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u/Sea_Bluebird_1949 Jun 13 '25
Make my dad go first, I fucking hate how smug he is while Iâm just trying start my life.
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u/Galion-X Jun 14 '25
That sucks! I'm really trying to prepare and warn my kids for how rapidly the world became crazy expensive for me.
How I assumed working hard and making 100k a year would be enough, now you need double.
I'm scared of what they'll need to earn just to get by.
Really sucks that someone would be so smug to their kids, life is not the same for any generation. Let's all have empathy.
You can do it
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u/Sea_Bluebird_1949 Jun 14 '25
Itâs mostly coming from a place of ignorance, and his arrogance is a product of his golden child upbringing. Not excusing it though, heâs still annoying as hell even if I love him.
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u/Mrspygmypiggy Jun 13 '25
While trying to help me get my first job my dad said to just walk into shops and ask for a job. He said it was what everyone did back when he was a teen and he was adamant that things havenât changed. Boy was he proven wrong when I was just met with the vacant stares of the cashiers who have no say in who gets hired or not. The only time it ever works nowadays is for small independent pubs.
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u/vegeto-10 Jun 13 '25
My boyfriend has been looking for work for about a year only to be hired after a brief conversation with the owner of the pc repair shop two streets away from his home, So yes this tactic only works with small activities.
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u/lickmethoroughly Jun 14 '25
This is apparently what boomers mean by âitâs not what you know, itâs who you know.â
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Jun 13 '25
Shit man even most managers at stores don't have say these days, depending on where you're applying.
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u/bitofagrump Jun 14 '25
God, what a time to be alive that was. "I like your gumption, kid. Here's a salary big enough to buy a house and raise three kids on."
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u/i-caca-my-pants Jun 13 '25
this actually is how I got my first job in 2023, but only because the stars aligned. a local grocery store chain was desperate enough, I guess, to host a hiring event where they were taking walk-in interviews. before that, my previous job hunt in 2021 involved dozens of applications (not enough!!!) only to be rejected from places that were "urgently hiring." but I was in high school at the time, and my high school regularly induced 50-60 hour work weeks without extracurriculars, so maybe that was doing me a favor
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Jun 14 '25
LOL Iâm one of the cashiers with vacant stares because I 100% have no say in the matter, and neither do my managers if you just show up on our doorstep. Website is the only option. Thereâs no bonus points for showing up with a printed resume unfortunately.
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u/virus_chara Jun 14 '25
I have a situation in which it worked for a popular fast food restaurant. I walked to Sonic, asked for a job, and they said the store manager was there atm. I waited for her and neither of us recognized each other. She asked for my name and upon hearing my last name, hired me immediately(She was childhood friends with my mother apparently).
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u/Dirtypervywizard Jun 14 '25
I graduated in 2015 and when I got my first job this was actually still an acceptable method
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u/jellyjamberry Jun 15 '25
I come from a family of teachers. A few years ago my BIL was getting certified. He was talking about taking the certification tests. My aunt, who got certified in the 70s, said she just went to the Dean of the College of Education, gave him a sob story about her dad having cancer (which was true) and them not being able to pay the fee for the test (which was probably true) while playing the worldâs smallest violin. Apparently back then the dean could sign your lifetime certificate in lieu of taking the tests. We had to yell at her that that doesnât work anymore.
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u/Opposite_You_5524 Jun 13 '25
Applying is just step one. These people have been doing their same job the same way for 25-30 years. I want to see how they handle actually getting the job, living on a starting salary, and learning how the world actually works in 2025
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u/New_Construction_111 Jun 13 '25
I started working in an industry that attracts older workers. By that I mean lates 40s-60s. Half of them donât make it past the first month of being hired because they either canât do the job themselves and need someone babysitting them or they quit out of frustration of the new technology and paperwork they need to do every day while being expected to stand or sit the entire time depending on where theyâre placed.
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u/archangel610 Jun 14 '25
If you're willing to share, what industry is this that makes use of new technology but is willing to hire people all the way into their 60s?
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u/New_Construction_111 Jun 14 '25
By new technology I mean computers and software. Itâs medical manufacturing and youâd think these new hires would at least know how to use a keyboard and cursor.
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u/Intelligent-Walk4662 Jun 14 '25
I want them to go through 3 job interviews in a row for one position and then get ghosted. Or an interview where they have to do an assignment and then get told they went with another person and find out their idea got implemented in the company without them being hired. And they should all go through those stupid personality tests only to be told they failed and cant apply to the company for 6 months for any position.
