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1. d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 22:41:13 JST d
   I got the "nobody wants to work" spiel secondhand from a family member last night; apparently one of my cousins can't find employees for her business, to the point that she is keeping a guy on that she wants to fire for stealing because she can't replace him
   
   I didn't talk to her directly but the claim is her employees can be making $150k in a few years and she's willing to train. there are probably tens of thousands of good people in her area who would jump on such an opportunity, so there's a huge disconnect here, and there has to be something fundamentally wrong with her hiring process
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   • teto (teto@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 22:41:13 JST teto

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     @deprecated_ii the disconnect between you and the american I talk to on discord with is so huge I think it might just be a you problem.
   • d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 22:41:13 JST d

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     • teto
     @teto yeah, it isn't. again, this guy is just lucky if he's not lying.
     
     and if that's THE wyatt we all know, he is full of shit about a lot of stuff
     
     what does "getting a job" even mean? I could get hired at a gas station in 5 minutes. I don't want to work night shift at a gas station and neither does anyone else
   • DireGoy (diregoy@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 08:47:34 JST DireGoy

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     @deprecated_ii I'm seeing claims of labor shortages yet at the same time people saying they put in applications everywhere and never get interviews.
     
     someone's bullshitting
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   • d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 08:47:34 JST d

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     @DireGoy my best conjecture is all these businesses outsourced their recruiting pipeline to third parties and those third parties are just blocking 95% of applications from ever reaching the businesses, either through incompetence (idiotic requirements) or malice (filtering out white men)
     
     that applies to the businesses that really are trying to hire. a lot of businesses are posting fake listings and even doing multiple rounds of interviews with no intent to hire
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   • monkyyy (monkyyy@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:27:56 JST monkyyy

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     • dogslurp, a fine gentleman
     @dogslurp I got turned down from a 12$ an hour job *this year* for asking "why do you even interview, I can promise to show up over email?"
   • monkyyy (monkyyy@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:27:57 JST monkyyy

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     • Wolffkran
     @Wolffkran @DireGoy @deprecated_ii I've been turned down for those as well, granted not many and I don't lie in the interview that I'm excited to work a dead end job
   • dogslurp, a fine gentleman (dogslurp@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:27:57 JST dogslurp, a fine gentleman

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     • monkyyy
     @monkyyy I once got an interview for some kind of menial warehouse job that paid well and when asked why I wanted the job I said "for the money". I later realized this was a bad answer. I much later realized it was actually a good answer because the kind of idiot who'd take a menial warehouse job and consider it good money would make for a good hire.
     
     Of course the interviewer was a disinterested woman, as was so often the case.
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   • Wolffkran (wolffkran@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:27:58 JST Wolffkran

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     • DireGoy
     @DireGoy @deprecated_ii Because more often than not the people bitching about a labor shortage are looking for manual laborers for intense jobs for 15$/hr
   • stoner713 (stoner713@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:29:01 JST stoner713

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     • Patricles
     @Patricles @deprecated_ii @DireGoy For the H1B visas.
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   • Patricles (patricles@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:29:04 JST Patricles

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     • DireGoy
     @deprecated_ii @DireGoy I believe you, but for the life of me I cannot think of a reason a company would post job openings and conduct interviews with no intent to hire. Is it just to give their HR team something to do? Are they just seeing what is out there in the talent pool?
   • d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:29:09 JST d

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     • Patricles
     @Patricles @DireGoy sometimes they're just gathering resumes, sometimes they are required to go through the process before they can give the job to the person they already picked, for legal or internal policy reasons
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   • Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:33:21 JST Angry Sun

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     • Patricles
     @Patricles @DireGoy @deprecated_ii Companies will post fake job listings because job listings are considered a measure of health of a corporation even though they can be trivially faked.
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