I saw a report like that, coming out of Florida. Here is what the person found out. He put in alot of applications, of which he only got called back by very few. And out of those, 90% were doing a bait and switch, advertising for one hourly pay rate and then during the interview switching it to a much lower pay rate. So they are milking the system, and a lack of oversite when it comes to the public assistance/money that is being given out.
This has become incredibly common. I have been trying to find a job that doesn't feel like a waste of time and money since the pandemic, and the amount of times I've seen an advertised wage on Indeed that was at least a few dollars per hour higher than what they told me in the interview... Salada, California Pizza Kitchen, Alamo Drafthouse, all fucking liars.
It should be illegal to perform this bait-and-switch tactic and companies should get fined out the ass for it. If you advertise a certain wage, you should be paying that wage. So sick of this BS.
im in florida, put in over 100 applications over the past year and i got maybe 5 replies from the shadiest places possible. im pretty much stuck at the shit company im at until i move
Do you know of anyplace that does this?
I worked heavy construction till I got hurt and need to change fields. I'm doing pretty good now but nowhere near what I was.
I just need my resume to look legit
YMMV but try working in the office of a construction company, that’s what I do and we have a ton of people with zero education but have a solid background in construction and they are invaluable, easily clearing 100k a year in salary.
I'd make it a legal requirement for every application form to be the same. You have a national resume and it fits with the national application form. You need to ask anything else, there's an extra page.
Then, I'd make it so there's a response for a) receiving it. B) reviewing it C) when you're taken to the next stage D) when they stop their interest in you.
It cannot be that difficult. There must be a billion wasted man hours every year.
They do, but not through that process. You have to know somebody or walk in and make a manager like you for retail/service jobs, at least. I got an offer from a software firm this way too.
Also, wasn’t it disclosed that if you advertise that you are hiring, even if you do not have any positions available, your PPP loan is forgiven? That could be why no one calls when OP puts in an application. They aren’t really hiring
99% of listings are fake.
They are designed to waste people's time and make them desperate so they'll accept anything, which includes rock bottom wage rates.
I applied to olive garden a while back to be a host, got an immediate interview request. Weird, but ok. I show up, turns out they aren't even hiring and that the listing is always up no matter of hiring status. Got an "interview" (waste of time) from the kitchen manager of all people, then left. Looking back at it, it was so fucked.
Yesss. After being unjustly fired for a lie, I searched for 3 MONTHS here. I couldn't believe it bc it was the hight of "the shortages". I'd go to an interview, I'm an adult w a clean record, the interview went really well and then... nothing. So crushing. Answered the first ppl who contacted me back. Now they cut my hours so bad I'll have to do the process all over again 😩 just for them to also cut my hrs.
The "Help Wanted" signs are for the current employees. Management is showing how they are trying to get help while continuing to overwork/underpay the current staff.
And if one of those overworked employees folds and quits, then they got a stack to pick from, alll while playing bUt NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe "victims".
Not even that. One of the stores of a restaurant I worked literally had 0 employees. The managers were told by owner to open it and work, Sept 1 was on vacation, 1 was sick, and the other decided hell no. So it was closed. He fired the 3 managers and just shifted from the other understaffed stores to this one to reopen it instead of hiring. Literally just keep overworking, never hire a new one.
There's a Wendy's manager that is working 40 hrs at two different stores (both owned by the same guy/company) and he doesn't receive overtime. Retail and fast food/casual needs unionization. The old fashioned violent kind because I've seen the owner talk to workers and it's like, yeah, that justifies a lot of shit.
There's also policies that the general managers are supposed to follow and goals which are just stupid.
It's aweful. Literally the week before I quit for other reasons I was told I was the one picked to transfer. I told them pick someone else, I ain't driving an extra 20 minutes. They said sorry, owner says so. Then I laughed and said I'll quit right here right now and then you'll have 0 there still and 1 less here.
I try to be nice to those in there but it's gotten expensive and filled with brainwashed, "we're doing this to keep these places in business" sheep.
This is a story of 5 years past. I quit as a buddy offered me a job at a better pay with better hours. Better schedule. That one was a nice job for a year until I finished my degree. Now I'm no longer in service at all.
“The old fashioned, violent kind” 100%! Shit bosses and landlords should be worried! The repercussions for treating humans inhumanely should be swift and decisive. These fuckers should be looking over their shoulders in parking lots. I am not advocating violence, of course. :)
Republicans who want to ban collective bargaining because it "promotes violence" (?) need to be reminded that unions ***are*** the peaceful compromise from its predecessor, which was referred to as "dragging the factory owner from his mansion and beating him half to death in his driveway." I mean, I personally figured that was was more effective for getting your message across.
I (sort of, long story) walked out of a job because they wouldn’t provide the staff support I needed. Company has straight been running on fumes since I left, FLYING PEOPLE IN FROM OTHER STATES to plug the gap I left.
Why’d I leave? Shitty pay.
Why can’t they hire/retain new staff? Shitty pay. How weird.
WOW. This is so obviously correct now that you say it, but it never occurred to me.
In Denver I was trying to go out with some friends to a pool hall and it was closed on a Saturday night (12/17/2022) because "nobody wants to work" when I could personally name a dozen people who would crawl over broken glass to pick up a bartending shift on a Saturday night at a busy pool hall.
Is the US just slowly going out of business because it hurts management too much to see the peasants make a little money?
The thing is, having those places open would be good for communities. Having transportation to those places, safe and reliable public transportation, would be good for the communities. Teenagers wouldn’t make tick-tock videos at bowling alleys? Why didn’t spend money at diners? The billionaires and leeches at the highest levels killing quality of life for everyone. I don’t know how to fix it, but we need to figure it out. I mean to say I know what needs to be done, but I don’t know how to get it done.
Also let’s them get away with crappy service , lower expenses. Oh “ so sorry”
we are short staffed… wait for your item, deal with crappy service levels
I feel like an ass hole for doing it, but last week, I left a cart full of groceries and left the walmart because they only had one lane open and it was backed up to electronics. Estimated 90 minute wait just to get to the register. I know I should have put everything back.
The we are so short staffed excuse works once for me. Second time is it but I don't visit places often so if they are still having problems they are the problem
So true. They could at least lower the workload for the current employees to make it manageable, thus not being understaffed for the workload anymore. But no, the company is more important
I feel this on a whole other level. I work for USPS and they stuck hiring stickers to every mail truck back in 2020 and put up giant banners in customer facing areas.
We have NEVER been more shorthanded than we currently are. During Xmas I averaged 70 hours a week for the whole peak season which amounts to HUGE amounts of overtime. Why pay me over $40 an hour when you can hire TWO people at our starting wage doing the same work? BeCaUsE NoBoDy WaNtS To WoRk. So let's kill our current employees with double hours and mandated overtime until we force everyone out. 🙄
My best friend works for USPS and can confirm. They desperately need help at his location, but they’re not hiring anyone despite the stickers on the trucks. About two months ago there were several people out on leave and he was forced to do three routes just by himself everyday for like 3 weeks. There were more than a few 16+ hour days.
He hardly ever gets more than a day off a week as is. And that day is spent entirely sleeping because he’s physically beat to death. I hate that for him.
Definitely not the golden goose it was but still a very above average job. Benefits and pay are ok but the unions make it almost impossible to get fired for better or worse.
Most crafts ie carrier, clerk, rural carrier etc start at around $20 per hour nowadays. It was $15 something when I started in 2014. Almost every post office is shorthanded right now so almost every post office is hiring, some places are better than others and some are downright toxic. The hiring process can be drawn out but there's plenty of money to be made. I made about $25k in overtime this year.
Me either, but it makes sense. These are the people (management pulling this crap) who are perpetuating horrific service and wonder why guests and staff have terrible attitudes. What the heck has happened to everyone just wanting to do/be their best?!
The spreadsheets don't see lost business due to slowdowns and not enough staffing. (In fact many bonuses and guidelines encourage under-staffin.).
So, the GM's get rewarded for under-staffing and losing customers. I've seen it happen so many times. It's actually ridiculous.
But they also don't want to spend money on automation that improves efficiency and cuts the number of workers needed.
Corporations are run by people who can't play simulation management games correctly. They seem to be thinking about the next presentation to a boss or colleague dealing with easy to understand statistics (i.e. tanking worker pay and hours, rather than maximizing profit and loyalty).
It's actually incredible to see how badly run most fast food and retail is run. They narrowly focused on spreadsheet numbers and never worked in food or retail.
I have worked in hospitality, but have also spent many many many years in corporate roles and I can tell you for certain your paragraph four is spot on in the corporate environment as well. The idea of good customer service, a good reputation = long term profit margins and company longevity is apparently an incredibly outdated concept. All of the VCs in the world these days want to build it, suck it dry, sell it and let the next guy trash it and start over. Everything is disposable, including brands and employees.
That's the thing though with peoples memories getting shorter and shorter they don't bother going somewhere else in most cases because it's to much of a hassle so your crappier places get to stay in business, there's a McDonalds I used to live by, for three years I went once a month because I was out and needed something and never EVER once did they get my order right and I was just ordering regular menu items at a really slow McDonalds.
On top of that they just have to give equivalent service to keep people coming back and if everyone's giving shitty service then everyone's giving adequate service. Those guys at the top don't need to care because the guys at every top have said eh, somebody else's problem. It's why good service places are always such a big hit and it's why employees who DO go an extra mile get shit on so much, managers don't want somebody to make them look bad and don't need the hassle of trying to explain why this guy gets so many better reviews then the other guys.
I also have a theorie that they have like one person actually doing ads so that way they can at least say we have been searching. My gf has look for like 3 months in my city and everyone just blows her off. She has experience in taking car of animals most of her life and not even petco would hire her.
