitty part time jobs and internships instead of focusing on my "straight As" mentality like highschool. As a business economics major we had a "labor economics" class, and the first day the teacher told us "you guys are screwed with a crappy major like economics, but atleast you'll get to know how screwed you are in this class instead of actually having to wait until it's too late like pretty much all the other career paths"... She was brutally honest and one of my favorite teachers lol.
Not all. Just mostly. Unless you can crack HR. Then it’s life on gravy mode street- which is a conglomeration of easy street, gravy train, and easy mode.
There are some crazy onerous requirements out there. Some jobs requirements that I have seen included: Bilingual Preferred Bachelor's Degree Required, Masters Prefered Weekend Availability is a Must Must Know Full Suite of Technology Tools We Use Team Player That Works Independently 1-3 Years Experience Highly Preferred with Progressively More Responsible Duties
I don't usually comment on videos but GOD do I feel seen and validated for not being the only one in this position. I've been job hunting for MONTHS and landed only 1 interview like 2 months ago. Still got ghosted by the manager. Best of luck to everyone else in this hellscape we made and have to live in
This video is absolutely the most relatable one I’ve seen in a while. I finally got so sick and tired of applying for videos. I just started my own business. I’d rather work for $10 an hour for myself than $20 an hour dealing with all this crap. All of this is to support local business, support your friends, and make sure these big corporations know the world will go on without them
Abso-fucking-lutely! Drop your company name brother. Corporate wants to play stupid games, they'll win stupid prizes. This is the real dream for humanity.
I can't believe someone with over a million followers just suggested the same strike I've been proposing since like, I don't know high school? Like, it could literally cripple the entire government if we banded together to do a national work strike and we could make change really happen. I hope this idea spreads like wildfire.
Problem is that economy effects peoples ability to survive. Something people sourly learned during Covid. Our system doesn't allow for effeciency and safety measures because we have to be concerned about peoples ability to make and spend money. It's the entire model. Also, we have a surplus of people who would willingly take anything they can, because if you don't have money one way or another, you'll die, unless you steal. Some people even steal to go to jail just to assure they get in 3 meals a day because their current situation didn't mean that was a constant for them.
@@vixxcelacea2778 to effectively have a general strike, it takes a considerable amount of organization and preparation. Mutual aid, for instance, needs set up to support those who might have tenuous financial situations but still want to strike. Some people may need to make sure strikers are getting fed while on the picket line. So forth, so on. But here's the thing. There's still some old radicals out there who would be more than happy to teach the youngsters how it can be done. Activism and change is hard and sometimes dangerous, but change doesn't happen without struggle.
@@vixxcelacea2778this is not advice or am I advocating for it. FBI please don’t arrest me. But if you got like 30 million people to withdraw their money from banks, it would definitely freeze or crash the system. Just a classic bank run with like 10% of the population. Even just the threat of it would scare the government shitless. It really would be that simple. No strikes, no rally’s. Just go to the bank en mass just try to withdraw your money. Especially from mega banks. Newsflash they don’t have it, cause the money isn’t technically your anymore and they don’t need like any reserves. Bet they would listen after that. Don’t create a mass movement to initiate a bank run. It’s 100% illegal but it would 100% work and you wouldn’t even need a majority of the population for it to work. Again do not even attempt this, you will be arrested.
"I hope this idea spreads like wildfire." Me too! Not a new idea, by any means, but still just as powerful as it ever was. I've actually been advocating much the same thing WRT consuming (as in massive refusals to do business with companies that do fucked up things, especially WRT to labor, like all the RTO assholes).
I feel this. I have a BS in Cybersecurity and can't get an entry level help desk job. Or they want CompTIA A+. If a job requires a degree and/or a certification, that's not entry level.
They put entry level so they can put a low pay range. But they still able to fuck around with min qualification to gatekeep and try to get more experience people and pay them the minimal amount possible.
@@nerdyneedsalife8315 the A+ cert is an entry level cert. Its an easy way to tell who can understand the concepts. Its kinda like someone isnt going to hire someone off the street to do entry level engineering work
@@Aboguaboga These certs still cost money for those who take them. If the worker needs to put a financial investment into a job, whether it's a degree or certification, I do not find that entry level. When they say entry level cert, they aren't saying the cert would help get an entry level job. They're saying that out of all the certs they offer, this one is entry level. I've seen people claim college degrees are entry level. At that point employers are moving the goal post as to what is entry level to pay workers less
I interviewed for a job I was perfect for (qualifications perfectly matched, and I had personal experience with the company's mission). I did three interviews over three weeks where they asked me the same questions every time. Then they wanted me to do a test, and waited ANOTHER WEEK to give me my assignment. Then they said once I submitted my test, it would be another week or two and a fourth interview before they made a decision. At this point, my old job offered me another contract, but I figured I'd do the test because they said they'd pay me for it, so at least I'd get some money for all my troubles. I sent in my test and withdrew my application, and they said they couldn't pay me because the budget was just for applicants! I was LIVID. It's sad because I really believed in this company's mission, but companies nowadays put zero trust in their applicants, and that's a terrible foundation to start a working relationship on.
I'm pretty positive the only reason I've managed to get the jobs I have is because I show up when they're desperate and I lower my standards to "Pay me minimum wage and don't put me directly in the trash compactor please" - because every time I've tried to find something decent, it's dead air for miles. I tried helping a friend job search not long ago and it's horrible how a job that should be "put the square peg in the square hole" level of complexity wants you to have college debt and a variety of mastery over programs and company specific tools and software you would only have if you already worked there.
Companies no longer want to train. That is a big divergence from what it used to be back then. My parents all said that the entry-level jobs that they had after they graduated college had a lot of training available. I have started working in a lot of private sector jobs, and the vast majority had little to no training. Companies are not interested in that and would rather set insane requirements than have to do the training themselves. The only time I ever heard of training was when I interviewed with state government agencies. They said they would train me and could do so for as long as I needed until I felt comfortable with completing the tasks effectively. It was such a breath of fresh air and made me want to join that agency. I am waiting to hear back from them but I believe I will get the position as they sent me post-interview forms to fill out
Yeah work from home jobs require work from home experience you can’t get if you didn’t work from home already. Knowledge of medical terms is easy knowledge of how to use their system without previous experience is bs yet they hired my mother who is almost computer illiterate and had zero experience and knowledge of anything medical. Meanwhile i have and can diagnose pc issues run programs with ease and can pick up anything within doing it once or twice. Also I have vast knowledge of medical terms. I am what they were asking for and they took my mother over me like wtf.
@@DRAG0N1012 Experience isn't really necessary. What is necessary is to become skilled with what you are doing to the point where your company trusts you can perform the job without supervision. I never had a remote job, but my new job with state government transitions to hybrid remote after a few months of training. I don't have experience with remote work, but due to extensive training, I will be well-prepared for any issues I may encounter. Experience isn't really necessary, what is necessary is your previous work history, temperament, and if you can do the job satisfactorily during the probation period. It is a skill, but it isn't like a great mystery that you need a year of experience to work remote. I worked remote when my college campus shutdown. Now it wasn't quite like being an employee, but I had to get use to lots of Zoom calls, remote group projects, etc. It requires a bit more focus and you have to make your office space separate from your living space so you can avoid distractions, but I don't think you necessarily have to have previously been remote inorder to work a remote job
@@DRAG0N1012 I faced this a lot when I was interviewing with other companies. I felt like I was the perfect fit, great experience, I had a relevant college degree, I had three references, and two letters of recommendation as well as a number of years of experience that I could use in the role I was interviewing for, and I was still rejected by at least 9 different companies for jobs that I was wholly qualified for. I did get a job with state government and now I make more than the job that laid me off, but for those six months of searching, it was so disheartening. You do begin to question your abilities and self-worth if you can't even get a bog-standard job that pays decently. Mind you I can pass a drug test, I have excellent references, a bachelor's degree, and a great work history, and it still took 200+ applications for a job offer. I think from an employer's POV, you may have been the final round candidate selection against two or three other people. Somebody will need to be selected. Unfortunately, sometimes companies go with someone else because they have to. When you have three candidates all with the same experience and education, one will need to be selected. It is just the reality of hiring people, especially now when 100s of applications are sent in for every one job posting. Someone will be rejected, and it isn't necessarily their fault, it is just that the company had to choose one person for the job. It is the luck of the draw
The only job openings available right now are customer service/restaurant jobs. I've been there and done that, and I would 100% rather be unemployed and broke than subject myself to that again.
I used to work in the Solar industry and to put it simply; there's a "cult-like" atmosphere in the corporate world. I shared my opinion of the CEO once and everybody alienated me. All I said was that he "seemed a little weird".
People really have to be willing to delude themselves the same way they do in a cult to be happy and okay waking up every day and doing the most bullshit to ever have been shat
I used to do custom electrical design work for solar… they burned a house down pushing through crap to sell a system instead of letting the electrical engineers make the call. My entire team was managed out in 1 months after we called out what they did by going over our heads. And all the other departments treated us like pariahs.
@@kinda_chaotically_shey3945 that's when you get together and form a rival company selling actual quality product since you actually know how to build it in the first place
I'm sure lots of people you know could find reasons and little gaffes you did to say you "seem a little weird" behind your back if they wanted to, and they probably realized you're the type of person who will say those things about them behind their backs.
@@esense9602Lmao. Yeah average gacha SS rate from ones I've played is between 0.5-1%. The calculated chance of being one of the people selected is 6/8400 which is 0.07%. That's around 10 times more unlikely.
I am currently in the interview process for an agriculture related corporate job. It’s a fucking nightmare. First interview over zoom, went great. Homework: write a detailed 90-day plan for what your first three months of employment here would look like. Great. Second interview I have to travel 100 miles for. Awesome. Hour and half interview. Is that all? Nope. Now I have to call farmers and set up appointments that I will never actually go to. Awesome. Next steps? We’re going to take you to a farm and interview you on an actual farm. Oh wait, now I might not actually get the job because even though the description clearly stated that a bachelor’s degree wasn’t required, you just emailed me saying a bachelor’s degree is required for the position after wasting hours of my time. I literally do not think there is a person on the planet more qualified for this job than I am, but now they might just shut the whole thing down anyway because I didn’t do my last semester of college. Edit: I didn’t get a job because they’re claiming the ad said that a bachelor’s degree was required, when it explicitly said the opposite. Oh well.
How do I get a job interviewing applicants and just assigning them all of the regular work? The entire company could just be me and all of the people I might hire
Not a personal attack, but why do people wait until their last semester of college to drop out? You’re so close! Might as well finish what you started. Also I’d frame it as you having an equivalent of a bachelors degree
As a person who has an end date scheduled at my job due to lay off and is this job searching....I'm experiencing this as you describe. And it's incredibly frustrating. I just want to yell at recruiters that I don't need a bachelor's in business to be an administrative assistant!
I am in the same boat. 15 years experience and if I apply online I know I'm being immediately shoved aside by the bots reviewing applications. I don't have a degree but I'd imagine 15 years of customer service and management skills is more valuable to the places I am applying than a 4 year degree in Mandarin or whatever. All my friends who do have degrees, only two of them are actually working in fields related to their degrees!
lol I’m so tired of it, stay strong out there! just got a part time job in retail to supplement my freelance stuff and im pretty sure now they only hired me because they learned i have a bachelors degree in digital marketing and they are now pressuring me to do unpaid creative work for them on the side of the actual entry level job they hired me for… i make 12$ an hour at this place like…
Ive seen 50+ admin assistant jobs listed in the past 6 months of job hunting. All of them are requiring a degree, 4 years of experience, and full knowledge of every office place application ever created. All for 17-20 dollars an hour. In a college town where 60% of the population are college students, 30% are retirees or trust funders that dont need to work, and the other 10% are random migrants or tourists staying for the weekend. I dunno who they think is coming to fill those positions, but i always see them relisted
And then people say "pfft, just get another job. You're not trying hard enough, or you're just being lazy? Stop giving excuses" wtf, it's what I've read and heard everywhere.
