You all asking for home jobs. Raising Cane switching it up 
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Yeah⌠this is the first one of these Iâve seen, but the most surprising thing is that it took this long.
A lot of office leases run for 10 or 20 years.
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Wpuldnt it be great if we could convert 80-90% of white collar jobs to WFH, and transition this glut of office spaces into affordable housing?
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Sounds like SOCIALISM! We must allow the market to decide by giving about a trillion dollars to commercial real estate developers as a bailout.
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When was the last time a major federal policy was enacted that WASNT a massive handout to corporations and the rich? The Johnson administration?
Nixon starting the EPA I think counts
If we donât give the handouts, er, I mean stimulus, to the rich and large corporations then it wonât be used in the optimally efficient way that all private sector resources are used.
Iâm not sure if youâd consider the WRDA bills to be major policy, but they get passed every two years more or less and they fund a ton of natural resource restoration projects.
Just got rejected from the 6th job Iâve applied to in the last few months.
Fun facts about these jobs:
- I would have no problem doing any of them competently.
- For all of the jobs, I had 100% of the minimum qualifications and between 70% and 100% of the desirable qualifications.
- None of these jobs was a pay increase from what Iâm making now. 3 jobs paid the same; 2 were 5% lower; 1 was 10% lower.
- None of the 6 jobs gave me a 2nd interview, even the one where I was a 2nd interview finalist 7 years ago for an identical position.
Iâm still doing fine, as I donât hate the job I have now and it still has about another year or so of funding.
Now, Iâm not even saying that I was obviously the best candidate for these positions. Itâs certainly possible that I wasnât.
But if they had the luxury not to offer me the position, then by definition none of these positions were hard to fill, so I kinda want to just take everyone who is saying stuff like âitâs so hard to find peopleâ or âno one wants to workâ or even âlabor shortageâ and punch them in the dick.
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Iâm pretty much convinced that every position thatâs âhard to fillâ falls into at least 1 of 4 categories:
- The pay sucks
- The hours are too erratic or infrequent
- The working conditions are shitty
- There are governmental licensure requirements (teacher, bus driver, nurse, etc).
If you go 0 for 4 on that list, finding an employee seems to fall between âeasyâ and âreally fucking easyâ. Even if you go 1 for 4, it probably falls to between ânot that hardâ and âpretty easyâ unless the one part is egregious.
Iâve had a bit of the same luck. Iâm not actively looking for a job, but a job came across my email where if I could write a job description using my skillset, I would have written this. It was basically a system admin job with a focus on physical security (access control/cameras). I just got done with 7 years as an IT manager and physical security designer and project manager. Itâs a perfect fit, and a rare skillset that there wonât be many qualified cadidates.
Result? Crickets. And itâs a state agency, and I work for the state. So extra painful to not get a call for interview.
This. White collar competition is actually still quite high right now. Businesses complaining about not being able to find people are not offering desk jobs
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Often the initial screening function is done by some idiot in HR with no idea whatâs actually required, or even worse by a resume sorting bot. It is infuriating.
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Youâre not just competing against other applicants, I think equally tough is convincing the employer that youâre so awesome that hiring you is better than leaving the position unfilled. The recent phenomenon of ânot settlingâ isnât just jobseekers, itâs everyone.,
I donât doubt that these are problems, but they arenât what Iâve experienced. Iâve gotten interviews for 5/6 applications and they are definitely filling the positions, just not with me.
I guess what Iâm saying is, even if you can escape this bullshit, itâs still a goddamn nightmare out there.
Youâre in academia, right? (Apologies if Iâve got you confused with someone else.) I vaguely remember hearing a few years ago that a lot of academic positions were getting filled by overqualified people because the market was so tough. Is that still the case? Am I completely misremembering everything (high likely)?
Yes. I work in a biochemistry research lab.
It must be. Either that I live in bizarro world here. I know one of the positions I applied for was filled by a PhD, even though it only required a bachelorâs degree.