Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "How Money Works" channel.

@Ad1nfernum - Problem is, getting hired is a numbers game. The more places you eliminate from applying to, the less likely your are to get the interview, and if you aren't getting into the interview, you're not going to be getting hired anywhere.
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@thelogicmatrix - They're corporations. Thus they are a body with no soul, and with very few real morals or ethics that they uphold beyond their bottom line.
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@mbank3832 - So you're not a normal person?
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@Not_Always - Yes and no. We're among the few countries in the world where personal privacy is even a concept. Yet, we have so many workarounds for companies to make you hand over your privacy that what laws we have regarding privacy are unable to adequately punish the predatory practices of marketing and companies that are constantly pushing us to hand over privacy or else be unable to use their services. And then the government itself infringes on privacy, not to mention hold a lot of our private documents because they were the ones that created them in the first place, from the day we were born and we received a birth certificate, not to mention giving us our SSN, where we get our Driver's License, and other Identification documents, all the way to our Death Certificate, of which I've heard the horror stories of a few people prematurely declared dead and having to fight the government to recognize that they were indeed among the living still.
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@1981lashlarue - Yeah, but technically, they are only supposed to stay on file for somewhere around 6 months to a year. By that point, it's likely the prospects were already hired elsewhere. If not, they can reapply.
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@marybailey7881 - Well, one would think morals and ethics would be a strong factor in companies virtue signalling about such things.But I guess it's one thing to say you're against human trafficking and slave labor, and another thing to actively benefit from outsourcing to go to countries where they welcome you to use their people as slaves and traffick more slaves from neighboring countries to be held prisoners in your billion dollar slave factories.
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@jasonbfhfj8132 - They can prove it by making industry standards of qualifications, and if they continue to deny applicants that are clearly qualified by those standards, they ought to have a reprimand for continuing to keep a job posted on a job site that they aren't seriously looking to fill.
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@ronblack7870 - That may be so, but you may also wind up specializing yourself out of business if you can't replace the people that leave the job, be it fired, laid off, or retired.
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@looseycanon -Because companies themselves like to game government businesses. They see actual human beings needing that help as competition for the money they'd rather have going to them instead.
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@occamraiser - We do have similar standards in the US, but 'special interests' have a way of getting those rules bent.
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@tiagodagostini - yes, they like to make us desperate for the job, so that they can crap on us when we do have it, telling us how fortunate we are to even have a job at all, even one that doesn't pay the bills, nor helps pay rent on time.
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@vibechecktsundere4912 - yes, because they never stop, even when they've filled positions and find themselves hiring too many people. Thus where they are now with firing thousands of people.
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@keltonhunt5302 - Thus why it's retained for 6 months to a year. Could be a long shot, but, even if you have a job, if it's a crappy one, and the employer calling you back is a much better opportunity, then you'd be glad they kept that info and helped get you out of a job from hell.
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@Jeez001 - which is a practice that should be illegal. But considering the state of our politics, no legislature is going to touch that, and have yet to see even the most conservative Republican that's fighting over illegal immigration come close to even talking on this subject. Even Trump, his words say it all when talking about the countries not sending their best and brightest over the border illegally. Sure, he tried to rescind DACA, but he wasn't calling for foreign students paying money in expensive universities and getting high tech degrees to be sent home. And I doubt he would be looking into the visa loophole any time soon, as even his businesses benefit from it.
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@Iudicatio That's actually the problem. We should be selective about what jobs we do, because it makes a difference between decades working for a company you love and respect, and have loyalty to because they earned it by being loyal to you and appreciate the work you do for them, as opposed to where we are now, where companies know people are desperate and take advantage of that desperation and make working the job a living hell.
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@nole8923 - Considering the that media blackouts are done against candidates the people may want, but the establishment doesn't, or just flat out steal elections. We can't blame voters for the failed system, especially not those that continue to vote, even when they are certain their vote won't count because the big city voters outnumber them, or the establishment has already rigged the system against the average voter. While I might agree with someone that voting for a candidate because they are woke and virtue signal their wokeness to the masses is a stupid reason to vote, even that can't account for the major divide and stalemate of our two party system. There's always going to be people that vote red until their dead, or blue no matter who, and both of them will consider a stupid vote would be for an independent or third party. Yet how long can we continue to have this great divide in our politics, and not have a third option to oppose the insanity on both ends of the political spectrum?
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@littlesongbird1 - Sounds crappy, but barring out of state candidates? Sounds like the crap goes both ways.
