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Here's the Problem I've Got With AC

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!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:47AM (#760873)

    I am not making this shit up.

    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.

    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.

    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).

    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.

    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.