Boomers give this advice that hasn't worked for decades, and feel no consequence for doing so.

you could punch them

although parents usually don't like getting punched by their kids

and strangers don't like it easier

Lol

there also might be some pesky battery laws but just ssay they are a nazi and its fine

but yes, most application is online.

can be annoying

Can be?

if you are anti-social its great

It's an endless nightmare.

This is what job searching is now.

also means you can look everywhere, make a choice

The most impersonal record imaginable.

No no no.

It does to employment what tinder did for dating.

High disposability and high misery.

You're just saying things that work well on paper and selling them as the features of the system as we have it, when they aren't true.

disposability comes from high unemployment

when unemployment goes down, it does the opposite

You're criticizing a system you've never utilized.

it gives the worker easy way to find another company and get an offer

Rye, fucking no.

which you can take back to your boss and say "pay me this or better or i'm leaving"

it's almost like unlimited immigration is a bad thing for the job market

My last 3 jobs were online applications. It's goddamn nonsense.

Remember back when you broke your arm in factory they’d just fire you and hire another person the same day. Man the industrial revolution was the tinder of employment

only 3?

Yes.

online applications, or job search systems?

I've been unemployed for years.

I'm not counting what I've applied to and never gotten a call back from.

you've only applied to 3 jobs? or those jobs you had were online applications

aaah

okay

--Wow reading comprehension ahoy.

What kinds of jobs are you talking about?

More shitty retail?

because that's what happens in shitty retail.

Did you follow up with the manager after your applications?\

Because a lot of times with applications, paper or otherwise, if you don't follow up your chance drops to zero.

^

you do need to pester a bit at times

because a lot of times people fill that shit out to meet an expectation of parole or unemployment

it also ups you on the list

denotes a person who actually wants a job

If you want to get a listed job, you have to work for it. In your line, you have to have a diverse portfolio, in multiple styles, of multiple sorts of things

You have to get corporate stuff, hypothetical architectural sketches, company/event logos

I don't even comprehend how that works.

As well as the kind of art you enjoy.

Every time I've followed the advice of "Bug them, it will show initiative" and then tried it

squeaky wheel etc

"--Yeah I'll get to that later!!" in an annoyed tone

You've also got to consider the competition.

And I'm like "WOW THAT WENT EXACTLY AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD. WHY WAS I TOLD TO DO THAT"

You're not going to get a job offer from every application, that's just the way it works.

cuz you did it with the expectation that you were annoying them?

... You can't believe in something or don't.

rather than just "hey I applied a few days ago have you guys checked that out yet?"

Or disbelieve something you do

It's DIGITAL and they're HIRING, why wouldn't they have checked it out?

What the fuck are these questions of mine?

I was told a few times "Our <whatever person> comes in on tuesday, so try calling back then"

It's so stupid, holy shit

oh my sweet summer child.

I'd be annoyed.

I'd be REALLY fucking annoyed if someone called me like that

your a hiring manager

Yeah I can see why the unemployment now.

thats the job

I can't even TELL you how many times my managers have talked about how they never check their corporate HR digital applications.

Beef Taquitos taking his ball and going home, A HYUK. :^D

I nearly got damn well hired for a job except for the fact that I didn't have my driver's license long enough at one place.

just because I went in and spoke with the manager.

This is textbook "Ya wanna have a bad time?"

The height of banality.

Like, we were doing W4s and shit even.

Nothing about employers make sense to me.

One time, right.

I had an interview about moving rental furniture. Simple enough

And at the end

One specific time. The one time I applied to it.

"I'll call you whether you get it or not. I won't leave you hanging"

And I was like "Ah wow. Good. I hate the suspense" in my head.

I *never* got that call.

What the fuck is that

did you call back and check up?

Why did he say that

Busy life.

HE WAS GOING TO CALL **ME**

and people forget

HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO

yeah people forget shit, they aren't superhuman

HE SAID SPECIFICALLY HE WASN'T GOING TO LEAVE ME HANGING.

you do that too

WHY SAY IT THEN

**WHY SAY IT**

never said you'd call a friend then forget?

Why are you people not as perplexed as I was.

So you're autistic, right?