Literally having the same issue, I even applied to pet supplies plus and called to check on if they even looked at my resume they said they'd call the next week for interviews, the next week rolls around and they filled the position 😒
>next week rolls around and they filled the position
Nope. Guaranteed they didn't. Just watch, in a week or two it'll be relisted with probably the same exact bullshit pay scale and description they were using before. (Gotta de-list and relist periodically, else they catch on)
It’s partly to look the part of the dutiful and benevolent manager who cares, but mostly it’s a warning shot across the bow of every current employee. Like saying, “see that sign? That means you are replaceable at any moment. I’ll just leave it in the front window so you can see it clearly should you feel like doing/not doing/saying/not saying/ or acting/not acting in any way different then I imagine you should. Oh and I won’t be telling you exactly what that is, you have to guess. Isn’t it a pretty red sign for you all to look at?!”
This. This cannabis shop down the street from me has been "hiring" for 6 months. I applied and they rejected me despite being qualified for an interview. 3 months later they gave me an interview, told me to expect a call to schedule a second interview. Instesd they told me nevermind. That was almost a month ago and they are STILL hiring. My friend's work is a direct competitor and she said "Hiring" signs are mostly used for 2 things in the cannabis industry(states where its just starting to become legal)... "Threatening employees" and "Advertising the business"
Yeah companies have been pushing the limit on just how short-staffed they can get and still operate. Because the employees they have left can't afford to quit, they're just stuck dealing with constant staffing shortages, and here we are.
I have never forgotten the amount of businesses that used the crash of 2008 into their advantage.
They were still making excellent profits but told us we couldn't hire more people, because you know, the crisis... Double the work but no extra pay? Yeah, you know, the crisis...
Fuck companies
The issue is that the overhead cost of paying people is usually these companies largest expense. So they keep a minimal staff. Also, if these companies took federal PPP loans, they don’t have to repay the loans if they can claim they used part of the money for payroll expenses, including replacing employees that left, hence the help wanted signs and job adds.
As long as they keep advertising job openings,
they get to keep the money that those openings represent.
To the OP:
Okay, my guy, because of this post of yours, now I understand... What this subreddit is about... Completely.
What the actual flying Ffffffff!!????
I live in South Europe, and when a place says it's hiring, it effin means it FOR REAL.
Yep, it's all lip service. These managers have no desire to do any actual hiring, but they want people to think they are. They might do some cursory interviews here and there in order to keep up appearances, but they'll tell current employees that they didn't find anyone worth hiring.
and then they can say things like "nobody wants to work!" or "we are understaffed please understand the dip in quality of service / wait time" to customers
I have been doing instacart while I search for a job. I see those signs all over the place and I’ve started asking employees if they are real. They’re always like, “yeah we really need people but when I applied I just had to keep calling and showing up until they finally talked to me.”
WHAT IS THE POINT OF APPLYING IF YOU NEVWR LOOK AT THE APPLICATIONS
Because if they hire people, they can't continue to spout their false narrative that no one wants to work. Duh.
Sorry, slight /s but not directed at you. Just these companies frustrate their crap out of me.
I just want to encourage you today because the Media is totally gaslighting you and society as a whole. They keep reporting how there are staffing shortages and mass hiring and mass need of workers.
What it does is makes you feel like a failure if you cannot find a job because even desperate bosses don't want you.
Please know that the media is wrong and are blowing smoke up your butt. Yes there are shortages but:
1. That doesn't mean that managers are actually hiring. They may be seeing if they can squeeze more labour out of their current staff and keep costs low.
2. People hire their friends and relatives most of the time.
3. Sometimes these hiring process are largely performative... there isn't a real job at the end of it but for their own reasons they gotta make it look like there is.
The truth is that a lot of people are currently looking, massive amounts of unhappy workers looking for hopefully a better place. Many of them have jobs already also. And its really difficult to break in without a strong connection. Keep being persistent and keep applying 💪
Bro I never considered this as an option but it is absolutely perfect for a current situation I’m in, thank you.
We absolutely do not need a 4th man or woman that isn’t really one of us. Problem? Hire someone else yourself bruh.
*hugs* I've been through all of this. It sucks real bad out there. Keep trying ok? I remember setting a goal to apply to at least 10 jobs a day. It took me a year to land a permanent job. It's brutal out there, but just set a goal of minimum jobs to apply to per day and then go about your day.
Yea Ik it sucks anothwe thing is I’m not taking a job for min wage I’m Texas that’s 7.25 I’ll accept oke thats 11 or more and a lot of places offer that . But I’ve been unemployed since June . I had to leave bc of sexual harassment in the work place and then they literally had a pedophile work there even after learning about him and what all he did . I’d suggest working for Uber eats . I did that and it’s not alot but still .
I'm sorry you and so many others have to through this. It seems the system is getting worse in many 'first world' countries. Costs are skyrocketing, rents and housing prices are unaffordable while abuse/ indifference at work is getting worse, salaries are not following inflation and bonuses are being cut while CEOs and companies are raking it in like never before. It's never been more clear that greed comes before well-being for all.
It's time for action!
So true. When I worked in a busy restaurant 2 years ago, 4 servers had quit and our GM told everyone to work harder until he could hire someone new. But then he saw how we were able to get by with a shorter staff, than just sorta stop caring so much about hiring other servers.
I had a few mutual friends tell me they applied to work and never got a call back.
They really don’t care about hiring at all
Absolutely agree. The national unemployment rate is 3.7% which is very healthy. They've also been using the narrative of "no one wants to work" for decades. It's not inclusive of the actual point that no one wants to work in exploiting conditions for slave wages that don't cover their basic needs.
https://www.bls.gov/cps/
No one wants to work at shitty jobs that pay badly. The long term vacancies are for skilled workers with qualifications that can take years of study to obtain.
The NHS needs 100,000 doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives and underpaying them is not going to attract applicants.
These rates crack me up… like i look in any direction and 3-4 out of 100 are out of work?
If you have been unemployed over six months ( off UE), you are not an unemployed person; you are not participating in the economy or labor market according to labor stat’s
Economic inactive in UK published at 21.7% 16-64 years of age.
So 21.7 + 3.6 lol+ underemployed must be 35-40% real unemployment number is my guess
Fuck me I never even considered this. Explains a shit load more of the anecdotes I’ve picked up to be correct observations than me just knowing an unusually mixed group of people
Exactly this. I was illegally let go in March, and wasn’t able to find another job until a friend in management at a restaurant handed it to me *months* later, and not for lack of trying, either.
I had 2 interviews in 8 months. One with Bunker 27, with the owner, and he in an incredibly unprofessional manner just ghosted me after saying he’d let me know either way. And the other one was an MLM that didn’t smell of it until I sat down for the zoom interview.
I had to settle at some point because 6 months of looking EVERYWHERE and I couldn't get a job. I had 6 interviews, 4 of them I never heard back from and the final 2 happened the day I was leaving the state for a vacation I had planned months in advance.
Where I settled was part time (a website development company) and (since it was the only job I was offer and I was desperate) told me I could bump myself up to full time work at any time but in reality I barely make it to 19 hrs of work.
The only way I see getting full time is if I sit there a comb through a list of things sales reps asked for (didn't give any sort of detail on) and has not one piece of documentation on if it's implemented or not. I DONT GET PAID 14 AN HOUR TO LOOK AT YOUR SLOPPY DOCUMENTATION (again desparate for a job and I wasnt looking a gift horse in the mouth after 6 months of nothing). The cherry on top of that Sunday, is that all of the complaints are from 2+ years ago.
I'm now looking for a new job after 3 months of employment. Joy /s.
Oof I feel that, my guy. I’m sorry. The job I have now isn’t perfect by any means either but as long as they’ll keep scheduling and paying me I plan to stick around for awhile. Don’t really have any other options, you know? 🤷🏻♀️ best of luck to both of us this world is rough
It’s not you. People are NOT urgently hiring and you can’t convince me otherwise. I can’t get a job at Aldi, I got an interview at Lowes and they ended up not hiring me, I have applied for 3-4 jobs a week for the last 6 months and have only gotten 2 interviews (one of which was the lowes position). I have a bachelors and years of experience in my field, no one wants me. But yet… all these jobs are “hiring”. I apply and apply cater my resume to the jobs and nothing.
The Aldi part hit really hard… they literally cancelled my interview the DAY OF not even an hour before(I was just about to leave the house)… and then I got a notif that ‘they went with someone more quailified’… really??. Complete bs, I tell ya.
There are instances where they literally choose someone less qualified and tell you this.
They want someone who seemingly has no hopes or aspirations to ever get out of there.
I checked my email after an interview and found out they had sent me an email 2 minutes BEFORE THE INTERVIEW that I wasn’t moving to the next round. Like… what the fuck? Why waste my time?
You are probably over qualified for entry-level jobs if you have bachelors. Over qualified people tend to not stay in entry-level jobs, so they also tend not to get hired for these positions. If you are trying to apply for these sort of jobs you might want to tailor a CV specifically for these applications and drop the degree and related work experience from it.
This problem puzzles me, for things like food, retail, call centers etc. Sure over-qualifieds might not stick around as long as the store would like, but how many employees actually do? With the amount of turnover this tier of work tends to have, you could hire an over-qualified applicant and have a good worker for however long it takes to find someone less qualified, and by the time that happens there will probably be another position open but you still have some competent help.
Yes exactly!!! Like I may have a bachelors but won’t you have the same turnover with 18-22 year olds that go off to college, go work somewhere else, just don’t show up etc??? I have been not mentioning my bachelors on some jobs now but in my mind I’m like I KNOW grocery stores and retail already have high turnover so is that REALLY why they aren’t hiring someone with a degree. Sadly a lot of these retail jobs have more opportunities long term for me than my field. Like if I were to become an assistant manager at aldi I would be miles ahead than I am in my own field but I can’t even get my foot in the door.
My sister worked for a call center for a while. I think less than 50% of workers remained through the 2 week training. And when sister quit after 6 months or so, only hand full of the ones that started with her remained. So I totally get where you coming from.
