I’m getting just about fed up with this Loch ness monster of a modern job market.
Before I explain, a video in way of exposition;
Most of you are within the age range of me to remember the show and remember the bit, but it’s one of my favorite.
Anyway so this last job that still hasn’t generated me a single dollar of income has cost me over $700. My wife and I are pretty pissed off about it. The company may have been somewhat respectable, but I wasted at least a month trying to make it happen all for a big fat nothing.
I really feel like I’m living in the middle of this Southpark bit. Especially because I had come up with a new way to make money, substitute teaching. Imagine my surprise when the first thing they ask for when they get back to me; “$60”
It was about that time I noticed that they were the loch ness monster!
It was a staffing agency actually, supposedly. However we can’t be sure it wasn’t the loch ness monster.
I called my dad and said you can bet your boots they’re going to ask me to buy school supplies and all sorts of other stuff and sooner or later I’ll be $700 under with this company too. I’m sick of it. I hate this economy. I want out. I don’t think I’ve felt this depressed in a long time.
Stupid loch ness monster. I hate it. I HATE IT!!! Then you give them $700 and they don’t have any work for you, it’s a massive scam, companies can’t make moneys from customers anymore, they just scam would be employees. Ripping off relatives……. that’s this economy, an economy of conning well meaning relatives.
I mean you don’t give it directly to them, but they’ve got to be getting the back end of all this somehow, it makes no sense to me how they can’t pay for their own shit. Used to be companies covered their own shit. It didn’t used to cost $1000 to get a job. It’s going to get worse too, because I know how much it actually costs, about $100,000k supposedly which most companies are willing to flush away for whatever reason, still baffles me.
So look forward to that, having to get a loan to get a job…. that’s the future these loch ness monsters want. Nationalize them all I say. Why is a private company hiring the substitutes, that’s what I want to know. Shouldn’t the schools be doing that? Oh of course not, that would be sensible.
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I need a 2nd job to make enough to not tread water anymore, but the market is so fucked, idk what to do.
I’m struggling just to hold down the first job and retain my dignity. In the end if the choice is between my health and the job, I’ll take my health, and I can figure out how to eat and have a place to live. Heck, I can even figure out the rest.
I’m in a very advantaged position, I’ll admit. But I won’t be taken advantage of anymore. Overcoming my low self esteem has been a hard battle. That’s what these jobs want us to think, that we owe them something, and we don’t.
I got a lead on a job with a non profit that I actually know their parent organization, and that organization is honest enough. I’m hoping that will pan out. I also have a job coach. So the job hunt isn’t entirely dead. It’s just struggling hard.
I’ve been waiting six months to get a radio into my truck and now I have to put two A/C services into both of our vehicles. I also want to replace the rear window on my truck, I’ve been waiting a decade on that. Body work needs done on both vehicles, plus lots of work around the house needs doing. There just isn’t money in the budget because these jobs don’t pay out.
I’m not lazy, they’re fucking greedy and stupid.
hey man, I just wish you the best of luck with that. At least you have something to fall back on, I feel like one little mishap and I’m screwed….
I just don’t like how much it comes down to just living to work lately.
I have a stable enough job, I should be able to afford to live by myself and provide for myself but I can’t. I have to figure out extra income, which means less free time for other pursuits, but more money to not tread water.
But if I continue the way I am now, I have a fair bit of free time to do other things relatively speaking, but I’m too broke to do any of the things to really further myself along proper. It’s a catch 22. It’s bullshit tbh.
I used to be on the top of the world and made good money and worked hard. I was a Quality Control/Operations manager and made the company millions and after 10 years was thrown out. Went to work for one of the biggest tech companies with a 2 year contract and they let me go 16 months into it due to C19 ha ha. I have applied for at least a 1000 jobs since and nata. Im surviving on savings and SS and I am going under. It seems I am now worthless cause I used to make too much money. Its like one day I woke up and it was a different dystopian hellscape of a world. I really just want to die. To make matters worse my 30 year old son recently killed himself on Fentanyl. Its like they want us dead now. Seriously what else could it be? They want slaves and the rest of us dead. America is not even close to being a free country and not sure it ever was. I despise everyday I wake up to this shitty world.
it’s all by design. our corporate overlords want us living in servitude to them. no freedom, no money, only to work for them for a pittance. they’re cheap and greedy and don’t give a damn about us. we are literally just peons/cannon fodder to them.
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
? George Carlin
And no, America was never a free country. Never was.