Comrades in Humiliation
Another blog found mine! It has people making posts about their job searches. When one gal said she just got two "no" answers to jobs she had forgotten she'd even applied for, I had to reply.
We went to a bunch of job search workshops, and one of the presenters said you have to go through 50 "No"s to get to a "Yes." So I found a document where Hubby had typed the word "No" 50 times and then some "Yes"s. Every time he gets a "No" or a "Yes" he goes into the document and strikes through one of the words. I wonder what he'll do when he gets a job, go back and tell the guy it didn't take exactly 50? Lol :-)
We went to a bunch of job search workshops, and one of the presenters said you have to go through 50 "No"s to get to a "Yes." So I found a document where Hubby had typed the word "No" 50 times and then some "Yes"s. Every time he gets a "No" or a "Yes" he goes into the document and strikes through one of the words. I wonder what he'll do when he gets a job, go back and tell the guy it didn't take exactly 50? Lol :-)
posted by Chloe at
12:05:00 AM
4 Comments:
It had been over 3 months since I'd applied to that job, which had already been re-posted on Career Builder. And the other companies were just stupid in their search for new people, giving an applicant hope with one auto-reply message, and then killing it with the next. Sometimes I wish there was a way to leave feedback for a company on their employee-finding tactics.
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Palila, at 9/05/2005 7:25 AM
They'd probably just outsource it so someone in India would end up reading your feedback and giving you no help whatsoever.
And now to vent:
Believe me, they have no sympathy for us. When I have called for internet support, for instance, the guys in India would act very snippy and even admitted when pressed that they couldn't relate to my problem because they don't have internet access at home.
They are very rude to women on the phone, in my experience, and not just internet support but for other types of businesses where I've had to call for customer support too -- there is still seriously violent misogyny in their country, and it seeps over the phone. Any country that routinely experiences retaliatory gang rapes of women whose relatives happen to have dated someone in the rapists' family should not be getting our business.
Not to mention outsourcing is weakening the financial prospects of the average American worker. Who cares if the CEOs are getting richer if the rest of us can't even afford gas, not that there's a job to drive to? !!
The Indians should not know all our personal financial data etc. What if they go to war with Pakistan again and the U.S. supports Pakistan? Yes, it has happened before, although the businesses here outsourcing everything probably don't know or care! What happens to all our consumer data then? It's a security risk as well as a moral outrage.
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Chloe, at 9/05/2005 12:09 PM
I do love when a company puts a feedback link at the bottom of their job search page. I think they mostly have it there in case a seeker finds a bug.
And as for the customer service calls, I no longer call customer service after business hours, because that's the prime time to outsource calls to India. They can't actually _do_ anything, and they're working off a script. Ask to talk to their manager, and that person can't actually do anything either. To get something done, you've got to call back during business hours to get them to un-do what the people did, and then to complain about the crappy service and the belligerent person you talked to.
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