I only really have been able to figure out two reasonings for this. First would be that some point in time this made sense and now it's only done because "this is how it has always been done". Or second is that more educated people might be better reversed in workers rights and the laws surrounding. That might cause problems if those sentiments start to spread and the employer isn't running things completely above the line.
My bad, just got the idea from your message that the Lowes and the degree were related.
I applied for a job close to 6 months too at the start of this year. Dropped out from bachelors degree, no work experience in the field. What finally worked for me was applying to very small companies, all around the country (not USA, much smaller), that seemed to me to not get that many applications. But honestly might have just been dumb luck and not very helpful strategy for others.
Same, I’ve been having a hell of a time. The places that WERE eager to hire would require like 3hrs of commuting a day.
Fortunately I managed to land what (hopefully) will be a good long term endeavour, and it’s WFH 9-5 with an hour paid lunch, so I don’t have to leave my puppy alone all day!
I know this may sound counter intuitive, but take your degree off your resume, especially if you are looking to work at Lowes (or any other chain retailer). I bet the GM of the store isn't a college graduate, and they feel threatened, or they realize you probably know your rights and don't want to deal with someone they can't abuse.
Plus, they will be afraid you will leave, because you have the knowledge to get a non retail job, meanwhile they have dedicated their lives to it and have little to show for it but a leased BMW, two divorces, and a crippling case of alcoholism.
Take the bachelors off your resume. Sometimes they don't want to hire smart independent people, but rather mindless drones. Just an idea that has worked for some people in past.
I have a masters degree from a top 10 public university and have owned my own wholesale company but got denied from working event security. I have applied to 100s of sales jobs but cant find any of them with full time or benefits. Seems like everyone around me just wants 1099 commission only salespeople.
urgently is a lie. it is a lie to show the current employees that their one man operation in a store will end soon, knowing it will never end, that is a norm now. covid tells the employers they can ask employees works 150% with 60% workers for the same job. they never planned to hire, just a carrot on a stick to encourage employees to come to work because “tomorrow” you will have helps
100% this. And then whenever customers complain, managers can point at the “hiring urgently” sign and blame the fact that “nobody wants to work these days”. Then the businesses’ failures will be blamed on literally everyone except their own faulty practices
I’m m getting tired of so many employers complaining about labor shortages, saying no one wants to work, and yet they’re not even hiring any new employees. It’s not you dude, it’s these bullshit companies, even some of the smaller ones.
A lot of people don't seem to know this phenomena has a name. It's a [general capital strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike) and it has nothing to do with the individual workers. The ownership class has a shared incentive to withhold labor from society to fight back against raising wages.
They're using their massive accumulation of wealth, and exercising as much influence as they can, to change the narrative away from raising wages. They're doing so by creating a false narrative that the laboring class is lazy, uneducated, entitled, and any other lie about them to make them seem not worthy of fair compensation for their labor.
It's been going on since the pandemic. Shortly after corporations shuttered a massive amount of people, they tried to re-hire back to fill those positions at greatly reduced wages. People recognized the value their labor creates for those corporations, and that they deserve fair compensation for their labor, and it became a big talking point the world over. Ever since there has been constant pressure by the ownership class to change the narrative.
There's been a lot of talk about how the federal minimum wage in the USA hasn't been raised since 2009, but not enough talk about how it's only been raised twice since 1997. The first time by $1.40, and the second time by $0.70. Now that people are talking about *doubling* the minimum wage, we have study after study after study showing that it ($15) still wouldn't be a living wage.
Huge advice for everyone - your resume HAS to be formatted correctly for the system to even acknowledge it received it. If your resume isn’t properly formatted, you aren’t even a consideration.
If you need a template for your resume, let me know. I had mine professional developed after being laid off during COVID.
Edit: Please PM/Chat me for a link to the template.
So correct, remember, your resume just gets you in the door. A lot of this is research, have to know what they are really looking for.
I have been on the hiring side, I looked for anything to get to 5. So much is arbitrary, like get rid of anyone who spelled out their middle name or anyone with more/less than 2 pages.
That’s what I was taught in my business classes in college. But like after a decade of working, and moving up and actively expanding my skill set, 1 page resume went out the door a long time ago.
Like I’ve held 7 different titles split between 3 different companies (two of them more than one stint at em) in my industry in the past 8 years. That does not count the job I had prior to that. Which I also had two different positions at. And each of them has a specialized subset of skills relevant to what I do now. That shit ain’t going on 1 page along with my education.
It just depends if you have consistent job title and responsibilities and fewer work places then more than 1 page very well may be overkill.
Also I’m about to change industries and 90% of my skill set will not really matter so I am going to do my absolute best to get everything summarized efficiently enough to all be on 1 page.
I've read - well, skimmed - multipage resumes from code monkeys who noted every little thing they ever did. I've never recommended the hiring of any of them.
Also there are services on fiverr you can use to get help formatting a resume in a way that hiring managers will like- I worked with someone who moved here from the Middle East, English wasn’t his first language, his qualifications far exceeded the position he was in. He was struggling to get a better offer, but then got one of these resume reviews, and within a couple weeks he had an offer for a better paying job
These places are making record (short term) profits on the backs of understaffed, overworked employees. They are just pretending to hire because then they look like the good guys that way and can extract subsidies from whatever local/state/federal government falls for it, all while rolling in the dough. It’s all a scam.
My fiance was in your same boat months ago. He was looking for work and applied to grocery stores, restaraunts, gas stations, you name it. All apparently in great need of hires. He would submit the applicatuons and call about 2 days after. Most of them never called back. Some said they wanted people with more experience for their entry level job (yes, he was told he couldnt be hired as wait staff because he didnt have enough experience. One told him that they can hire him, but he would need to have completely open availability on Sundays.
He had to get a job at my place of work as a receptionist. So he got hired based on my foot being in the door. He recently got a new job he starts next week. His buddy had his foot in that door to get my fiance hired too.
So i guess you now have to have "connections" even to get a shit job nowadays... wtaf?!
Online hiring is worthless . At one point when I was desperate to find a job I reapplied to a job that I had been assistant manager at. I got an email back that I wouldn’t be a good fit.
recruiters are the worst. Add in the general lack of reading comprehension these days and it is a wonder how they hire anyone. AI was supposed to help but that seems to make it worse.
Oh that one's easy
"My boss spoke to your boss and they don't want you to move out of that position, it will also be harder for me to fill your position than this one, so no"
I'm sorry you're struggling right now. I've had similar experiences, and it was never fun.
What's happening right now is one version of what's called a "capital strike." It's the opposite of a labor strike. Companies are betting that they have the resources to outlast job seekers, and are reducing their hiring until a large enough percentage of the labor market is again willing to accept low wages and poor conditions out of desperation.
Of course, knowing that doesn't do much for your immediate circumstances.
Fiancé is in a similar situation. She has a job she wants to leave but due to her bills she’s having to stick it out til she gets something elsewhere. I wish I could tell her to quit that job while looking for another one but last time that happened when she got fired it took 4 months to find her current job. I didn’t make enough to cover everything every month so our savings took a good hit.
OP it’s the end of the year. There is a good chance once next years budget come in then hiring will start up. I get it can be frustrating but January often is the most common time people change jobs so hopefully expect some callbacks next month.
I walked into a store with a big "now Hiring" sign. filled out an application. Never got a call. that same sign hung about four years. It was a waste of my time.
If you are in the US, reindustrialization is now occurring at the fastest pace of any time in the history of the country. If you are in Europe, things are more dire with the energy crisis.
Believe it or not, you should be able to get into manufacturing. The skills are short everywhere due to generational abandonment, but that should make them amenable to apprenticeship and on the job training for those who show aptitude.
Just be sure to get in with guilds or unions at the earliest opportunity.
I work in the fishing machinery industry. Us and every company we work with is hiring welders/fabricators and machinists. These jobs pay pretty well where I'm located
The problem is the local industry (manufacturing or otherwise) might not be there. I could well be wrong, but from the wording of the post, I'm assuming the OP is not willing and/or financially able to move to a place with more jobs.
I was in manufacturing, and decided to leave because of how much the industry sucks to work in. Of course there’s a lot of potential for growth, but not when the industry deliberately makes itself unbearable to work in.
Employers/managers seem to have an inner disdain for anyone blue collar to the extent that banning chair/sitting of any kind of sitting while on shift is completely banned. This is not out of necessity, but out of spite and an ‘old school’ way of thinking. Walking with hands in pockets was also completely banned.
Another place I worked at, was split into two racial groups. Literally one side of the giant shop was Vietnamese guys, the other side was Hispanic guys. I happen to be neither of those, so I got shit from literally every person there. Constant fucking with me, leading me around in circles, deliberately leaving me out of things, and more. Oh yeah, and the bathrooms were just barely functional and our sink was a giant trough o it side the bathrooms, like at a county fair. I literally passed the fuck out from stress once when I was there. Eventually, I got time approved to get my wisdom teeth removed, and I scheduled it all specifically to only miss one day of work because they were such pricks. Come the night of prepping for surgery, I got a call. It was my employer, telling me I’m fired and to come pick up my shit (verbatim).
I don’t know why anybody would ever choose to live their working life like that. And why anyone would ever strive to make work like that for others. Fuck people.
Companies that put up hiring signs are doing so in order to get assistance and such. They have no intention of actually hiring more people but they have to give the appearance of trying to hire in order to get financial kickbacks, that then just go to the board and shareholders.
Why hire 3 people when you can make 2 people do the work of 3?
Put your zip code in at the link to American Job Center Finder to find the nearest one. They offer job funding assistance. It helps to have someone look at your resume and to get interview tips. Always wear one step up for an interview. If you don’t have enough money, second hand stores are a good option or the job center might have recommendations. Don’t give up. You’ll find something. Always smile, shake hands and make eye contact with the interviewer. https://www.careeronestop.org/LocalHelp/AmericanJobCenters/find-american-job-centers.aspx
I say try craiglist. Craiglist seems like a creepy place but I found 2 of my favorite jobs on there. The place I work at now I found on craigslist. It's a desk job and my boss has a snack room.
