The Official SRK Unemployment (aka "Extended Vacation") Thread. Too much free time!

General Discussion
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I approve of this.

Why does everyone think they’re making you a goddamn favor by paying you less? Yeah, I’m grateful you gave me a job, doesn’t mean I have to settle for BEANS! Seriously, I went to this one interview for a cell phone company, and once I mentioned my salary pretentions, they got all wide-eyed on me and said, “Well, we made a survey, and we discovered that the adequate salary for this region is $500 a month”.

:wtf: The fuck?! Where did you do this survey? Zimbabwe? FUCK OUTTA HERE with thath BS! YOU try living on $500 a month, cheap ass fuckers. :arazz:

(yes, this was for a full-time job, case you were wondering)

I feel for ya, SMB. I guess that, amidst all the bad shit going on, I’m lucky that I don’t have anyone who financially depend on me (no GF/wife, no kids, etc.). I’m rooting for ya, man. Gotta get DAT DOUGH for RE 5! :sad:

But seriously, doesn’t it feel REALLY awkward when YOU are the one making the calls back to the company you applied for? Is this really a good thing? All I get is the usual “We are still analyzing all of the candidates” before I get the monster blowoff. I used to think it was to make the company know you are genuinely interested in the job, but now, I’m starting to think I just annoy them.

Ha ha, here’s a nice story.

Back when I was working at the call center, I left around lunchtime (my schedule at the time was 7:00 am - 2:00 pm: perfect to get out just in time for lunch), and I was on my way back home when I passed in front of a restaurant, and some fat dude came out and aboarded me. He started doing some mild chat and then he offered me a job, but…

Creepy dude: "So I’m opening this massage parlor for ladies, and you’re not that bad looking, and I was wondering…"
Me: "Yeah?"
Creepy dude: "Ummm… How hung are you?"
Me: " :confused: Excuse me?"
Creepy dude: "Yeah, like, how long is your…"
Me: “Um, OK, bye!” :sweat:

Some people think that at these jobs you get to fuck a lot of pretty ladies…and I’m sorry to say, you’ll be sorely mistaken. All the ladies that go there are old chubby ladies who don’t get enough love from their hubbies and try to seek an escape. Sorry, I don’t pity fuck.

International Business and Trade.

One would think with a degree like THAT, opportunities would come flowing like a river.

Too bad I picked the dry season. :shake:

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How can you possibly be unemployed? The job market should be open to you somewhere. Get on your grind, McDs is better than nothing. I smoke weed every single day and have for about the last year, I work 40 hrs a week and make good money.

Can you guys not do interviews or something? Are you not calling back the people you apply with and meeting the managers personally? Going in a suit with a nice resume? It’s all about that image, if you look like you want it.

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$500?! :wtf: That barely handles rent, food, etc.
Once again it’s all about the monaaaaaayyyyy, employers love to go as low as possible on salary and expect you to preform tasks that you should be payed more for… but they call that “job motiviation” and just promise that if you preform those tasks nicely you may get a raise in the future… most likely the next millenium…
Ending up being just a cheap worker for them:annoy:

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LOL to that story.

I’m unemployed too. Been this way for 8months now. I left california the land of a million businesses because most of the companies in the LA area wanna pay you like 32,000 a year or less. Which anywhere else in the US is alot (save Hawaii) but in california thats… slightly above poverty line. Moved to minnesota for 2 months only to find things are even more scarce there, moved back to california just in time for my college graduation, buying into what everyone says about once you get the degree getting a job is cake, 2months later I had to move to AZ to live with my mom because I couldnt support myself anymore :frowning:

Interestingly enough I have a degree in International Business AND a degree in Marketing Management, but nothings biting here in phoenix, even though supposedly their economy is good.

Actually a friend of mine here just got laid off yesterday. No warning, poof gone.

Isn’t it amazing how when you have a degree and cant get a job you realize all the major’s you SHOULD’VE been. My best friend got a degree in Electrical Engineering (dont ask me how he’s pretty dumb) has never worked a day in his life and got a job as an INTERN for NAVSEA basically testing missile launchers and makes almost 60k a year.

I’m this close to going back to get my degree in Electrical Engineering.

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In all honesty i think everyone in here can do WAAAY better than McD’s. Yeah that job will pay but seriously i wouldn’t settle for that job just for the sake of just having money. I want more out of myself and working for McD’s would be a downgrade for any other job i worked.

26

:rofl:

27

Get your resume and interviewing skills up to par and work for the government. Lots of jobs are going to be opening up in the next few yrs due to the retiring workforce.

28

the fuck do you mean “how can you be unemployed”? The unemployment rate is over 5% right now in AZ, same in CA. Finding a job is tough right now.