I work in hospital security and not gonna lie you notice the societal mental health decline when the people being brought in are getting worse by the visit 😬 you start to notice over time how the economic decline starts to really effect people
oh yeah at my job, I worked a few 12-16hr days since last october. That resulted in my getting an organ infection, an abscess and had to be removed. Overall even with health insurance I had to fork over 2000$. :/ I wish the president of the US would address this, I don't want to hear more about Ukraine or israel or china or russia. Help us americans here, stop worrying about other countries.
It’s time for our inept political leaders, to help Americans. We have a large pool of highly educated people and those willing to work. Just imagine if all those billions of dollars to Ukraine, Israel, etc, are invested in us, Americans.
@@1821femina Instead lets make it infinitely easier for other countries, to outsource their overpopulation problems to America! Lets invite SWARMS of third worlders willing to work slave labour for pennies!!!! This is totally not the inverse of how we got out of feudalism.
@@1821feminaI wish people would at least take the time to understand what those billions of dollars were instead of thinking that was liquid money that could be spent on us in the first place. I'm not saying there shouldn't be more emphasis on helping the american people, but those "billons of dollars" of aid given to those countries came in the form of otherwise worthless military hardware that was no longer in use. It's like complaining that your mother gave all the clothes that don't fit you to the neighbor kid saying she should have spent the money on you instead. The fact is she already did spend the money on you, it's just now we're getting a large amount of value out of it by donating it once we were done with it. Arguably we COULD say that maybe having that much gear laying around in the first place is a waste of money that we should have invested into our people instead, but by arguing like the gear we gave them, worth billions of dollars, was the point where we mis-spent the funds is fundamentally not understanding what happened.
The tests after the interviews... the number of hours I've wasted doing those is incredible. I'm at a point where if I get asked to do one, I just walk away. Putting together full 30-40 slide presentations for a job that I'm not likely to get anyway is not something I will ever do again
I have a severe allergy to bullshit, therefore I still don't have a job after searching for weeks. I blank out whenever I read the question "Why do you want this job" because the bullshit answer I know they want makes me feel ill. Maybe I'm just not desperate enough to write what they want instead of the truth, which is just I need to pay rent.
@@sankeethganeswaran3024Not every workplace is like this, don’t tolerate it just because you need money. Find a job that’s just as real as you, they’re out there.
So here's a thing to understand about that field It's literally a filter, if you type words relating to "money" or "pay" in that field, you get filtered out immediately and automatically, sadly your interviewer will probably look at it later so you have to write something coherent.
it's to identify who they can abuse and pay as little as possible. people who want this job "because they love the company and think it's so awesome and it's not about the money" will thereby accept lower pay and increased workload, since it's not about the money!
yo big tugg you also forgot the fun fact that companies don't take down most job listings anymore. I've accidentally applied to job listings that are a year old and job listings that immediately tell me the job has already been filled but the listing is still up on the company website and other job websites. fuck the company I used to work for my boss showed me some jobs I could apply to when i was quiting. He looked at the listing and went "ahhh that's 6 months old probably full" "why don't you take the listing down?" "ahhh you know, hr, hiring stuff... you know how it is" it was still there long after I left
It's even for basic stuff like starbucks. Oh we aren't accepting new applications at this location, there's one an hour away by bus or walking that might be looking.
So true. I walked in with an application to a local veterinary clinic and the front desk looked at me perplexed. They said they were not hiring, I offered to leave my resume anyway and while it probably went in the trash at least I tried. At home I reviewed the listing in more detail and wouldn't you know it, 4 months old.
Thanks for expressing the humor in being unemployed and job hunting. I am current in this situation and I really appreciate the laughs to alleviate the anxiety. Also it makes me feel like I am not alone in this struggle.
Tugg is really spitting cause as a senior mechanical engineering major, you would think it’s easy to find a job newsflash…it’s really not. I have a job interview next week so wish me the best.
Ya know, the landscape for job hunting has really changed over the decades, but one thing remains consistent, it doesn't hurt to know somebody on the inside if you want the job.
@@ivoryquillum4436 You're right, you didn't _advocate_ it directly. You just mentioned it as a way to get the job, with exactly zero commentary about the fact that it is inherently wrong. I'm sure nobody intrepreted that as advocacy.
I found the best job of my life on linkedin and I hate that experience. Why? They showed me that life doesnt have to be difficult and that there are good companies out there just to throw me out a few months later. For them its nothing for me its like they pulled me out of a grave just to shove me back in. I experienced happiness for once in my life and now I cant get it out of my head that things can be better. Because it feels so impossible to reach that now. I will never achieve that in my life and its like poison. It was pure luck.
That's such a weirdly specific thing but I completely share that sentiment. Not even with a job just leaving your incredibly damaging environment and meeting people you get along with. Feeling like you're living the life you're supposed to be living for a short time just to be put back into hell again. The contrast destroys you.
Honestly man, Thank you for giving me a good reason to give up on all this shit. The odds have always been against us. I'm so tired of trying. Keep doing what you do. Telling it like it is.
Oh my gosh! It's absolutely wild out here! I tried to get an entry level editing internship and had me write a "practice article" which they then published without my permission or knowledge. It was their headlining article on their site for a week, too!! 😭😭
I did some freelancing for a while and when I stopped working with one site - no hard feelings, they just went in a different direction that I wasn’t interested in writing about - they changed the bylines on everything I’d written to be the site owner’s.
And AI has made this even worse. There are literal courses for how to get past companies' stupid automated Applicant Tracking Systems. Some people have resorted to using AI bots to apply for them. It's insanity.
Companies already dont even hire from linkedin because you get the bottom of the barrel slop applicants who expended a couple hundred on AI tokens, just to spam a couple thousand applications. But when you go to those same companies, you cant even apply in person. Its just ridiculous. I wish online job postings were made illegal. Wish everything happened in person
Companies are also using AI to shadow employees to train, and then replacing the employee. All the graphics jobs are getting canned now, a RUclips made a video about how he lost his graphics design job to AI
😅I kinda remember this I was being hired but only had to put my social down when their were going to hire me. Also a form of identification to finish the process. This is crazy.
Another painful one is the bait and switch. You apply for one job but then during the interview they say that job has been filled BUT they have some "wonderful" opportunity which would be a perfect fit.
I started working right around the time every company wanted a degree. In 1987 I signed up for an 8 month community college paralegal program. On the 1st day of class the instructor told us that lawyers in CA had just made a rule that new paralegals needed a bachelor's (in ANYTHING). So only those in college or who had a degree already should take the course. Out of probably 120 women, fewer than 10 stayed. I worked for a temp company in accounts payable and receivable and it was very easy work that paid okay. In 1989 I was let go from the temp company because offices wanted ppl who had degrees (in ANYTHING). My years of experience meant nothing to anyone but if i had had a degree in scandinavian folkart I could have a job. I'm 57 now and the only jobs I'm 'qualified' for are retail minimum wage positions that last for a season. I grew up in a lower class family in LA and no one I knew went to college. You didn't have to...until you had to.
Requiring a college degree for everything was organized class warfare. Make us waste our prime wealth-building years making no money and going into debt. (Saving and investing even a tiny bit in your twenties is hugely beneficial for your long term and inter-generational wealth.)
I am in your conundrum at the moment as well. 15 years of experience and loyalty to a single company seems to be worth less than a 4 year degree in French. I am currently using the county resources on how to write a targeted resume because I have never written one, I started working for the company of 15 years when I was a high school student and simply applied as a walk in. Moved up to manager and am leaving because the company was purchased by a new owner who I really can't stand with their dishonest business practices. Somehow, my years of consistent and reliable work, the hugely positive relationship I have with our regular clients, all of that means very little in terms of qualifications to prospective employers. They just want to know if I can use a register and point of sale system and why I don't have a degree or only worked for one job. Its amazing that they can't seem to understand that some people don't quit their work every two years.
Finding a job in LA is the absolute worst and the reason i finally just moved out of california. You either have to know someone to get fair paying jobs, have a degree to roll for the .002% chance of getting a job against the other 9000000 degree holding people competing against you for the position(the worst part is that most of them already have jobs and are just trying to move laterally, taking jobs away from unemployed people who actually NEED them), or be mexican because then the company thinks youll work super hard and can be exploited. I couldnt land any jobs in la other than shitty ass retail jobs that are all dead ends paying garbage and not offering any fulltime whatsoever. Went to 3 temp agencies and they were all just scammers trying to sign people onto lists so they could sell the lists to companies
@@chaletamale5726yeah my brother believes in temp agencies always telling me To sign up because factory work is something. What’s weird is how fast food in LA is 20. Base pay but you can’t live on that either in La also we all know how fast food people are treated.
It’s such a catch-22 that entry level positions want you to have 3+ years of experience. I applied for a position as a rental agent for a company that rents out camera equipment and other electronics. Fulfilled every qualification except the one that asks you to have experience repairing big production level cameras (think Sony Venice). Tell me, where and how does a 21yo get training or experience to do something like that outside of an entry level job or internship?!
11:09 Easy way to spot a low-quality job - just remember that most Walmart employees earn $15/hr, yet somehow a white-collar job posting is indicating the same starting pay.
Whenever I heard the slack notification sound, I get a very visceral reaction. This is from a bad job experience I had some 2-3years ago and I just can't not hate that sound.
As a comp sci grad this market is ridiculous. Expect fresh grads to know react, AWS - with multiple certifications, multiple languages not just 1-3 like 3-5, do front end back end, and dev ops, and have 3 years of experience - for entry level jobs and even internships. Like most fresh grads don’t have any experience we’re lucky to have a single internship, they don’t teach react or AWS in school, - they should but don’t. Legit considering going into accounting for stability cuz this tech bubble is ridiculous!
It is not a tech bubble. Its everywhere like that. Mostly invasion of mostly indians taking s jobs and bringing in their s work culture and nepotism. In accounting there they also go. Plus those services are easily moved offshore.
Same. I graduated in May with my CS degree and I’m so terrified of what I’ve gotten myself into right now. I have basically 3 and a half months till the loan payments start and I don’t even know where to begin. I should have just went into the medical field like my brother. The school is rigorous but you’re basically guaranteed a high paying job for life if you can graduate
@@KTLaughter agreed! Dude forget MD freaking nurses make 60-80K a year and you can become and NP paid for by the hospital making 120-150K a year- which is what most software engineers make but guaranteed job security. I’m lucky I found a job as a data analyst with decent pay- but I’m already doing accounting masters to get my CPA- nearly guaranteed job security and earning potential similar to tech. Just not as sexy. I have family friends wanting to do tech cuz me and my brother both work and make good money but dude it took like 6 months 2,000 applications only a few turned to interviews to finally land an offer. Tech is too oversaturated. I told them do medicine or accounting (CPA). Cuz this market is ridiculous.
@@KTLaughter same here, bro. I got an associates in CS and i feel like i wasted 4 years (job corp...ironically) getting a, what it seems to be, flimsy ass degree that holds NO weight once so ever. i do code from time to time, but i sometimes lose motivation because i feel like i'm doing it for fun instead of practice, which is awful in depressing. I even tried networking (out in the real world) and it went about as poorly as you think. if i had a dollar for every person who told me to "dont give up", "keep applying" or "go back and get your bachelors", i'd have enough money to not deal with this bs anymore. not only is it impossible online, its impossible offline as well. one investor guy i met told me that he was in my same exact shoes and applying for jobs in your field is like dating, and christ on a pike was he right.
