I've been out of the work force since the holocough. Back in my day, you'd get an interview, meet with the manager and he'd pretty much hire you on the spot. Before the corona bullshit, I only ever failed 2 interviews out of about 9 and it was because I was high as fuck. Wish I never touched the shit.
Now I've been looking for a job for months and can't get one. Applications are all online. You can't just go and say whats up to the manager and get hired. In fact, managers don't even do the fucking hiring. They tell you to go fill out the application on indeed or whatever. 9/10 times this goes completely unanswered. In the rare occasion that it does not go unanswered, the first step is a "phone interview." This consists of some fuckwit on the other end reading off borderline incoherent questions.
"Tell me of a time when you dropped your work to do anything else, and this could be with your friends, family or other."
The fuck kind of question is that? Physically dropped? Like on the floor? Dropped as in the slang for "stopped what you were doing?" Fucking morons write this shit. Of course I fail these phone interviews every single time even though I give precise and excellent answers to this drivel.
In person interviews are no better. You meet with some dumb 20 year old girl who asks you the same questions, but you get to see what goes on behind the scenes.
"Tell me of a time when you left your work incomplete, but had to work harder to finish your work" is one I got yesterday.
That question doesn't even make fucking sense. If I left the work incomplete... then is was left INCOMPLETE! Of course I answered by saying there is no time in recent memory that I left my work incomplete.
This dumb little bitch writes "did not answer."
So... the process is this.. You meet with some stupid little whore who asks you questions written by a pajeet on SSRI's, paraphrases your answers, then hands them off to some dumb fat bitch ("hiring manager") you've never met who glances over the paper the first bitch filled out for you.
JOB INTERVIEWS LITERALLY DON'T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE. This must be hell.
Oh yeah, and one job asked me 2 questions only through an email link. What is my race and gender? They denied me within 15 minutes of me answering those.
They'll bait you along for like 2 weeks so you think you have the job then ghost you. Makes sense when you realize bitches are the ones hiring now days.
I'm sure now that it is the holiday season they will be contacting me.
Why does someone hire a temp? They need labor and don't want to deal with the HR, workers comp, background checks, drug tests, etc. They want the temp agency to handle that shit and take much of the liability off them.
I remember there was a young guy in his 20s who somehow got into the thysun Krupp elevator union and he was probably making more money than the project manager on the site. Getting into a trades union can be a real sweet job. They get lots of breaks, tools, make a killing in overtime, etc. pipe fitters, electricians, elevator techs, steel workers, etc.
I found a niche on a large federal construction site. They had huge 40 foot containers with boxes and boxes of parts. I basically inventoried everything and provided parts to all the subcontractors on the site. Did that for about a year on a federal job site making over a $1000 per week after taxes. I saved up over $30k for a down payment on a house working that job. The project manager wanted to hire me out to help build a hospital in Baltimore. Looking back I should have taken that offer but I stayed local painting houses for a shitty $150 per day.
Which is funny because I considered a union job at one of them since I used to be an IT contractor there fresh out of college nearly 20 years ago.
I did get a phone interview and was told I would get a 3rd in person interview but that never happened.
I did learn that the head of interviews left for another food service company (can't remeber the company) weeks after I was told I would be brought back in. So I know what hapened - I was the token White male for interviews so they could claim they were not discriminating.