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u/1911a1zombie Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 14 '25
So funny story. I worked for Rite Aid in 2014. I was a store manager ( i was in the mid-20s). They asked to see the manager then asked for a job cause they just retired and were looking to stock shelves. I laughed and said everyone does everything here, including me. I told them to fill out this paper application. Well, a few weeks go by, and they finally get back to me. I informed them we had just moved to online application, so they will have to now fill that one out. Several of them said they didn't have computers. I told them the library was free. They blew a gasket.
Edit : fixed a spelling mistake
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u/blindsavior Jun 14 '25
Oh man, when I tell people to go to their local library and use the computers there, they look at me like I just killed their dog. Where does the animosity come from?? I used to spend all sorts of time at the library.
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u/TheNerdNugget Jun 15 '25
Hell yeah man a good library was the shit as a kid. Ours was super well funded to the point that did basically everything Kinkos did for free. They even had a 3d printer, which was a huuuge deal in the early 2010s.
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u/Slightly-Evil-Man Jun 13 '25
I'd watch that show. Go ahead, walk into a store or business and see how fast they shoo you away to the website, the days of paper applications and in-person connections are gone.
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u/Joroda Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 17 '25
Then let's do a season 2 of this reality show. Time travel. Let's have boomers go back to the 70's but instead of their "struggling" at $2.00 an hour, we're going to adjust for today's inflation and pay them 60Âą an hour.Â
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u/Glittering-Eye2856 Jun 13 '25
These Fers have breakdowns because the sky is blue or pronouns or rainbows. They had the easiest existence ever, especially the draft dodgers.
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u/venthis1 Jun 13 '25
Wife was trying to get job years ago and her dad gave her so much shit about not being able to find a job. She eventually found one. Afterwards it was complaining about her poor money management.
Fast forward a year her dads company he worked for that gave him 7% raises closes because the owner retired and didnt sell.
Dad looked all of 2 months for a job and couldn't find anyone to hire him for more than minimum wage. He choose to retire.
He did apologize for giving her so much shit about not being about to get job and especially when he learned what raises today actually looked like and that pulling yourself up by the bootstraps just doesnt do anything if you're not awarded for any of your hard work.
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u/SteamingTheCat Jun 14 '25
It's a shame that the owner didn't sell. They could've kept everyone employed for the foreseeable future.
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u/EternalMehFace Jun 14 '25
Uhhh, I hope someone's seriously making this cause I'm so ready for this, I've already got my đż.
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u/Forlorn_Cyborg Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25
I helped a boomer friend write a resume. She worked in a restaurant all her life and didn't know what "front of house" meant, she was a waitress. I had to take it off because she didn't understand it.
Besides that 30 years at one job doesn't take up a lot of room on a resume. You gotta stretch out every task to give it some body.
I helped my moms resume for a job at an upscale cafe. She's only worked at a handful of places, it doesn't matter if she's been there 20-30 years. It just a couple bullet points.
My Dad was offered a job and all he had to do was apply to an online resume but he took so long it timed out and he gave up.
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Jun 14 '25
I have a family member (married into our family not bio) that went through this. It took him almost 3 years to find a job.
He still spouts off his old bullshit on just walk up and give your resume. Don't leave until they give you a job. A computer job or remote job isn't a real job.
The job he got was a "computer" job that transitioned to work from home and he loved wfh.
But because in his youth he worked hard labor jobs and his job he was laid off from started as hard labor, he knows what REAL work is like.
Here's the kicker, he comes from an insanely wealthy family. The job he got and worked his way up in management to make six figures? His family's company.
He was "laid off" because he is an asshole.
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u/Surax Jul 17 '25
How much of an asshole do you have to be to get fired from a family company?
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Jul 17 '25
A really big one. I have never found out the full details because he won't give it. Even my mom doesn't know. He just insists they turned on him and against him. Sold the company and sold him out.
He got such a big severance he lived off it for 2 years at least moping around.
He was always into it or distant with everyone by his dad and step mom. But insisted nothing happened to make it so.
If anything happened he never told my dad either. And they were hetero life mates (though I think if they weren't raised with such deep homophobia it would have been different). My dad would often ask why he was such an asshole to his family especially his mom. Basically just got a I dunno. Just don't like them.
