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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Quiet hirings are a thing now too...

Companies are putting up postings for positions they don't have any intention of filling any time soon.

This way when they are ready to hire, they finally look at resumes and can start scheduling interviews ASAP. It's shifting all the wait time of the process to applicants.

Combine the two, and you end up with companies being able to maintain bare minimum staffing regardless of workload without having to ever pay severance packages.

It's actually really smart, as long as you don't have the tiniest shred of empathy and think of workers as machines and not people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really explaibs how I got an answer to my application 14 month later. But they were consulting work companies. So you were hired when they needed a consultant with your profile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I interviewed with one company I wanted to work at, but no answer after 2 months, so I interviewed elsewhere. That place had me start within a month. 6 months into working at my job, the first company said "ok, we are ready to schedule your start date". I took that as a sign that it probably wouldn't have been a great place to work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's capitalism.

It only works when the government backs citizens over companies. Because a public company is required to put profits over everything else.

So there needs to be regulations getting passed to keep blocking whatever new bullshit someone set up.

All it would take would be requiring companies to have a start/end date on applications and only be able to hire from applications received in that window.

It's already how the federal government does hirings. The government gets a lot of shit, but they've got one of the best unions around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also doesn't work in a tight labor market. This happened to me, I just laughed and blocked them, because in the 6 months it took them to get around to me I already had a better paying job with a competitor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So much of the whining that companies are doing these days boils down to assholes who took advantage after the 2008 recession and got used to abusing employees and potential employees as a normal way of doing business.

Now that the market is tighter, and workers have more options, that shit isn't working as well as it used to, and rather than just adjust, or even change their ways, no, it's better to complain that nObOdY wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, that's nothing new, it's at least been a thing for the last 20 years I've been working.

Best use of that I've seen was a manager that always pushed to get new headcount, and then never wanted to fill it. Because the company counted cancelling unfilled positions toward a departments required layoff requirements, so several layoff rounds spared every actual employee in his department.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That works until the company re-evaluates how many people that team needs...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It probably contributed to them kicking him out of management one day.