I need to have a rant about the state of the job market

[Lethn]

I'm sure you're all going through this or have been through it at some point, I actually believe now it is likely going to be easier for me to get an income independently in Bitcoin and I've calculated this than it is to get the most basic of jobs out there. I have shit grades, but I am not somebody at all who is afraid of doing some physical labour or hard work, in fact, I'd love to just get a part time cleaner job or something to earn some extra income while I work on my projects and mostly so my parents will get off my backs about 'not doing anything' despite the fact that I'm learning C# programming and trading any Bitcoin profit I make so far.

So when they tell me 'get a job' as if it's that easy I point out to them this kind of bullshit which is what the job search engines seem to be infested with now.

MONDAY TO FRIDAY EVENINGS ( 2 HOURS PER SHIFT 6:00PM TILL 8:00PM  )

DUTIES TO INCLUDE: HOOVERING, MOPPING, DAMP WIPING, EMPTYING BINS, CLEANING TOILETS & KITCHENS, ETC.

SUCCESSFULL APPLICANT MUST HAVE PREVIOUS CLEANING EXPERIENCE AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE CURRENT WORK REFERENCES.

Of course, naturally they're very dismissive and I wonder if anybody else has had this experience trying to explain it to the baby boomer generation in particular just how bad things are now? As for this fucking employer, what the fucking hell are they thinking trying to demand somebody bring along work reference for a fucking cleaning job? This isn't anything specialised mind you either, this is absoutely standard, I'm not an idiot trying to apply for something like an executive position without even a degree.

I actually reckon if I keep working at it I could even beat the wage their offering in Bitcoin and I've decided that will be my goal this year because they're only offering minimum wage anyway, I would have been happy with that though just as an extra side income. However even if I were the most perfect candidate with a fucking masters degree, I would not be able to get this job because they have put such utterly ridiculous requirements.

I've even looked at trainee positions by the way awhile back, just out of curiosity, these were for graduates and the like, first thing these idiotic employers demand is industry experience. They should know, nobody young is going to have that kind of experience and then people have the fucking gall to go and rant at us for not being able to find work.

By the way, that's an exact copy and paste of the job description and yes, they mispelled 'successful' fucks sake! -_-

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[UliJonHoth]

It is hell trying to find work, I've got several friends who lost corporate jobs several years ago and once the unemployment checks stopped coming were forced to start applying anywhere and after being turned down at minimum wage jobs due to having "too much experience", have basically given up. I know that when I moved back to Houston it was nearly impossible finding anything, during that time I broke-down and applied at fast food places it was so bad - to make matters worse, couldn't even get a phone call for an interview so I just went back to bouncing in the clubs. You'd think getting a job in construction would be easy here with all of the work constantly going on, but nope - unless you're an illegal or happen to know someone on the inside, but you never see whites or blacks working construction jobs here and this was exposed a while back but it is still going on:

He's talking about bribes. They call it "Mordida" in Mexico, the bite.

"This is actually just like in Mexico. It's not how much you know, it's who you know," Charles said.

For years, on nearly every major industrial construction site in Texas, workers have been quietly forced to pay the leaders of Mexican labor gangs hundreds of dollars up front just to obtain a job.

With each weekly pay-check, the kick backs from workers to gang leaders continue.

"It's not only how much you pay to go in. You pay anything from $50 to $70 a week while you are in the project," Charles insisted...

Over dozens of years and hundreds of sites across Texas, including the giant petrochemical complex in Port Arthur, he says Mexican construction cliques have muscled honest workers out of millions of dollars.

Money that's made gang bosses rich.

"Everybody knows. Yes, many people know that you have to belong to a clique in order to work. Mexicans exploiting Mexicans and contractors looking the other way," he said.

There's nothing casual about his allegations. Everything he's witnessed:

-- The "pay for play"
-- The graft
-- The enforced silence
-- And the corrupt complicity of contractors

It's all recorded in "Mexican Cliques in Construction", the book he paid thousands of his own hard-earned dollars to publish.

He has also brought his allegations and evidence to the FBI.

"Many people are victims. Many of my friends who are honest are victims," he insisted. "We are applying a system that didn't work in Mexico for hundreds years and actually it's working here in Houston, Texas."

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/09/21/corrupt-mexican-construction-gangs-steal-millions-in-texas/

I hear people all the time say "Well minimum wage jobs aren't meant for living on, they're meant for kids on summer break or someone in college - you get educated and get yourself a career." Well that may sound good, but if there are only a handful of jobs to be had and why are so many unemployed? Aside from that, these people are not considering the fact that the old saying holds true - "There will always be a need for ditch-diggers" - and that's just how it is, there are always going to be low-level, menial jobs that someone has to do - so you're telling me a ditch-digger or garbageman is aspiring to hold a corporate job somewhere down the road after getting an education? No, there are those that will always hold low-level jobs and there will always be a need for those jobs, the thing is here in Houston, you can't even get one of those if you wanted. The best thing one can do - and what I was lucky enough to do - is get hired-on by someone you know who has a business or someone on the inside that can get you hired-on. It is bad out there, I don't give a damn what the supposed government numbers say.

[Lethn]

Exactly, what dipshits are saying on the news and in government reports don't match up with reality, I'm glad I'm not the only one out there, I'd love to just have a standard job available to me so I could go out and earn some decent cash, I'm not being stupid and expecting several hundred thousand a year or any crap like that but I can't even get work that people bitch and moan about getting. It was hilarious actually, one time my mum made some comments about those Amazon employees who were complaining about 'only' getting minimum wage despite all the work they did with Amazon not paying taxes and I said straight to her face "If they're going to complain that much about it I'll take their job instead" or something along those lines.

Even what would have been regarded as the most basic of basic jobs don't seem to be available and it's a piss take there are grown adults parading around and telling the young they just need to go and get a job when they have absolutely no idea what it's like out there right now.

Sigh, I need to get my project finished so I can do something about my income and get people off my back lol, I'm surprised you can't get any work though if you're experience, but I guess it shows you what morons are running companies now that they think they can make these ridiculous requirements and still hire people.

[High Plains Drifter]

The U.S. economy and stock market is going to have a very bad 2016 (I tell you all this now so you can't say you weren't forewarned when it happens).  Get long gold and Bitcoin.

[Lethn]

I'm already buying what Bitcoin I can and trying to get an income from that, I find it a piss take though when people lecture me about getting a job without realising just how ridiculous it is to find one out there. I think the worst aspect of it are these dodgy as fuck 'recruitment' agencies, I signed up to one years ago when I was looking for a job and they got a couple of ones that typically required experience or something or other and then they never bothered calling again.

I seriously think it's not just hyperinflation but companies being so badly run that is part of the problem for our economies.

[Tongkar]

Why ask for references for such basic jobs?
If they are so paranoid about some criminal joining their company, they can go for background checks.
They are trying to pass responsibility to somebody else, by asking for references.

[Lethn]

I have no fucking clue, a lot of them do ask for ridiculous stuff like industry experience and it's one of those things where you know they're either never going to get employees or the employees they do get will have blatantly lied. I don't think it's about criminal checks, I think it's just about them trying to find a candidate which doesn't fucking exist.