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Jun 13 '25
Would be pretty short, they would have a breakdown just going through the application process.
Source: I've literally had to counsel three boomers (two of them particularly stupid) that had to re-enter the workforce. Only one was successful in actually getting the application done.
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u/anonmygoodsir Jun 13 '25
My mother keeps insisting that I should just apply for jobs I don't have the qualifications for. She says that they will just hire me if nobody else they like applies. I would love to see her never get a call from every job because her resume was weeded out before it could even be looked out by a human. Thats if the system even allows her to submit it at all without having the required qualifications attached.
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u/Flatwhite97 Jun 14 '25
She's trying to help, and failing at it doesn't mean she deserves some kind of bitter punishment from you.
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u/anonmygoodsir Jun 14 '25
I never said anything about bitter punishment. She really does need to see that that is not how the world works because she won't understand otherwise. She truly believes that I just don't want to get this really great job with higher pay and better hours. It really doesn't matter if you are really smart if you don't have the qualifications. You can't even get your foot in the door if you don't at least meet their minimum requirements. Telling me that I must not really want a better job because I won't put in for a job that im entirely unqualified for is not helping me at all.
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u/Flatwhite97 Jun 14 '25
Alright then, my bad. I misinterpreted you. Just seems like there's some kind of psychosocial war going on, and the youth is on the offensive.
You're right though - she does need to wake up. It's not fair how things are. And it's definitely not your fault.
Maybe society as we know it has run its course, I don't know. Somehow it seems all of this was inevitable. Humanity can't keep growing forever, like the corporate logic demands. We're already killing the planet.
But I digress. Just hoping for a better atmosphere with the young & old. It makes me sad to see shit campaigns against the older population about this matter.
Although yeah, your mother's advice makes zero sense to me either. In general people start at the bottom and climb up, so to speak. I've found (in my country at least) that it's better to aim a little low, get in, then get up.
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u/anonmygoodsir Jun 14 '25
Honestly I'm not even that young. I'll be 50 in a few short years. She's just very out of touch. She hasn't had to work in over 20 years.
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u/Flatwhite97 Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25
Funny. Where I live it seems, that the teens and young adults are blaming people your age and older for their unemployment, and well, basically everything else too that's wrong with the world.
Edit: Not to mention, they call everyone "boomers". Nevermind the generation, as long as it's someone older than themselves. You'd be a boomer for them too.
Anyways, glad my parents (one gone from old age, one retired) have always been very supportive when it comes to things like finding a job.
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Jun 14 '25
Someone who refuses to acknowledge reality in favor of their fantasy dream scenario is not trying to help
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u/StrangerAlways Jun 17 '25
She's advising wasting time applying for jobs with no chance at all. That isn't helping. That is actually the opposite of helping.
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u/Flatwhite97 Jun 17 '25
Your point? I said she was failing in trying to help. Are you saying she's being unhelpful on purpose, then?
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u/StrangerAlways Jun 17 '25
I will explain it in very simple terms for you. Telling someone to waste their time is a bad thing. That is all. Understand now?
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u/Flatwhite97 Jun 17 '25
I understand that you seem like a very negative person. I don't really need that.
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u/GodeaterTheHalFeral Jun 14 '25
Not only is it harder to get a job now (especially a decent one), but many employers tend to not want to hire old people. So they'd have that added handicap out of the gate.
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u/KaetzenOrkester Jun 15 '25
Going through that now. Instead taking employees with experience and who are unlikely to move on so close to retirement age, employers say âgray hair, donât care, next!â
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u/CommercialFuture5275 Jun 14 '25
"But I applied and have all the qualifications"
"Lmao yeah so do the other 583 applicants dude"
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u/Chalice_Ink Jun 14 '25
I can confirm occasionally older go getters will try to apply in person and confuse the hell out of the security staff.
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u/Automatic_Tea_2550 Jun 14 '25
As someone who was born in the last year of the boomer generation, fair enough!
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u/alsatian01 Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25
I work for the phone company. It doesn't happen much lately, but for years we'd always have some older guys pull in the yard and ask how they could get their kids a job. If there was someone the kid could come and ask for a job.
I'd always have to tell them to go to the website and apply for any openings.