I’m not lowering myself to some entry-level hamburger position - have some damn pride. Any brain dead idiot can get that job because the turn over rate is huge, it requires no education therefore you’re surrounded by teenagers who don’t give a shit about anyone, and the pay is minimal.

29

it’s better than being unemployed though

30

But the pay is shit. I’m sorry but if i was working a good high paying job and i was laid off, the last thing i would want to do is work at a fast food place just so i can say, “Hey, at least i got a job and i’m not broke”. You gotta aim high for yourself.

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It’s called getting on your grind and making your resume look like you atleast have some ability to work through a struggle. An interviewer sees you with a year with NOTHING worked… what is he gonna think? If I am in the HR role I pick the guy who atleast shows some incentive and makes it happen. Who pays your bills? The unemployment office, your mom, your girl? Once the well runs dry those patties and them fries are gonna look like Jesus in the flesh. :rofl::rofl: Oh well, maybe it’s an EC/New England attitude, but I personally can’t NOT work… I even did a stint cashiering and pushing carts at Wal Mart when I needed to.

You use that shit job while you go out APPLYING for everything under the sun that might be a decent prospect. You also learn some humility too. I have enough pride to CONSTANTLY be employed, my pride would be more hurt by sitting on my ass on SRK.

No offense.

32

^yeah… er no.

And I doubt working that said year at McD’s adds anything to your resume anyway.

33

Dude if you’re gonna recommend a temp gig say something other than food services or hotel jobs. You better know what you’re talking about if you do, cuz from my personal goddamn point of view those 3~4 years I spent doing that shit add up to nothing. There are plenty other places that can hire easily and so much better than those SHIT tier, bottom of the barrel crap. Transportartion i.e. bus. cab. trucks. There are also stuff like librarians, video store clerk, entry level bank teller. If you are not totally out of shape, gym(i.e. 24 hr fitness, valley etc) coach is a great gig.

34

I finally started a new job yesterday after like 7 months of unemployment. It’s only part time and it’s in a call center, but I make more than I did at my last full time job for less work, so I’ll manage.

35

I’ve been grinding since day motherfucking one. It is not my fault companies have dipshit accountants and projections. All aspects of the economy have slowed way the fuck down and as we can see it trickles down to employment and HR’s stupid ass.

I have had some jobs people would not put up with for more than a month. I am fucking mexican bro, I would do just about anything if it pays well with no bitch ass minority attitude and no questions asked. I have built character all my life, no one has shit on me. However, there are just some circumstances out of my control and I have learned to accept that. I have payed my goddamn dues, and I will not settle for less.

36

I have been unemployed for two months now. Golf is getting real expensive.

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lantis, i feel your pain! unemployed for going on 3 months now. i have a question tho, when you said the longest you’ve been unemployed for is 6 months, how do you explain that to the next job you interview for? i’m really scared the next job i interview for will see this huge gap in my work history and question it.

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Its all perspective. To some the most important thing is money, to some other things are important like pride and such.

It really comes down to how each individual feels and is brought up.

My folks didnt go to college so their prospective is based on money, my mom thinks its okay to just get a job at mcdonalds (non-management) just to have money in your pocket, but she comes from an era where thats what you had to do. You worked. Didn’t matter where or for how much just bring in that income. Which is totally fine…

…Just not the way I see things, call me spoiled because I did make damn good money before, but If I cant make enough money to live off of I might as well not make any money at all. It’s sorta like why work your ass off 40 hours week and still not have enough to pay your rent/bills/etc. Its hard on the pride to go from 17-20 an hour to 7.

I wont do it, but I might consider some part time gigs, theres a few places that pay pretty well but dont want to offer the benefits so its pt work.

But yeah CA is bad, real bad. I can think of at least 4 big employers that either had or will have massive layoffs in the socal region within the next few months. Hopefully I’ll shine here in AZ.

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I’m not unemployed, but the way things are going at work, I might as well be. Too much bullshit for me. I’m gonna start looking for another job as if I were unemployed.

I work at a call centre, by the way…so you know how much BS goes on there.

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FUCK TARGET

I had an interview Monday and I had it in the bag. While I was in the interview, they made me sign a drug test consent form, like they were gonna drug test me. Keep in mind a) I don’t smoke or drink. Been clean for like 3-4 years and b) I’ve never been drug tested. So I assumed that since they made me sign the fucking form at the store then they’d drug test me at the fucking store. When I didn’t get a call back, I called today to see what the deal was. THey told me I was supposed to find my own place to get tested and now I can’t work there or apply at any target for 6 months.

FUCK YOU TARGET! FUCK YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!

-Fritz:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: