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Which best describes how long until you plan to be looking for a new job?
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @02:49PM (17 children)
You don't fool me. I've been looking long enough to know that all job postings are fake, including yours. Go fuck yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @09:58PM (16 children)
I can't imagine why nobody has hired you. :-)
I think most of the fake job postings are H1B visa fraud, which is not applicable due to the US citizenship requirement.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @10:52PM (15 children)
"Well your resume looks good, you have the educational background, years of experience in the field, your skills are a match for the position, but I just have one question. Why aren't you working now?"
"I'm not working because nobody is hiring."
"Yeah but why aren't you working?"
"I am looking for work. I have been looking for work for years, and I just haven't found anything yet."
"Sure but why aren't you working?"
"I would be working, if only anyone were hiring."
"So why aren't you working?"
"Are you actually hiring anyone, anyone at all? Exactly how fraudulent is the fake job I applied for?"
"Why aren't you working?"
"You know what, fuck you."
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @12:05AM (3 children)
The impasse between the Employed and the Unemployed is so strong, the last time I interviewed for a job (last week no less), the interviewer told to get lost and go get a job.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @08:23PM
Good call today, let's play hang up on the loser ...
"Hello I'm calling because the resume you submitted is incomplete. It's missing your most recent job."
"No, the resume is complete, since I'm not currently working."
"... I'm sorry ... I have ... an urgent call on the other line."
"I sincerely doubt that you do."
"Goodbye!"
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday October 12 2017, @05:53PM (1 child)
There's also impasse with people like myself who have switched from full-time to contract and are considering going back to full-time again. I was told that they weren't interested in hiring me because I had too many interests outside of coding, and too entrepreneurial. In other words, they were afraid I was going to bolt if I was treated badly.
Of course, I will bolt if I'm treated badly. I can afford to do that. The solution to that problem is, of course, not to treat your employees badly.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @03:20AM
Just imagine how common this would be if USA had universal healthcare that wasn't tied to a job/workplace.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @01:58PM (3 children)
"Why aren't you working?"
"Well, I've look at some jobs outside my field, but they're all worried I'll be looking to leave for a job within my field from day 1. From that experience, I've decided to keep focusing within my field which does limit my opportunities."
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @09:47PM (2 children)
Prejudice against the unemployed means a layoff is a ticket to permanent unemployment for life, and there is a race to the bottom where the end goal is full unemployment. With no possible way to find work, all Americans will be expected to use their second amendment freedoms to kill themselves. Then immigrants will take over the country.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday October 12 2017, @06:08PM (1 child)
That's not the plan at all. These people know full well that their fortunes and comforts depend on the work that everyone else does, and that work won't happen if we're all dead. They can only get rid of us all once they've replaced all those employees with robots, and we're still a ways away from that. So, in the absence of robots, they want the next-best thing, which is slaves. And you only get that if the society outside of that slavery is so bad that slavery is actually preferable because you get room and board. You still want that seething mass of not-enslaved people begging to be enslaved, because that way when one of your slaves dies you can immediately get another one. And you also want that seething mass of not-enslaved people with a cross-section of valuable skills so you don't have any kind of delays because you let your hairdresser die or something.
Immigration only matters insofar as they want this on a global scale. That way, you don't get, say, a nation that isn't living like this getting all uppity and invading your country, where they immediately gain the support of that seething mass who would just love to get rid of their masters.
The mistake a lot of people make is assuming that because they're white and middle class, they're on the inside of the castle, when in fact they're on the outside.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @03:43AM
No. A slave has to be fed and housed and given medical attention when he is physically unable to work.
A slave is property.
...and slaves can (pro)create more slaves.
An employee is an easily-replaced cog in the machine.
His wages can be cut, benefits cut (if those even exist), and his job can be sent to another town|county|state|region|country|continent if that will improve profits for The Ownership Class.
The air, water, soil, and people of the town in which the employee lives and works can be poisoned (by the employer, who lives elsewhere) via irresponsible production methods and externalized costs.
Even serfs|peasants|peons|churls|vassals|bondsmen under Feudalism had Noblesse Oblige where the Lord had a duty to the people who were bonded to his land.
Capitalism left that behind.
people [...] assuming that because they're white and middle class, they're on the inside
Yup.
60 Percent Of USAians Spend More Than They Earn In Order To Get Essential Needs (2017; up from 55 percent in 2015) [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org]
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @04:42PM
This sounds very much like the jobs I would see slipped in to the various advertisements when utilizing computers without ad blocking, but perhaps not owned by me but from behind public IP addresses I would frequently utilize.
Mixed in with the results, I would see some quite specific positions for someone with my skills with the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and other related services. Which also had citizenship requirements and had locations listed quite similar to yours.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday October 10 2017, @03:46PM (5 children)
"My last job was so well paid that I was able to take a year or two off. I decided to do this and learn about some of the new technologies that I hadn't been able to use in my last job."
sudo mod me up
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:49PM (3 children)
"You say you've been working on some projects for the past couple years. Were these projects for clients? Who were you working for? Nobody? So you don't have any experience with the new technologies."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @05:19PM (2 children)
Then try this. For the past two years I've been working in a stealth mode pre-IPO, equity heavy compensation start-up, learning technologies and building products I can't tell you about without a NDA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @05:24AM (1 child)
For the past two years I have been working on projects which violate the terms of service for five corporations. Were I to publicize my trade secrets, the very best outcome would be that the affected corporations would react to make everything I have worked for completely useless. Or they could sue me. At worst, I could be facing criminal charges. I know this because a guy was working on something similar, and he made news, and the affected corporation reacted to thwart him. [All of the preceding is true.] So I can tell you about my work in confidence, but it might be best for everyone if the details remain unknown.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @05:27PM
Legal liability!! GTFO. You're not a quality hire.
(Score: 2) by driven on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:07PM
Must feel good, not being beholden to any company for that length of time.