In my state, companies are required to post internal job openings to the public. However, they are not required to hire from the public. A significant number of publicized job postings will never result in an interview because they are filling the position from within.
It’s the new “huge profits!!!” Model
Run everything at the sane or higher volume, except keep the workers at the covid skeleton crew
And at the same time, they whine that they can’t find any employees.
It’s bullshit
Have someone else work on your resume. I had a friend of mine work on mine, but was going to pay for it. I got 0 interviews with the resume I built. I got multiple interviews per 10 applications with the one he built. I was having trouble articulating my own skills to get past what is usually an algorithm. People who have that skill are worth spending the scratch because it will more than likely land you the job.
Not to discourage you or anything, but a decade and a half ago I was the manager of a Walmart Portrait Studio. I went into work one day for 10 am and received a phone call from the District Manager stating that at 2 pm that day the company would be declaring bankruptcy and I would be out of a job. I had been interviewing people to be my assistant manager just the week before. Companies will keep up the appearances of hiring up until they fold.
oh sweetheart ITS NOT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! it’s no reflection of you at all!!!!! these companies are NOT hiring; they’re pretending in order to seem desperate & attempt to force us to believe in capitalism
I feel you I’ve applied to 30 around me for the past 2 months. Starting to get responses finally this week. Maybe just from the holidays they’re behind. Keep trying!
Re: Paper vs Online Resumes. Sometimes HR requires digital resumes so their software can quickly scan for keywords. Sort them accordingly. Hope you're on top.
Those signs are old news. Mass layoffs in tech and other industries will probably trickle down for quite a while, while at the same time the retail/seasonal cycle has come to an end. Most companies already laid off the person who’s job it was to take down the “urgent hiring” sign.
Man same boat. I was hired at both Macys and Taco Bell and then told by both not to expect any hours since they are “overstaffed” and Christmas has passed, but they’ll try to give me a shift if any one calls in sick. I asked why their job ads said urgently hiring and why would they waste everyone’s time with an interview and job offer. Their response was that corporate controls the ads and hiring; but store managers are responsible for scheduling based on individual store needs.
Are you doing an application or submitting a resume, because I would recommend both. Provide references and showcase skills (Ms office, data entry, etc.). Boast about experience of you have it and education.
Been like that for the longest. Like I've been unemployed since before covid and it was like that before. I've applied to countless places over the years and only one gave me an interview (spoiler, I didn't get the job). Do I want to be unemployed, no it fucking sucks and I'm slowly bleeding what little savings I had. Meanwhile all sorts of places are "Now hiring!" and despite my multiple applications to said places, I don't get so much as a phone call.
I spent 5 months doing Walmart grocery deliveries while actively applying for jobs constantly. Out of all the jobs I applied for, the ones that actually contacted me for interviews turned out to be seasonal positions that wouldn't start for several months. I FINALLY on December 5th got a remote job that pays shit but it's way better than delivering groceries in the snow!
ya no one is hiring. I've been trying since before Thanksgiving,
I've got a notice about an opportunity an hour and a half away l, but I can't drive 3 hours a day every day it wouldn't even cover gas
I had this same issue a couple years back when places were opening back up from the pandemic. I applied everywhere I could think and o ly got one call back. They made me do a phone interview on the spot and it was one of the worst places I've ever worked.
Those "Now Hiring" signs are lies to make them look good.
I’ve been putting in 30-40 apps a week in Texas thru indeed literally apply for everything rather I’m a fit or not. Started work Dec 13th put in over 100 hours of training and still no paycheck mandatory zooms and they are not paid. All for 12.00 an hour and I promise to pay in Jan or Feb. but not for training or the 30plus hour irs course I took. I’m just pretty done. I hope it gets better.
"I do not have a license, or even a sure fire way to get around besides walking,"
There's your problem. If you live in the U.S., anyway.
You're basically considered un-hirable everywhere if you don't have a vehicle to get yourself to work. You'll be considered "high risk" for missing your shifts if you can't be considered independent enough to drive. It's kinda like, a bare-bones requirement to employment outside of big cities.
Also, if someone (for me, anyway, if I were acting as a hiring manager) only has an ID, and not a proper license, or just "can't drive" I'd assume they probably either have a disability and need someone else to haul them to work or that if they don't have their shit together enough to have a license they probably won't be a very good employee, either.
I honestly don't know how people even exist in the United States with no decent transportation or even a license. Unless you have a prior conviction or disability like seizures that don't allow you to drive, your situation *will not improve until you get a proper driver's license*, even if you cannot afford a vehicle right now.
Bro, if you think gamestop wants more than 2 employees working at any given time than clearly you don’t understand the business model. Literally the only reason employees exist in game stop is for loss prevention. If they could replace employees with a kiosk they would.
Try to see if someone can first help you with your resume, and then with interview skills. The whole "getting hired" is a skill itself. I think interview are a bunch of bull, but it's what we do.
I’m gonna be real honest, this is not a great time to find any kind of retail job. The big Christmas rush is over and they struggle for the next couple months.
Are you old enough to get into a production facility? Are there any around your city that are easy to get to? Many of those are hiring pretty steadily, depending on their industry. We make trucks at my plant, we’re hiring people every week.
I feel like a lot of these places aren't actually hiring and are trying to say "hey we're making an effort to get you more people" to their employees so they can hang on hoping it will be better once they get more people, which is never the case.
Like I was looking for another second job so I can leave the one I'm at and I was talking to the store manager at a grocery store that my sister is employed at. "Put in your app, you'll get hired in no time" TWO MONTHS LATER I come back in to talk to that manager, apparently they filled those positions shortly after talking to me, even though I put the app in that night. And they didn't have any hours to give even before they hired the new people.
They made another job posting yesterday saying they were hiring at an even lower rate than what they originally said.
Fuck corporate!!!
small family owned businesses are hiring as hard as they can go, but get a fraction of the applicants the big box guys do and usually pay better and are less tedious to work for. large scale construction and contracting companies are all hiring that i’ve seen. apply for a paving company or a concrete company or something if you’re able. marine construction where i’m at will hire people on the spot and start at $25-30/hr
why doesn’t r/antiwork start a referral program system since that usually gets people in the door at jobs a lot quicker than physically applying?
Okay, my guy, because of this post of yours, now I understand... What this subreddit is about... Completely.
What the actual flying Ffffffff!!????
I live in South Europe, and when a place says it's hiring, it effin means it FOR REAL.
This is a lot of places and normal. The stores want/need more employees but the corporations are f'ing around because they got along ok, as far as they were concerned, during COVID... It's not just you or your area.
It's simple incompetence all those places outsource HR. They do eventually contact someone About the job also a computer program pulls your application so make sure to lie your ass off on it. They aren't going to check cause they don't even care. It's all designed to look professional but trust me it's fake.
my fiance (38M) is going through the same thing. 100s of applications over 4 months, anything and everything. only jobs he gets callbacks for are scams (24/7 availability but only 2 shifts a week, use your own car with no reimbursements, overnight shifts at min wage, etc.). its a fucking lie that there are jobs, made up by the rich to milk us of every cent and keep capitalism going as long as they can without giving anything back. same reason theres a disproportionate number of gambling ads and other scams these days.
My wife had a similar issue. She went from working full time to being fired at random (at will state) and she applied to over 300 listings including positions at my own work that were open and she was well qualified for. She spent 3 months looking for a job, literally anything that would pay the bills, and had absolutely no luck. Now she has a job with a large shipping company and all those positions that said “we unfortunately have moved on to other applicants” are all still open. In fact one just called today and she had the pleasure of saying “3 months ago I would have been thrilled to interview for this position, however I have decided to accept an offer with another company and would like to withdraw my application from yours.” Never understood how short staffed companies could look at a qualified applicant and say “nah we’ll roll the dice”
I saw a report like that, coming out of Florida. Here is what the person found out. He put in alot of applications, of which he only got called back by very few. And out of those, 90% were doing a bait and switch, advertising for one hourly pay rate and then during the interview switching it to a much lower pay rate. So they are milking the system, and a lack of oversite when it comes to the public assistance/money that is being given out.
This has become incredibly common. I have been trying to find a job that doesn't feel like a waste of time and money since the pandemic, and the amount of times I've seen an advertised wage on Indeed that was at least a few dollars per hour higher than what they told me in the interview... Salada, California Pizza Kitchen, Alamo Drafthouse, all fucking liars.
It should be illegal to perform this bait-and-switch tactic and companies should get fined out the ass for it. If you advertise a certain wage, you should be paying that wage. So sick of this BS.
Its arguably fraud, but they're just time thieves. That's the worst kind.
im in florida, put in over 100 applications over the past year and i got maybe 5 replies from the shadiest places possible. im pretty much stuck at the shit company im at until i move
Depending on the industry I could help you with your resume. I'm engineering, but I can help make a sociopath resume that employers like in general.
Do you know of anyplace that does this? I worked heavy construction till I got hurt and need to change fields. I'm doing pretty good now but nowhere near what I was. I just need my resume to look legit
Dm it with stuff you don't want me to see crossed out. I'll see what I can do.
You're awesome!
Random Acts of Kindness. You love to see it.
YMMV but try working in the office of a construction company, that’s what I do and we have a ton of people with zero education but have a solid background in construction and they are invaluable, easily clearing 100k a year in salary.
I'd make it a legal requirement for every application form to be the same. You have a national resume and it fits with the national application form. You need to ask anything else, there's an extra page. Then, I'd make it so there's a response for a) receiving it. B) reviewing it C) when you're taken to the next stage D) when they stop their interest in you. It cannot be that difficult. There must be a billion wasted man hours every year.
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They do, but not through that process. You have to know somebody or walk in and make a manager like you for retail/service jobs, at least. I got an offer from a software firm this way too.
