Author Topic: primitives discuss job hunting  (Read 1111 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
primitives discuss job hunting
« on: July 23, 2010, 10:09:45 AM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8798700

Oh my.

Quote
underpants  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jul-22-10 09:36 PM
Original message
 
My real life job hunting experience

I may not have shared this before but I was fired in September 2008 - literally just at the bottom fell out of everything.

Long months of job searches, resumes, and from time to time an interview. There was virtually nothing out there until March of 2009, but I was always able to actually find 2 jobs a week for which I was qualified. I missed a temp job at Bank of America in the summer of 2009 because I was mowing the yard and didn't hear my cell phone- I called back 45 minutes later and all the spots were taken. I was offered a chance working as a bookkeeper at a strip club but my wife said, "No" as I expected.

I was fortunate to get 8 or so interviews. A couple of those garnered second interviews.

One was a prime job for me. They had 79 applications where they usually have 5 to 8. I got into the pool of 54 initial interviews, made it to the top 5, made it to the top TWO,... and didn't get the job.

I did finally get a job last August. Great job, really love it, but it pays 20% less than I was making. For that job I was one of 35 applicants where they usually have 3 or 5. They plucked me out of thin air on Monster.com. I got the job.

So clearly I at least interview well and have a resume to get me into the interview chair. Look at those numbers again- the only "competition" in this economy is the race to lower wages for anything you can get (I hope that doesn't sound too bitter).

All this bullshit about "GET A JOB" is just that bullshit. I even applied at all the bigbox stores (Walmart, Sears, Staples, JCPenney's, etc.) and got no response of any kind. Too much salary in my history most likely, not that I ever made that much.

I feel for all the people out there and a point that isn't made very often - THEY PAID FOR THE INSURANCE that has to be the lowest return on any kind of insurance in the known world. It ain't much but it comes in handy with the food and daycare and electricity and heat and......

Quote
LibDemAlways  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jul-22-10 09:47 PM
Response to Original message
 
1. Glad to hear that your job search ended happily. A 20% cut in pay is no fun. After 6 months of searching my husband recently accepted a job that pays about 40% less than what he was previously making, and he feels extremely fortunate to have found it. Employers are taking mean advantage of the economic downturn by paying people considerably less than they are worth knowing that they will take whatever's offered. This is one shitful situation...and no, you don't sound bitter....just realistic.

Quote
The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jul-22-10 09:47 PM
THE CROOKED TALE PRIMITIVE
Response to Original message

2. I was off for almost a full year, then got a job and now a side job programming

A few interviews. One was at Wendy's for a burger flipping job. No dice - too qualified.

McD's, Wal Mart, Pizza joints, plus all the programming and data base jobs I could apply for.

I make a ton less than I used to now at my main job, but it is income. The coding job makes up for it.

Tough as hell - and people don't have jobs because they are not looking, it is because there are more people looking than there are jobs.

But I thought il Duce Bo was going to take care of this, January 20, 2009.

The primitives promised us he would.

Quote
Cirque du So-What  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-22-10 09:57 PM
Response to Original message
 
3. I was out of work for eight months

I went to several interviews and came in as a finalist several times until landing the position at which I'm currently working. Some conservatroids are claiming that the unemployed have defects of character of somesuch; asinine statements like that will definitely work against them, as working-class people recognize it as utter bullshit.

Quote
LostinVA  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-22-10 10:08 PM
Response to Original message
 
5. I had to take a job with a 20% pay cut, too

But, it's a decent job with some stability. I am just very poor right now.

Quote
dem mba  (619 posts)      Thu Jul-22-10 10:31 PM
Response to Original message
 
6. I'm on the job search myself

fairly recent, but I've had good responses so far. Been interviewing, been getting calls about my resume. I'm still optimistic, but I'm well aware that 1) there's way more competition than I'm used to and 2) it's always going to be tough to find the right fit (from both the employer and my own perspective).

I'm in NYC so there's lots of opportunities, the problem is that there are so many qualified financial (my industry) professionals out there looking for work.

Quote
Digit  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-22-10 11:00 PM
Response to Original message
 
8. I took a job paying half of what I last made

Then again I am over 55 and jumped at the chance to be employed once again.

Now they are looking to get rid of me because there was a pre-employment drug test and they questioned me in pvt what I was taking and what it was for since the test results were taking so long.

I am on very strong pain killers through a pain mgmt program that I have to go to every month to even ALLOW me to work. Long story and this is not a fun time for me either. Otherwise, I would be housebound due to the pain. I really would rather work than go on disability but it looks like nobody wants a person on pain meds.

I do have an attorney and may check with him if I get terminated to see what my rights are.

It is a tough market out there and opportunities are limited. For everyone!

But I thought il Duce Bo was going to take care of this, January 20, 2009.

The primitives promised us he would.
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline jukin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16240
  • Reputation: +2119/-170
Re: primitives discuss job hunting
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2010, 10:11:21 AM »
ZERO bong
When you are the beneficiary of someone’s kindness and generosity, it produces a sense of gratitude and community.

When you are the beneficiary of a policy that steals from someone and gives it to you in return for your vote, it produces a sense of entitlement and dependency.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: primitives discuss job hunting
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2010, 10:49:02 AM »
Quote
I was offered a chance working as a bookkeeper at a strip club but my wife said, "No" as I expected.

I hate it when that happens.
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: primitives discuss job hunting
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2010, 11:23:07 AM »
I was offered a chance working as a bookkeeper at a strip club but my wife said, "No" as I expected.
I hate it when that happens.

Maybe she didn't approve of some of the benefits.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline delilahmused

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7384
  • Reputation: +1367/-80
  • Devil Mom
Re: primitives discuss job hunting
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2010, 11:45:04 AM »
I hate it when that happens.

My son's best friend is stationed at Miramar and got a job working part time at Victoria's Secret. He loved it (he was the only straight guy there) because he got tons of attention from the female sales clerks and met plenty of women coming in to buy something.

Cindie
"If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world."
Mick Foley

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season."
Hedy Lamarr

"I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade."
Morticia Addams

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: primitives discuss job hunting
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2010, 12:31:18 PM »
Oh, I didn't like the guy in the Vic's Secret at all.  Made me feel decidedly creeped out.  That's why it's called Vic's SECRET.  Just us girls.  A strange guy watching me handling bras?  No thanks.