The same position is reposted on indeed a few days later
"Urgently hiring"
I need help with making up more excuses for the lack of terror
mood
"oh no one wants to work anymore!!!" motherfucker you are barely hiring
Years ago I applied for a job that actually seemed kinda cool. I went through 5 interviews including two with the owner. I thought they all went really well. I waited and waited and waited and waited and eventually got a new job and forgot about it.
2 years later I got an automated email rejection from them.
Nothing about the hiring system is rational or humane in any industry. It's all completely wacky dehumanizing capitalism shit.
I applied to [x] job recently, and I got a phone call yesterdayiin around the time period where it'd be possible to expect a reply. I panicked, so I didn't answer - anxiety spiking. I build up courage to call back in only 5 minutes... It turns out it's just the bank, wanting to update their client database.
Sigh
I'm pathetic.
You're not pathetic! Don't beat yourself up so much!
I'm in my 30s and I can't use a cash register/computer while dealing with customers. My social anxiety skyrockets and I freeze. I work at a place that's considered a step up above fast food and we get all sorts of people stopping in. There are so many pretty people that either make me feel smitten or feeling so fucking ugly that I want to recoil. I have literally everyone else take orders for me because of it. You can probably imagine the "patheticness" I feel over going to work every day.
Meanwhile, I can write millions of words in my life. I can express myself pretty well with writing yet when it comes to speaking I am a miserable mess. I stutter and stammer while trying to maintain some degree of eye contact while talking. My mind jumps all over the place and I can't keep my stories straight. I can't stay coherent long enough to be the wisdom that some of the kids in my life need. You could argue it's all pathetic if you want.
If you throw out all the negativity and self-loathing that I listed about myself then what do I have left? I only have a memory of the pathetic moments. Does any of that define me as a person right in this moment? If you answer "No" then I have to ask if this applies to you as well?
I didn't call you pathetic in my opening line because there is no way for anyone to know. And as far as I know, you're the only one that has your memories.
You're not pathetic. You just remember that you are. Memories are cheap, especially the negative ones. Imagine a memory where you're the exact opposite of pathetic. What then?
All this shit sucks and is confusing but everyone else thinks so too. You're not alone.
Did apply to a position that was supposedly to be urgently filled starting 3. of July. They did send me an Email about how in the last week of July they will have selection talks and want to offer a contract for mid August/beginning of September.
Seems to not be that urgently.
I applied with a company for a nursing position around a year ago, they ghosted me after the first time after getting my hopes up. I then got an email offering another interview a few months later right as I was fed up with my current job only for them to ghost me despite sending like 4 emails giving them my availability because they emailed me multiple times. I then a few months later got an offer to go to a job fair where I'd be able to talk with the people there and was told I'd be reached out to the next day to be ghosted. I got another email a week or two ago from them offering the EXACT same position and asking for an interview. I blocked them.
You'd think because it's a "professional" career that people would be more "professional" but in the end it's justa way to force you to be more cis-het-white adjacent and the less cis-het-white you present, the less "professional" you are.
So many places just ghost you and don't even give you the decency of a "thanks but no thanks" letter that could just be sent by a bot. I remember being told that I was going to come back in a few days later to interview the unit manager only to never hear back. The emotional turmoil of feeling on the top of the world that you'll finally be done your job search only to have to slowly come to terms with the fact that they can't even just say no and you're back to searching is rough and another part of hellworld the working class must endure to survive.
Job hunting is so bad right now. All I do is get ghosted. It's like tossing my resume into a black hole a few times a week
it's never not been that way in my experience. I don't know how people do it without being driven mad.
Job hunting is awful. I stopped applying to retail and started applying to CSA / Front Desk positions about 6 years ago. Its been much better. If I'm gonna be treated like shit at least let me sit down and have a smoothie while I work. Recently it got me into an Administrative Assistant position I was technically unqualified for. Sadly they were bought out and the huge corp that did it decided I was indeed unqualified.