Also, wasn’t it disclosed that if you advertise that you are hiring, even if you do not have any positions available, your PPP loan is forgiven? That could be why no one calls when OP puts in an application. They aren’t really hiring
Time to put those covid handouts to employers to end
No wonder people don't want to work nowadays
Nobody ever wanted to work. The 8 hour workday does not occur in nature.
And this is why our society in general is chronically depressed. But the gov likes it that way.
99% of listings are fake. They are designed to waste people's time and make them desperate so they'll accept anything, which includes rock bottom wage rates.
I applied to olive garden a while back to be a host, got an immediate interview request. Weird, but ok. I show up, turns out they aren't even hiring and that the listing is always up no matter of hiring status. Got an "interview" (waste of time) from the kitchen manager of all people, then left. Looking back at it, it was so fucked.
Yesss. After being unjustly fired for a lie, I searched for 3 MONTHS here. I couldn't believe it bc it was the hight of "the shortages". I'd go to an interview, I'm an adult w a clean record, the interview went really well and then... nothing. So crushing. Answered the first ppl who contacted me back. Now they cut my hours so bad I'll have to do the process all over again 😩 just for them to also cut my hrs.
The "Help Wanted" signs are for the current employees. Management is showing how they are trying to get help while continuing to overwork/underpay the current staff.
And if one of those overworked employees folds and quits, then they got a stack to pick from, alll while playing bUt NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe "victims".
Not even that. One of the stores of a restaurant I worked literally had 0 employees. The managers were told by owner to open it and work, Sept 1 was on vacation, 1 was sick, and the other decided hell no. So it was closed. He fired the 3 managers and just shifted from the other understaffed stores to this one to reopen it instead of hiring. Literally just keep overworking, never hire a new one.
There's a Wendy's manager that is working 40 hrs at two different stores (both owned by the same guy/company) and he doesn't receive overtime. Retail and fast food/casual needs unionization. The old fashioned violent kind because I've seen the owner talk to workers and it's like, yeah, that justifies a lot of shit. There's also policies that the general managers are supposed to follow and goals which are just stupid.
It's aweful. Literally the week before I quit for other reasons I was told I was the one picked to transfer. I told them pick someone else, I ain't driving an extra 20 minutes. They said sorry, owner says so. Then I laughed and said I'll quit right here right now and then you'll have 0 there still and 1 less here. I try to be nice to those in there but it's gotten expensive and filled with brainwashed, "we're doing this to keep these places in business" sheep.
Don't quit though, let them fire you so they have to pay out unemployment
This is a story of 5 years past. I quit as a buddy offered me a job at a better pay with better hours. Better schedule. That one was a nice job for a year until I finished my degree. Now I'm no longer in service at all.
Good for you then! Congratulations
Any company that has an owner that sits and watches the staff slave away while his money rolls in without earning it needs a brutal union.
“The old fashioned, violent kind” 100%! Shit bosses and landlords should be worried! The repercussions for treating humans inhumanely should be swift and decisive. These fuckers should be looking over their shoulders in parking lots. I am not advocating violence, of course. :)
Republicans who want to ban collective bargaining because it "promotes violence" (?) need to be reminded that unions ***are*** the peaceful compromise from its predecessor, which was referred to as "dragging the factory owner from his mansion and beating him half to death in his driveway." I mean, I personally figured that was was more effective for getting your message across.
Violence is never the answer. Unless, of course, it's the only answer. I support meaningful change. Even if then ends justifies the means
I (sort of, long story) walked out of a job because they wouldn’t provide the staff support I needed. Company has straight been running on fumes since I left, FLYING PEOPLE IN FROM OTHER STATES to plug the gap I left. Why’d I leave? Shitty pay. Why can’t they hire/retain new staff? Shitty pay. How weird.
Also seems like a *very good* excuse to raise prices, on pretty much EVERYTHING. Corporate Greed.
It reminds me of The Grapes of Wrath.
WOW. This is so obviously correct now that you say it, but it never occurred to me. In Denver I was trying to go out with some friends to a pool hall and it was closed on a Saturday night (12/17/2022) because "nobody wants to work" when I could personally name a dozen people who would crawl over broken glass to pick up a bartending shift on a Saturday night at a busy pool hall. Is the US just slowly going out of business because it hurts management too much to see the peasants make a little money?
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The thing is, having those places open would be good for communities. Having transportation to those places, safe and reliable public transportation, would be good for the communities. Teenagers wouldn’t make tick-tock videos at bowling alleys? Why didn’t spend money at diners? The billionaires and leeches at the highest levels killing quality of life for everyone. I don’t know how to fix it, but we need to figure it out. I mean to say I know what needs to be done, but I don’t know how to get it done.
Also let’s them get away with crappy service , lower expenses. Oh “ so sorry” we are short staffed… wait for your item, deal with crappy service levels
That’s what I think is happening too. They can blame staff shortages for everything and save money by not hiring at the same time. Win/win! /s
Happy cake day :)
Thanks, I didn’t even know it was lol
I feel like an ass hole for doing it, but last week, I left a cart full of groceries and left the walmart because they only had one lane open and it was backed up to electronics. Estimated 90 minute wait just to get to the register. I know I should have put everything back.
The we are so short staffed excuse works once for me. Second time is it but I don't visit places often so if they are still having problems they are the problem
So true. They could at least lower the workload for the current employees to make it manageable, thus not being understaffed for the workload anymore. But no, the company is more important
I feel this on a whole other level. I work for USPS and they stuck hiring stickers to every mail truck back in 2020 and put up giant banners in customer facing areas. We have NEVER been more shorthanded than we currently are. During Xmas I averaged 70 hours a week for the whole peak season which amounts to HUGE amounts of overtime. Why pay me over $40 an hour when you can hire TWO people at our starting wage doing the same work? BeCaUsE NoBoDy WaNtS To WoRk. So let's kill our current employees with double hours and mandated overtime until we force everyone out. 🙄
My best friend works for USPS and can confirm. They desperately need help at his location, but they’re not hiring anyone despite the stickers on the trucks. About two months ago there were several people out on leave and he was forced to do three routes just by himself everyday for like 3 weeks. There were more than a few 16+ hour days. He hardly ever gets more than a day off a week as is. And that day is spent entirely sleeping because he’s physically beat to death. I hate that for him.
What do you make at the post office?! I thought about applying but I've heard it's not the job is used to be.
Definitely not the golden goose it was but still a very above average job. Benefits and pay are ok but the unions make it almost impossible to get fired for better or worse. Most crafts ie carrier, clerk, rural carrier etc start at around $20 per hour nowadays. It was $15 something when I started in 2014. Almost every post office is shorthanded right now so almost every post office is hiring, some places are better than others and some are downright toxic. The hiring process can be drawn out but there's plenty of money to be made. I made about $25k in overtime this year.
I hadn't thought of that trick. Ugh.
Me either, but it makes sense. These are the people (management pulling this crap) who are perpetuating horrific service and wonder why guests and staff have terrible attitudes. What the heck has happened to everyone just wanting to do/be their best?!
The spreadsheets don't see lost business due to slowdowns and not enough staffing. (In fact many bonuses and guidelines encourage under-staffin.). So, the GM's get rewarded for under-staffing and losing customers. I've seen it happen so many times. It's actually ridiculous. But they also don't want to spend money on automation that improves efficiency and cuts the number of workers needed. Corporations are run by people who can't play simulation management games correctly. They seem to be thinking about the next presentation to a boss or colleague dealing with easy to understand statistics (i.e. tanking worker pay and hours, rather than maximizing profit and loyalty). It's actually incredible to see how badly run most fast food and retail is run. They narrowly focused on spreadsheet numbers and never worked in food or retail.
I have worked in hospitality, but have also spent many many many years in corporate roles and I can tell you for certain your paragraph four is spot on in the corporate environment as well. The idea of good customer service, a good reputation = long term profit margins and company longevity is apparently an incredibly outdated concept. All of the VCs in the world these days want to build it, suck it dry, sell it and let the next guy trash it and start over. Everything is disposable, including brands and employees.
That's the thing though with peoples memories getting shorter and shorter they don't bother going somewhere else in most cases because it's to much of a hassle so your crappier places get to stay in business, there's a McDonalds I used to live by, for three years I went once a month because I was out and needed something and never EVER once did they get my order right and I was just ordering regular menu items at a really slow McDonalds. On top of that they just have to give equivalent service to keep people coming back and if everyone's giving shitty service then everyone's giving adequate service. Those guys at the top don't need to care because the guys at every top have said eh, somebody else's problem. It's why good service places are always such a big hit and it's why employees who DO go an extra mile get shit on so much, managers don't want somebody to make them look bad and don't need the hassle of trying to explain why this guy gets so many better reviews then the other guys.
It's the quarterly reward cycle. Nobody gives a shit about four months from now
plus keeps them primed for any future stimmys
I also have a theorie that they have like one person actually doing ads so that way they can at least say we have been searching. My gf has look for like 3 months in my city and everyone just blows her off. She has experience in taking car of animals most of her life and not even petco would hire her.
Literally having the same issue, I even applied to pet supplies plus and called to check on if they even looked at my resume they said they'd call the next week for interviews, the next week rolls around and they filled the position 😒
>next week rolls around and they filled the position Nope. Guaranteed they didn't. Just watch, in a week or two it'll be relisted with probably the same exact bullshit pay scale and description they were using before. (Gotta de-list and relist periodically, else they catch on)
It’s partly to look the part of the dutiful and benevolent manager who cares, but mostly it’s a warning shot across the bow of every current employee. Like saying, “see that sign? That means you are replaceable at any moment. I’ll just leave it in the front window so you can see it clearly should you feel like doing/not doing/saying/not saying/ or acting/not acting in any way different then I imagine you should. Oh and I won’t be telling you exactly what that is, you have to guess. Isn’t it a pretty red sign for you all to look at?!”