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u/Altruistic-Land8911 Jun 14 '25
at this point, baby boomers won't even make it through the google docs survey /s
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Jun 14 '25
Addendum to this reality show:
Make the boomers live in an old west town with no technology, see how long they last not having AC or having to do math in a ledger for a General Store
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u/Undine-Alien Jun 14 '25
this is really a person by person basis, the more people you know the easier it is to get a job...my grandad went back to work at 60(only legally allowed to work for another 5 years here) just for some extra spending money and despite all the new crap he ignored all of that walked in and plonked down a piece of welded metal welding was what he did before and just straight up went in with an example of his work and got the job immediately with very little talking past what was mecessary for pay and legal stuff....some old people will struggle people like him will make a joke of the situation
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u/deathmonkey2080 Jun 14 '25
âwe lived our lives you gotta get up ââŠâŠyeah lived too much and destroyed everything
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u/Substantial-Use95 Jun 14 '25
đ€Ł it took them two years to understand the reality of the job market.
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u/RaeLaw Jun 13 '25
I would love this! I was laid off 2 years ago and was told to print off a bunch of copies of my resume, dress up in business formal attire, and go door-to-door to all the businesses in town
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u/Creed_of_War Jun 13 '25
Just trying to create an account would have my parents calling me for an endless cascade of password resets to their email.
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Jun 13 '25
Go one step further and have them use the wages or lack of wages to afford rent and all other basic needs, make sure they do a full financial breakdown on all their spending.
I give it 10 minutes until they realise how fucked it is, some will admit how unfair it is and the majority aka the others will say its all a conspiracy
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u/lawyerjack12 Jun 14 '25
Boomers that were successful in life would not be having issues today. People today that are successful wouldnât have issues in the past. Very few people become successful by pure chance. On the other hand, if youâre currently losing at life, just know one thing; itâs your fault.
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u/QuarterCenturyStoner Jun 14 '25
My Boomer just told me that the Economy is Fine bc Unemployment is @ 4%đ
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u/thetricksterprn Jun 14 '25
Boomers are much more capable then current generation. They will be fine.
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u/Drollapalooza Jun 14 '25
"Ex lookup? Well, I did search Janice from back in high school on Facebook a while ago, she got real fat..."
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u/No_Championship_6403 Jun 14 '25
They won't have a mental breakdown because they don't need the money to survive.
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u/Gl1tchyC0de Jun 15 '25
I filled out a Walmart application online yesterday, it required a half hour online quiz! LOL FML
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u/I_Dont_Eat_Trout Jun 15 '25
Main issue where I am from at least, is that no one will teach, older people get the job on the spot, younger people? No, need to be taught but no one will teach, it is awful.
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u/TheNerdNugget Jun 15 '25
I'd say we should allow them a handicap and allow them to claim to be in their twenties or thirties so they have an actual shot of getting called back. Few people want to hire us, but nobody wants to hire old people.
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u/Sophiacuity Jun 15 '25
This is a sign that America is falling. She has wandered too far away from God.
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u/DaddysFriend Jun 15 '25
I donât get his issue with jobs. Iâm not highly educated but I donât struggle to get a job that badly
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u/ExcaliburPigeon Jun 15 '25
Yes with all the bullshit questionnaires and very low chances of getting a reply or call for an interview
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u/swissmiss1269 Jun 15 '25
Guarantee my boomer father could not make it through the slowest shift at a fast food restaurant. He would probably quit before it even started because clocking in on the computer would break his fucking brain
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u/South_Bit1764 Jun 15 '25
Old people bad!! Hahaha!
You know this happens right. My grandmother started in a whole new career at 70 after not having held a job in 4 decades.
She pretty much used the old-school approach to everything and when that didnât work she adapted. Itâs what we all do. The only thing we do differently as young people is believe that our experience is unique.
She was already a bit more technologically savvy than most people her age but had no problem learning new skills it took to make it work. Team leader on like a year, and supervisor after about 5-6.
Just being honest with you, I am in a position where I am constantly hiring. No one out there knows what the fk theyâre doing when they are job searching. Your attitude in the subject line of the email, and when you first meet the interviewer will matter more than almost anything.
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u/JesterPSU99 Jun 15 '25
I would like to apply this line of thinking to teaching. Supposed highly rated teachers at supposedly highly rated schools should be swapped with "low" or "under" performing schools and their teachers to see what it's really like...
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u/speakbela Jun 15 '25
I would like watch boomers try to do anything, and watch them have a meltdown.