As a senior developer in the industry and interviewer. Apply for entry level positions and just ignore the requirements. If you want to go to frontend make sure to know JS, and if you want to go in backend make sure to know algorithms. When I was a starting out the job requirements were just as ridiculous. If you keep applying you will eventually get a company that will hire you. I remember applying to 100 jobs during my early years. Also a github profile is good to have.
Gotta love the job postings that don't even specify whether or not you're entitled to work in the country it's posted, only to find a question at the very end of the multi-step application asking if you need sponsorship.
That's what it all looks like now, every media job just wants you to give them the world for free. I've been an unemployed video editor for almost a year, everything I find is exactly like that job posting.
@@benjaminjackson8663 Same, I’ve been trying to get a video editing gig and it’s been insane the level they want you to be at while paying you basically no 40k a year with a degree.
Also a graphic design degree holder here. Ive completely abandoned my field because all the job listings look like this. The problem is for the last 10 years, everyone and their mom thinks theyre a graphic designer cuz they can use photoshop, so they started undercutting/underbiding on jobs, lowering the pay rate for people who actually do this for a living to the point where its no longer a livable wage
Nothing wrong with capitalism... if we actually had it. In capitalism, businesses can end/die, by the way, making room for new more efficient ones. What's that - Boeing screwed up and will be 5 years late on some projects? We better send them another $15b...
@BikeHelmetMk2 Agreed. What most people are frustrated with is not capitalism itself but the existence of a corpratocracy within capitalism's as it stands today. It's not necessarily anti-capitalist to be anti-corprate.
I stopped paying my rent and saved it for as long as i could before they could legally throw me out and took all that money and moved to nebraska which is far cheaper to live to the point where i can still be unemployed for another month or so looking for a new job. And everyone is hiring here, gas stations, manual labor, even more office jobs than i would have thought.
@artisticagi personally i saved for a little over a a year. but thats only cause i wanted a good safty net if things didnt work out so i had at least around $1000 more than what i needed. If i were certain everthing was gonna work out like family you could crash with, i would have saved for somewhere around 6-9 months. depending on your earnings of course this might vary for you
This dude isn’t kidding. I’m looking for a job in real estate development and a company sent me an underwriting assignment (analysis for pricing) as a “case study” project to prove my skills after 3 interviews. They passed me up for a family hire and turns out the “case study” was real work for a real property they were thinking of buying. We’re fucked.
File a department of Labor Complaint... the owe you minimum wage at least. Hell you could probably sue in small claims for fraud and unjust enrichment.
I applied for a job in IT they put me on 8+ hours homework for an 1200€ job. The average salary for IT is 800€-1000€ where I live. Also an intern interviewed me LOL they just don't care anymore.
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When I first started job searching, nearly a decade ago, my parents and grandparents kept pushing me to go in and ask for an application so they know that I'm interested. Instead, I was greeted with confused looks and the same "You're supposed to apply online" response. Even after telling them that it doesn't work that way anymore, my family still believes that walking in and looking the manager in the eyes is good enough.
Ugh mine do that too! It’s exhausting having that conversation over and over again 🙄
My dad is one of these people who think you just have to show up at a random company with your resume and a big smile and you get hired immediately.
The funniest thing ? He became a teacher at 18 until his retirement and never had to apply to a single job in his life.
I mean. I agree this is stupid. But not because everything is online. Knowing the right person is a HUGE way to get a job. Like even more important than it used to be I'd wager. It's just that that person isn't the random 22 y/o "manager" working 35 hr a week so the company so avoid paying everyone health insurance. You would need to know the owner, someone on the board, or someone with some pull in HR (and that last one is a strong maybe.)
Even if it does work that way, my opinion is it just shows you as desperate which is something you never want to indicate to a person you work for, since they can leverage it to take advantage of you.
My mom still believes third world countries are behind in technology and everything else LOL
my favorite part about trying to get a job is creating an account on each of their websites and then do hours of stupid shit to hear nothing back
Underrated comment. Creating an account at a companies website is a huge waste of time and is so damned draining. Getting a rejection letter is better than having to make an account.
i applied to panera bread a week or so ago, a part of their “interviewing” or seeing if youre good enough to get a response was a PERSONALITY TEST!!! They gave you images and no description just a vague stock image with “least like me and most like me” 😐
My favourite part is the emails they keep sending me despite the fact that I unsubscribed from their shitty newsletters
@@alifarhat16 “(ur name here) we think youd love to apply to this position!” LEAVE ME ALONE!! I’ve unsubscribed from starbucks like 20 times
@@VultureCxlturepsst, you're supposed to pick the white people pictures for those.
Know whats cool. Not being able to afford a car because you are unemployed, and being refused employment because you don't have a car
It's 🍌. I've literally applied to an office job that requires 0 driving and they REQUIRE a driver's license and valid insurance for the state I live in
This is means testing and likely originated to keep minorities out of jobs intended for white people. But because of how it's written, it is not interpreted by most as a racist question. So yeah, that sucks.
The trick for this is to say you have reliable transportation, and don't elaborate - jump into your skills for the job and why you'd be able to do it better than someone else instantly after you say it - do not let them ask for you to elaborate. Reliable transportation can be your neighbor who drives you, public transportation, a fucking bicycle with training wheels, if you can get there and it's reliable it's transportation!
@@izzabellasmith939Some jobs ask for reliable transportation, lots of jobs ask for a valid license, and a decent amount require no infractions over the last few years despite the job not requiring driving. They just need employees willing to transport and use vehicles despite it not being a part of the job.
me currently
"Hmm, 59 million companies? That's a lot of branches off the main 10 ones."
*Tugg gets it.*
This reminds me of that play skit where an Abraham Lincoln animatronic (it was an actor acting as if they were one) kept saying "this guy gets it!"
@@vladimirirkhin wot's that from, vladbot?
@@NotSoMuchFrankly studio c
Companies are crappy these days but even with that not so crazy as to hire a nobody from the internet without referrals. This is why all those job internet platforms are BS.
something something, socialist screed, something something.
I once received a rejection email signed at the bottom,
"You can't spell hero without HR 👍"
I don't think reading something has ever immediately filled me with as much incandescent rage as that did. Fuck that company.
😂
Can't spell Horrible or Worthless without HR either.
i've never received a rejection email. they just force me to wait a week so i can assume they ignored me and i can apply again
i mean, if they want to go down that road, can't spell Hiroshima, Hitler and phosphorus gas without HR either...
I don’t feel so alone anymore thanks to this video. The amount of shame I feel for not having a career at 27 is just unbearable at times.
I’m 32, good looking strong guy. But I’m very shameful I don’t have a career. Makes me not want to do anything. Get anything brother. Anything is better than nothing
had a decent job before covid working at a vending company. worked hard, showed up every day. When covid came they told me i was safe, only to be fired that march. Still havent found anything as lucrative or flexible even after finishing my degree. Only jobs out there are soul sucking call center jobs or retail hell. I say all this to say that you are not alone
i’m 26 & in a similar boat. dont trip, a lot of ppl can relate to your struggle.
I'm 23, I managed to find work around Easter as an English teacher at a small private afternoon academy. It's relatively few hours and I get nothing during the summer, so it's barely livable, but it's something I genuinely enjoy so I hope I can keep it long enough to build up experience and be trusted in more viable teaching positions. Keep in mind, I had to study a whole degree in the UK (in econ and business which is unrelated but I mean, it's in the UK so it should prove that I dominate the language), spend years doing freelance tutoring, and only barely get it because the owner of the business is a life-long friend of my family and I'm also a former student of hers. So all that work, plus being lucky with connections and timing of the position opening, and it got me a €13/h job with barely enough hours to live off of if you ignore the fact that it's unpaid vacation for 25% of the year. Also, AI has basically destroyed all of the translation gigs my fellow teachers would take to make this situation livable with their skill sets.
Working 6 6.5h shifts at a supermarket currently during the summer is utterly soul crushing though, I'm just gonna quit in August I think. I'm also lucky that I can stay with family and that I don't have to pay for a car.
I'm worried because in my country, you need special certification to teach in public or semi-public schools, and I can only get that masters education if the government validates my degree which I got in the UK, but it's been just over a year since I applied for that and they still haven't validated it. Plus, there's a weird regional language that's basically mandatory to earn a high level certificate in, in order to be considered in so many industries. Because the regional government enforces it even though it's almost no-one's first language.
Don't feel bad. I'm 31 and still completely directionless. I still have no clue what to do with my life. Every job I've ever had was awful, and every job I haven't had sounds awful.
Genuinely had an interviewer tell me "You'll hear from us by Monday" and then *finally* got a rejection email a month later
"This email is on regard to Position at Company
We're sorry, but you aren't a good fit for Position. We'll keep you in mind though if anything roast comes available at Company"
*Resume sent in 3 years ago*
That happened to me twice.
This literally just happened to me last month... Maybe I'm about due for a rejection email 😊
@@gangstaberry2496 Good luck, my friend. I hope you hear literally anything lol
That happened to me several times
3:53 this pisses me off so much because NO ONE accepts CVs/resumes in person anymore, they’ve all got their own job website that needs it’s own login and they all suck
Don't even get me started on downloading the resume only for it to autofill incorrectly and have to fix it!
Right? I had a friend in my university class that was printing out a shitload of her resumes at the school library to drop them off at different companies looking for internships. She paid +1,000 mexican pesos (like 60 USD, so roughly half of a student's weekly budget here in Mexico.) for all of them, just to go back to class the next day saying no one accepted her resumes and was told to look on job boards :(... I kinda felt sorry for her, but I did tell her that no one took in person applications any more before she printed them out.
@@emilyau8023 This! Then you have to spend 30 minutes to an hour correcting each job application, and filling in the correct info. I Hate those autofill systems.
god i hate logging in to company websites just to apply >:(
@@emilyau8023 🎯
"Upload resume here"
*next page*
Please type your entire resume into our stupid little boxes.
"...dude"
I am a recruiter as well. Early on, my boss was saying to only talk to people who have degrees. I talked with them and ended up convincing them to allow us to hire people with no degree if they seem like quality candidates. I have helped many people with no degree find work in my field. I think everybody deserves a chance.
Thank you. I have no degree only because I worked for one company for 15 years. I worked there starting at 16 in high school, and after trying 4 year university but not liking it at the time, I kept on with the same job from then on. Its people like me, who seem unqualified, but actually have 15 years of experience working and being loyal to a company, that need prospective employers to understand that a degree should not become a requirement. I understand that education is very important, but is it actually helpful to have a college degree when you're 10 years into a job where you only use a particular set of skills on a daily basis?
Crazy you have to defend that position.
@@mustardofdoom they are told what to look for and get stuck in their ways/subconsciously judge people that do not fit the narrative. Many people are capable of doing different jobs. And many jobs have training so it makes no sense to me.
My own dad had this mindset, he had to approve all the candidates they would hire and if the HR came to him with a candidate that had no degree he declined them.
What always got me is that he literally didn't spend the time to look at anything else, even on the people with degrees. He just decided that his job as "the boss" of that particular office was to make sure they had a degree.
People are lazy, they get 118 applications and the bulk of the work looking through that pile is to look for reasons to exclude as many of the candidates as possible so they only have to compare two or three candidates.