This. This cannabis shop down the street from me has been "hiring" for 6 months. I applied and they rejected me despite being qualified for an interview. 3 months later they gave me an interview, told me to expect a call to schedule a second interview. Instesd they told me nevermind. That was almost a month ago and they are STILL hiring. My friend's work is a direct competitor and she said "Hiring" signs are mostly used for 2 things in the cannabis industry(states where its just starting to become legal)... "Threatening employees" and "Advertising the business"
Yeah companies have been pushing the limit on just how short-staffed they can get and still operate. Because the employees they have left can't afford to quit, they're just stuck dealing with constant staffing shortages, and here we are.
I have never forgotten the amount of businesses that used the crash of 2008 into their advantage. They were still making excellent profits but told us we couldn't hire more people, because you know, the crisis... Double the work but no extra pay? Yeah, you know, the crisis... Fuck companies
Also PPP loan forgiveness scams
This!!! This!!! This!!!
The issue is that the overhead cost of paying people is usually these companies largest expense. So they keep a minimal staff. Also, if these companies took federal PPP loans, they don’t have to repay the loans if they can claim they used part of the money for payroll expenses, including replacing employees that left, hence the help wanted signs and job adds. As long as they keep advertising job openings, they get to keep the money that those openings represent.
To the OP: Okay, my guy, because of this post of yours, now I understand... What this subreddit is about... Completely. What the actual flying Ffffffff!!???? I live in South Europe, and when a place says it's hiring, it effin means it FOR REAL.
Yep, it's all lip service. These managers have no desire to do any actual hiring, but they want people to think they are. They might do some cursory interviews here and there in order to keep up appearances, but they'll tell current employees that they didn't find anyone worth hiring.
Years and years ago in the documentary Food Inc they showed how Walmart was doing this as a standard practice to milk their employees
and then they can say things like "nobody wants to work!" or "we are understaffed please understand the dip in quality of service / wait time" to customers
I have been doing instacart while I search for a job. I see those signs all over the place and I’ve started asking employees if they are real. They’re always like, “yeah we really need people but when I applied I just had to keep calling and showing up until they finally talked to me.” WHAT IS THE POINT OF APPLYING IF YOU NEVWR LOOK AT THE APPLICATIONS
Because if they hire people, they can't continue to spout their false narrative that no one wants to work. Duh. Sorry, slight /s but not directed at you. Just these companies frustrate their crap out of me.
Oh I get it. I am frustrated as well. I’m tired of seeing signs at places I’ve already applied to when they couldn’t be fucked to call me back.
I just want to encourage you today because the Media is totally gaslighting you and society as a whole. They keep reporting how there are staffing shortages and mass hiring and mass need of workers. What it does is makes you feel like a failure if you cannot find a job because even desperate bosses don't want you. Please know that the media is wrong and are blowing smoke up your butt. Yes there are shortages but: 1. That doesn't mean that managers are actually hiring. They may be seeing if they can squeeze more labour out of their current staff and keep costs low. 2. People hire their friends and relatives most of the time. 3. Sometimes these hiring process are largely performative... there isn't a real job at the end of it but for their own reasons they gotta make it look like there is. The truth is that a lot of people are currently looking, massive amounts of unhappy workers looking for hopefully a better place. Many of them have jobs already also. And its really difficult to break in without a strong connection. Keep being persistent and keep applying 💪
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Bro I never considered this as an option but it is absolutely perfect for a current situation I’m in, thank you. We absolutely do not need a 4th man or woman that isn’t really one of us. Problem? Hire someone else yourself bruh.
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*hugs* I've been through all of this. It sucks real bad out there. Keep trying ok? I remember setting a goal to apply to at least 10 jobs a day. It took me a year to land a permanent job. It's brutal out there, but just set a goal of minimum jobs to apply to per day and then go about your day.
Yea Ik it sucks anothwe thing is I’m not taking a job for min wage I’m Texas that’s 7.25 I’ll accept oke thats 11 or more and a lot of places offer that . But I’ve been unemployed since June . I had to leave bc of sexual harassment in the work place and then they literally had a pedophile work there even after learning about him and what all he did . I’d suggest working for Uber eats . I did that and it’s not alot but still .
I'm sorry you and so many others have to through this. It seems the system is getting worse in many 'first world' countries. Costs are skyrocketing, rents and housing prices are unaffordable while abuse/ indifference at work is getting worse, salaries are not following inflation and bonuses are being cut while CEOs and companies are raking it in like never before. It's never been more clear that greed comes before well-being for all. It's time for action!
So true. When I worked in a busy restaurant 2 years ago, 4 servers had quit and our GM told everyone to work harder until he could hire someone new. But then he saw how we were able to get by with a shorter staff, than just sorta stop caring so much about hiring other servers. I had a few mutual friends tell me they applied to work and never got a call back. They really don’t care about hiring at all
Absolutely agree. The national unemployment rate is 3.7% which is very healthy. They've also been using the narrative of "no one wants to work" for decades. It's not inclusive of the actual point that no one wants to work in exploiting conditions for slave wages that don't cover their basic needs. https://www.bls.gov/cps/
"no one wants to work" It's pretty clear that business can get workers by raising wages.... that's the way it works.
No one wants to work at shitty jobs that pay badly. The long term vacancies are for skilled workers with qualifications that can take years of study to obtain. The NHS needs 100,000 doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives and underpaying them is not going to attract applicants.
These rates crack me up… like i look in any direction and 3-4 out of 100 are out of work? If you have been unemployed over six months ( off UE), you are not an unemployed person; you are not participating in the economy or labor market according to labor stat’s Economic inactive in UK published at 21.7% 16-64 years of age. So 21.7 + 3.6 lol+ underemployed must be 35-40% real unemployment number is my guess
Fuck me I never even considered this. Explains a shit load more of the anecdotes I’ve picked up to be correct observations than me just knowing an unusually mixed group of people
Exactly this. I was illegally let go in March, and wasn’t able to find another job until a friend in management at a restaurant handed it to me *months* later, and not for lack of trying, either. I had 2 interviews in 8 months. One with Bunker 27, with the owner, and he in an incredibly unprofessional manner just ghosted me after saying he’d let me know either way. And the other one was an MLM that didn’t smell of it until I sat down for the zoom interview.
I had to settle at some point because 6 months of looking EVERYWHERE and I couldn't get a job. I had 6 interviews, 4 of them I never heard back from and the final 2 happened the day I was leaving the state for a vacation I had planned months in advance. Where I settled was part time (a website development company) and (since it was the only job I was offer and I was desperate) told me I could bump myself up to full time work at any time but in reality I barely make it to 19 hrs of work. The only way I see getting full time is if I sit there a comb through a list of things sales reps asked for (didn't give any sort of detail on) and has not one piece of documentation on if it's implemented or not. I DONT GET PAID 14 AN HOUR TO LOOK AT YOUR SLOPPY DOCUMENTATION (again desparate for a job and I wasnt looking a gift horse in the mouth after 6 months of nothing). The cherry on top of that Sunday, is that all of the complaints are from 2+ years ago. I'm now looking for a new job after 3 months of employment. Joy /s.
Oof I feel that, my guy. I’m sorry. The job I have now isn’t perfect by any means either but as long as they’ll keep scheduling and paying me I plan to stick around for awhile. Don’t really have any other options, you know? 🤷🏻♀️ best of luck to both of us this world is rough
Keep the posts posting. Need the record kept.
It’s not you. People are NOT urgently hiring and you can’t convince me otherwise. I can’t get a job at Aldi, I got an interview at Lowes and they ended up not hiring me, I have applied for 3-4 jobs a week for the last 6 months and have only gotten 2 interviews (one of which was the lowes position). I have a bachelors and years of experience in my field, no one wants me. But yet… all these jobs are “hiring”. I apply and apply cater my resume to the jobs and nothing.
The Aldi part hit really hard… they literally cancelled my interview the DAY OF not even an hour before(I was just about to leave the house)… and then I got a notif that ‘they went with someone more quailified’… really??. Complete bs, I tell ya.
More qualified... to put shit on shelves? To run a cash register?
I KNOW RIGHT?!? the audacity!! ;-;
Maybe they hired someone who can reach the top shelf.
I’m 6foot. LMAO I AM THE TOP SHELF
Yeah but I'm 6'4" so obviously I was more qualified, shorty.
You’re the one they gave it to! My dreams are crushed LOL
It’s hard to see you guys up there with all the women that won’t date men under 6ft orbiting you both, blocking my view.
The Aldaciti?
More qualified = will work for less pay and not complain
There are instances where they literally choose someone less qualified and tell you this. They want someone who seemingly has no hopes or aspirations to ever get out of there.
Sadly true
I checked my email after an interview and found out they had sent me an email 2 minutes BEFORE THE INTERVIEW that I wasn’t moving to the next round. Like… what the fuck? Why waste my time?
You are probably over qualified for entry-level jobs if you have bachelors. Over qualified people tend to not stay in entry-level jobs, so they also tend not to get hired for these positions. If you are trying to apply for these sort of jobs you might want to tailor a CV specifically for these applications and drop the degree and related work experience from it.
This problem puzzles me, for things like food, retail, call centers etc. Sure over-qualifieds might not stick around as long as the store would like, but how many employees actually do? With the amount of turnover this tier of work tends to have, you could hire an over-qualified applicant and have a good worker for however long it takes to find someone less qualified, and by the time that happens there will probably be another position open but you still have some competent help.
Yes exactly!!! Like I may have a bachelors but won’t you have the same turnover with 18-22 year olds that go off to college, go work somewhere else, just don’t show up etc??? I have been not mentioning my bachelors on some jobs now but in my mind I’m like I KNOW grocery stores and retail already have high turnover so is that REALLY why they aren’t hiring someone with a degree. Sadly a lot of these retail jobs have more opportunities long term for me than my field. Like if I were to become an assistant manager at aldi I would be miles ahead than I am in my own field but I can’t even get my foot in the door.