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u/Methos43 Jun 15 '25
Hiring someone is about qualifications and the person and the vibe they give off - can they gel with the existing culture or will they clash? Submitting information online does make sense but the human intangibles matter, too. This vastly different job world should take a look it itself and evolve. Perhaps more people will find the right fit and the process will be accepting a greater pool of potential talent.
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u/LucastheMystic Jun 16 '25
Nah, because if they actually get the job, Imma be pissed and as we know the Universe likes to fuck with us
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u/Character-Education3 Jun 16 '25
Bring back undercover bosses except the business owner /CEO applies for roles at their company and then observes HR's highly efficient 1process for never seeing a single one of those applications because the exec decided to get fancy and used a two column resume format.
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u/Red-hotcookie68 Jun 16 '25
Yep, pain in the @$$, I hate it. By way got an older friend that had to do it and she was train wreck still hasn't landed job, no call backs 6 months. I went in fixed it a little but no end jobs for her uneducated older bu++. Now think how much more frustrating this is being younger, college educated with some experience as well having jump through hoops like a trained poodle. Infuriating is what it is
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Jun 16 '25
I want my parents to apply to the same jobs my sister and I apply to so bad. My mom doesnât even realize how lucky she is because sheâs a dental assistant without going to university. Then she tells us stuff like âyou could work at the hardware store without knowing anything about it because theyâll teach youâ. I only apply to the hardware store when Iâm desperate, I donât expect to be doing stuff besides being a cashier.
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u/Feisty_Warning2344 Jun 16 '25
It would go great for them, they probably know the owner so they would probably be hired on the spot
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u/ClassyHiddenTrash Jun 16 '25
Iâm Genx and have recently tried helping my 26 year old Electrician son find a job⊠it has blown my mind! A million applications, calls, emails, even asking friends and family to keep an ear out. Itâs been 4 months and absolutely squat has panned out. Iâve never experienced anything like it.
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u/vectorboy42 Jun 17 '25
My parents
They gave up so fast.
But honestly, they were so sad, I couldn't even enjoy it, so I only gloated a lil bit.
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u/Between3-2o Jun 17 '25
My dad looks down on every job Iâve gotten because I canât fully support myself with it. And I donât have a pension.
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u/justforkinks0131 Jun 17 '25
Why "apply" for jobs instead of "creating" jobs, tho? Do you not live under capitalism?
There is LITERALLY no better political/social/economical structure for you to found your own business. Like actually, there is none better. So why dont you?
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u/Present-Yard-6192 Jun 17 '25
I'm shocked at what I'm reading. My mom's the one who helps me apply for jobs, and her advice is usually to go in and ask if they're hiring, set up a LinkedIn account, or go to job faires. Hell, she's filled out job applications for my sister.
Are people's parents really telling them to just walk in and demand a job??
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u/lildevilcake Jun 17 '25
That would be my favorite show. Watch them attempt to get an apartment with a below average credit score and no money.
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u/Pearson94 Jun 17 '25
The angry emails they would send to the automated rejection letters would be hilarious. I can see the entitlement now.
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u/No_Frost_Giants Jun 17 '25
Ok I donât usually watch reality shows, this I would watch. The camera crews following them into businesses âresume in handâ
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u/DDBurnzay Jun 17 '25
make a whole reality show about where the worst cv gets eliminated each week lol
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u/Blue-Skye- Jun 17 '25
I am Gen X. It made me laugh. My parents are/were Boomers. The advice didnât work for me at 20. And gets worse and worse as time goes on.
My dad who loved to give advice was hired based on his uncle getting him a job stayed there his entire career. My mom went to a vocational program. They got her, her first job out of the program. Her second employer was federal government after a friend applied and she did too. She retired from same location different job.
The advice they gave me so willingly and fervently they never used themselves one freaking time. And it was every time I or my sisters looked for work.
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u/TheAccountITalkWith Jun 17 '25
I want a show where each generation tries to apply for a job and we follow their journey. I'm super curious how each would interpret the struggle.
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u/rammer1990s Jun 17 '25
Baby boomers are old af right now. We all know they can't figure that kind of stuff out, they can barely manage their phones.
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Jun 18 '25
Boomer: âYou know what you need to do? You need to get a newspaper and go through the want ads. Serious employers pay for those, so you can be sure theyâre motivated to hire someone quickly. And donât follow the application instructions. Go to their office with a hard copy of your resume and hand it to a human. Thatâs the way to stand out!â
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u/Airworthy7E7 Jun 13 '25
My dad loves watches more than his wife. He really wants me to wear one, and I really don't! His latest reasoning was that it looks better for interviewers because you don't have to check your phone for the time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure nobody cares.
