I hate ~~how ridiculously~~ employer-s~~ided the market is at the moment~~

Meanwhile the news and government just don’t shut up about how workers have too much power right now and are being paid too much and unemployment’s too low

Motherfuckers what world are you living in? Everyone I know is saying how they’ve been applying to jobs for months and heard nothing.

at the moment

i have bad news

The thing to understand with these overly complicated application processes, ridiculous tests, and AI filtering is that they exist not to ensure the highest quality candidate but rather to give hiring managers and HR departments plausible deniability. It’s there so if a new hire ends up being a liability they can say “oh we used the latest AI analysis! We made them do brain teasers like Google does!” It’s fault avoidance. Just think of it as a system to game.

But I thought no one wanted to work anymore.

Yeah I work in manufacturing and all the supervisors and managers think they can treat everyone like shit. I’m supposed to have an interview next week because I moved to a different department in the company, but I’m very hesitant about it because I recently had a fight with one of the supervisors and also with that supervisors manager this week so I really doubt this is a real interview, I think they just want me to go in so they can embarrass me in someway, which is shitty. I’m kinda just gonna put up with it for the meantime, but if they end up pulling some shit at this interview I’m gonna quit.

Btw I actually got fired once for listing my current employer as a reference. I pretty much slacked off at work constantly so that was given as the reason, but honestly the real reason was clear. Fortunately I was accepted for the new job a couple hours after I was fired, but there were definitely a few hours there where I was wondering what I was going to do. I recommend if you have any other references not listing your current employer.

I work in an industry where it's extremely rare to do psychometric testing for hiring.

The only time I was ever asked to do one, I felt the whole outfit had bad vibes so I turned them down even though they offered good money.

Found out later talking to some friends that the guy who ran that company was a hard core libertarian and convicted fraudster.

im just praying that news about another big retirement wave just MIGHT help my chances (i am delusional)

Knowing that it's one more way of labor discipline

The economy would simply collapse if the labor market was ever not employer sided. Capitalist economies simply aren't built for it. Employers would downsize instead of paying higherlabor costs. In fact, thats what they do now when the labor market isnt in their favor enough.