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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 11:18 PM Feb 2013

Jobs Seekers Tortured, Groveling, Begging, etc For Jobs In New Cruel Job Market.

Reality TV programs like The Apprentice, Shark Tank and now the Jobs reality program are reinforcing employer cruelty in the job market in the "new economy". Job seekers are now humiliated more than ever in the modern era job market gauntlet.

Even before I retired 15 years ago employers were getting more demanding and even cruel. Since 1998 it has gotten much worse and is now on the level of torture. Looking for work is nothing like it used to be now that government oversight has been pretty much disabled and blunted. Job seekers are experiencing the results of a deregulated environment the GOP loves so much. Even today's most cruel abuses are still not enough and the GOP WANTS MORE DEREGULATION.

When will enough be enough now that employers have almost total power to manipulate, exploit and rape job seekers of their dignity? Credit checks, drug tests, psych tests, urine tests, lie detector tests, personality profiles,
medical exams, interrogations (not interviews) etc etc. are just a few of the gauntlets that job seekers must go through in order to get a job.

What will be next? Water boarding, hazing, lotteries,?

Unless you are a perfect employee with all the training, are the right age and have NO health problems you almost cannot get a job.

We really do not have a labor shortage, we have and EMPLOYER problem. They now have too much power and no one can EVER CRITICIZE what the employer does.

Unless something changes and the working class comes to its senses even more horrors await the job seeker. Only the federal government through labor laws or unions can reverse this trend.

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Jobs Seekers Tortured, Groveling, Begging, etc For Jobs In New Cruel Job Market. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 OP
Kicking Digit Feb 2013 #1
It is appalling. I saw a commercial for some such reality program about jobs where people were Solly Mack Feb 2013 #2
It Is A New Reality Show Where Applicants Are Mercilessly "Grilled" By Interviewers And TheMastersNemesis Feb 2013 #3
Kickage MrScorpio Feb 2013 #4
Absolutely PD Turk Feb 2013 #5
Thumbs up ... nt agracie Feb 2013 #6

Digit

(6,163 posts)
1. Kicking
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:18 AM
Feb 2013

Next step, we will be paid in script to be redeemed at the company store where everything is overpriced.

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)
2. It is appalling. I saw a commercial for some such reality program about jobs where people were
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:34 AM
Feb 2013

crying. I was horrified.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
3. It Is A New Reality Show Where Applicants Are Mercilessly "Grilled" By Interviewers And
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:26 AM
Feb 2013

the winners get the jobs or the winner gets the job. It is pretty sick and mean spirited. We reach new lows every day with these kind of programs.

PD Turk

(1,289 posts)
5. Absolutely
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:17 PM
Feb 2013

It's appalling and downright disgusting. I was recently downsized out of my job of 12 years as a department manager and when I saw what was facing at my age to get another management job, I took another path. I called up a friend who is a contractor doing hotel and motel renovations and went to work subcontracting interior paint and some drywall and trim work for him. I get a little sore rolling paint and slinging sheetrock mud all day, but I've never been any good at ass kissing and groveling.

I was a pretty good hand with a paint brush/roller and drywall knife before I got an office job and I'm still not too bad at it. At least this way, I know where I stand.

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