The Job Search as Ritualistic Humiliation in Society

Has anything been written on this? First we grow up in school being told we can do anything if we set our mind to it. Then we actually get to the point to land a job. Hundreds of applications, hundreds of rejections. All our self-confidence, our belief in our own value, is destroyed. And then at the end the wagie is so thankful to not be starving and stinking and freezing in the street, that they except the 8-to-5 soul crushing grind of modernity.

  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Just keep sending those larp applications anon, i'm sure one will land eventually. Don't care if u get caught in a lie, smile because it happened and you learned something new.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I've learned not to bother updating my application.

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Sage

    >All our self-confidence, our belief in our own value, is destroyed.
    That's crazy, normally when I get rejected i just forget about it and try again

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      > That's crazy, normally when I get rejected i just forget about it and try again

      You do that hundreds and hundreds of times, spending hours establishing profiles, uploading resumes, cover letters, getting rejections, strings out for interviews so HR departments can conduct minimum numbers of interviews so they can hire the shitskin they’ve already got picked out, and it all just rolls off you like water, huh?
      Nice post, moshe

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I have applied to 163 jobs this year I received 2 calls and made it to a 3rd onsite interview and plant tour, have yet to receive any offers. I am chem engineer with 14 years experience and masters

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          masters in physics/math with engineering background here

          easily over a thousand applications submitted and I've had 2 interviews. it doesnt help that the companies also take like 2 months to do background checks.

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i dont see it as that personally, its more the workers/managers who treat the new people like shit
    my manager was two faced from day one, i could explain every detail about my warehouse job in 2 mins, why did it take me more than 2 weeks?
    the bitch didn't tell me all the small details i needed to know, then i got soo good at the job, they tried to plant a shank on me, so i left, narcissists are gonna burn this country.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      they were all black too

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    > Hundreds of applications, hundreds of rejections. All our self-confidence, our belief in our own value, is destroyed.

    Recently graduated, White and male, anon?

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >IM JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB SEARCHING

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I'm just
    I'm just not gonna do it (work)
    HAHAHAHAHAHA

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      based neet. So sick of these poors complaining about their cages

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The industrial revolution and its consequences etc...

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Just state that you are gay and you suck dick and take it up the ass and all the injustices in the world happen to you. They will make you the president of United States of America.

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Hundreds of applications, hundreds of rejections
    ha ha what?

    t. rajesh kunesh MD

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      memeflag checks out.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      > ha ha what?
      Yeah, that’s the experience White men have trying to get any kind of entry into many, many fields.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        sucks to be a white man then
        my wife is white though, alas nobody is perfect

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i wouldn't call it "humiliation ritual" since humiliation rituals, by definition, have to be public and visible. pic related is a prime example.

    but i do agree that there's an element of humiliation involved, especially when you have to write those stupid cover letters. it's just that it's not public facing, hence can't be called a "humiliation ritual"

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Tf you mean sitting in a room with 3 strangers isn't public? Being brought out like cattle to show off the new training bay, everybody clap. This shit is 100% public you dumb gorilla nagger.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        i wouldn't call it "humiliation ritual" since humiliation rituals, by definition, have to be public and visible. pic related is a prime example.

        but i do agree that there's an element of humiliation involved, especially when you have to write those stupid cover letters. it's just that it's not public facing, hence can't be called a "humiliation ritual"

        It's not in front of a crowd, but it's public by nature of being systematized.

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    how the fuck did boomers afford a wife, 3 children, 3 bedroom suburban house, car and retirement savings on a piece of shit mcjob???

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      When boomers began entering the workforce and came of age, the dollar was still backed by gold and silver. In 1972, the fiat dollar was introduced. Productivity of the American worker has only increased massively in the time since, while real wages have steadily eroded.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Productivity of the American worker has only increased
        Is there any real evidence of this? Technology has increased productivity by a huge proportion but I don't see anything suggesting that actual productive human output has increased. I'd be willing to wager that it has declined substantially

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      they lived in a relatively stable society where the economy worked for everyone.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >The Job Search as Ritualistic Humiliation in Soc
      I am already doing this on a piece of shit factory technician job. I don't know man, spend your money wiser. I'm only 30.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      New cars were $4000. They didn’t have to compete with spics for low wages. Wages compared to prices/inflation was nowhere as shitty.