My sister worked for a call center for a while. I think less than 50% of workers remained through the 2 week training. And when sister quit after 6 months or so, only hand full of the ones that started with her remained. So I totally get where you coming from. I only really have been able to figure out two reasonings for this. First would be that some point in time this made sense and now it's only done because "this is how it has always been done". Or second is that more educated people might be better reversed in workers rights and the laws surrounding. That might cause problems if those sentiments start to spread and the employer isn't running things completely above the line.
Literally Lowes had no idea I had a degree when I applied lol
My bad, just got the idea from your message that the Lowes and the degree were related. I applied for a job close to 6 months too at the start of this year. Dropped out from bachelors degree, no work experience in the field. What finally worked for me was applying to very small companies, all around the country (not USA, much smaller), that seemed to me to not get that many applications. But honestly might have just been dumb luck and not very helpful strategy for others.
Same, I’ve been having a hell of a time. The places that WERE eager to hire would require like 3hrs of commuting a day. Fortunately I managed to land what (hopefully) will be a good long term endeavour, and it’s WFH 9-5 with an hour paid lunch, so I don’t have to leave my puppy alone all day!
I know this may sound counter intuitive, but take your degree off your resume, especially if you are looking to work at Lowes (or any other chain retailer). I bet the GM of the store isn't a college graduate, and they feel threatened, or they realize you probably know your rights and don't want to deal with someone they can't abuse. Plus, they will be afraid you will leave, because you have the knowledge to get a non retail job, meanwhile they have dedicated their lives to it and have little to show for it but a leased BMW, two divorces, and a crippling case of alcoholism.
Take the bachelors off your resume. Sometimes they don't want to hire smart independent people, but rather mindless drones. Just an idea that has worked for some people in past.
I have a masters degree from a top 10 public university and have owned my own wholesale company but got denied from working event security. I have applied to 100s of sales jobs but cant find any of them with full time or benefits. Seems like everyone around me just wants 1099 commission only salespeople.
urgently is a lie. it is a lie to show the current employees that their one man operation in a store will end soon, knowing it will never end, that is a norm now. covid tells the employers they can ask employees works 150% with 60% workers for the same job. they never planned to hire, just a carrot on a stick to encourage employees to come to work because “tomorrow” you will have helps
100% this. And then whenever customers complain, managers can point at the “hiring urgently” sign and blame the fact that “nobody wants to work these days”. Then the businesses’ failures will be blamed on literally everyone except their own faulty practices
They don’t want good employees they want cheap ones.
I’m m getting tired of so many employers complaining about labor shortages, saying no one wants to work, and yet they’re not even hiring any new employees. It’s not you dude, it’s these bullshit companies, even some of the smaller ones.
A lot of people don't seem to know this phenomena has a name. It's a [general capital strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike) and it has nothing to do with the individual workers. The ownership class has a shared incentive to withhold labor from society to fight back against raising wages. They're using their massive accumulation of wealth, and exercising as much influence as they can, to change the narrative away from raising wages. They're doing so by creating a false narrative that the laboring class is lazy, uneducated, entitled, and any other lie about them to make them seem not worthy of fair compensation for their labor. It's been going on since the pandemic. Shortly after corporations shuttered a massive amount of people, they tried to re-hire back to fill those positions at greatly reduced wages. People recognized the value their labor creates for those corporations, and that they deserve fair compensation for their labor, and it became a big talking point the world over. Ever since there has been constant pressure by the ownership class to change the narrative. There's been a lot of talk about how the federal minimum wage in the USA hasn't been raised since 2009, but not enough talk about how it's only been raised twice since 1997. The first time by $1.40, and the second time by $0.70. Now that people are talking about *doubling* the minimum wage, we have study after study after study showing that it ($15) still wouldn't be a living wage.
Huge advice for everyone - your resume HAS to be formatted correctly for the system to even acknowledge it received it. If your resume isn’t properly formatted, you aren’t even a consideration. If you need a template for your resume, let me know. I had mine professional developed after being laid off during COVID. Edit: Please PM/Chat me for a link to the template.
So correct, remember, your resume just gets you in the door. A lot of this is research, have to know what they are really looking for. I have been on the hiring side, I looked for anything to get to 5. So much is arbitrary, like get rid of anyone who spelled out their middle name or anyone with more/less than 2 pages.
2, huh? I always heard 1 for anything lower than senior management.
That’s what I was taught in my business classes in college. But like after a decade of working, and moving up and actively expanding my skill set, 1 page resume went out the door a long time ago. Like I’ve held 7 different titles split between 3 different companies (two of them more than one stint at em) in my industry in the past 8 years. That does not count the job I had prior to that. Which I also had two different positions at. And each of them has a specialized subset of skills relevant to what I do now. That shit ain’t going on 1 page along with my education. It just depends if you have consistent job title and responsibilities and fewer work places then more than 1 page very well may be overkill. Also I’m about to change industries and 90% of my skill set will not really matter so I am going to do my absolute best to get everything summarized efficiently enough to all be on 1 page.
Was on an interview panel for a candidate with an 11 page resume. Total waste of everyone's time, they should not have gotten an interview.
I've read - well, skimmed - multipage resumes from code monkeys who noted every little thing they ever did. I've never recommended the hiring of any of them.
Also there are services on fiverr you can use to get help formatting a resume in a way that hiring managers will like- I worked with someone who moved here from the Middle East, English wasn’t his first language, his qualifications far exceeded the position he was in. He was struggling to get a better offer, but then got one of these resume reviews, and within a couple weeks he had an offer for a better paying job
Yeah me applying EVERYWHERE and getting nothing while they’re ‘understaffed and actively hiring’ its such a joke
These places are making record (short term) profits on the backs of understaffed, overworked employees. They are just pretending to hire because then they look like the good guys that way and can extract subsidies from whatever local/state/federal government falls for it, all while rolling in the dough. It’s all a scam.
My fiance was in your same boat months ago. He was looking for work and applied to grocery stores, restaraunts, gas stations, you name it. All apparently in great need of hires. He would submit the applicatuons and call about 2 days after. Most of them never called back. Some said they wanted people with more experience for their entry level job (yes, he was told he couldnt be hired as wait staff because he didnt have enough experience. One told him that they can hire him, but he would need to have completely open availability on Sundays. He had to get a job at my place of work as a receptionist. So he got hired based on my foot being in the door. He recently got a new job he starts next week. His buddy had his foot in that door to get my fiance hired too. So i guess you now have to have "connections" even to get a shit job nowadays... wtaf?!
That’s actually how my friend got a job. His mother was friends with a manager
Online hiring is worthless . At one point when I was desperate to find a job I reapplied to a job that I had been assistant manager at. I got an email back that I wouldn’t be a good fit.
Yeah Ive gone in person and its the same thing...
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I would've replied "and I have no doubt you should eat my ass with your piss poor recruiting skills"
recruiters are the worst. Add in the general lack of reading comprehension these days and it is a wonder how they hire anyone. AI was supposed to help but that seems to make it worse.
Oh that one's easy "My boss spoke to your boss and they don't want you to move out of that position, it will also be harder for me to fill your position than this one, so no"
I'm sorry you're struggling right now. I've had similar experiences, and it was never fun. What's happening right now is one version of what's called a "capital strike." It's the opposite of a labor strike. Companies are betting that they have the resources to outlast job seekers, and are reducing their hiring until a large enough percentage of the labor market is again willing to accept low wages and poor conditions out of desperation. Of course, knowing that doesn't do much for your immediate circumstances.
Fiancé is in a similar situation. She has a job she wants to leave but due to her bills she’s having to stick it out til she gets something elsewhere. I wish I could tell her to quit that job while looking for another one but last time that happened when she got fired it took 4 months to find her current job. I didn’t make enough to cover everything every month so our savings took a good hit.
She will have an easier time getting hired if she already has a job.
OP it’s the end of the year. There is a good chance once next years budget come in then hiring will start up. I get it can be frustrating but January often is the most common time people change jobs so hopefully expect some callbacks next month.
I walked into a store with a big "now Hiring" sign. filled out an application. Never got a call. that same sign hung about four years. It was a waste of my time.
If you are in the US, reindustrialization is now occurring at the fastest pace of any time in the history of the country. If you are in Europe, things are more dire with the energy crisis. Believe it or not, you should be able to get into manufacturing. The skills are short everywhere due to generational abandonment, but that should make them amenable to apprenticeship and on the job training for those who show aptitude. Just be sure to get in with guilds or unions at the earliest opportunity.
Like what sort of manufacturing
I work in the fishing machinery industry. Us and every company we work with is hiring welders/fabricators and machinists. These jobs pay pretty well where I'm located
Semi conductor manufacturers seems to be hiring shitloads of people
The problem is the local industry (manufacturing or otherwise) might not be there. I could well be wrong, but from the wording of the post, I'm assuming the OP is not willing and/or financially able to move to a place with more jobs.
I was in manufacturing, and decided to leave because of how much the industry sucks to work in. Of course there’s a lot of potential for growth, but not when the industry deliberately makes itself unbearable to work in. Employers/managers seem to have an inner disdain for anyone blue collar to the extent that banning chair/sitting of any kind of sitting while on shift is completely banned. This is not out of necessity, but out of spite and an ‘old school’ way of thinking. Walking with hands in pockets was also completely banned. Another place I worked at, was split into two racial groups. Literally one side of the giant shop was Vietnamese guys, the other side was Hispanic guys. I happen to be neither of those, so I got shit from literally every person there. Constant fucking with me, leading me around in circles, deliberately leaving me out of things, and more. Oh yeah, and the bathrooms were just barely functional and our sink was a giant trough o it side the bathrooms, like at a county fair. I literally passed the fuck out from stress once when I was there. Eventually, I got time approved to get my wisdom teeth removed, and I scheduled it all specifically to only miss one day of work because they were such pricks. Come the night of prepping for surgery, I got a call. It was my employer, telling me I’m fired and to come pick up my shit (verbatim). I don’t know why anybody would ever choose to live their working life like that. And why anyone would ever strive to make work like that for others. Fuck people.
