I wouldn’t put this on my CV, because employers would likely think I’m taking the piss, but my most saleable asset is that I can take an awful lot of crap before I ultimately walk out.
I know, but I’ve got bills to pay and kids to feed. I worked for 15 years in the same place, it wasn’t horrible until the end. Then I changed it up, working more hours and earning more money but I feel like this place is taking significantly more out of me than the old place did; or maybe I just don’t have as much time to recover now I’ve got 2 kids instead of 1.
I hate my job. I hate how it dictates my life and how despite working a 50 hour week (and my partner working 20 hours) we still barely afford to make rent and feed our kids, but I’m not sure how we’d escape this nightmare short of winning the lottery.
Same. It’s one of my great shames that I just absolutely hate the interview process for tech so much that I put up with a lot of shit to avoid having to look at the job market again.
Same with dating. Not sure what I’d do if me and my SO broke up. Both dating and job interviewing require taking a lot of rejection.
Company I worked for back in the 90's had several large call centers and these tactics were literally in the HR handbook.
They created absolutely hostile and demeaning waiting and interview environments, often deliberately scheduling 100 people to come in at the same hour, to then interview them throughout the day.
But if they were told to come in at 8, the earliest anyone who was a legit candidate would be interviewed was near noon, to then rush the interview because it was lunch time, making the rest wait another hour.
The 4 hours before noon, they'd call in people like once every 30-45 minutes, but these people were plants and would arive 30 minutes before they would be called in.
Out of 100, there were usually only 30 or so left around noon and 20 when they actually started in the afternoon.
And out of those, they'd still only interview half, reschedule the ones they thought looked most desperate, to see if they would come back for another interview.
And the people they did interview that day, if they actually recruited 1 or 2 out of them, it was a special day.
Thing is, they pulled that shit for 1 year and then their reputation preceded them and no one would apply anymore.
The company was American and trying to pull that shit in Belgium.
It didn't work out for them.
Heck, they ended up shutting down most of their European operations not that many years later.
I went to an interview once, got there 15 minutes early so the secretary told my that I got early and the interviewer is nit ready, which is of course fine by me. She told me to sit somewhere and wait. I waited 45 minutes (30 minutes after the interviews should have started) and than just walked a way. On the way out the secretary ask me where I’m going I told her that it’s rude to keep me waited like this and I’m not interested. She tried to convince me and went to get the interviewer, but went anyway when she done that.
Some people think their time is more valuable than others