Month: March 2022

Applied for a job few weeks ago where the “ideal candidate” is a “recent graduate or fresh to the financial planning industry”. Got an email from the advertiser saying my application is unlikely to proceed and 78 candidates have applied. Saw the same job being advertised again today as jobs are posted for 30 days only. Are you telling me they can't find someone suitable with so many applications? What could they be looking for in an entry level position?

Lmk below Link to comment thread from r/ukraine

I'm not gonna do it. They didn't even specify how they'll treat my data, what they'll do with the video, etc. And I don't feel comfortable sending them a 1 minute long video. It feels degrading. It feels like they're dangling a cookie in front of me and wanting me to jump. What's with this new trend? You offer a job and I need money. How's that for a motivation to work selling insurances in a call centre (in europe btw)? Interviews are to get to know and evaluate people. Why do I have to send a 1 minute long video lying about how much I want to work for you. Nobody's passion is to work for you, we just want a job. why would you want people begging “pick me, pick me!” by saying empty compliments about how wonderful your company is. I'm not gonna reply and I assume…

Sat here getting worked up about all of it. We're just going to ignore how even the minor restrictions during Covid, allowed some of our earth a chance to recover and heal? Someone rage with me please.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like we've just regressed?, throughout the pandemic we've opened so many doors and avenues to promote a better life balance and yet somehow this return to “normalcy” feels like a return to servitude. Let me elaborate I think despite the lockdowns and restrictions (at least in Canada) this push to return to normalcy just feels like a façade, we have news outlets reporting the frustration and anguish of so many people wanting to go back to “normal” and to me at least it feels like we just went from limited freedom to indebted servitude again. The whole “it's time to return to work” thing just seems like we've wasted time, and resources just to sit at a F*cking cubicle like your life doesn't matter? I think we've somehow missed the plot where spending your life working doesn't work anymore, I don't…

What would involve more labor: going into the woods in the 1700s armed with just an axe and getting busy until you had yourself a cozy, safe little cabin or going to an average modern day job until you had enough money to buy that same cabin?

Sorry for the bullet point paragraph. I'm tired and have to sleep to go to a job I don't want. A woman owned company. In one conference room being Interviewed by 9 females with one being pregnant. Being fully experienced for the position. Finding out they have never had a male coworker in that department. Went around the horn, so all 9 did in fact ask me questions and the last girl that told me she started two days ago, asks me what the very first concert I seen to try to get my age out of me. Each one asked something job related and then something personal. It was weird. I have never been in any interview where they let the entire staff interview the person, let alone be interviewed by 9 people at once. 3 was the most I recall ever before. My fiance also works there but…