Message from @Scribblehatch

Discord ID: 476737125480529928


2018-08-08 12:54:22 UTC  

All of this technology that we're supposedly spoiled with, we're OUTCAST for not having.

2018-08-08 12:54:58 UTC  

People just want the best, and that goes on to assume that THE BEST employee has a facebook and cell phone.

2018-08-08 12:55:20 UTC  

oh shes the daughter of palistinian immigrants... thats going to be interesting, given some of trumps moves in israel

2018-08-08 12:56:16 UTC  

Yeah, the whole "check their social media" thing has gotten out of hand

2018-08-08 12:56:44 UTC  

I know it started as "We want to make sure that they aren't doing stupid shit in the background", but the requirement of having social media to get a job is ridiculous

2018-08-08 12:56:52 UTC  

Any gift to humanity becomes a curse as soon as employers get to snoop on it.

2018-08-08 12:57:23 UTC  

Adam Carolla on one of the Joe Rogan podcasts, he brought up a story where he was talking to an employer at a dinner table in the middle of the night

2018-08-08 12:57:38 UTC  

He had a question for the employer, and the employer CALLED AN EMPLOYEE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT to get an answer.

2018-08-08 12:57:56 UTC  

Well for fuck sake, wasn't that trespassing on the guy's free time?

2018-08-08 12:58:03 UTC  

What is this shit?

2018-08-08 12:58:45 UTC  

At my last job, the VP of the software department straight up told us to our faces that if there was an issue in the middle of the night, he wanted to be able to call us to fix it

2018-08-08 12:58:56 UTC  

Off-time is off-time, how did this indentured servitude get such a long reach.

2018-08-08 12:59:11 UTC  

I can understand if lives are on the line in the medical profession.

2018-08-08 13:00:23 UTC  

In my current job, not only are we not expected to come in at all hours of the day to fix shit, we get overtime

2018-08-08 13:00:30 UTC  

government contracts are great

2018-08-08 13:00:39 UTC  

I dunno what that means.

2018-08-08 13:01:29 UTC  

The company I work for is a Department of Defense contractor, so they're required to pay all employees overtime, whether we're in salaried positions or not

2018-08-08 13:01:55 UTC  

Last week I worked 50.4 hours, and I'll be paid for 50.4 hours

2018-08-08 13:02:39 UTC  

I've been unemployed for years now.

2018-08-08 13:02:45 UTC  

Drives me nuts.

2018-08-08 13:03:08 UTC  

So on top of not having social media, or a cell, I also have this huge gap in my resume.

2018-08-08 13:03:24 UTC  

I'm assuming you have a degree then?

2018-08-08 13:03:27 UTC  

No.

2018-08-08 13:03:41 UTC  

Why was that assumed..?

2018-08-08 13:03:46 UTC  

I don't know

2018-08-08 13:04:10 UTC  

It's the only thing I'm thankful for.

2018-08-08 13:04:16 UTC  

I dodged college debt.

2018-08-08 13:04:30 UTC  

I got so much advice to go ahead and pull that lever. Thank fuck I didn't.

2018-08-08 13:04:39 UTC  

@Revan dude i thoght that was real for a second lmao

2018-08-08 13:04:52 UTC  

Have you considered trade school?

2018-08-08 13:05:03 UTC  

No money for tuition.

2018-08-08 13:05:06 UTC  

Ah

2018-08-08 13:05:35 UTC  

I'd want to pay my own way through such a thing. Which is impossible.

2018-08-08 13:08:14 UTC  

It's *astounding* how little boomers understand what's happening.

2018-08-08 13:08:28 UTC  

"You get a job flipping burgers and pay for college that way! That's what I did!"

2018-08-08 13:08:48 UTC  

What do you even do? They actually believe this is still how it works.

2018-08-08 13:08:57 UTC  

How is it possible you're the potential first person to tell them?

2018-08-08 13:09:00 UTC  

How can they not know?

2018-08-08 13:11:27 UTC  

This whole nightmare would be at least easier to navigate if more people KNEW what was going on. Conversations could begin.

2018-08-08 13:11:38 UTC  

But only the people with the least power even know about how little power they have.

2018-08-08 13:12:08 UTC  

Everyone else assumes the gears are turning just fine. "You get a job, you go to college, you get a career!"