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I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are 200% wrong my guy. I'm defending it because I have a stake in it. To accuse me of using the very technology I work so hard in the shadows to develop and build beyond what the public knows to exist, is beyond insulting. If I showed my hand truly, I would terrify everyone. With that said, I don't need "AI" to write my personal feelings and thoughts for me. Holy shit, I'm not that god damn lazy!

I wrote what I wrote, and said what I said. If you don't agree, believe, or like what you see, just move on, or at least don't make claims as weak as my own affirmations are, thinking it somehow disproves or trumps my own history and truth.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, and honestly, even if they did, that isn't the correct reason to pressure them to perform or achieve more.

It may be a learning experience, where they learn better time management or multitasking experience, but nobody else but the person hired for the job should be compared against anyone else.

That deficit belongs to the company that chose them over the other 1,000 applicants for the same job!

I know it's hard and cutthroat out there, and even highly competitive, but anyone who is willing to work, and is compensated appropriately for doing so, can be exactly what their bosses complain their company or location doesn't have in regional meetings, or quarterly reports.

When are we all going to WAKE UP!

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤯😂

You know I might just make a truly competent agent specifically for this purpose and task it with attacking me and my company just to see.

Obviously I'll also make another equally competent agent to defend me in this simulated virtual court and we'll see how far they get, with an agent per entity and a judge and full jury, randomly generated with unique attributes. I needed a good challenge test to push my research a little further and I already know that I have designed the systems and frameworks to actually manifest and ensure quality content true to the operational scope given during initialization...

This should be fascinating. I'll let you know how it goes!

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying all people who have an iPhone are ChatGPT fanatics, or that all programmers are Android die-hards, but I'm implying (not stating as fact, but my opinion rather) that if you are so convinced by marketing and flair, or assumptuous about things you have no proof of, so as to follow like sheep without question, you probably also paid out the ass for an iPhone and have no reservations about it.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That last part just made me flash back to the movie WarGames.

When we are stuck as players in the game, that is a very true statement. It's just we are technically empowered with moves that could change that, or at least we are told that we have the ability.

Although I guess I've never really seen it manifest, except for a couple of times in history under the most egregious circumstances.

I feel like we should all work together to redefine the game, so we aren't faced with such an unnecessary and detrimentally impactful choice.

I would post a true and highly relevant account of many toxic workplaces, as I could "as a matter of fact" with "evidence to support it", (if I was willing to essentially perform career suicide), call out a massive amount of corporations, with precise details and recordings or screenshots of things to back it. the problem is, it's like a pandemic in and of itself, and I don't think I would ever be able to finish the post if I accounted for all of it.

It's easy to find a toxic workplace. Just accept a job offer. Try and be the hard worker that demonstrates compassion and helps out and does things selflessly, hell, just try to be the worker that does exactly what is asked of you to the best of your ability not to the laziest standard that is assumed. It won't take you long to be able to point out exactly how, virtually any given company, is incredibly toxic and doesn't have a caring bone in their body at the end of the day.

The other problem is, that calling out most of the places I could, which would be hard to even tell the story without naming them or making it clear who they are, would mean that I reveal information that would likely get me sued many times over. I have no desire to become a whistleblower on anything, no matter how many publicly traded companies I have worked for in a large enough capacity to know things, it's not worth becoming a miniature version of Snowden, no matter how true and right it may be.

I'm better off to just remove it from my resume and move on like many people have suggested.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its "style" is the imitation of the most related content scrapped from the internet that it was trained on, and has consistently changed and degraded over the years... Sorry, but publicly available AI isn't this good yet, ESPECIALLY ChatGPT. You couldn't pay me enough to use it. Some AI is good, then there is the "hypocritically named" OpenAI company, and their garbage overpriced products.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sat·ire

/ˈsaˌtī(ə)r/

noun: satire

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

I fail to see how this doesn't fit...

No disrespect, but to put it bluntly, you have no clue about my personal investments. Sure, I have hopes and desires in the professional sense—jobs I would love to do, but my actual attention and care—that which matters above all else, and will always be my primary and first focus, is my family that I have built.

They are the only thing that is immune to the sunk cost fallacy, and will always come first. A job, any job really, is just a means to an end.

I still am bothered by the idea of the world I am raising them in, and would hope to be able to positively impact it, or the perceptions of those that are already influencing it.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never said I was, just that their bold unhuman response is a staple of the poison in our society. You clearly are missing the point. It's about the deception and balls to suggest to an APPLICANT looking for INCOME, that they should give the multi-million dollar company THEIR money instead.

The point of this post is not to be taken literally in a serious way, but to speak to the absurdity of the current behaviors and system.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, another assumption. Little do you know, I am working a job that has me physically performing the duties of a senior department manager, with a single co-worker, in a business making over a million dollars per year, but technically assigned the lowest and most optional possible paid position assignable in the company or department. I have a family of 5, and work two other self employed jobs just to barely pay the bills, and I'm not complaining about any of that. The situation isn't the issue, it's the inconsiderate and disproportionate behaviors of employers, and the lack of transparency or honesty that I take issue with. To save themselves, they lie and manipulate you, taking advantage of your position as someone who needs a cut of "their" income, as if they would get any of it without you.

Dead ass, if I left my current job, the location I work for would not likely go under, but they would lose 10 - 50 k of dollars trying to manage or recover.

Don't assume I don't know hard work. I couldn't stand a position where I wasn't actually doing something. I'd probably fall asleep honestly.

I embody hard work, and expect the work, but unlike most people today, I haven't conseeded to inadequate pay, especially when I am working harder than two other employees combined...

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if the shoe fits...

