I'm happy I might get a job (finally) but I'M SO FUCKING EXHAUSTED OF JOB INTERVIEWS. I've been getting interviewed by this company four times. It's like I'm in a video game: 1) HR; 2) Team Leader; 3) Skill Exercise; 4) Manager and next week 5) CEO. Just hire me or let me die already.
Is it reasonable/common in the USA for an employer to ask for tax return, proof of joint property, or proof of joint address to try to invalidate your marriage for HR benefits? HR policies state only proof of marriage is required, but they say they have the right to ask for any information they want to prove the marriage is legitimate in their eyes. They say not passing this audit leads to revoking insurance, and may lead to having to repay premiums or even charges for insurance fraud.
Today someone posted an article about Jerome Powell (chair of the Fed) who is essentially telling companies that the increasing wages in labor market coupled with a surplus of jobs is resulting in the inflation we are seeing today. As a result the Fed will take action to forcibly reduce the outstanding number of jobs. I simply don’t agree. I’m (23M) would be the perfect example of who he is talking about. At the beginning of COVID I was working 50+ hours a week for a little more than $50k. Mid way I was able to transition to a new position making $80k. I left that position last year to make $125k at another company. Here’s the kicker though. When I was at my first position I qualified for the stimulus and worked my ass off and still could barely make rent and had to play a game of what…
I am at this moment sitting in my niece's graduation. And during the opening remarks of the dean, he made the comment that “a college degree opens the way to a successful middle-class life”. “A successful middle-class life?!? Really?!? I both wanted to cry (at the sadness), and to laugh (at the absurdity of it), because this is further proof that college no longer is a guaranteed road to success. Sadly smh.
So I applied for a lab position with a local node of a national company recently and they got back to me for a phone interview. Phone interview went fine and no red flags there until the end where he said that I would need to go down to the site the next day for a “meet and greet” in order to see if my personality “fit with the others”. The next day I went down there and things started off well when I met S, he seemed like a normal enough dude. N came along and also seemed normal, if not a little crass. It was after H got there that things started to take a turn. The first turn was S asking me “what I identify as”, which is a perfectly normal and acceptable (encouraged, personally) question these days. When I responded with He/Him S told me that…
Constantly being bombarded with advertisements about buying the newest thing that will make you happy for 10 minutes and all the capitalist propaganda about how hard work will lead to a happy successful life, which is not true for many many people, especially with the out of control cost of living and price gouging going on. Your hard work and money will however make some uber rich assholes even richer…so it's working for them I suppose. I think one good thing about the Coronapocalyse was that some people that had a bit of time off work, started to contemplate how f**ked our society really is, what a lie most of us are living and how the all important economy that we're killing ourselves and our planet for is smoke and mirrors. There is no “trickle down” economy…it is only a “funnel up” scheme run by scoundrels. But now people are…