• thatkomputerkat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    “The unemployment rate is low by historical standards…”

    What if I told you the unemployment rate is a bullshit number tracked by bullshit people with bullshit jobs?

    The only people counted as unemployed are those who both check in regularly with unemployment and either are actively looking for work or expecting to be rehired after layoffs.

    Even if you are looking for work, if you aren’t actively checking in with unemployment, you aren’t being counted. And who the fuck wastes time with reporting to unemployment when they have no unemployment benefits to claim because they either never had them or ran out of them?

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    10 hours ago

    One of the biggest issues I’ve noticed is that the process is broken. I’ve posted this before; but having to use a website to apply if not a cr’application and to have to take a psychological evaluation, that some stupid bloke made, just to get an interview is asinine.

    Then the expectation of blowing smoke up someone ass in an interview is ridiculous. Why do you want to work here? For the money dipshit, I could think of a million better things to do morons. Don’t get me started on anything tech or repair related; please *demonstrate your skills * fix this shit for free.

    Anything kind of work is just that, work.

    Also the rampant job scams are at an all time high. At this point, leave a voice mail. I won’t respond to texts, it’s a security liability.

    We really need to go back to using paper applications and faxes.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    Started listening to a YouTube channel on economics and this guy was straightforwardly taking the unemployment number at face value, not mentioning that the true unemployment rate might be significantly higher, including people who have given up looking for work.

    I think it might be a psyop.

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    23 hours ago

    Breaking news. No one has a job anymore. Anyway, pay us money to read about it.

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      1 day ago

      AI prompt: old style black briefcase on a blue background with white jizz sticking to the bottom like a lot of jizz more than one person could ejaculate I’m talking bukkake levels of jizz

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    1 day ago

    This is every oligarch’s wet dream: People accepting anything to do the job, and can’t quit either. The invisible shackles of Capitalism.