• Franklin@lemmy.ca
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    i wonder if family structures will change to be closer to that of India as children are forced to stay with their parents longer and longer

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    Real conversation, not exaggerated. Actually slightly toned down:

    “We offer a competitive salary! It’s $number!”

    “I have 2 offers 10% higher, from a shipping company and a finance company, in the same city”

    “We don’t compete with the finance and shipping sectors”

    “And 15% higher in one of the consultancies”

    “We don’t compete with consultancies either”

    (I think I’m going to put Reigninh Monarch of Norway on my CV. I just don’t compete with King Harald.)

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    “Our company develops AI. It has many uses and should substitute for human labor whenever possible.”

    “USE OF AI BY APPLICANTS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED!”

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    Had a job interview once where they asked me how much I was expecting to make. I told them and they responded with “Yeah, I think we can do that.” Then when they called me to offer me the job they had lowered it by a few bucks an hour. I took it because I had to at the time. They knew that people are desperate and this was their strategy with everyone. Fucking scum.

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    I’ve also noticed “competitive” seems to mean “just above what they believe the competition’s minimum is”, and together they and their competition drive the wages down.

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    There was an article about staffing agencies spamming LLM generated CVs to companies to saturate the market and convince companies that hiring is impossibly hard

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      Hell even without that hiring is really really hard. Im the IT manager for my company and I’m looking to hire for some level 1 help desk type positions. They don’t need to be super experienced, but they do need to know things like “what is group policy” or “how would you troubleshoot this hypothetical issue”. Basically they should be able to pass the Comptia A+ test, even if they dont actually have it.

      My God I got over 600 applications within a business week! The vast majority of those applicants were from people with no experience, lots of experience in a different field!

      Like I was getting these applicants from people who have 15 years of plumbing or machining experience. Or people who clearly haven’t been able to hold down a job (if you bounce from minimum wage job to minimum wage job every other month, that’s a bad look). Or on the other end of the spectrum, I was getting people with decades of sysadmin experience applying too.

      I had to start having HR filter the top and bottom out of the stack so I could actually see useful data.

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        One of the best ones I ever got was an ‘engineer’ who described driving around in his van ‘fixing things’ applying for a machine learning engineer position.

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    8 hours ago

    I once saw an ad looking to hire someone with a BA that knew 3 computer programming languages for $8 an hour.

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    9 hours ago

    entry level job; salary range $30,000 - $150,000 depending on qualifications and experience; 10 yrs experience required; high school diploma required, Phd preferred

    apply today!

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      My last job had close to that range. There is a hiring range is typically 50-70% of the maximum. Below 50% is the developmental range for laddering underqualified internal hires. Over 70% is for very experienced, overqualified candidates. Generally employers won’t go more than 85% of max because they need a couple years of cushion for salary increases. If they hire at max they know the candidate is going to be back on the market in a year.

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      High school diploma is barely an entry barrier, completely reasonable IMO for anything other than a factory button-pusher.

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        “High school diploma required; PhD preferred” translates to “we’re only reading this application if you have a PhD or we get no other applicants”.

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    The fact that the majority of us are essentially forced to participate in the capitalist market means that we will always be at the mercy of greasy, compliant, ass-sucking ‘bosses.’

    We don’t have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.

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      We don’t have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.

      What are you talking about? We have the freedom to not work and die cold and hungry in the streets just like the founding fathers intended!

      Capitalism is slavery with extra steps.

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        We don’t have that freedom either. We have the freedom to be constantly harassed or imprisoned for not having a paid residence.