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Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford
Specifically, the AC who claims that all job posts are works of fiction and that Soggy Jobs is a fraud.
It is specifically for people like him that I built it. I want to facilitate the employment of those who find it difficult to find work.
However, I am forced to concede that I'm stymied by this particular AC. I expect he has some manner of mental illness whose paranoia leads him to be completely convinced that _nobody_ actually works as a coder.
The booming Portland economy is centered around the Pearl District and its Downtown. Locate your startup there and you'll get VC like there's no tomorrow.
But you won't hire any coders.
Have you any advice as to how I can help him? Help me out here, I'm begging you!
Here's the Problem I've Got With AC
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @01:54AM (2 children)
And yet the guy leaving town is exactly what that particular company told me, an applicant. I am not making this shit up. Your problem is real reality is too unrealistic for you because you're a sheltered idiot.
People like you who have jobs have no fucking clue about what's happening outside of your climate controlled office buildings with your security checkpoints.
We the people are unemployed out here in the real world. You the liars running your job scams are the reason there are millions more unemployed than you want to believe.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 12 2018, @03:12AM
I readily agree that most in the industrialized world have very little concept of how bad it is for those who are in other lands.
My Facebook friend M. lives in Sierra Leone. One time I mentioned that the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation supplied free mosquito netting to Africa. My friend wanted to know how he could get one, so I looked into it. No it turns out that the Foundation is supplying nets to just _one_ African country. I'm hoping this is just some manner of ramp-up study.
When M. gave him the bad news, he wanted to know how he could get the Foundation to supply nets to Sierra Leone too. Honestly I have no clue.
My friend is disabled. My plan is to teach him Python over the net, so that he can eventually provide for himself by remote coding. But the chances are pretty good that M. will die of Malaria first.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:47AM
Salty Spice, I'd like to believe everything you say, but it is impossible because before I started my own small software shop I worked for a handful of companies as a programmer. So the jobs do exist (someone even had to replace me whenever I moved on from a job). Hell, one of my biggest clients even has two full-time programmers on staff.
My office is "climate controlled" because I open the windows for fresh air, and once in a while turn on the AC when it's just too humid outside. My "building" is called a "house" most of the time (though I do drag my carcass to the office once in a blue moon).
I'm not looking for additional staff at the moment, but when I do I'll have to post the job somewhere. Do you suggest telephone poles in my neighborhood, or maybe the public bulletin board at my local grocer?
Just to be clear, the only people denying the amount of unemployed are those who publish or tout government statistics. But it is not the responsibility of every small (or medium or large) business to hire more people than they need, or hire everyone who applies. If you are really so, so bad at interviewing then unfortunately the problem is you. If that is the case you should set yourself up as a freelancer. If you don't want to be a freelancer then ask yourself "do I want to be unemployed more than I want to be a freelancer?". Sometimes you have to make compromises along the way to get to where you want to be.
The entire tech industry is not playing charades just to frustrate you. There are plenty of fake job postings placed by recruiters who are simply trying to harvest resumes so they can try to fill jobs they they have not been contracted to fill. Those types of recruiters are a problem, but if they hate you as much as you hate them, then they'll only contact you once no matter how many jobs you apply for by "clicking".
I do wish you the best of luck, but as I have said many time before, your toxic attitude will always outweigh any talent you have. No one wants to bring that into their office, not even for the best <insert job title here> ever.