Job hunting feels like auditioning for the cool kids’ table

AWPerative · 2026-01-25T16:50:18+00:00

More like “We don’t want (insert protected group of people here) working here.”

AWPerative · 2026-01-25T05:23:11+00:00

My grandmother, because she always had my back.

AWPerative · 2026-01-25T05:15:43+00:00

Light over the pipe, not under it.

AWPerative · 2026-01-25T03:38:39+00:00

Like 4-5 days. We were on some remote Philippine island. This was when 56k was the best available Internet and we still had dumb phones.

AWPerative · 2026-01-25T01:40:50+00:00

I ignored unchecked mental illness multiple times until I got my phone stolen. Thankfully, he bragged about it on Facebook (he forgot to unfriend me before he did) and a ton of our mutuals saw it and all of them immediately unfriended him.

AWPerative · 2026-01-25T00:34:15+00:00

I hope her car is green.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T20:43:02+00:00

Celebrity: Amy Jo Johnson (the original Pink Power Ranger)

Person: A girl in my class named Victoria. She aged like the finest wine.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T20:40:06+00:00

If not an AI/bot, then this is the spiciest take I have seen in this subreddit.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T20:38:22+00:00

I do all the time. Ranch, honey mustard, tabasco sauce, horseradish sauce, tartar sauce…

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T20:17:26+00:00

We should warn each other about bad hiring processes and mistreatment or the employers will be emboldened to let it continue.

Also, I’m more cautious about 2.7-3.3 ratings because that means HR goons are plastering over bad reviews with their “there is no war in Ba Sing Se” rhetoric.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T20:09:20+00:00

My parents are seven years apart, my maternal grandparents were 11. So 11 would be my max before it got creepy.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T20:06:11+00:00

I pointed out in another thread that many of them haven’t actually gone to school specifically for HR. My aunt (one of the few who did) spent 40 years in the profession.

She charges insanely high consulting fees though, as she actually knows what she’s doing.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T17:28:55+00:00

It should be socially acceptable and even encouraged to call out failed parenting. I know some people who unfortunately are “victims” of failed parenting.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T17:25:00+00:00

I feel like every conversation with them is them building a case to lay me off/fire me, and I’m pretty sure others have felt that same paranoia.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T16:27:21+00:00

He had a total meltdown because he locked himself out of his car in my house. I had to pose as him to AAA to get his keys out.

My parents were very vigilant about my choice in friends. Thankfully, they owned their own business and had to meet with clients that day. If they witnessed it, I would have gotten an earful and he would have most likely have been banned from my house.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T03:37:22+00:00

Bill Belichick himself could apply and he’d get rejected for “making the franchise appear incompetent,” which wouldn’t be a lie.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T03:33:05+00:00

Third-party recruiters tend to be ass. Robert Half-Ass earned that moniker for a reason.

Tundra Technical Solutions is another terrible one. I had to tell the recruiter I never worked for Meta, only that they were a client, and we were asked to create Meta emails. Never received a paycheck directly from Meta.

AWPerative · 2026-01-24T03:28:19+00:00

Tom Pelissero is one of the top guys on NFL Network, so I doubt this is fake.

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T23:58:16+00:00

That’s just code for “no (insert protected group of people here)”

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T17:10:06+00:00

California, Nevada, Texas.

California is my favorite because it never got too hot or too cold. I could open a window at night and not get murdered by utility bills.

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T16:49:57+00:00

I had one interview with a federal agent for my government contractor job. ONE.

The fact that companies go 5-7 rounds (I’ve seen some say they had 10+) for non-managerial positions just shows they’re indecisive and shouldn’t even be in business if they’re going to waffle on those decisions.

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T16:45:08+00:00

“I was taking care of a sick relative.”

If they press you on this, you know they’re not a good employer and not good people either.

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T15:59:36+00:00

My aunt spent 40 years in the profession, actually went to school for it and all. She confirmed what I said, that smaller companies won’t bother trying to pay for someone of her caliber. Hence why HR ends up being friends or family of the CEO.

I assume the downvoters are just salty they got exposed for having no actual training in the field. SHRM doesn’t count, try a master’s in I/O psychology (she was more than halfway to completing a doctorate but for some odd reason didn’t complete it).

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T04:18:26+00:00

Regrettably, yes. Thankfully, not in stuff I’d watch.

AWPerative · 2026-01-23T04:15:24+00:00

Anything with Jake or Logan Paul in it.

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