@@TheBuffaloFlatswe should be able to sue over that. We should get lawmakers to look at that
I've been applying for 7-20+ jobs a DAY for over a month, did countless interviews, and only got one positive response. Yeah I wonder why everyone my age has severe depression and a warped idea of self worth.
it took me 6 months and well over 300 or 400 applications before i got a job... at a gas station. at least i have a source of income again 🤷 weirdly enough, it pays just as much as that one job tugg described that required 3+ years of experience in adobe. this is a very warped and depressing hellscape we live in. hell, it took 2 years for my fiancee to find work despite the fact she has over a decade of experience.
I hope your resume doesn't have your Google account pfp, cuz that could've been the reason for lack of response.
@@DanteHellDrivereally dude
Been a year for me from interview after interview to be ghosted
@@dyreckta23 i hope it gets better for you man! 🙂 shit just be rough lately with the job market so i wish you the best of luck
I fucking hate it when a job employer never reach out to you. Like even if I'm not accepted just say it to me. So I won't waste time thinking about if I'm accepted or not. For fuck sake
and its not even that hard to sset up a bot to do that; im sure theres already plenty on github
I applied for a job, and they emailed me saying they'll call to set up an interview in less than a week, a week passed, I called, and they said to just go on Monday which is their open interview day for anyone, I did, and they said they'll call me in a week to let me know if I have the job or not. No call, I called a week or so later just saying they aren't hiring anymore. My family kept saying to call to show I'm interested, and that's why I kept calling but it still pissed me off when they said they'll call me and never do.
Yup. I filled out an online application for a job and didn't hear back from them until *A YEAR LATER* saying that my application was rejected. 🙄
It's ironic that you say that because in the 80s and 90s you didn't get any kind of notification that you didn't get the job. Not hearing back from the employer WAS your notification that you didn't get the job 😂
They don't have time. It's exactly why recruiters take like 5 seconds to look at a resume and they already know if your a candidate for the next hoop or not.
There are too many workers and not enough good jobs. The sheer amount they have to get through is too high to even send automated responses of rejection.
Not that I disagree. It sucks in anything you apply for job or otherwise to just have to assume the answer was no because no response for however long it's meant to take means no, but you also think "What if i missed something?"
Worse to me is whey they say they'll contact you with a decision and never do. Like, don't lie about it, just say if you're chosen or considered, you will receive contact. If not, bye.
I just got a rejection from a job i applied to 2 years ago. I was obviously devastated that after 2 years of carefully reviewing my resume, deloitte finally decided to move on to someone else.
😂😂😂😂😂 why do they even bother ???? 😂😂😂😂
They let you know so you can move on...after 2 years. 😂
Basically the same. I got one I applied to at least a year later.
Job listings are a mislabled, lawless wasteland. Jobs would be tagged as "remote" but the description would say "FULLY IN PERSON POSITION." I saw entry level positions that wanted masters degrees and 10 years exp. WHY tag a job with the OPPOSITE of what it is. Who gains from that??
That’s what drives me the craziest while job searching tbh. Like, just tell me straight up what you do or do not have!!!
They want to pay an exprience person the same amount they would a entey level person.
Yess also the ones saying remote but come in once a week. Like noooo omg 😂.
Gets their job posts listed in the search algorithm since everyone is “searching” for or prefers remote work on their profile
What I like to do in this posting is easy apply
Half of those 9 million openings don't exist. They just left it up for people to apply but will never get called due it's been filled years ago.
The worst to me are the fake companies. I can't say how many times I Googled the company's name only to find that they don't have an address, company website, or any Reviews. You can report them, but who knows if these websites will actually do anything, and then more will just pop up so the whole exercise is meaningless. Weeding through all the fake companies was probably the worst part of my job search
Yeah, it’s a sign of growth for companies to say they are hiring so they post job listings even if they aren’t hiring
@@TheRiBeast shouldn't that be, idk, illegal? :))
I recently sent in like 40 applications and the ONLY reply i got was some dude from a RV company being like ‘oh, thanks, didn’t realize we left this old posting up:)!’
@@arpiabu-alrub7484There's nothing fundamentally wrong with a company changing their priorities half-way through and closing some positions. It is also normal that some of them advertise the job on 5 platforms and then forget to close the application somewhere after it has been filled. The problem is the scale of this stuff. If anything, applying online should be made illegal, so that jobs are limited to those who live nearby. It's brutal, but letting the entire world apply results in thousands of applications, which are impossible to filter through.
not to mention the fact that if your resume isnt formatted perfectly for the HR ATS software, it could just get automatically rejected without any human ever seeing it ever. that was THE most demotivating fact i learned while applying for jobs
HR clowns are peak cockroaches.
If their management every found out about 10% of the bullshit they get up to, they would be appalled.
Litterally happened with my dad once.
everything makes so much sense now
That hurts my soul… rejected before a human even sees it.
Don't forget to add the entire job description in white on the application so the ATS gives you a positive match, also more recently adding chatgpt instructions supposedly also helps.
It sucks that we have to do this but if they don't play fair neither should we
@@artemisiakyrell7727 Some ATS, like at Jobot, will highlight relevant keywords so if you are just hiding everything in 'white' text they'll see what you're trying to pull
Recently left my job due to having a mental breakdown. Turns out everyone loves setting you up for one but is so shocked when you have one. Thanks for giving me a few giggles to help keep me going through this awful time, hopefully it will end soon. In the getting better way, not the other way I could have meant that...
Oof I know how you feel mate. I recently left my bartending job because of the stress my assistant manager put me through. Leaving because of a breakdown sucks but it's not the end of the world :)
Yiu described well what i went through.
Hey it will be better ❤. Take care of yourself.
Been through that trying to make a career transition. It takes a while to recover, for sure.
Hugs to you for having the strength to put your mental health first ❤️🩹.
Imagine if the military asked for 3 years of experience before they interview you. Boy oh boy….
@@Chainedactivationi was in the program, its just marching, tricks, and doing a mile, not anything that should be classified as experience
That's what basic training, schools, OJT, drills etc are for. Not the same.
@@kgddugvjjQ 😅😊😊😊😊
Is that joke that shooting people anywhere outside the military is a crime? XD
@@ninjaydes nah video games lol
When I applied for a 3 year apprenticeship (Germany) as an office worker, they wanted me to create a full presentation on how offfice based companies can maximize their success in reaching younger audiences for job applications. I did and they didn't took me. I feel like I just gave them a free consultation on how they can improve their company.
That’s what they do now. Free work.
Yeah no, you got scammed. I've never heard of it happening in the UK but it probably does happen here too.
Next time say you require an agreed upon pay before you perform that work even if they don't hire you yet because you value your time.
@@dannydogs4385 That's not gonna happen, I believe you aren't familiar with the german work culture. In short, as a trainee you are basicaly crawling through mud, working full time 3 years for 600-800€ (about $600-800) a month, to acquire a degree which is needed to get jobs that are above the minimum wage cap.
There are well known customs too, like as a trainee you are overall poorly treated and degraded to do the shitty stuff, cleaning toilets, managing coffee machines and so on, it's very common in Germany and it seems that nobody cares and says, that's just how it always has been. I believe in some countrys this might be the same, but the trainee time is shorter and you can faster get to a decent wage.
@@ohmmm21 mmh, then leave?
If you apply to a graphic design position, they will usually ask you to do an assignment to see if you're the right fit, which is basically just several hours of unpaid work and does not guarantee you to get hired at all.
Edit: Just got to the part at the end where Tugg talks about these and yup, that's right, and it's not just the US. I live in Europe and it's just as bad.
I hear this happens a lot in storyboarding as well, which is why The Animation Guild is pushing for paid tests. Unpaid tests are garbage and should not exist
Heck yeah. I did this for a high corporate position. Giving them days worth of work and recommendations via presentation. I was rejected, and they have my ideas and resources. And never had decency to respond how I could improve. I’ll always regret that 😂
Jobs used to ask for your portfolio, aka a sample size of your best work. Try to show them that instead, if possible, like an attachment on your resume
@@markmickman good idea. This one in particular, had a business case. Asking how to better reach their audience. I will refrain from giving too much valuable info to them in beginning. Thanks 🙏🏽
This even happens to architects in Nigeria. They design whole ass projects just to get a chance at the job 🤦🏾♂️
I am a manager of a small office at a college (higher education administration). We’re fully staffed with 5 people, including me. I had a vacancy for my mid-level position. HR wanted me to require a master’s degree. I refused, as it really wasn’t necessary. HR still posted it as, “bachelor’s required, master’s preferred.” Ugh.
I hate how inconsistent that stuff is. Sometimes preferred virtually means required but other times I've applied to jobs which say they require certain grades (like they right it down as a key point with capital letters) and they let me go forward without possessing that strict quality.
@@kag2576 right? After a certain point I lost that hesitation of like "oh I don't meet most of these criteria" because most of the time the description is bs. Like what's the worst they can do, not hire me? They probably weren't going to anyway.
I h8 the fact that there are so many sheep getting worthlessness degrees abd applying for jobs like this letting delusional entitled hr departments justify their insulting demands
Dumb
HR clearly did not want to hire any students.
I am now in the middle of a job hunt. Brother, I am exhausted. They just piled up technologies. Who knows 1000 tech skills for an INTERN position.
Interns don’t learn on the job anymore!?
@@WutherWave-qc3udNope, just unpaid coffee jockeys.
Don’t over stress too much… we’ve all been the same path
6:55 I did the math and it turns out only 0.07% of people who apply, are hired every minute
1/1400
isnt that just LOVELY god i hate this shit
Yeah, I did that math too. Why? to hurt my feeling with the result, I guess.
Fuck me that’s bad . What’s the point even. Like yeah come here you won’t find a job but you can waste your time here.
It’s actually 0.0007%, so much worse
Entry level position. Demands that you have 12+ years of experience
bro I went to interview for a 5 yr exp job and I had 7 yr so I though no problem. The hiring manager was like "you are replacing a 25yr veteran, you think you are good enough? go ahead, impress me. I didn't read your resume so just go, impress me". Literally with eye roll as soon as the interview started. XD Red flag all over.
@@slimjimjimslim5923 what the hell lmao. what was the rest of the interview like? or did you leave just there lmao
In a programming language or framework that is 7 years old.
@@maximidze2286 it was pretty toxic manager. XD he actually kind of got angry I wasted his time because I didn’t have what he wanted. The thing is, he reached out to me after finding me on LinkedIn for interview lol. And I was 100% honest about my skills. I can’t say who it is but it’s one of the faang companies. He actually legit made me feel bad about myself 😅 had to take like a 3 day hiatus from job search to recover but boy I’m glad he didn’t hire me cause he is too toxic lol
@@ChiakiNanami736 Look, it's a tough economy.
We need 30 years experience in Rust, 3000 years experience in C++, and knowledge of Ancient Aztec. Yes, this is a Junior position. Pay is $20/hr.
Overtime is unpaid.
We are firm believers in 2810, you work 28hrs a day, ten days a week. Yes. It does cause temporal paradoxes, that's what the Ancient Aztec is for. You pray to one of ten forgotten deities to help you with Paradox eaters, and if you're a lucky, they will not eat your heart. The gods. Paradox eaters will annihilate you from all timelines forever.
Look, I got hundreds of potential sacrifices... I mean candidates, lining up for this job.
I have two degrees and 20 years of experience. I took 5 years off of working to care for my mother throughout her cancer battle. It took me NINE MONTHS and dozens of interviews to get a retail position I first had at the same company I worked for as a teenager back in 2001. The system is broken and yes, they are trying to reinstate feudalism and slavery. They've made that very clear.
11:25 Every bullet is literally an individual job. All for a single person.
Edit: Time mark.
I was gonna comment that too. Seriously what a f*cking scam.