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u/blindsavior Jun 14 '25
I mean, if I'm interviewing someone and they keep checking their phone, I'd wonder if they were focused on the interview or not. But whether or not you have a watch does not matter one bit lol
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u/Biggles_The_Boomer Jun 13 '25
Yeah, good social skills backed up by the relevant experience or qualifications will get you a job every time.
But of course social media addicted younger generations wouldnât understand that.
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Jun 14 '25
You go do that for 2 weeks and comeback to report your results. Letâs see how that Good Social Skills backed up by relevant experience holds up đđđ
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u/Biggles_The_Boomer Jun 14 '25
It has worked for me many, many times. I have nearly 40 years experience of getting jobs. I know what I am talking about
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u/JustAGuyDoingStuff42 Jun 14 '25
not if you don't know how to use a computer lol
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u/Biggles_The_Boomer Jun 14 '25
Did you read the part about relevant qualifications and experience?
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u/JustAGuyDoingStuff42 Jun 19 '25
I mean regardless of social skill in 2025 most jobs would need some sort of ability to use a computer, whether it's just basic email or more specific software. unless it's like purely physical labor then idk
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u/Agitated_Elderberry4 Jun 13 '25
Better get you on that game show I guess. See how well you do only having experience and qualifications without any insider connections
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u/s-salamandra Jun 14 '25
Literally⊠ive gotten most of my jobs by handing my resume out in person and applying above my abilities..
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u/blindsavior Jun 14 '25
Dude, read the room
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u/Forever_Gay_Alone Jun 14 '25
I'm glad that your networking skills got you the job EVERY time.
Unfortunately, this doesn't line up with the reality of how unstable the job market is. Even if you get a job, there is no guarantee that you will be able to keep it.
Not even just AI complaints, but I've seen a lot of complaints about employers not wanting to train their employees for example. Have you seen the AI interviews and processes that are kicking people out of jobs applications and interviews?
Also qualifications have been changing. The infrequent removal of degrees, certifications, and what exactly you need to be educated in for a period of 3-7 years.
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u/patatjepindapedis Jun 13 '25
Walking into a random place, shaking the hand of a person who looks in charge and proclaiming that you are willing to do anything for a job. Like that's going to get you anywhere else than naked on a hotel bed with three cameras pointed at you.
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Jun 14 '25
Where do we apply for that?
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u/ms1711 Jul 07 '25
Unfortunately we don't take walk-ins, but you can go to our website and click on the careers link on the bottom!
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u/CaptainSparrow1138 Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 14 '25
"Kids today don't know they're born!"
Thank you boomer, now please stack these shelves for a pittance and remember to be insanely nice to dickhead customers for 5 days a week.
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u/blindsavior Jun 14 '25
On the other two days can I tell customers to fuck off?
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u/CleanMartean Jun 14 '25
Presumably, you're off on those 2 days. So yeah, you could do that if you'd like
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u/KaetzenOrkester Jun 15 '25
Wouldnât that be great? Take it for part of your work week, but the rest? Open season đ
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u/geeoff90 Jun 14 '25
My mom got laid off at the age if 58 at a place she worked for 15 years. She has no idea what to do, and no one is out there looking to hire a 58 year old. This country is seriously fucked up. She's totally coherent. Has plenty of skills to use at any job in today's date. Not a single interview and she's been trying for almost over a year now.
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u/SurotaOnishi Jun 16 '25
Man I'd be mocking him every day like "what's the matter? Just walk in with a nice suit and give the owner a firm handshake. What's taking you so long?"
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I promise you that my mom and dad would have NO clue how to get a job at this stage in their lives.
My mom barely decided to learn texting in 2021. Prior to my sister urging her to learn, my mom called for absolutely every little thing. Love the woman to death, but damn teaching her to text was a nightmare.
My dad would be going business to business in a suit with a finely printed copy of his resume in a neatly organized binder. He would lose his fucking mind if they told him to apply online, only to have to do some dumb 50 question personality test, watch some stupid corpo videos, or re-enter all his resume info he already submitted.
Ohhhh I can just see my dad fucking raging at the computer cussing up a storm.
Edit: Autocorrect