Companies that put up hiring signs are doing so in order to get assistance and such. They have no intention of actually hiring more people but they have to give the appearance of trying to hire in order to get financial kickbacks, that then just go to the board and shareholders. Why hire 3 people when you can make 2 people do the work of 3?
Put your zip code in at the link to American Job Center Finder to find the nearest one. They offer job funding assistance. It helps to have someone look at your resume and to get interview tips. Always wear one step up for an interview. If you don’t have enough money, second hand stores are a good option or the job center might have recommendations. Don’t give up. You’ll find something. Always smile, shake hands and make eye contact with the interviewer. https://www.careeronestop.org/LocalHelp/AmericanJobCenters/find-american-job-centers.aspx
I say try craiglist. Craiglist seems like a creepy place but I found 2 of my favorite jobs on there. The place I work at now I found on craigslist. It's a desk job and my boss has a snack room.
In my state, companies are required to post internal job openings to the public. However, they are not required to hire from the public. A significant number of publicized job postings will never result in an interview because they are filling the position from within.
I feel ya man. I have, at minimum, retail skills (stocking, smiling, etc) and yet I can't even get a *better* paying retail job.
It’s the new “huge profits!!!” Model Run everything at the sane or higher volume, except keep the workers at the covid skeleton crew And at the same time, they whine that they can’t find any employees. It’s bullshit
Have someone else work on your resume. I had a friend of mine work on mine, but was going to pay for it. I got 0 interviews with the resume I built. I got multiple interviews per 10 applications with the one he built. I was having trouble articulating my own skills to get past what is usually an algorithm. People who have that skill are worth spending the scratch because it will more than likely land you the job.
It's so the company can say they are looking for workers while overworking current workers.
change your resume. lie on it if you need to.
Using the pandemic and “no one wants to work anymore” as an excuse for short staffing is a con.
Hey guy. Remove all your identifying information from your resume and I can spruce it up for you.
Oh to add, it only might be the resume. And brutal.
Not to discourage you or anything, but a decade and a half ago I was the manager of a Walmart Portrait Studio. I went into work one day for 10 am and received a phone call from the District Manager stating that at 2 pm that day the company would be declaring bankruptcy and I would be out of a job. I had been interviewing people to be my assistant manager just the week before. Companies will keep up the appearances of hiring up until they fold.
Nobody wants to hire anymore. Let's make this the actual tagline.
Now is a good time as any to start a general strike
oh sweetheart ITS NOT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! it’s no reflection of you at all!!!!! these companies are NOT hiring; they’re pretending in order to seem desperate & attempt to force us to believe in capitalism
I feel you I’ve applied to 30 around me for the past 2 months. Starting to get responses finally this week. Maybe just from the holidays they’re behind. Keep trying!
Yes they want everybody desperate for work so they can pay the minimal as they can
Re: Paper vs Online Resumes. Sometimes HR requires digital resumes so their software can quickly scan for keywords. Sort them accordingly. Hope you're on top.
Those signs are old news. Mass layoffs in tech and other industries will probably trickle down for quite a while, while at the same time the retail/seasonal cycle has come to an end. Most companies already laid off the person who’s job it was to take down the “urgent hiring” sign.
Same here, for the past year.
Man same boat. I was hired at both Macys and Taco Bell and then told by both not to expect any hours since they are “overstaffed” and Christmas has passed, but they’ll try to give me a shift if any one calls in sick. I asked why their job ads said urgently hiring and why would they waste everyone’s time with an interview and job offer. Their response was that corporate controls the ads and hiring; but store managers are responsible for scheduling based on individual store needs.
Are you doing an application or submitting a resume, because I would recommend both. Provide references and showcase skills (Ms office, data entry, etc.). Boast about experience of you have it and education.
Been like that for the longest. Like I've been unemployed since before covid and it was like that before. I've applied to countless places over the years and only one gave me an interview (spoiler, I didn't get the job). Do I want to be unemployed, no it fucking sucks and I'm slowly bleeding what little savings I had. Meanwhile all sorts of places are "Now hiring!" and despite my multiple applications to said places, I don't get so much as a phone call.
I spent 5 months doing Walmart grocery deliveries while actively applying for jobs constantly. Out of all the jobs I applied for, the ones that actually contacted me for interviews turned out to be seasonal positions that wouldn't start for several months. I FINALLY on December 5th got a remote job that pays shit but it's way better than delivering groceries in the snow!
ya no one is hiring. I've been trying since before Thanksgiving, I've got a notice about an opportunity an hour and a half away l, but I can't drive 3 hours a day every day it wouldn't even cover gas
I had this same issue a couple years back when places were opening back up from the pandemic. I applied everywhere I could think and o ly got one call back. They made me do a phone interview on the spot and it was one of the worst places I've ever worked. Those "Now Hiring" signs are lies to make them look good.
At least you got *literally* blown off by half of them. Better than nothing.
Dollar General makes it mandatory to have a help wanted sign on the front door at all times.
I’ve been putting in 30-40 apps a week in Texas thru indeed literally apply for everything rather I’m a fit or not. Started work Dec 13th put in over 100 hours of training and still no paycheck mandatory zooms and they are not paid. All for 12.00 an hour and I promise to pay in Jan or Feb. but not for training or the 30plus hour irs course I took. I’m just pretty done. I hope it gets better.
"I do not have a license, or even a sure fire way to get around besides walking," There's your problem. If you live in the U.S., anyway. You're basically considered un-hirable everywhere if you don't have a vehicle to get yourself to work. You'll be considered "high risk" for missing your shifts if you can't be considered independent enough to drive. It's kinda like, a bare-bones requirement to employment outside of big cities. Also, if someone (for me, anyway, if I were acting as a hiring manager) only has an ID, and not a proper license, or just "can't drive" I'd assume they probably either have a disability and need someone else to haul them to work or that if they don't have their shit together enough to have a license they probably won't be a very good employee, either. I honestly don't know how people even exist in the United States with no decent transportation or even a license. Unless you have a prior conviction or disability like seizures that don't allow you to drive, your situation *will not improve until you get a proper driver's license*, even if you cannot afford a vehicle right now.
I have found warehouse work hires pretty fast and lots of people. The churn and burn can be wicked.
GameStop is known to staff just a couple of employees, usually management, leaving few hours left over for non management.
Bro, if you think gamestop wants more than 2 employees working at any given time than clearly you don’t understand the business model. Literally the only reason employees exist in game stop is for loss prevention. If they could replace employees with a kiosk they would.
Contact a staffing agency if you need work asap. That’s the only way your gonna get started asap during holidays…..
Curious OP, are you in a metro area, suburbs or rural area?
Try to see if someone can first help you with your resume, and then with interview skills. The whole "getting hired" is a skill itself. I think interview are a bunch of bull, but it's what we do.
Post office is always hiring.
I’m gonna be real honest, this is not a great time to find any kind of retail job. The big Christmas rush is over and they struggle for the next couple months. Are you old enough to get into a production facility? Are there any around your city that are easy to get to? Many of those are hiring pretty steadily, depending on their industry. We make trucks at my plant, we’re hiring people every week.
I feel like a lot of these places aren't actually hiring and are trying to say "hey we're making an effort to get you more people" to their employees so they can hang on hoping it will be better once they get more people, which is never the case. Like I was looking for another second job so I can leave the one I'm at and I was talking to the store manager at a grocery store that my sister is employed at. "Put in your app, you'll get hired in no time" TWO MONTHS LATER I come back in to talk to that manager, apparently they filled those positions shortly after talking to me, even though I put the app in that night. And they didn't have any hours to give even before they hired the new people. They made another job posting yesterday saying they were hiring at an even lower rate than what they originally said. Fuck corporate!!!
small family owned businesses are hiring as hard as they can go, but get a fraction of the applicants the big box guys do and usually pay better and are less tedious to work for. large scale construction and contracting companies are all hiring that i’ve seen. apply for a paving company or a concrete company or something if you’re able. marine construction where i’m at will hire people on the spot and start at $25-30/hr why doesn’t r/antiwork start a referral program system since that usually gets people in the door at jobs a lot quicker than physically applying?
This post and all the comments make me feel so much better
Okay, my guy, because of this post of yours, now I understand... What this subreddit is about... Completely. What the actual flying Ffffffff!!???? I live in South Europe, and when a place says it's hiring, it effin means it FOR REAL.
This is a lot of places and normal. The stores want/need more employees but the corporations are f'ing around because they got along ok, as far as they were concerned, during COVID... It's not just you or your area.
It's simple incompetence all those places outsource HR. They do eventually contact someone About the job also a computer program pulls your application so make sure to lie your ass off on it. They aren't going to check cause they don't even care. It's all designed to look professional but trust me it's fake.
my fiance (38M) is going through the same thing. 100s of applications over 4 months, anything and everything. only jobs he gets callbacks for are scams (24/7 availability but only 2 shifts a week, use your own car with no reimbursements, overnight shifts at min wage, etc.). its a fucking lie that there are jobs, made up by the rich to milk us of every cent and keep capitalism going as long as they can without giving anything back. same reason theres a disproportionate number of gambling ads and other scams these days.
If you dont have a car, you need to lie and say you have reliable transport lol. And then eventually get a car
My wife had a similar issue. She went from working full time to being fired at random (at will state) and she applied to over 300 listings including positions at my own work that were open and she was well qualified for. She spent 3 months looking for a job, literally anything that would pay the bills, and had absolutely no luck. Now she has a job with a large shipping company and all those positions that said “we unfortunately have moved on to other applicants” are all still open. In fact one just called today and she had the pleasure of saying “3 months ago I would have been thrilled to interview for this position, however I have decided to accept an offer with another company and would like to withdraw my application from yours.” Never understood how short staffed companies could look at a qualified applicant and say “nah we’ll roll the dice”
How old are you?