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- 2 hours
It does sound nice, I mean just before Boomers apparently it worked like this
- 13 hours
We don’t… produce anything anymore. At this point 90% of jobs are just there in case investors want a tour of the company
- 15 hours
The fake job postings are fucking me up every time. They should be fined for doing this.
- 2 hours
Any company convicted of posting a ghost job should be required to pay a year’s compensation to every individual who applied to the job.
There should be a well funded team of investigators and a tip line. Rewards for ratting out management.
- 12 hours
It’s the exact opposite they are doing it because they get tax write-offs for being able to say they have openings they can’t fill
- 2 hours
That’s not really how that works, the point of fake postings is usually to hire foreign workers by saying they can’t fill it locally.
I’m going to need you to explain how that works. There are almost no expenses accrued by deliberately not filling a position. So what exactly is the company supposed to write off?
- 2 hours
We need a platform wide sidebar wiki on how tax write offs work. I don’t know why it’s such a problem on Lemmy understanding the concept.
16 hoursand you can even be happy to receive the rejection mail at least - it’s far to common to just not receive a response at all, leaving you hanging
- 21 hours
The last bullet hits hard. I’m appling for engineering management level roles for the first time in almost a decade and I wasnt prepared to have all my personal details included in my job application to be sold. But thats the game now, thanks for applying, the answer is no and we just sold your details. Thanks. Its depressing and demoralizing, I will carry this sentiment and distrust into my next job.
- 13 hours
yap looking for a job -> tons of spam emails and calls after a while.
and the thing is that you have to take the calls which might be for scheduling an interview.
I lost count to the number of times I said “Hi good morning” only to be greeted with "Your PayPal|Bank|eltricity bill … has something, something something pls give creds|make a payment to …’
Aaaaaaaaa fucking data brokers.
- 16 hours
Selling that data is illegal in the EU, isn’t it? It probably isn’t elsewhere though.
In the US, we do have laws that protect us sometimes. My employer has violated states laws a few times now.
What can I do? Sue them? Then I’m out of a job, so how will I pay the lawyers? Damages some even get me through half a year of bills.
I’ve had the exact same issues with landlords.
- 3 hours
That’s why in Austria we have not only Unions but a “Worker’s chamber” (and also an “Enterpreneur’s chamber”). While companies can prevent unions they can’t prevent that chamber. If you are not part of a union you can still call the chamber and it has legal specialists, it can help you and also sue on your behalf if need be, at no cost to you. If the company fires you over your legit concern’s they can also get you damages for that from that company. Of course, unions can offer stronger protection and the two institutions also work together but it is good to have a second layer that companies can’t get rid off.
These things are quite different between different countries in Europe as well though.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish15 hours
And how would you know, anyway? Only illegal if they get caught.
- 3 hours
It just needs an employee who ended his employment in a way that was not to his or her liking. This is a huge risk for the company, the fines are substantial and huge companies will have a hard time keeping everything watertight and secret. Alternatively, hackers or other informed people can get to know a lot about the functioning of systems, firmware and software. So even if there is no one ratting the company out, they could still end up with those huge fines, or worse.
- 6 hours
Places like this still exist to some extent. I’m employed at one. I work as an engineer at a factory that engineers and constructs large pre-fab steel structures. It’s the first engineering job I’ve had that is a part of an actual manufacturing facility. I’ve always done work at engineering consulting firms or been teaching. The culture is very different than my previous positions. It’s definitely a more blue collar environment. On the engineering, drafting, estimation, and HR side (the office work), it’s pretty much exclusively through online applications. However we do get walk-ins for positions in the shop. People do sometimes walk in the office door and ask cold to apply for a welder or other fabricator position.
As for why the difference? I suppose in theory someone could do a walk-in for an office position, but that’s not something I’ve ever seen. Those are fewer, less frequently available, and far more specialized. If you’re a good welder? If you really know what you’re doing, you could get a job with us, regardless of what industry you worked in prior. If you can read a set of drawings and move your body in the subtle ways necessary to make that drawing real, then you can do at least some of the work in the fab. And the rest you can learn as you go. But the engineering side is fairly specialized. Even among engineers, even among just the engineering discipline most relative to our work, only one in a hundred engineers selected at random would be familiar with the codes we design to. And I suppose there’s also a cultural factor. Maybe when you work behind a screen all day, applying to jobs through a screen is most natural. If your work is all physical and in-person, applying for jobs that way is natural. Oh, and for the welders at least, it’s very difficult to bullshit your way through the interview process. We can ask prospective engineers technical questions in an interview. We can give them model projects to test their skills, but there’s no real way to prevent cheating. If someone really wanted to, they probably could hire someone to complete a test project we might ask them to do. But the welders? There’s no bullshitting the process. Part of the hiring process is direct skills demonstration. You create a test weld while being directly observed. That weld specimen is then immediately tested to failure, on-site, there and then. You can either do the work or you can’t. Maybe this kind of “prove your skills” character of the work makes walk-in applications more possible. Also, I do not get me wrong. I think the walk-ins are the exception, not the rule, even for our shop guys. We do get walk-ins, but I believe most do come in through references or online resume submissions. Oh, and I suppose one other factor may just be the ownership structure. The company is still majority owned and run by the original founder. So it’s pretty much what he says goes, for good or for ill. Even if this isn’t the norm in most corporate cultures, it is here simply because he likes it that way.
But yeah, I literally work at a place where now, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, you can still show up completely unannounced, walk in the front door, fill out a paper application, and potentially get a pretty solid job without ever touching an online application. It’s not easy work. Half the people who start in the fab quit after the first week. It’s hot, cold, hard, dirty work shaping steel into large structures using enormous heavy equipment. And I’m not talking some minimum wage gig either. This is skilled welding work, and the pay is commensurate with that. I’m also not in some backwards place time forgot. IDK. For example, I’m not working in some crazy post-Soviet factory in a Central Asian nation that should have been shut down 20 years ago. I live in the US.
But indeed, it does still exist. I literally work at a place you can still do this today.
- 6 hours
Nope. They manufacture engineers. They spend half the day boning raw and popping Tylenol.
- 11 hours
If it’s any consolation: once your unemployed ass is homeless your data is worthless.
/s
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish15 hours
Yep. Mandatory 30-minute video about yourself … which will be reviewed by AI.
- deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish21 hours
People who say this are also glossing over the fact the the guy’s office he’s walking into is owned by his dad’s golf buddy.
When you deliver food to a nice-looking office, ask them if they’re hiring for any C-level positions.
- 19 hours
Would dating the boss’s competition girlfriend’s daughter count as networking?
Can I substitute a resumé with insider intel?
What makes me a good candidate to be a Walmart cashier? The same as everybody else… Union Bank in the Seychelles just now has the highest private divestor savings rates.
- 18 hours
Would dating the boss’s competition girlfriend’s daughter count as networking?
Maybe. I’m not sure most bosses have a competition girlfriend, though.
