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Ricki Spanish HarlemHamilton Nolan
6/03/13 1:55pm
I was unemployed for a year after graduating college in '09. I moved to where the jobs were. There are places with tons of jobs (Houston, DC, Northern VA, not just low wage either) looking for people to fill them. It sucks to move away from your friends and family but it's better than the alternative (starving, suicide etc.).
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  TeenaBurnerRicki Spanish Harlem
  6/03/13 2:12pm
  When the full panel of alternatives in state include "living with relatives/employed spouse or partner" and the full panel of alternatives out of state include "lonely homelessness", the picture gets a lot less clear.
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  mewetoRicki Spanish Harlem
  6/03/13 2:17pm
  The people who can afford to move do move. Don't be a fucking idiot captain obvious.
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skatones737Hamilton Nolan
6/03/13 2:14pm

I also hate looking for jobs where the application takes an hour. A personality test? A work-life balance survey? You have to be kidding me. Even if someone had time for that, WHO WANTS TO DO THAT? Do HR departments honestly think a 90 question survey is the best representation of who I am? It makes it easy for them, but their job isn't supposed to be easy. Hiring someone who is a great fit for your company SHOULD be hard, but whatever.

I disagree with so much of that. First off the person says they feel like they want to "sell their soul" to show how hard they want the job, but in the same moment complain about a 90 minute survey. "Who has the time"? Uh, you do...it's for a job. "Who wants to do that?" people who want jobs. "a 90 question survey is the best representation of who I am?" ...by reading this I feel like you are not a very hard worker with all these complaints...ur a recent college grad, how do you think a 40 year old unemployed person feels?

Just so much of this I disagree with.
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  HyperBowlingskatones737
  6/03/13 2:38pm
  Half of these unemployment stories, I feel bad for. The other half? I understand why they're unemployed. Heck, I understand why they're unemployable.
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  skatones737HyperBowling
  6/03/13 2:43pm
  Agreed. I feel mostly bad but...you can just TELL some of these people are just probably not great candidates.
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APersonaHamilton Nolan
6/03/13 1:56pm
What is going on? I don't understand it! These are smart people who want nothing more than to work (and work hard!) in the industries that they specialize in.

What is it that employers want?
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  adamjohnson08APersona
  6/03/13 2:00pm
  They want wider profit margins so their stock can go up another .05%.
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  APersonaadamjohnson08
  6/03/13 2:05pm
  WHAT DO THEY WANT? What do they want from applicants?
  
  It's clear that perfectly qualified applicants can meet their NEEDS. But those perfectly qualified applicants aren't being hired.
  
  What more do they WANT???
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Imperialism33Hamilton Nolan
6/03/13 1:51pm
Wait, the guy got a 1590 hungover but couldn't get into a college? Am I reading that wrong? I have to be reading that wrong.
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  Thomas GilchristImperialism33
  6/03/13 2:04pm
  probably slacked off on homework and such despite being smart enough to score well. Its what i did pretty much. Of course i don't really know what to tell him. I got out of the military after 10 years and i was able to transition quite well. I had a job lined up before i even separated and i rolled right into it when i got out. Sure i had to move from Texas to Illinois......but ill take the jobs i can get. There were a few i could probably of managed in Texas as well. I just didn't want to gamble a sure thing just to stay local. I suppose demand for my skillset is higher than nuclear engineer.
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  OwlbertImperialism33
  6/03/13 2:06pm
  I was hoping I wasn't the only one who couldn't make sense of that sentence.
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WarlordofGogHamilton Nolan
6/03/13 2:22pm
The Navy vet needs to work on his lying. You can always get a job cleaning tables, and they don't care how much of any experience you have. Just admit you refuse to do those jobs.
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  ARP2WarlordofGog
  6/03/13 2:55pm
  ...And when they run a background check? Or, how do you explain your gap in employment?
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  WarlordofGogARP2
  6/03/13 3:14pm
  If you're not a convicted felon, Denny's will hire you this week. If you don't like Denny's, there are thousands of similar establishments that will take a vet. Hell, Wal-Mart will happily pay him $8/hr to work there. But he won't, because he's better than that. He signed up for the American Dream, and he's gonna sit on the couch until it happens, gaddammit!
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jalyse13Hamilton Nolan
6/03/13 2:33pm
I wonder if Master of Resume Redesign and I interviewed for the same company or if this is a trend (spending a full day working for a company as part of the interview process). I wondered at the time if they aren't really hiring at all, but bring "interviewees" in to do temp work as free labor. I wanted to leave, but I was unemployed at the time, and an interview is an interview, right?
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raincoasterHamilton Nolan
6/04/13 12:07am
"At what point in this recession did employers gain the power to turn every vacancy into the Hunger Games?"

That's a very important line. I know a company that I respected a great deal and have known for years (it's small, I know a ton of people there); I recently found out that in order to work there you have to go through the wringer of interviews, and then they give you — get this — an eight week full-time trial to see if you make it. Only 20% of people who make it to the trial get jobs at the end. With a demand on your time like that, they're essentially ruling out applicants who are currently employed, because while you might be able to do a week's trial on your vacation time, nobody gets two months of vacation time.
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Cristobal JuntaHamilton Nolan
6/03/13 2:16pm
It's sad, but not entirely unexpected, that winding up on the other side of the coin was what it took to change Mr. MBA's views on things. Too bad so many other people will ignore that lesson. It's high time we stopped treating unemployment and poverty as some kind of personal moral failing and started looking at it as a systemic problem.
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  APersonaCristobal Junta
  6/03/13 2:47pm
  
  It's high time we stopped treating unemployment and poverty as some kind of personal moral failing and started looking at it as a systemic problem.
  
  YES! Exactly.
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emdroidHamilton Nolan
6/03/13 3:20pm
Okay I have to ask... was "Life on a String" written entirely to make Millenials look terrible? Because it definitely succeeds. Asking "what should I be doing" at work is a surefire strategy to make yourself look expendable. Social media/brand marketing jobs are what you make them and if you can't determine what is important to showcase then maybe it was too complicated a job for you to begin with. Fake it 'til you make it and STFU until then.
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  WestEggemdroid
  6/03/13 10:11pm
  Inorite? Fucking millenials, asking for feedback and expecting their supervisors to help them develop as an employee. The entitlement, it burns!!!
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  Tormjo33WestEgg
  6/04/13 2:26am
  The person was presumably hired due to his/her expertise, not because he/she is good at asking someone what to do. There's a point where even new employees need to take ownership of their job and determine, themselves, what constitutes good work. That's why you're hired.
  
  I wonder what percentage of the unemployed are social media and online community managers. Talk about a bubble that's primed to pop.
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ibcinguHamilton Nolan
6/03/13 2:35pm
One Day At A Time

Your circumstances really struck me. Please hang in there. I hope you find something soon. I know how it is when life gives you lemons.Just know that there are people out there routing for you & praying for you.
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