Yeah. Thanks *[CURRENT PRESIDENT]*
Yep! They basically had a person who took over someone else's job after that person quit, and the company refused to replace the 2nd person. That happened several times, and now they want a person to willingly take all the responsibilities so the business can say "you signed up for this when you applied, so I don't understand why you are complaining. You need to become more efficient and organize your time better."
Source: It happened to me
Tugg really likes to rant on BS jobs.
overworked and underpaid
My grandma literally could not process the thought that applying online is the only way now. She just thunks your sitting there being lazy while you're on your 120th application
This is how my Boomer parents think.
It's like a full time job! Applications take FOREVER to fill out.
@@JXGold it has been like this since like 2006
Just don't do anything.
Any update on how grandma thinks now?
I wish I could go through the hell of interviewing, but employers don't even let me get that far. Recently graduated with a master's degree and I've never felt less qualified for... anything. I want to be able to use my degree but all the jobs that would use it also require me to have 5+ years of experience and/or a big load of nepotism. I hate existing.
Ah. You're what they call 'overqualified'. My sister did that to herself. She got a masters and suddenly HR was very wary of her. She ended up moving to a very similar job just in a whole new district, and it worked out. But yeah, its a lose-lose kinda thing, where they are suspicious of you wanting to get paid a ton I think.
Lmao try not having a degree.’people look at you like a monkey
As jt5wg said, you're 'overqualified'. My uni had a field trip to a local company where they informed us that they like to hire students because of their young and fresh insights/knowledge (and probably a couple of more reasons that I'm forgetting). However, they said they refused students who studied higher than a bachelor degree not just because in some scenarios they have to pay you more, but because the way you think and your knowledge has narrowed into a niche, which makes you highly specialised but lacking in everything else. It's pretty much 'A jack of all trades is a master of none, but better than a master of one.'
The only people I've seen successful with master degrees are those who go into the workforce first then do their master degree alongside work, or have become a researcher at a university.
Bro I have 11+ years of high level IT and I didn't even get a word back from 100+ basic tech support applications hahaha
"Let's all collectively stop working for 48 hours" CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FUCK YA!!
Honestly let's fucking do it
I love when the youth rediscovers unionism.
Is civil disobedience not specifically government-opposed? Like it's not illegal to strike, right? It's just exercising one's rights (not that that should factor into whether you do something, I'm just saying neither the government nor your employer have any power to force you to work)
@@johnstanley3939 you have a legal right to strike (in the US and EU). But more importantly I think it's important to know that not all laws are just. It's a grave mistake to conflate legality with morality. Do something because you believe in it
Please. Let's just pick a random date. October 12th. Nobody work.
even the fast food chains are starting to do this "record a 1 minute video of urself explaining why you want this job" + "fill out this long ass questionnare thats basically ur CV" bs
I noticed that too. For some companies, they requested a minute recording, and it felt so awkward and disrespectful that I just withdrew my application and rejected their company immediately. If you don't show enough respect to candidates to have a one-on-one conversation, then you do not deserve my attention. I think it's entirely disgusting and it's just another tool for companies to use to openly discriminate against candidates before they even had a chance to demonstrate their actual skills and personality.
@@colechapman6976 I hope you find a small business with integrity that you can work for. That is literally the only type of business I find that will not seek out the bullshit responses. Its only the mom and pop shops who wouldn't ask for this kind of thing anymore.
fun fact! Depending on where you live, requiring a video for a job application is illegal, as that is racial profiling :)
This is really clever, may look into that. @@luckyowl9191
I did that for Vans. I really wanted to work there, but I didn’t even get an in person interview because they did not like my video.
I went for an interview at a grocery store, and didn’t even get that. I have submitted countless applications and resumes over the past year, even though mentally I know I can’t anymore. What else can I do? I am homeless and about to be on the street. I read so many of these stories of what people are going through and it’s sad and insane. When you can’t buy food, buy soap to take a shower or do laundry, shit that can make you feel like a loser.
sorry this happened to you. i’m praying for you, please don’t give up.
fuck it, do some freelancing or something. at least all that hard work would result in pay instead of declined applications that give you nothing.
@@King_SPL thats what iam going to do bro
Soap is a scam. Start there
@King_SPL the problem is how do you even find that I want that but can't find it
I have been unemployed for a year.
I have some disabilities that make most jobs inacessible.
The only job I had was because of a friend.
This system sucks so much.
planned economy NOW!
Our economic system actually REQUIRES a certain amount of people to be jobless to maintain the extractive relation between capital and labour.
And that's not even some socialist theory. Its litteraly neoclassical econ 101
Wow! This sounds awful 😞
For a year?
Then you're no longer included in the 4% unemployment rate.
12% of the population are unemployed but the employment rate is whittled down to look as good as it possibly can by excluding more and more people.
8,400 applications a minute and there's only 6 hires is an insane ratio
140 applications*
@@BLET_55artem55 140 a second
Note the way LinkedIn works is that a click registers as a view. So I could be looking at the application but not submit anything.
@@BLET_55artem55 No, it was 140 per second submitted and only 6 jobs per minute given.
@@BLET_55artem55nah, 140 app.s _per second,_ homie. rewatch that bit just to shit ur pants
I applied to Checkers which is a fast food restaurant and they wanted 7. count it. 7 years of customer service experience. I havent even been able to legally work for 7 years. Thats suppose to be like a high schooler's first job. Expectations are WAY to high.
Apply anyway. I'm being interviewed next week for a job I don't meet qualifications listed for, but when I pointed that out they said no worries and scheduled the interview anyway. At the very least, if the interview is easy for you to get to, its good to use them to practice.
My most hated thing on job applications is “Why do you want to work at Big Company Ltd?”
Which in my opinion loosely translates to “Please blow smoke up our company’s ass for one paragraph”.
Every time I filled this out, I get this little bit of my soul shaved off. I started out answering a bit to honest, saying stability of the pay and benefits was what I was looking for. LOL. Obviously never got contacted by the companies when I answered that way. The second I started bullshitting the corporate style answers, I started getting contacted. I feels so dehumanizing but I gotta pay rent so. . .
@@---jt5wg the only way to answer that is to explain what skills you have and how it can help the company for that role. "I have 7 years experience dealing with negotiation or code optimization with c++ on UI and this is how I can contribute in this role....". It's a hard one and require some deep thought about the position they want. :/
"Tell us how desperate you are - we want only people who will endure anything"
int money = 0;
bool hasJob = false;
if (hasJob) {
money++;
}
That's why you dorks don't get hired, you're soft and blowing smoke. You're fake. Say this: I want to work for your company because I feel my skills could make a big impact, and it's also a good way for me to meet other talented individuals who I can network with. Etc. why do you actually want to work for a mega corp vs a small start up?
I miss the old days when you just ran around with a stack of resumes and walked into every business asking if they were hiring like that was so efficient damn it
Thank god it's not like that anymore, exactly the least efficient way to prospect for a job !
And thank you for reminding us how much beter it is now, thanks to the internet we can apply to places we didn't even know existed around us or further away and employers can actually leave ads online for us to instantly find.
I tried applying the online way looking for my first job. It didn’t work. So i just started walking around putting in applications for a lot of businesses. And it worked. You can still do this kind of thing if you are applying to local places. Any huge franchises will usually have online only applications.
@@joeydrew528yeah, that’s how I’ve got most of my jobs. I initially had the opposite experience where applying for jobs online never actually got me the job. Shit just got lost in the shuffle every time. It’s finally worked now
@@insertnicknameherejob ads online are very entitled and demanding. They require ridiculous things for an entry level job, they have all those stupid "must be a motivated and positive team player" when they're only offering 40k a year and the job sucks ass. I was told to look though two websites from different businesses I walked into and they didn't even work. All systems suck, employers suck, jobs suck, the rich folks demanding a tonne on your part while paying you less than living wage all while offering cringy advice as if they didn't just work in daddy's company all suck.
@@insertnicknamehere I understand you feel that way, I do not relate to u but I am happy ur happy with the way things are now
It sucks that you still got to fill out a full online application to every job just to get nowhere. I have to spend 30 mins filling out everything thats already on my resume just to be auto rejected
I hate that we're supposed to act like companies are doing us a favor by employing us when there company can't exist without us. I am currently hunting for a new job while still employed at my current one. I want to transition out of the field I am in but it feels like there is nothing unless you've already worked in somewhere for 3 years. Very sick of job hunting and wish there was a system that protected workers rather than companies.
I'm fairly certain that the whole, stupid, obviously broken thing is going to collapse in on itself in the foreseeable future. The economy is *not* doing well, nor is the labor market "robust" or "booming" like the propaganda about it suggests, and people can see that, even if they don't understand the reasons (but some YT econ/finance related creators are talking about the why now, and it's really telling).
Big companies are struggling (except maybe Walmart, but them doing well is literally an indicator that the rest of the economy *isn't*), and instead of _hiring_ people, so that more people have money to spend on their dumb products and services, they're laying off _more_ people and/or _freezing_ hiring. They're shooting themselves in the foot, doing the same dumb, myopic thing they always do where they prioritize short-term gains or avoided losses over long-term stability (let alone ethical or moral behavior; they seem constitutionally incapable of that), and I expect over the next few years we will see some shocking bankruptcy filings by companies almost nobody would believe today could fail (I half expect the parent company of this platform to be one them).
Me too, I'm working but hunting for jobs. I realize after a week that I need broader skills so I'm brushing up python from datacamp, learning lessons from udemy/coursea, and I plan to try out new work projects that expose me to the new skill I need. I don't like my job but it pays my bill so I will just use the company just as it has used me for 7 years.
capitalism has to go
Im in the same boat. TRAPPED in retail and I literally cannot get out no matter how hard I try. Noone will give me a chance anywhere, and now I have so much retail experience that it looks bad to employers. We really do need drastically updated workers rights laws, because this is complete bullshit
The fact that experience is an unironic condition for an entry level position makes me sick
truly, i can only read it as ‘have you done free work before and are you willing to do more’
@@abronanimation8671 there are paid internships tho, which is probably what they expect as experience
And they have the gall to call us "lazy" and "worthless".
I'm so happy you made this video tugg.
I've been ghosted by multiple jobs, including one that I already did an interview for. They never called or emailed me for any reason.
I'm still struggling. Not even walmart responded
hang in there bro everyone experiences these things in life some people take longer some people take sooner to get jobs just make sure to keep your mental health a priority and focus on yourself im going through the same shit but hopefully it gets better your not alone
I feel you. I've had one interview over the last 5 months. Never even sent me a "no thank you" email. At the beginning of March, I went to my aunts house several hours away to hide because there was so much coming down on me at once I couldn't deal with it.
Are you calling or emailing back after interviews? My personal rule is to attempt contact if you don't hear anything after a few days to a week. Being persistent by calling/emailing shows further interest and has resulted in getting the desired job for myself. My friend told his sister to do this and she got the job.
@@MrErathesHahah I do this as well. They also don’t give a fuck and still ignore me
Wait like 3 months for Walmart. That's how long it took them to hire me.
I applied for a government position at the VA hospital. I kid you not, a question for your background check is "are you a terrorist?" and they give you a yes or no option to pick.
Who would WILLINGLY tap YES to that question?!
*missclicks*
"FBI! OPEN UP!!!
@@BLET_55artem55 Dammit! That's the third time this week!
I guess I'm just an honest man.
