FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-10-10 01:37 PM
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So, I've been 'seriously' job-searching for about 2 weeks now.... Updated at 1:37 PM
I say it in quotes because I wonder how willing I am to jump through these hoops to actually GET said job.
Like, I really don't think I'd relocate my family to another city where I have no support system or relatives nearby to help with my kids, just for a job that may not last 6 months or more. Because so many of these employers are laying off and going unde as we continue to 'downturn'.
But, like a good prole, I am submitting to everything I think i may be qualified for, even if it is in sac or reno- most of them at least generate a rejection slip within a week anyway, or just ignore me.
And then there's the AUTOMATED APPLICATION...where you can't even really upload a resume, you have to check off all these asinine questions, and sometimes they time out in the middle for no reason. funfunfun.
Here's my big question: I know these corporations like to think they own us, but it is really necessary to allow them to run credit checks and background checks as well as offer bodily fluids to even be CONSIDERED for the job?
It galls me.
I guess I am shooting myself in the foot and will always end up at Mom & Pop companies, because I just can't bring myself to do it.
Not because I am hiding anything, 'cept maybe my medical MJ, which isn't protected anyway... but JUST on a matter of principal.
Does anyone get what I mean? 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8915283I am shocked no one will hire you with that great attitude of yours.
You know what DUmmy do what the rest of us are doing during these tough times suck it up and find a damn job even if it is beneath you. Put down the bong, get a haircut, shave your face and do something productive.
napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-10-10 01:46 PM
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2. I get what you mean and I agree that it's come to an unreasonable
invasion of privacy, but its so very widespread and has been for many years (although it's gotten worse) you or I can't change it. Especially in a down economy when there are plenty of people who are willing to subject themselves to almost anything to just get a job.
The only way I ver see things changeing in out favor is when the economy booms again and it becomes a labor market instead of the current corporate one.
You know why companies do drug tests?
Not just to weed out dopeheads (pun intended)
but, the govt requires businesses to carry insurance and insurance companies want drug free people on the job.
For some reason they seem to think if you are all doped up you might cause an accident or something.
Better Today Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-10-10 03:03 PM
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6. Let me know how you feel after 2 years of searching. Around here
Edited on Tue Aug-10-10 03:05 PM by Better Today
it has become entirely ridiculous. Craigslist consistently has pages of bogus "sales" jobs, even the "legit" employment sites are full of nothing but scams and National Guard. For the few jobs that seem real, I've seen Controllers being wanted for a mere $8.50 an hour, I see regularly what you're seeing regarding all these tests of many kinds (like drug, credit score, etc.), but also seeing demands for proof of current employment (wtf, with so many out of work why demand someone be currently employed?) and up front references. I don't mean they want them to be available at first interview, I mean that they want them with the resume. From craigslist? I could just imagine how pissed my references would be if they got caught in a scam because I gave unknown company their contact information before I even confirmed there was a real company or a real job.
Employers are sure turning into the same kind of beasts that those college students did in the guard/prisoner experiment years back. They feel they have the power, and they're going to use it to kick and humiliate and whatever else adds to their power trip.
Um you do realize the ads at craigslist asking for a credit report are scams right?
I also wonder how they get the money to buy dope anyway.
They must get unemployment benniefits and I say if you get a check from the govt you should be drug tested too. I have to be tested to earn my paycheck so why shouldn't they?
