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[-] TheWonderfool@lemmy.world 205 points 3 months ago

Wow... So you are expected to feel ghosted/rejected 100 times a week, and upwards to 1500 in total? I wonder how healthy that must be for your psyche...

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago

We didn't have psyches back in the day. Just a can-do attitude and strong values.

And a bottle of alcohol too many here and there. And hobbies such as beating your wife black and blue in front of your kids. And fatal accidents from speeding around in our souped up cars.

Just none of that psyche shit, okay?

SLASH S.

[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 3 months ago

Missing to hear about your bootstraps??? Did you pull them up at all??? I need to know!!!

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago

Of course, everyone did it back then...
Though quite a few got it all wrong and ended up with a form of bootstrap tightly around their neck and hanging from a joist in the garage.
Or they accidentally fell off high buildings due to pulling their bootstraps up while on a roof.
Or they accidentally lassoed a bottle of vodka in to their mouths with the bootstraps, drank themselves in to a stupor, and then accidentally went driving and crashed.
BUT THERE WAS NONE OF THAT THE PSYCHE SHIT. Right, I'm off to do some wholesome beating of my wife and kids.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago

That "SLASH S" gives me Roy Kent's "WHISTLE!" vibes.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

And sometimes people had accidents cleaning their guns. With their mouths. But that’s just the cost of bearing arms, no mental health problems

[-] TheWonderfool@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I mean, it was normal getting a bit beaten up a kid for doing dumb stuff. It builds character! That's why everyone ended up so funcional as adults, no? .... No?

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 30 points 3 months ago

I wonder how healthy that must be for your psyche…

I went thru several months of it. Even with my anxiety meds, it felt like I was losing my mind.

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Try multiple different periods of years of it... :/

Sucks, man. (got something now, though)

And people like that boss doesn't even realize he's celebrating his own inefficiency and incompetence when declaring they'll go through that many applications without hiring somebody. Why do you want to be bad at finding talent and why do you want people to know you can't recognize skill?

[-] notabot@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

They're probably not going through that many applications, they'll be using a screening company or system that's dropping every applucation that doesn't have whatever the magical combination of keywords is in this particular case. I can only imagine it's git even worse with the use if LLMs for screening.

[-] TheWonderfool@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Sounds super rough... Really hope things worked out in the end and you're all better now!

[-] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks! Things improved but aren't good. Just less bad

[-] NKBTN@feddit.uk 29 points 3 months ago

Thing is its limited by geography. If I can't physically get to the job in under 30mins, then I can't get to the job on time, ever. Don't have kids, folks, unless you really actually want them. Don't just do it because you're 'at that stage in life'

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

A real # is probably 25 a week, which IMO is still quite brutal on mental health.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

In case anyone would like a reminder, this is a market failure and doesn't reflect on you personally whatsoever.

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