thaerin

Career fairs, career fairs...this year it really seems that employment has become a buyers market; that is, if we assume labor as an input (ouch). Much worse than last year when there just weren't any fucking jobs - now you walk up to an employer and they don't want to tell you that they have jobs; many of them don't even want to start the conversation! "Tell me about yourself," is what you get now, not, "Let me tell you about us". Am I just imaging things, or has this changed from previous years? I heard of some companies that were telling people they weren't hiring....AT A CAREER FAIR.....and only accepting resumes from the people they apparently liked; what were the resumes for, you may ask...? Interviews. For....what jobs? You see, I'm confused - is this some kind of new hiring tactic?

I did find a couple promising leads that might be worth pursuing, but many of the companies that I had imagined myself talking to today backfired completely. Enterprise, whom I'd interviewed with the year before (and was denied due to a "lack of positions"), told me that, "Now that they're hiring again, people are just coming in and out the doors like *snap snap snap*...so uh, you should apply only when you're 100% available for employment (see unemployed)," AKA this is my excuse because you don't interest me - go waste your time filling out an application online that eventually no one will look at. So here I am, being pathetic as fuck (see hopeless optimism), as I start to fill out the online app, hoping at least something that pays money will come of it. Then I start to think about how sketchy the company makes me feel, so I let an innocent little search such as "enterprise management trainee starting salary" lead me to http://www.failingenterprise.com/ . Read the message boards, it pretty much sums up the vibe I was getting behind all the hype - proof of my killer intuition that I...don't...act on....often enough....

This is just one more nail in the coffin that will mark my hope for honest, rewarding employment R.I.P... I was already starting to despair before the fair as I read about things like "company culture" and "what the company will do for you", then I read shit like this - companies that employ fools fresh out of college and work them overtime at shitty pay so that they have no time to search for alternatives, all the while making them take responsibility for scamming customers through hidden insurance charges and "faulty" vehicle-check policies.

I hope someone moral and exciting calls me...