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    basically yeah

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Yes exactly and I refuse to participate in this. It was upon realizing that and then seeing the results of covid that I decided to pursue entrepreneurship

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >I have decided to persue entrepreneurship.

      I too have thought about dealing crack.

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine trying to do anything other than sit on 4chin shitposting. Ngmi

  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    What kind of education do you have, or how autistic are you that this is a problem you are having?
    It took me literally no effort to get a job. I was still doing my BSc, asked a prof if i could do my final thesis with him. He gave me some lab work and a month later offered me a part time job. Things grew from there. But i have several other opportunities too, largest problem is deciding where to work.
    And it's not just me, of all the people i know, only one is having trouble getting a job, and that's because he's too picky, and won't take entry level jobs despite being fresh out of flimschool.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      what year did you start working

  17. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >First we grow up in school being told we can do anything if we set our mind to it.
    That's the problem
    >https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/danger-really-loving-your-job/620690/

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Just lie retard its not illegal and 3/4s of the time they dont do any followup

  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    You can counter it by simply not giving a fuck. I cant tell you how many jobs ive had. I just get bored and leave, sometimes getting a call with a raise offer to come back

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, same pretty much. ive been waging at an entertainment venue for about 5 months, busted my ass for no damn reason, never got so much as a thank you, always covered for people's shifts when they ask me, but when I want a day off to see my visiting family, nobody will throw me a bone. Part of me goes into panic "oh shit im super fucked mode" then I remember they don't actually own me and I can do whatever I want. I wasted 5 months earning very little money, my parents just want me to keep a job to save money while i apply for jobs relating to my degree, but so far I've only managed to save about $1500 (a month's rent) There are people living with their parents still living paycheck to paycheck. My back is against the wall and I might just start selling cars (The Rochefort Technique)

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Much of the problem is that highschool/college does not teach you how to write a cover letter/resume that appeals to software. I had the same problem you did early in life until I realized that you need to make your resume as easily parsable as possible with the right key words for software you rank you highly enough to get seen by human eyes.

    The advice and wisdom about how to apply to jobs is 10+ years behind the curb. IT replaced the software HR used in the 2010s and you are still using best practices from 2000.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Nice anime teeth homosexual

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      This is likely it. I have never had a difficult time finding a job.

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >you're not qualified for this entry level position due to lack of experience
    THEN HOW DO I GAIN EXPERIENCE
    I JUST SPENT 4 YEARS PAYING TO LEARN THIS SHIT YOU nagger

  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Then we actually get to the point to land a job. Hundreds of applications, hundreds of rejections. All our self-confidence, our belief in our own value, is destroyed.
    There is a solution to the problem: don't play their game.
    Now I recently got my degree and looking for a job in my field was a soul-crushing experience to say the least. Every time I looked at listing I felt completely worthless, because that's what the listings told me. I didn't have anything they wanted and no reasonable way to attain it. Writing an application felt like a complete waste of time and if I did the best I could hope for was an automated response. I was never going to make it, nobody wanted me and I was a complete failure in life.
    But I had to make money somehow. So I went back to a job I had years ago in elderly care. And you know what? I actually feel appreciated. Sure it doesn't pay well, and you have to do literal shit work at times, and it sure as hell doesn't impress the ladies. But the old people like me, they tell me they're happy when I'm the one that comes to visit them for a while, and that feels pretty good.

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's "accept" you retard.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      it's actually axe happed

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >When employers expect you to take a 100 question ~~*personality test*~~ for a sub $50k job
    >When employers expect you to take the jab for a remote job

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >apply to two different pizza delivery driver jobs
    >got accepted for both
    >take the better one
    >ignore everything my bosses tell me
    >tell my bosses to go fuck themselves because they need me more than I need them
    >make one manager homosexual quit ans go to another pizza place out of embarrassment
    >eventually get bored and quit

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Lmao it like that if u white. And u deserve it too.

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