My SO works fast food. Corporate never allocates enough hours so they’re perpetually understaffed, but the store manager has permission to call people in if needed. So there’s a lot of “your scheduled 10-4, but at 3:30 I’m gonna ask if you’ll stay to 6, or I’ll call you 2 hours before your shift to see if you can come in early”.
Its a lose lose, nobody gets the hours they want, manager can’t retain workers, people hate being called in or asked to stay late, and the schedule is always shorthanded and mostly a suggestion. Of course nobody wants to work in that shitty mess of cost cutting and begging employees to pick up the slack that the MBAs at corporate have caused.
I’m a software developer and my company flat out refuses to hire graduates (if they didn’t work as students here) or offer apprenticeships, even though apprenticeships are a great way to basically produce your own developers.
At the same time, there’s a constant staff shortage basically everywhere and we even have to refuse projects because we can’t staff them.
I used to work at Taco Bell and the manager that hired me got fired for scheduling one “extra” person a shift. Every other metric was great, of course.
It’s astounding that modern management is all just metrics. Here are your target numbers, we don’t know how you will hit them and it’s easier for us if we don’t know; if you can’t hit your targets we will fire you for underperforming and will do the same until we hire our divine sociopath that will achieve our metrics by any means necessary.
That’s 100% intentional.
Hire less workers to cut costs, and squeeze as much profit as possible from what few workers there are.
Less free time and higher employee turnover also means it’s harder to unionize, which is definitely a plus for CEOs.
Love the coffee cup, so true
This time I don’t mind being Rick rolled.
The game
Man, got rick rolled and lost the game…
I JUST LOST THE GAME
Do employers actually care about being understaffed or do they only wish that that staff would stop complaining that the company is understaffed?
After all, an understaffed company is a lean, efficient company that doesn’t give out money all willy-nilly to the sort of people who have to do undesirable work and thus ensures good value for the C-level end-of-year bonus and stockholder portfolios, which ought to sound like a win from their point of view.
I feel like you’ll just let me down and desert me.
Relatable as fuck
This is giving me flashbacks from my arduous job search. Any complaints were met with disbelief and insults so I had to keep it to myself
Meanwhile I love doing volunteer work with no problems whatsoever (free work most of the time) and at the same time I have problems keeping my mental health stable for a longer period of time when working for a wage…
Damn, it’s pretty crazy how far we’ve come considering how nobody has wanted to work anymore for over a century
It’s sort of true, but not in the way they mean it. Most people don’t want to work or they would never retire. But we’re also mostly willing to work. Even work really difficult and/or dangerous jobs.
The important part is why. I love tinkering with computers and I will probably do so forever. Working for someone isnt a big deal IF people can actually not piss me off for half a day so I can actually get work done.
This always works for 6-12 months until someone decides I need to become more „flexible“ now and everything goes to shit.
Thats why self employment works best for me. I do what I can do best and you stand around at the coffee machine with your buddies (you as in people, not you specifically).
What’s a cv?
Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae. It’s basically a long résumé. The résumé gets your foot in the door with the “best of” highlights that are tailored to the specific job. The the CV is what you bring to the interview; It’s longer and has a more complete work history, instead of just the bits that are relevant to the job you applied for.
So when they ask you “can you explain this gap in your employment for these two years” you can go “yeah, if you look at my CV, you’ll see that I was working/freelance in a tangental industry. But it wasn’t very pertinent to this application, so I left it off of my résumé when I applied.”
I don’t think this is correct. Assuming you’re American then a CV is the same as what you’d call a résumé. Unless a résumé is more like a cover letter (as in the intro paragraph where you summarise what you do and why you want the job)?
I agree about them basically being the same.
In America a resume is basically a slightly shortened CV. But from my experience (as someone who has lived and worked in IT in both the US and the UK) they are nearly identical. They both summarize your work history in almost identical styles. But the resume is preferably limited to 2 pages maximum, while a CV can be longer.
I don’t recall ever having both a resume and a CV in the UK and initially applying with a resume and then bringing the longer CV to the interview. It was just a name and length expectation difference that separated them.
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No, that’s a Civic, you’re thinking of the integer between six and eight.
No, that’s seven. You’re thinking of a kitchen tool used to strain liquids from solids.
No, that’s a sieve. You’re thinking of the United States Construction Battalion.
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Maybe they should have given their resume instead of a cv. No one wants to read a cv.
