The Job Search Woes Thread
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Appearing in the esteemed business journal. . .
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Silent Majority
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Got offered a zero hours contract, which I'll keep in my back pocket in case I ever need to starve to death.
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I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
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Man, fuck every single online submission ever. Why do I even bother to make a resume?revbob wrote:I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
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Yeah and then they also want you to upload your resume in addition to the fucking online form.Wolter wrote:Man, fuck every single online submission ever. Why do I even bother to make a resume?revbob wrote:I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
I've had several people from the same company call me over the past several weeks and ask me the same shit then say I'll be getting an offer. The next week it starts all over again.
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My head would have exploded. Things would have been thrown at the wall.revbob wrote:I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
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I was just wondering the same thing. Next time they ask for a resume, I'll just fill out the application instead.Wolter wrote:Man, fuck every single online submission ever. Why do I even bother to make a resume?revbob wrote:I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
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I've put my CV, as we in the UK call a resume, into the most copy and pastable format to answer their dumb redundancies.Mimi wrote:I was just wondering the same thing. Next time they ask for a resume, I'll just fill out the application instead.Wolter wrote:Man, fuck every single online submission ever. Why do I even bother to make a resume?revbob wrote:I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
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This form would not allow pastingSilent Majority wrote:I've put my CV, as we in the UK call a resume, into the most copy and pastable format to answer their dumb redundancies.Mimi wrote:I was just wondering the same thing. Next time they ask for a resume, I'll just fill out the application instead.Wolter wrote:Man, fuck every single online submission ever. Why do I even bother to make a resume?revbob wrote:I spent a good portion of the evening filling out this stupid online application that was in pdf format but I couldn't paste anything into it so I'm typing g endless amounts of shit and checking dates and what not for accuracy. I thought I was being smart when I saved it locally in case there was a problem. Well browser crashed and the file I saved was empty. Two hours or so wasted.
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I'm really happy to say I got a job in my new city, in a great looking organisation looking after people with learning difficulties. I'm over the moon.
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Awesome man.Silent Majority wrote:I'm really happy to say I got a job in my new city, in a great looking organisation looking after people with learning difficulties. I'm over the moon.
(I've been starting to research touristy shit to do in your new town- looks like there's some fun stuff. )
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Thank you mate.Flex wrote:Awesome man.Silent Majority wrote:I'm really happy to say I got a job in my new city, in a great looking organisation looking after people with learning difficulties. I'm over the moon.
(I've been starting to research touristy shit to do in your new town- looks like there's some fun stuff. )
It'd be like us marching round London, only instead of being me full of interesting tidbits after a lifetime's reading, I'll point and things and go: "I think it was a factory once? It looks like one."
Shit - we're closing in on a year since we hung out round desolate East Croydon Station.
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Nice! It sounds like a very worthy organization. Wonderful news! Where did you move, btw?Silent Majority wrote:I'm really happy to say I got a job in my new city, in a great looking organisation looking after people with learning difficulties. I'm over the moon.
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Congrats, James!
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Thanks a lot mate. I've got a nice few guilt free weeks off before I can start as well, which is just ideal.Mimi wrote:Congrats, James!
About two hours north, to Birmingham. I have a house now, which I never ever could have afforded to rent in London. Two bedrooms upstairs. I - no exaggeration - couldn't afford a room in a shared flat for what this lovely nineteenth century house with a garden costs me. I was spending £700 to share with some terrible people in the capital and I'm now spending £550 to have all this space to myself. Heaven.JennyB wrote:Nice! It sounds like a very worthy organization. Wonderful news! Where did you move, btw?Silent Majority wrote:I'm really happy to say I got a job in my new city, in a great looking organisation looking after people with learning difficulties. I'm over the moon.