Got laid off in June and have been fortunate enough to be on gardening leave until the end of this month. The job search has not gone well so far and I started getting desperate.
Applied to be a seasonal driver with UPS. Figured it would pay the bills for the season and I can continue my search in the meantime. I should’ve seen the first red flag when their system told me to schedule a road test but they had no dates, then hours later I get a call saying they should have more listed within the next ten days so just keep checking daily.
I keep checking and I finally get a chance to schedule one. Picked today, Sep 14th at 8:15am. System tells me it will be between 8:15 and 9:15, okay fine. I show up and talk to the manager who never gave me his name, he tells me to sit in the break room and someone will come get me.
I showed up 10 minutes early and left 5 minutes late, and not a single person came by to get me or even tell me there’s a delay.
If you can’t respect me when I don’t work for you, there’s no chance you’ll respect me when I do.
Maybe that’s the first test. See how much abuse you’ll put up with lol.
You joke, but really, it probably is exactly that. They want desperate people who won’t complain about being treated poorly.
I wouldn’t put this on my CV, because employers would likely think I’m taking the piss, but my most saleable asset is that I can take an awful lot of crap before I ultimately walk out.
You are worth more than that.
I know, but I’ve got bills to pay and kids to feed. I worked for 15 years in the same place, it wasn’t horrible until the end. Then I changed it up, working more hours and earning more money but I feel like this place is taking significantly more out of me than the old place did; or maybe I just don’t have as much time to recover now I’ve got 2 kids instead of 1.
I hate my job. I hate how it dictates my life and how despite working a 50 hour week (and my partner working 20 hours) we still barely afford to make rent and feed our kids, but I’m not sure how we’d escape this nightmare short of winning the lottery.
Same. It’s one of my great shames that I just absolutely hate the interview process for tech so much that I put up with a lot of shit to avoid having to look at the job market again.
Same with dating. Not sure what I’d do if me and my SO broke up. Both dating and job interviewing require taking a lot of rejection.
I feel and understand this entirely. The golden handcuffs are starting to lose their lustre
That’s exactly it.
Company I worked for back in the 90’s had several large call centers and these tactics were literally in the HR handbook.
They created absolutely hostile and demeaning waiting and interview environments, often deliberately scheduling 100 people to come in at the same hour, to then interview them throughout the day.
But if they were told to come in at 8, the earliest anyone who was a legit candidate would be interviewed was near noon, to then rush the interview because it was lunch time, making the rest wait another hour.
The 4 hours before noon, they’d call in people like once every 30-45 minutes, but these people were plants and would arive 30 minutes before they would be called in.
Out of 100, there were usually only 30 or so left around noon and 20 when they actually started in the afternoon.
And out of those, they’d still only interview half, reschedule the ones they thought looked most desperate, to see if they would come back for another interview.
And the people they did interview that day, if they actually recruited 1 or 2 out of them, it was a special day.
Thing is, they pulled that shit for 1 year and then their reputation preceded them and no one would apply anymore.
The company was American and trying to pull that shit in Belgium.
It didn’t work out for them.
Heck, they ended up shutting down most of their European operations not that many years later.
Well I’ve never been so disappointed to have a joke confirmed as true =/
