• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    the cover letting is pratically begging for the job. forgot the celebrity in the picture name, i assume she recently made the comment" just find your passion and not do any other job until you do". many people commented said , yea if you are WEALTHY. aka, cherry pick your jobs.

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    14 hours ago

    If you had the choice between coming to work on time or attending the joint funeral of your child, spouse and parents what would you chose?

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      “I’d show up to work early. I can visit their graves on my day off later this year (if I take it). There’s just too much shareholder value at stake for me to be inaccessible for an hour during the week”

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        I feel like you’re a good candidate but that is just not enough. We are looking for the best of the best who go above and beyond and I feel like you just miss that little extra you know the last little bit on top

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    My local chain grocery store has asked us, local people, multiple times to apply as we have been shopping and slightly chatting with the staff. We have applied via the chain’s systems. And yes, they expect you to send your CV and a written letter. Then you write out all the info in your CV to their forms. Then you take 5-10 videos of yourself answering their questions.

    If you make through this, you get to the Second Level. There you’re supposed to attend a Teams group meeting where you “fight” with random people who are also applying for the jobs, in different locations.

    If you get through this, you get to the Third Level where you will be invited to another Teams meeting with one-on-one interview. If you get through this, you might get the job.

    The job search is obviously not done by the local store, it’s a “service” the chain buys from some other company. None of us have gotten through. The store seriously needs employees, they have the “search” constantly open and keep asking the locals to apply. The store has too little workers, it’s not working properly. Shelves are unstocked, fruits rotten, staff is cranky and angry. The boss complains in local newspaper that “the locals just aren’t applying for some reason!”

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      The most unbelievable part of this is teams working long enough to make it happen

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      Seriously? They make you fight other people for the spot? At a grocery store? Massive red flag, right up front.

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        That would not only make me not work there, but also not shop there.

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      So either corporate doesn’t want to hire; it looks good in the financials that there’s less spend on employees. Or the 3rd party hr gets paid per person I interviewed so it’s not in their interests to actually land a person at the job - that would only stop them being able to charge for interviews for the position. Either way, it’s a massive fuck up and will destroy the company.

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          Wait this is in Finland? At that level of dystopian I was expecting it to be in the USA… That is an insane application process for a grocery store job.

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            Absolutely agree. I think it would be kinda understandable for something that requires +1 university degrees and pays like +3k€ a month… But for a grocery store clerk making about 1,5k€/month? Nahh.

            // EDIT; Finland is the true MAGA-Fanboy of EU.

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          17 hours ago

          Here you go, you can copy mine: 👍

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      I’m starting to think this is what’s happening to the local stores in my neighborhood that are only small but still part of a bigger franchise. They are always understaffed and looking for new staff.

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        I mean, it fits. Name one thing in today’s world that isn’t a modern nightmare. I guess I’m not constantly fighting off wolves, but modern wolves have your neck in their throat from the time you’re born. It’s wild to me that American kids as young as 14 fought in WW2 because they simply lied about their age. You could just do that and it’d get you through. I need 36 forms of ID and 2 written letters from close friends to get my water turned on when I move.

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      This seems like the sort of hiring process to get a bunch of people selected for just to grief the system and provide feedback, as a community.

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      I wonder if the grocery store could just hire you directly and cut out the middle man? Like just approach the boss and be like. I need a job. You need worker. Gimme a contract and I’ll start tomorrow

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        The store manager doesn’t have hiring authority, applications have to come through corporate.

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        We have tried that, but it always comes back to the “please apply by our web portal” and then to “why don’t we get any aplications?”

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    1.5 months 2 interviews. 40 applications. This is for all entry level/ sub 20 an hour jobs. Tbf it’s summer so it’s dry as fuck

    With 8 years of customer service experience they eeked out an additional 15 cents an hour. Kill me now.

    I love how some will require you to re input the same information again, despite a resume upload.

    About to start putting domestic terrorist on the resume soon if nothing hits

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    the local taco bell has a sign up saying “we’re hiring, inquire within to apply”. i havent seen that in years. i wonder if people are giving up navigating online job hunting

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    I felt that with most bigger corporations, where it was a shitload of sometimes very abstract questions, asking the same thing in different words, all that sort of stuff and then having you answer some of that same stuff on video. I guess it’s to try and see if you’re a good “culture fit” without having to actually meet you.

    Then in a smaller company it was a few questions and sending your CV online. I got a call next morning inviting me to an interview, which was very much a “let’s get a feel of this guy”, a firm handshake, done and done. It felt so good after all that big corporation horseshit.

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      17 hours ago

      Nothing feels more dehumanising than applying for a job in 2026 with a big company*

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        They seem to view people as “human capital” to be expended with minimal waste, then let go for efficiency when their usefulness has been outlived (or sufficiently replicated by AI)

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    Add a scan of your government issued ID as well since they’re getting a scan of your face too.

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    You have to go through this even when you’re applying for something like shelf stacking at your local store. It’s truly ridiculous.

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    Don’t forget to lick their boots and say “yes master” once you are hired.