When i was applying for US visitors visa, they asked on the application form Are you a terrorist?, Are you a drug dealer?, Are you into human trafficking? Are you engaged in Espionage?, Are you into money laundering? Even if you are one of these things, most people will just check No
Funny you mention it but many government positions/visa applications occasionally have the question "have you ever been a member of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party/CPSU/CCP etc?". This may sound like a weird question to ask but digging into history you will see that our beloved government has collaborated and openly employed people from those backgrounds, but still when they apply they must fill out said form and truthfully answer the question (kinda like how astronauts have to do a declaration form when they return from their mission). So it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to have that question on there.
“Why is depression and suicide such a problem?” This plus so much other things
Tugg is a breath of fresh air to RUclips, keeping his humor funny and relatable. He’s the only normal guy on RUclips lol.
Hey man appreciate the comment but are you a bot? This seems very bot written. If someone’s botting nice and supportive comments on my RUclips (like my mom)and my whole career is a lie I’m gunna crash out
@@biggtugg uhh
@@biggtuggtug you’re such a breath of fresh air to RUclips keeping your humor funny and relatable. You’re the only normal guy on here.
@@biggtugg youre right boss, this is kind of sketchy. just be glad there isnt some random ass emoji at the end like a fuckin umbrella or some shit
@@biggtuggyou're the only youtuber who sounds like themselves when they write comments
There are too few creators who will tell a subset of their audience, "you're and idiot! Get out of here!"
Holy shit that first job you described is NOT entry level. There's a guy at my work with basically that exact job, and his title is something like creative director and he's making like $200k. That's a seriously heavy lift of a job!
Cool story bro
IN a recession they can get someone with that experience desperate for a job whose unemployment is going out. In 2009 these jobs got filled sadly. It will spread as other employers will feel ripped off paying your friend 200k when they can get the same work done for 41K
This is a common problem with linked in. When the job is posted (usually by means of some API interface) and the seniority is not provided in the transmission, the job defaults to entry level just because every job must have a seniority level. The system doesn't know any better. That's why on this platform you should never filter jobs by seniority, this metric is indeed trash.
I once got rejected because I had too much startup experience, but they also liked that I had startup experience. Thanks...?
The brutal truth is that they saw you as a potential threat to THEIR own careers.
One thing that's not spoken of enough is how protectionist HR departments and company middle managers are of their jobs in the face of newer generations of workers who are in all likelihood better educated and sometimes more relevantly experienced than them entering the job marekt.
Whenever anybody tries to give you the excuse of "you're overqualified", recognise that it's just the polite way of them saying "you're too good for ME to handle, I don't need YOU to come in and threaten MY JOB SECURITY."
It's BS.
@@Nelsonwmj I can totally see that be a thing. On my new job, some people asks for a reviews and then tget upset when you point out flaws even if it's in a friendly and constructive manner. Why the fuck did you ask for review if you're going to get all defensive?
@@devvilboyy676767 Because they're not actually asking for feedback, they're asking for affirmation.
I love to learn about the job market as a new graduate. Surely it's totally not fucked at all with inane requirements and barely any pay.
I literally had to reassure my partner the other day about that bs
Yep it surely is and it's ridiculous
Oh yeah, luckily I had my hopes and dreams assassinated in 4th semester of university, so I could look for shitty part time jobs and internships instead of focusing on my "straight As" mentality like highschool. As a business economics major we had a "labor economics" class, and the first day the teacher told us "you guys are screwed with a crappy major like economics, but atleast you'll get to know how screwed you are in this class instead of actually having to wait until it's too late like pretty much all the other career paths"... She was brutally honest and one of my favorite teachers lol.
Not all. Just mostly. Unless you can crack HR. Then it’s life on gravy mode street- which is a conglomeration of easy street, gravy train, and easy mode.
There are some crazy onerous requirements out there. Some jobs requirements that I have seen included:
Bilingual Preferred
Bachelor's Degree Required, Masters Prefered
Weekend Availability is a Must
Must Know Full Suite of Technology Tools We Use
Team Player That Works Independently
1-3 Years Experience Highly Preferred with Progressively More Responsible Duties
I don't usually comment on videos but GOD do I feel seen and validated for not being the only one in this position. I've been job hunting for MONTHS and landed only 1 interview like 2 months ago. Still got ghosted by the manager. Best of luck to everyone else in this hellscape we made and have to live in
Same here buddy. And I have plenty of professional work experience and great references.
Oh, we weren't the ones who made it.
same. 1 interview since may
This video is absolutely the most relatable one I’ve seen in a while. I finally got so sick and tired of applying for videos. I just started my own business. I’d rather work for $10 an hour for myself than $20 an hour dealing with all this crap.
All of this is to support local business, support your friends, and make sure these big corporations know the world will go on without them
Abso-fucking-lutely! Drop your company name brother. Corporate wants to play stupid games, they'll win stupid prizes. This is the real dream for humanity.
I can't believe someone with over a million followers just suggested the same strike I've been proposing since like, I don't know high school? Like, it could literally cripple the entire government if we banded together to do a national work strike and we could make change really happen. I hope this idea spreads like wildfire.
Problem is that economy effects peoples ability to survive. Something people sourly learned during Covid. Our system doesn't allow for effeciency and safety measures because we have to be concerned about peoples ability to make and spend money. It's the entire model.
Also, we have a surplus of people who would willingly take anything they can, because if you don't have money one way or another, you'll die, unless you steal. Some people even steal to go to jail just to assure they get in 3 meals a day because their current situation didn't mean that was a constant for them.
Or just stop paying taxes en masse. What would they do? The trick is getting enough people to do it at the same time
@@vixxcelacea2778 to effectively have a general strike, it takes a considerable amount of organization and preparation. Mutual aid, for instance, needs set up to support those who might have tenuous financial situations but still want to strike. Some people may need to make sure strikers are getting fed while on the picket line. So forth, so on. But here's the thing. There's still some old radicals out there who would be more than happy to teach the youngsters how it can be done. Activism and change is hard and sometimes dangerous, but change doesn't happen without struggle.
@@vixxcelacea2778this is not advice or am I advocating for it. FBI please don’t arrest me.
But if you got like 30 million people to withdraw their money from banks, it would definitely freeze or crash the system.
Just a classic bank run with like 10% of the population. Even just the threat of it would scare the government shitless.
It really would be that simple. No strikes, no rally’s. Just go to the bank en mass just try to withdraw your money. Especially from mega banks.
Newsflash they don’t have it, cause the money isn’t technically your anymore and they don’t need like any reserves. Bet they would listen after that.
Don’t create a mass movement to initiate a bank run. It’s 100% illegal but it would 100% work and you wouldn’t even need a majority of the population for it to work.
Again do not even attempt this, you will be arrested.
"I hope this idea spreads like wildfire."
Me too! Not a new idea, by any means, but still just as powerful as it ever was.
I've actually been advocating much the same thing WRT consuming (as in massive refusals to do business with companies that do fucked up things, especially WRT to labor, like all the RTO assholes).
I’ve seen jobs that say entry level as the tag but the first sentence when you click on the job is “we are looking for mid-senior level IT..”🤦🏾♂️
I feel this. I have a BS in Cybersecurity and can't get an entry level help desk job. Or they want CompTIA A+. If a job requires a degree and/or a certification, that's not entry level.
They put entry level so they can put a low pay range. But they still able to fuck around with min qualification to gatekeep and try to get more experience people and pay them the minimal amount possible.
Yeah, you are at 4+ years of experience at that point which is very valuable depending on the previous work that person did.
@@nerdyneedsalife8315 the A+ cert is an entry level cert. Its an easy way to tell who can understand the concepts. Its kinda like someone isnt going to hire someone off the street to do entry level engineering work
@@Aboguaboga These certs still cost money for those who take them. If the worker needs to put a financial investment into a job, whether it's a degree or certification, I do not find that entry level. When they say entry level cert, they aren't saying the cert would help get an entry level job. They're saying that out of all the certs they offer, this one is entry level. I've seen people claim college degrees are entry level. At that point employers are moving the goal post as to what is entry level to pay workers less
I came to the realization today that HR departments only care about the interests of the executives/investors
They solely exist to make sure you can’t sue the company harassment or discrimination.
Always have
I interviewed for a job I was perfect for (qualifications perfectly matched, and I had personal experience with the company's mission). I did three interviews over three weeks where they asked me the same questions every time. Then they wanted me to do a test, and waited ANOTHER WEEK to give me my assignment. Then they said once I submitted my test, it would be another week or two and a fourth interview before they made a decision. At this point, my old job offered me another contract, but I figured I'd do the test because they said they'd pay me for it, so at least I'd get some money for all my troubles. I sent in my test and withdrew my application, and they said they couldn't pay me because the budget was just for applicants! I was LIVID. It's sad because I really believed in this company's mission, but companies nowadays put zero trust in their applicants, and that's a terrible foundation to start a working relationship on.
Why would they pay you to take a test if you withdrew your application?
@@taylorbug9 The test was writing an article, so they could've still published it and paid me for it
Ngl i would have quit the application if i heard 4 rounds of interviews. That just disrespectful of ones time
glassdoor those bastards!
I'm pretty positive the only reason I've managed to get the jobs I have is because I show up when they're desperate and I lower my standards to "Pay me minimum wage and don't put me directly in the trash compactor please" - because every time I've tried to find something decent, it's dead air for miles. I tried helping a friend job search not long ago and it's horrible how a job that should be "put the square peg in the square hole" level of complexity wants you to have college debt and a variety of mastery over programs and company specific tools and software you would only have if you already worked there.
Companies no longer want to train. That is a big divergence from what it used to be back then. My parents all said that the entry-level jobs that they had after they graduated college had a lot of training available. I have started working in a lot of private sector jobs, and the vast majority had little to no training. Companies are not interested in that and would rather set insane requirements than have to do the training themselves.
The only time I ever heard of training was when I interviewed with state government agencies. They said they would train me and could do so for as long as I needed until I felt comfortable with completing the tasks effectively. It was such a breath of fresh air and made me want to join that agency. I am waiting to hear back from them but I believe I will get the position as they sent me post-interview forms to fill out
Yeah work from home jobs require work from home experience you can’t get if you didn’t work from home already. Knowledge of medical terms is easy knowledge of how to use their system without previous experience is bs yet they hired my mother who is almost computer illiterate and had zero experience and knowledge of anything medical. Meanwhile i have and can diagnose pc issues run programs with ease and can pick up anything within doing it once or twice. Also I have vast knowledge of medical terms. I am what they were asking for and they took my mother over me like wtf.
@@DRAG0N1012 Experience isn't really necessary. What is necessary is to become skilled with what you are doing to the point where your company trusts you can perform the job without supervision.
I never had a remote job, but my new job with state government transitions to hybrid remote after a few months of training. I don't have experience with remote work, but due to extensive training, I will be well-prepared for any issues I may encounter. Experience isn't really necessary, what is necessary is your previous work history, temperament, and if you can do the job satisfactorily during the probation period.
It is a skill, but it isn't like a great mystery that you need a year of experience to work remote. I worked remote when my college campus shutdown. Now it wasn't quite like being an employee, but I had to get use to lots of Zoom calls, remote group projects, etc. It requires a bit more focus and you have to make your office space separate from your living space so you can avoid distractions, but I don't think you necessarily have to have previously been remote inorder to work a remote job
@@DRAG0N1012 I faced this a lot when I was interviewing with other companies. I felt like I was the perfect fit, great experience, I had a relevant college degree, I had three references, and two letters of recommendation as well as a number of years of experience that I could use in the role I was interviewing for, and I was still rejected by at least 9 different companies for jobs that I was wholly qualified for.
I did get a job with state government and now I make more than the job that laid me off, but for those six months of searching, it was so disheartening. You do begin to question your abilities and self-worth if you can't even get a bog-standard job that pays decently.