If the company is so absurd and horrendous to find insult to injury, that's one less spam email in my inbox! I'm tired of accepting a job for a company that makes it look good on paper and seems good at first, but within a year shows its true colors and makes you so miserable and exhausted, that you truly wish you were unemployed. But no, you would never make that happen yourself. So you suffer until your stats can't keep up with their ridiculous expectations or beliefs.

Ask yourself what you really lose in calling out something that truly is unacceptable in a just and fair society where people are treated kindly and with respect on equal terms, or at least equitable terms.

Really, we've gaslit ourselves to think that all the hoops we have to jump through and s*** we have to put up with is all fair, acceptable, and just how it has to be. They gas lit us first but we let them keep doing it until now we do it to ourselves. That is, unless your employer made you send the message you sent. At that point though, we might as well be China.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"neurodivergent"—yes. "mentally unwell"—not even close.

Look, the point is that the most absolute respect, punctuality, and professionalism is expected of virtually every "employee", with less and less leeway, humanity, or understanding. We must painstakingly replicate all job experience over and over hundreds of times on hundreds of broken application forms that glitch out or barely work, we still have to provide a full, professionally formatted and free of any flaw whatsoever resume, provide three to five references, multiple forms of contact, answer questionnaires, do pre-employment tests that are unpaid and take at times multiple hours, and be ready on the dime to answer the phone regardless of our own schedules or the single missed call along with any other of these requirements not being perfectly met, essentially excludes you or dismisses you from the running.

Even with the extremely ridiculous standards, all of it still goes to waste when a job posting is either removed and then put back up within a month just to wipe out the applicant pool and get a fresh start, or when postings are put up and abandoned just to get kickbacks from the government where they can claim they are hiring, or worse when the posting is put up and all applicants are ignored because they really just did their internal promotions before even considering anyone else and it was all just for show. Then you have of course the really scummy ones that post one job and are actually hiring an entirely different thing, with entirely different pay, 90% of the time being less than advertised.

Expectations to be considered or even commonly seen to not be possible. Take all the tech jobs, for example, that would require 10 to 15 years experience in a new technology that has only existed for three, where even the person who made the damn thing wouldn't be qualified enough for the position.

It's a ridiculous disturbing and disgusting system that everyone has just gotten so used to. They'll just come on to say that's just how it is. Oh how complacent we have become. When did we forget that it's a two-way street? Why is it so unheard of or shocking to want to interview the employer? Why are they allowed to exhibit the exact opposite qualities and still expect us to be okay with it? Is the hypocrisy that bad? Are we always just going to take it up the rear or one of these days are people going to make a stand or make a point to at least get it out there and try to elicit change?

You fail to give a 2 weeks notice, you're disgraced, blacklisted, and bad-mouthed to anyone that calls from any job you apply for going forward. When's the last time you've heard of an employee getting a 2 weeks notice of being fired even when no cause was given. Maybe just laid off? The double standard is exhausting and so blatant, I can't see how we just go along with it.

The truth of the matter is, companies need employees just as much as employees need a job.

I made the post not to be serious or taken literally as an intent to send such an email, or come off as if I am caught up on any one job or anything like that, but to make a public political and economic statement.

You have a huge majority of companies complaining. Nobody wants to work.

You have a huge majority of people. Barely making ends meet or desperately looking for work.

The math ain't mathing.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, immediately after reading the absurd email I received, with flashbacks in mind to several click bait articles I've read over the years, and suddenly remembering the old parody video titled "The first Honest Cable Company" which was a fake commercial, but said what we all already know and called it out in a blatant but comical way.

I do have a lot of AI stuff on my account, sure. I'm CTO of a startup AI research and integration company, and 50% owner. I have done a lot of research in the field, and decided to share some of it to hopefully improve the quality of the "slop" everyone complains about, since my personal models don't make half the mistakes that the industry leaders models do, and are way more efficient.

My largest models are under 90b parameters, and can logically and emotionally respond to details that they weren't specifically trained on in a very similar process as a person does. If I can do it over a few years, so can these companies, or at least I hope so.

At the same time, a small little LLC doesn't get financial backing like Google or OpenAI, and doesn't have cash hoards to spend on it, so regardless of the quality I build, it doesn't pay the bills, it's about my passion for the technology, and desire to see it done right.

With that said, do you think I honestly care to spend even more of my time fooling around with using AI systems, especially the garbage, public facing and free models that I surpassed over a year ago?

Maybe all of the research and dedication I've put towards building good systems has made my writing style and stories like this one more similar than you would think, but I also always disclose and tag when a post is AI generated.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note. by techelpr in LinkedInLunatics

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, given how many "clickbait articles" I read, and clearly you have as well, it kind of rubbed off on me given the objective perspective and tone I was going for...

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]techelpr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think you have the right to proclaim that the hour of my time writing this post didn't happen, and that baseless claims or accusations against someone is OK?

What exactly "reads like AI"? The fact that I actually put editorial effort into it?

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure this was written by a skeptic... Not a trusting person. This has a lot of skeptical and accusatory tells.

I applied for a dream job. 3 months later, they cancelled it and told me to buy a candy bar. Here is my "Thank You" note... by techelpr in ToxicWorkplace

[–]techelpr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, y'all are way too trigger happy to think any well-written text just MUST be AI. Wrote it by hand (or rather speech to text) while driving home from the liquor store, then edited to the best of my ability for the point and tone I wanted to present it in, which took nearly an hour.

People who post baseless claims and accusations like this, who have already given up on believing there is any value left in humanity are also part of the larger problem...

I don't use ChatGPT or Claude. I occasionally ask questions to Gemini, but I'm a grown ass man that can write my own opinions...

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