Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "I Got Rejected By Amazon...And The REASON Was Shocking!" video.

  1. A friend of mine was interviewing for a position of a tram driver, after his latest position proved... disappointment. He had gone through psychotests, including an IQ test. When the interviewer came with results, she told him: "It would be a waste of your intelligence for this position" and rejected him. Friend was furious.
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  2.  @382u3uuej  Pretty sure, it's not just bias. You see, what you talk about is true to some extent, but there is a problem in your logic. If we accept this bias as true, why are companies not actively developing employee retention strategies? Why is it, that wages don't keep up with inflation and the best you can expect, even in companies posting record profits, is some 3% to 4% year on year nominal raise and no improvement to benefits? You'd expect, that if an employee can do more qualified job, the company would increase their salary more than just inflation and provide more enticing benefits, because that employee can do the lower job more efficiently (because of faster training) and/or advance within the company to appropriate position, when company growth demands it. Yet, we see yearly culling of headcount and twenty to thirty years of stagnant wages. If it's more expensive in the long run, to always hunt for new employees, why is it, that shifting companies every two or so years brings so much more income to the emplyoee? Shouldn't company remove this incentive by increasing it's wage growth above the inflation level or better yet, incorporate langugage into their contracts, that guarantees inflation raises every year and merit raises only being considered above that? After all, emplyoees don't work for nominal wage, they work for the real one, hence, if company isn't willing to increase wage sufficiently, they'll be forced out by costs of living. If it indeed is so much cheaper, to keep old employees, why don't we see retention effort beyond public relation stunts? Why do we see pipeline postings, that never have actual position to be filled behind them all the time? Why do we see so many sales positions marketed as something else, like consulting or even highly technical work like computer networking? Why do companies use this bait-and-switch? Why is it, that company creates a recreation room, as Bender would say it, with Blackjack and hookers, and then hold it against the employee for utilizing those facilities even once? If you're employed only to do the work, why invest in those facilities? Hence, why I think, you are wrong. And why you should look at employers with more critical eyes.
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