Mind you I can pass a drug test, I have excellent references, a bachelor's degree, and a great work history, and it still took 200+ applications for a job offer.
I think from an employer's POV, you may have been the final round candidate selection against two or three other people. Somebody will need to be selected. Unfortunately, sometimes companies go with someone else because they have to. When you have three candidates all with the same experience and education, one will need to be selected. It is just the reality of hiring people, especially now when 100s of applications are sent in for every one job posting. Someone will be rejected, and it isn't necessarily their fault, it is just that the company had to choose one person for the job. It is the luck of the draw
@@DRAG0N1012one issue is that a lot of employers don’t like to hire young people
The only job openings available right now are customer service/restaurant jobs. I've been there and done that, and I would 100% rather be unemployed and broke than subject myself to that again.
cuz those jobs are toxic hostile workplaces that pay garbage and dont even allow people to have set schedules or full time with benefits.
Don’t forget retail 😨
I’d rather my own store than work for a big company.
I used to work in the Solar industry and to put it simply; there's a "cult-like" atmosphere in the corporate world.
I shared my opinion of the CEO once and everybody alienated me. All I said was that he "seemed a little weird".
People really have to be willing to delude themselves the same way they do in a cult to be happy and okay waking up every day and doing the most bullshit to ever have been shat
This is so true it's actually scary how bootlick-y coworkers can get
I used to do custom electrical design work for solar… they burned a house down pushing through crap to sell a system instead of letting the electrical engineers make the call. My entire team was managed out in 1 months after we called out what they did by going over our heads. And all the other departments treated us like pariahs.
@@kinda_chaotically_shey3945 that's when you get together and form a rival company selling actual quality product since you actually know how to build it in the first place
I'm sure lots of people you know could find reasons and little gaffes you did to say you "seem a little weird" behind your back if they wanted to, and they probably realized you're the type of person who will say those things about them behind their backs.
I did the math for LinkedIn, it's 6 people every min, out of 8400 applications. it's a job lottery
😂😂 job lottery
Even gacha has a higher rate of getting Ss than a job.
@@esense9602Lmao. Yeah average gacha SS rate from ones I've played is between 0.5-1%. The calculated chance of being one of the people selected is 6/8400 which is 0.07%. That's around 10 times more unlikely.
That’s 1 person for every 1400 applicants
My dad has legitimately told me "just call the CEO on the phone and ask for a job". Wouw, dad, the world was wild when you were young...
I am currently in the interview process for an agriculture related corporate job. It’s a fucking nightmare.
First interview over zoom, went great. Homework: write a detailed 90-day plan for what your first three months of employment here would look like. Great.
Second interview I have to travel 100 miles for. Awesome. Hour and half interview. Is that all? Nope. Now I have to call farmers and set up appointments that I will never actually go to. Awesome.
Next steps? We’re going to take you to a farm and interview you on an actual farm.
Oh wait, now I might not actually get the job because even though the description clearly stated that a bachelor’s degree wasn’t required, you just emailed me saying a bachelor’s degree is required for the position after wasting hours of my time.
I literally do not think there is a person on the planet more qualified for this job than I am, but now they might just shut the whole thing down anyway because I didn’t do my last semester of college.
Edit:
I didn’t get a job because they’re claiming the ad said that a bachelor’s degree was required, when it explicitly said the opposite. Oh well.
Call them and say all that. Stand up for yourself.
@@mineduck3050 yeah but I want the job because my job sucks right now
How do I get a job interviewing applicants and just assigning them all of the regular work? The entire company could just be me and all of the people I might hire
@@EzaleaGraves loool
Not a personal attack, but why do people wait until their last semester of college to drop out? You’re so close! Might as well finish what you started.
Also I’d frame it as you having an equivalent of a bachelors degree
As a person who has an end date scheduled at my job due to lay off and is this job searching....I'm experiencing this as you describe. And it's incredibly frustrating. I just want to yell at recruiters that I don't need a bachelor's in business to be an administrative assistant!
I am in the same boat. 15 years experience and if I apply online I know I'm being immediately shoved aside by the bots reviewing applications. I don't have a degree but I'd imagine 15 years of customer service and management skills is more valuable to the places I am applying than a 4 year degree in Mandarin or whatever. All my friends who do have degrees, only two of them are actually working in fields related to their degrees!
lol I’m so tired of it, stay strong out there! just got a part time job in retail to supplement my freelance stuff and im pretty sure now they only hired me because they learned i have a bachelors degree in digital marketing and they are now pressuring me to do unpaid creative work for them on the side of the actual entry level job they hired me for… i make 12$ an hour at this place like…
Ive seen 50+ admin assistant jobs listed in the past 6 months of job hunting. All of them are requiring a degree, 4 years of experience, and full knowledge of every office place application ever created. All for 17-20 dollars an hour. In a college town where 60% of the population are college students, 30% are retirees or trust funders that dont need to work, and the other 10% are random migrants or tourists staying for the weekend. I dunno who they think is coming to fill those positions, but i always see them relisted
I got laid off from my first job out of college due to a huge reduction in force and now it’s like starting from ground zero again
And then people say "pfft, just get another job. You're not trying hard enough, or you're just being lazy? Stop giving excuses" wtf, it's what I've read and heard everywhere.
I work in hospital security and not gonna lie you notice the societal mental health decline when the people being brought in are getting worse by the visit 😬 you start to notice over time how the economic decline starts to really effect people
oh yeah at my job, I worked a few 12-16hr days since last october. That resulted in my getting an organ infection, an abscess and had to be removed. Overall even with health insurance I had to fork over 2000$. :/ I wish the president of the US would address this, I don't want to hear more about Ukraine or israel or china or russia. Help us americans here, stop worrying about other countries.
It’s time for our inept political leaders, to help Americans. We have a large pool of highly educated people and those willing to work. Just imagine if all those billions of dollars to Ukraine, Israel, etc, are invested in us, Americans.
@@1821femina Instead lets make it infinitely easier for other countries, to outsource their overpopulation problems to America!
Lets invite SWARMS of third worlders willing to work slave labour for pennies!!!!
This is totally not the inverse of how we got out of feudalism.
@@1821feminaI wish people would at least take the time to understand what those billions of dollars were instead of thinking that was liquid money that could be spent on us in the first place.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be more emphasis on helping the american people, but those "billons of dollars" of aid given to those countries came in the form of otherwise worthless military hardware that was no longer in use.
It's like complaining that your mother gave all the clothes that don't fit you to the neighbor kid saying she should have spent the money on you instead.
The fact is she already did spend the money on you, it's just now we're getting a large amount of value out of it by donating it once we were done with it.
Arguably we COULD say that maybe having that much gear laying around in the first place is a waste of money that we should have invested into our people instead, but by arguing like the gear we gave them, worth billions of dollars, was the point where we mis-spent the funds is fundamentally not understanding what happened.
@@SherrifOfNottinghamjust coping. The govt needs to invest in their own people. Not give other countries free shit.
The tests after the interviews... the number of hours I've wasted doing those is incredible. I'm at a point where if I get asked to do one, I just walk away. Putting together full 30-40 slide presentations for a job that I'm not likely to get anyway is not something I will ever do again
I have a severe allergy to bullshit, therefore I still don't have a job after searching for weeks. I blank out whenever I read the question "Why do you want this job" because the bullshit answer I know they want makes me feel ill. Maybe I'm just not desperate enough to write what they want instead of the truth, which is just I need to pay rent.
Some people are too real for this world’s stupid games. I hope you find your way g
nobody likes spewing bullshit but ya gotta do what ya gotta do
@@sankeethganeswaran3024Not every workplace is like this, don’t tolerate it just because you need money. Find a job that’s just as real as you, they’re out there.
So here's a thing to understand about that field
It's literally a filter, if you type words relating to "money" or "pay" in that field, you get filtered out immediately and automatically, sadly your interviewer will probably look at it later so you have to write something coherent.
it's to identify who they can abuse and pay as little as possible. people who want this job "because they love the company and think it's so awesome and it's not about the money" will thereby accept lower pay and increased workload, since it's not about the money!
2:41 I work at a Starbucks and I loath the day someone tries to turn coffee into a weapon, I’ve already been called slurs
yo big tugg you also forgot the fun fact that companies don't take down most job listings anymore. I've accidentally applied to job listings that are a year old and job listings that immediately tell me the job has already been filled but the listing is still up on the company website and other job websites.
fuck the company I used to work for my boss showed me some jobs I could apply to when i was quiting. He looked at the listing and went "ahhh that's 6 months old probably full" "why don't you take the listing down?" "ahhh you know, hr, hiring stuff... you know how it is" it was still there long after I left
It's even for basic stuff like starbucks. Oh we aren't accepting new applications at this location, there's one an hour away by bus or walking that might be looking.
So true. I walked in with an application to a local veterinary clinic and the front desk looked at me perplexed. They said they were not hiring, I offered to leave my resume anyway and while it probably went in the trash at least I tried. At home I reviewed the listing in more detail and wouldn't you know it, 4 months old.
Thanks for expressing the humor in being unemployed and job hunting. I am current in this situation and I really appreciate the laughs to alleviate the anxiety. Also it makes me feel like I am not alone in this struggle.
Tugg is really spitting cause as a senior mechanical engineering major, you would think it’s easy to find a job newsflash…it’s really not. I have a job interview next week so wish me the best.
how was the interview?
Did you get the job?
He wont find out the outcome for another 18 months guys, chill
@@crybabytrash138 indeed I did get the job 🤝🏾
@@blackranger7597 yes sirrrr🤝🏾
Ya know, the landscape for job hunting has really changed over the decades, but one thing remains consistent, it doesn't hurt to know somebody on the inside if you want the job.
So, in other words your advocating the virtues of cronyism
@@icanhasutoobz I never said I advocated for it. It's just the reality.
@@ivoryquillum4436 You're right, you didn't _advocate_ it directly. You just mentioned it as a way to get the job, with exactly zero commentary about the fact that it is inherently wrong.
I'm sure nobody intrepreted that as advocacy.
@@icanhasutoobz it needs no explanation, and yes, it is wrong. I'm merely stating a fact. Anyone with a brain will know that
I mean... I understood it as a criticism, not as advocating in favour.
I found the best job of my life on linkedin and I hate that experience. Why? They showed me that life doesnt have to be difficult and that there are good companies out there just to throw me out a few months later. For them its nothing for me its like they pulled me out of a grave just to shove me back in. I experienced happiness for once in my life and now I cant get it out of my head that things can be better. Because it feels so impossible to reach that now. I will never achieve that in my life and its like poison. It was pure luck.
That's such a weirdly specific thing but I completely share that sentiment. Not even with a job just leaving your incredibly damaging environment and meeting people you get along with. Feeling like you're living the life you're supposed to be living for a short time just to be put back into hell again. The contrast destroys you.
Jobs want to know every single detail about you but they’re like “hehe we can’t post the salary 😁”
if they posted it no one would apply
Those jobs are a huge red flag to me. Extremely unprofessional behavior which means theyre trying to lowball to the max
Honestly man, Thank you for giving me a good reason to give up on all this shit. The odds have always been against us. I'm so tired of trying. Keep doing what you do. Telling it like it is.
Not to mention, everything requires a million certifications and licenses on top of school and experience.
Oh my gosh! It's absolutely wild out here! I tried to get an entry level editing internship and had me write a "practice article" which they then published without my permission or knowledge. It was their headlining article on their site for a week, too!! 😭😭
Really nice...
There has to be a way for people to claim ownership of their "homework" so it can't be used by the company or else it would result in legal trouble.
