What REALLY grinds your gears?

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by Giantone

What is annoying to me is "Job Applications " on line! First I'm an old shit(63) and have been retired now for three years . I feel like getting back into the work force but now all applications are "on line" and demand resumes.
I have gotten every job I have ever interviewed for in person in my life.........everyone. I walk into place's and talk to people and they tell me all our hiring in done on line. Place's tell me they need people but I have to go through the "website". I'm not a Doctor or Lawyer I work in Distribution and warehousing .I was in one company talking to a lower level Manager and he asked about my resume...........I told him my age and that I retired from a job I have had for 31 years , that I had license's in all the equipment they use and that I had a degree he said ,..........you might be over qualified. WTF?

I hope I never have to look for a job again. At my current job I was hired w/o having to apply, as the person in charge worked at my former job.

The absolute worst is when you have to do multiple applications and you have to fill out the same shit over and over again. Fucking terrible.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

I hope I never have to look for a job again. At my current job I was hired w/o having to apply, as the person in charge worked at my former job.



The absolute worst is when you have to do multiple applications and you have to fill out the same shit over and over again. Fucking terrible.

The worst is when you have to submit your resume online and then you still have to go through and fill all your info in anyway.


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[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

The worst is when you have to submit your resume online and then you still have to go through and fill all your info in anyway.

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Ha, yeah, if that doesn't grind your gears, you don't have any gears.

[Buffalo Bob]

I have been self employed going on 25 years, last job I applied for I didn't know anyone that had internet. I am a machinist and back in the day the best way to quickly climb the pay scale and gain diversified skills was to job hop. I worked at 8 different shops in 15 years of working for the man.

What I hated the most was job applications where you had to print the name and address of a previous employer in a small box. Even if you had a resume you had to fill out their cookie cutter application. It was a pain in the ass to get all the info legibly in that small box and I knew from previous bosses some had a habit of tossing any application that had incomplete information. Many wanted the street suffixes, zip codes and phone numbers.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by MTK

The worst is when you have to submit your resume online and then you still have to go through and fill all your info in anyway.


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I had one recruiter ask me about my resume and it is pretty self explanatory so I explain my job and duties training and the fact that I was there for 31 years ,so she ask's what about before that?

Seriously, I work for one company for 31 years and she is interested in what I did before that ??? WTF!

[Buffalo Bob]

Spam phone calls and junk texts. I am about going to have to change a business cell phone number I have had for over 20 years. The texts are the strange ones, they aren't selling anything and say crap like "Come in for an interview Monir" then they have a link to a Yahoo news page. Between the junk calls and texts I get up to 20 a day. The junk calls are from multiple sources, the texts are all from the same place as they have the same stupid format. I conduct most business by e-mail and probably only have 10 active customers so changing the number won't cause a lot of grief. I don't do a lot of calling or texting maybe a couple of each daily so the spam crap is a big pain in the ass. All of it is from spoofed numbers that rarely repeat so blocking is pointless. Maybe being a business has made me a target.