• DumbAceDragon
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    11 year ago

    I get this but with college offers.

    It’s like “tour our campus this weekend!”. My brother in christ I am 5 years into a 4 year course.

  • Jo Miran
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    11 year ago

    Rookie numbers. I get emails asking me if I am interested in jobs I haven’t done in twenty years.

    • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      I got one not long ago asking if I want to fix printers for $15/hr.

      No offense, buddy, but there’s not a time that I would have ever accepted that.

      • @clemdemort@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Never had a job I would be so down to do something like this, but instead I have to go through interview after interview just for them to say they found someone better qualified, come on it’s just bussing tables it doesn’t require a PhD 💀

  • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    11 year ago

    This somewhat happened to me. I applied to teach at a college. A bout a year and half later they call me up asking if I was still interested.

    I say yes, get the job. New dean comes and then tells me that they have no positions available for me.

  • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    11 year ago

    I got a rejection email from a job I applied to in November. It took them six months to say no.

    I’m not sure what they expected? But I found a job less than a month after I applied, they never even called me for an interview.

    • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      I mean this is exactly it, right? If instead of posting a new job, you canvass the people who applied months ago, then anyone who says yes has been out of work for months and will probably accept whatever shitty wages and conditions you offer. You are guaranteed a strong bargaining position.

      • @vrek@programming.dev
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        11 year ago

        This a actually worked out for a co-worker. He interviewed for a position and the interview went of like 6 hours. He waited 6 months and never heard anything. He applied for another position at my company. Different team, lower pay and not in his specialized field. He got that job. Another 3 months and the boss for the first job called him and said their initial hire didn’t work out and asked if he was still interested.

        He laughed and said he was already working but would be interested. The boss asked where he was working. He replied “I’m actually down stairs”.

        He got the job, more money then the initial offer and he was happy in the new position. Probably an unlikely event and I wouldn’t recommend trying to duplicate it.