@@togahimiko4482absolutely. Send them an invoice, and threaten to report them for unpaid work to the department of labor if it doesn't get paid.
I did some freelancing for a while and when I stopped working with one site - no hard feelings, they just went in a different direction that I wasn’t interested in writing about - they changed the bylines on everything I’d written to be the site owner’s.
Can probably sue for that
And AI has made this even worse. There are literal courses for how to get past companies' stupid automated Applicant Tracking Systems. Some people have resorted to using AI bots to apply for them. It's insanity.
Companies already dont even hire from linkedin because you get the bottom of the barrel slop applicants who expended a couple hundred on AI tokens, just to spam a couple thousand applications.
But when you go to those same companies, you cant even apply in person.
Its just ridiculous. I wish online job postings were made illegal.
Wish everything happened in person
Companies are also using AI to shadow employees to train, and then replacing the employee. All the graphics jobs are getting canned now, a RUclips made a video about how he lost his graphics design job to AI
@@NarasimhaDiyasena clown world
COMPANIES DO NOT NEED YOUR SOCIAL OR ANY OF THAT INFO UNTIL YOU ARE BEING HIRED AND HAVE A CONTRACT SIGNED.
😅I kinda remember this I was being hired but only had to put my social down when their were going to hire me. Also a form of identification to finish the process. This is crazy.
Another painful one is the bait and switch. You apply for one job but then during the interview they say that job has been filled BUT they have some "wonderful" opportunity which would be a perfect fit.
Tugg seems like the type of person that would show up to a job interview in the drive through window
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My workplace won’t hire you if you fail a PERSONALITY QUIZ! It’s a carwash job.
bro didn’t even mention how a lot of companies post listings for jobs that straight up don’t exist
yeah more people need to be aware of this. they get all depressed about not getting selected but the truth is the company ain't selecting no one LOL
I started working right around the time every company wanted a degree. In 1987 I signed up for an 8 month community college paralegal program. On the 1st day of class the instructor told us that lawyers in CA had just made a rule that new paralegals needed a bachelor's (in ANYTHING). So only those in college or who had a degree already should take the course. Out of probably 120 women, fewer than 10 stayed. I worked for a temp company in accounts payable and receivable and it was very easy work that paid okay. In 1989 I was let go from the temp company because offices wanted ppl who had degrees (in ANYTHING). My years of experience meant nothing to anyone but if i had had a degree in scandinavian folkart I could have a job. I'm 57 now and the only jobs I'm 'qualified' for are retail minimum wage positions that last for a season. I grew up in a lower class family in LA and no one I knew went to college. You didn't have to...until you had to.
Requiring a college degree for everything was organized class warfare. Make us waste our prime wealth-building years making no money and going into debt. (Saving and investing even a tiny bit in your twenties is hugely beneficial for your long term and inter-generational wealth.)
I am in your conundrum at the moment as well. 15 years of experience and loyalty to a single company seems to be worth less than a 4 year degree in French. I am currently using the county resources on how to write a targeted resume because I have never written one, I started working for the company of 15 years when I was a high school student and simply applied as a walk in. Moved up to manager and am leaving because the company was purchased by a new owner who I really can't stand with their dishonest business practices. Somehow, my years of consistent and reliable work, the hugely positive relationship I have with our regular clients, all of that means very little in terms of qualifications to prospective employers. They just want to know if I can use a register and point of sale system and why I don't have a degree or only worked for one job. Its amazing that they can't seem to understand that some people don't quit their work every two years.
Finding a job in LA is the absolute worst and the reason i finally just moved out of california. You either have to know someone to get fair paying jobs, have a degree to roll for the .002% chance of getting a job against the other 9000000 degree holding people competing against you for the position(the worst part is that most of them already have jobs and are just trying to move laterally, taking jobs away from unemployed people who actually NEED them), or be mexican because then the company thinks youll work super hard and can be exploited. I couldnt land any jobs in la other than shitty ass retail jobs that are all dead ends paying garbage and not offering any fulltime whatsoever. Went to 3 temp agencies and they were all just scammers trying to sign people onto lists so they could sell the lists to companies
A degree in anything wow… but your years of experience speaks volumes though ?!?!?
@@chaletamale5726yeah my brother believes in temp agencies always telling me
To sign up because factory work is something. What’s weird is how fast food in LA is 20. Base pay but you can’t live on that either in La also we all know how fast food people are treated.
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he'd be terrified of doorknobs.
Doorknobs ???!
Was he a germaphobe?
what is this supposed to mean??
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The Abraham Lincoln mind couldn’t even begin to comprehend automatic doors.
It’s such a catch-22 that entry level positions want you to have 3+ years of experience.
I applied for a position as a rental agent for a company that rents out camera equipment and other electronics. Fulfilled every qualification except the one that asks you to have experience repairing big production level cameras (think Sony Venice). Tell me, where and how does a 21yo get training or experience to do something like that outside of an entry level job or internship?!
11:09 Easy way to spot a low-quality job - just remember that most Walmart employees earn $15/hr, yet somehow a white-collar job posting is indicating the same starting pay.
Whenever I heard the slack notification sound, I get a very visceral reaction. This is from a bad job experience I had some 2-3years ago and I just can't not hate that sound.
Because of Slack, I muted my phone permanently. I haven’t had slack in months and I have yet to unmute my phone.
Same
But it was my ex bf who had it on 24 7 flirting with female co workers under the guise of "I'm salaried so I have to always be available"
As a comp sci grad this market is ridiculous. Expect fresh grads to know react, AWS - with multiple certifications, multiple languages not just 1-3 like 3-5, do front end back end, and dev ops, and have 3 years of experience - for entry level jobs and even internships.
Like most fresh grads don’t have any experience we’re lucky to have a single internship, they don’t teach react or AWS in school, - they should but don’t.
Legit considering going into accounting for stability cuz this tech bubble is ridiculous!
It is not a tech bubble. Its everywhere like that. Mostly invasion of mostly indians taking s jobs and bringing in their s work culture and nepotism. In accounting there they also go. Plus those services are easily moved offshore.
Same. I graduated in May with my CS degree and I’m so terrified of what I’ve gotten myself into right now. I have basically 3 and a half months till the loan payments start and I don’t even know where to begin. I should have just went into the medical field like my brother. The school is rigorous but you’re basically guaranteed a high paying job for life if you can graduate
@@KTLaughter agreed! Dude forget MD freaking nurses make 60-80K a year and you can become and NP paid for by the hospital making 120-150K a year- which is what most software engineers make but guaranteed job security. I’m lucky I found a job as a data analyst with decent pay- but I’m already doing accounting masters to get my CPA- nearly guaranteed job security and earning potential similar to tech. Just not as sexy.
I have family friends wanting to do tech cuz me and my brother both work and make good money but dude it took like 6 months 2,000 applications only a few turned to interviews to finally land an offer. Tech is too oversaturated. I told them do medicine or accounting (CPA). Cuz this market is ridiculous.
@@KTLaughter same here, bro. I got an associates in CS and i feel like i wasted 4 years (job corp...ironically) getting a, what it seems to be, flimsy ass degree that holds NO weight once so ever. i do code from time to time, but i sometimes lose motivation because i feel like i'm doing it for fun instead of practice, which is awful in depressing.
I even tried networking (out in the real world) and it went about as poorly as you think. if i had a dollar for every person who told me to "dont give up", "keep applying" or "go back and get your bachelors", i'd have enough money to not deal with this bs anymore. not only is it impossible online, its impossible offline as well.
one investor guy i met told me that he was in my same exact shoes and applying for jobs in your field is like dating, and christ on a pike was he right.
As a senior developer in the industry and interviewer. Apply for entry level positions and just ignore the requirements. If you want to go to frontend make sure to know JS, and if you want to go in backend make sure to know algorithms. When I was a starting out the job requirements were just as ridiculous. If you keep applying you will eventually get a company that will hire you. I remember applying to 100 jobs during my early years. Also a github profile is good to have.
Gotta love the job postings that don't even specify whether or not you're entitled to work in the country it's posted, only to find a question at the very end of the multi-step application asking if you need sponsorship.
tugg would show up to a job interview with his cat and some cheetos and still get the job
Omg yes
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I've been a graphic designer and website designer for years and that entry level job blew my mind. 15 bucks!? Wow
That's what it all looks like now, every media job just wants you to give them the world for free. I've been an unemployed video editor for almost a year, everything I find is exactly like that job posting.
@@benjaminjackson8663 Same, I’ve been trying to get a video editing gig and it’s been insane the level they want you to be at while paying you basically no 40k a year with a degree.
Also a graphic design degree holder here. Ive completely abandoned my field because all the job listings look like this. The problem is for the last 10 years, everyone and their mom thinks theyre a graphic designer cuz they can use photoshop, so they started undercutting/underbiding on jobs, lowering the pay rate for people who actually do this for a living to the point where its no longer a livable wage
This might be my favourite video on RUclips. I'm glad I'm not alone. Searching for a job has been soul destroying at times.
I always support when Tugg does an add read. He looks like he’s just one bad week from becoming feral and losing his apartment.
Really digging Tugg’s meteoric descent into anticapitalism.
Nothing wrong with capitalism... if we actually had it. In capitalism, businesses can end/die, by the way, making room for new more efficient ones. What's that - Boeing screwed up and will be 5 years late on some projects? We better send them another $15b...
@BikeHelmetMk2 Agreed. What most people are frustrated with is not capitalism itself but the existence of a corpratocracy within capitalism's as it stands today. It's not necessarily anti-capitalist to be anti-corprate.
Ah ah ah, anticorporation
LOL. Spot on impression of my boomer dad. He told me to deliver a paper resume to Microsoft.
I stopped paying my rent and saved it for as long as i could before they could legally throw me out and took all that money and moved to nebraska which is far cheaper to live to the point where i can still be unemployed for another month or so looking for a new job. And everyone is hiring here, gas stations, manual labor, even more office jobs than i would have thought.
Smart and wise. Eff them.
Exactly. Everyone wants to work in big cities for big corps, but sometimes (most of the time) it's far better to look for a smaller scale
How many months did you save?
@artisticagi personally i saved for a little over a a year. but thats only cause i wanted a good safty net if things didnt work out so i had at least around $1000 more than what i needed. If i were certain everthing was gonna work out like family you could crash with, i would have saved for somewhere around 6-9 months. depending on your earnings of course this might vary for you
Yeah I ain't gonna uproot my life just to move to Nebraska
tugg seems like the kind of guy to show up for a job interview and ask for a raise while still brushing his teeth
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This dude isn’t kidding. I’m looking for a job in real estate development and a company sent me an underwriting assignment (analysis for pricing) as a “case study” project to prove my skills after 3 interviews. They passed me up for a family hire and turns out the “case study” was real work for a real property they were thinking of buying. We’re fucked.
File a department of Labor Complaint... the owe you minimum wage at least. Hell you could probably sue in small claims for fraud and unjust enrichment.
“I hate recruiters… I used to be one. They suck.” That is the most relatable comment I’ve had in my professional life.
absolutely WILL NOT do a job interview assignment!!
No any sane Human will
And you should not ever give your dignity or work for free. Good on you
With that profile pic, thank god
2-ish months and it went south so damn fast that 200 applications to find a job seems like a nice walk.
I applied for a job in IT they put me on 8+ hours homework for an 1200€ job. The average salary for IT is 800€-1000€ where I live. Also an intern interviewed me LOL they just don't care anymore.
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@@DaybreakPT Nope but it's EU
@@PotatoGodzillais it a frontend dev position?
@@jurassicthunderIt was a backend but Frontend is kinda implied due to my work history. They had my CV.