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@tiagodagostini - Accepting the status quo of the job market is why we're in this situation to begin with. These companies may not change anything unless a lot of people either quit their crappy jobs, or otherwise go on strike. American workers need a new deal. We can't keep letting corporations jerk us around, and maybe we could work together to create new and much better businesses that respect their employees, rather than treat them like chattel.
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@BD-yl5mh - It should be, and probably is. Yet, we don't hold them accountable for much. The so-called 'to big to fail' companies can practically get away with murder, and still hold their jobs with the serial killer CEO passing out bonuses to his cronies for their own kills.
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@tiagodagostini - parents and other family members, not to mention unemployment. Then there is the necessity to work to for basic life necessities. But sure, 'no one' is forcing one to apply, if you stick your head in the sand, or otherwise are a robot cog in HR that both has no eyes nor heart.
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@d.e.b.b5788 - The employer may have several factors, but a key thinking point is to hire someone capable of doing the job, and not holding the employer back, while also not hiring someone so capable that they might just take over the employer's job or business. In other words, for selfish reasons, because they too don't want to be out there having to look for job.
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@OmegaVideoGameGod - True, companies can pay people off, but that's the whole point, is that it's illegal, and we've chosen to just let that be the status quo, which just lets companies continue to do these things and worse. At some point, this issue will boil over, and things are not going to be pretty.
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@astridgalactic9336 - Indeed, Federal subsidies, the welfare for the corporations.
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@brettstarks1846 Oh please, the shady crap has been going on for a long time, and the corporations hedge their bets on both sides, paying of Democrats and Republicans alike. Microsoft can pretty well do no wrong, and they're in a blue state with a governor there than bends over backwards for them. Although they screwed up relations with Amazon, now that Bezos is going down to Florida. Apparently the taxes are too much for him, even though he's the one that's been pushing for the party in power that has taxed the hell out of WA.
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@Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML - is it? Or are we just accepting that because they do so, it must be legal?
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@realhumanbean7915 - That it's not being enforced at all is the problem. Is every murder case proven? Should we stop enforcing murder laws because people continue to murder, and some of the murders get away with it for decades, or die before the case is solved?
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@CoHawk73 - Is it really so hard to prove, or do we not have enough people to care to look into it? Maybe that's a way to create more jobs, is to have people that can look through job databases and see how many jobs are real, and which ones are fake.
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@goldenealgefromdutchbros6834 - we need legislation that describes what ghost job postings are. This is about as hard as YouTube finding videos to strike for copywrite infringements. Do they always get it right? No, but you are able to contest it, and if you are either the original creator, have a legitimate fair use claim, or have permission of the copyright holder, you can have the copywrite strike cleared. Why can't something similar to that be done? All we need is to describe the parameters of what constitutes a Ghost job posting, and use those for the tools to weed them out. We've had decades of online job postings, surely we have more than enough data to recognize patterns of Ghost job postings. We probably know what questions to ask an employer prior to posting a job to help verify intent. Companies and the gov already do similar to us to verify our job eligibility, so why can't we verify their job posting eligibility? Google, YouTube, Facebook, all the major online corporations have already built up their systems for filtering out unwanted content, certainly a job posting ought to be able to do so as well. So the real question might be if the job postings are really that incompetent at moderating their job sites, or are they purposefully kept that way?
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@iyellalot - I think we need those moderation tools on job postings as well. Social media may not be perfect at it, but they already developed standards for moderating that should be able to be implemented on job sites. There's also decades of data on these sites that ought to help clearly define parameters for what constitutes ghost job postings. From those patterns, and knowing why companies post ghost job postings, a list of questions could be asked of the job poster to clarify intent, and prevent ghost job posting by denying posts that sound questionable. We the job seekers are already given all sorts of questions to answer even before we get to the actual application, it only seems fair that job posters have their own hurdles to go through to verify the intent of their job postings, and if their posting is a valid posting otherwise. Not to mention, it would be nice on the job seeker side if we could filter out things like commission work. I get so many sales jobs in my posts whenever I try to find something on Indeed and it keeps on tossing me tons of commission only sales jobs that I don't want to apply for at all. But, as to why such filters and moderation hasn't been done on job sites, you have to wonder if they are really that incompetent at such things, or if they are purposefully so.
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@loganq - They don't care until it effects their bottom line. It may be time for people to go their own way and get away from the so-called 'traditional' corporate job. They've long since shown they care more about getting slave labor from China, which is also crappy for regular Chinese people that think they are getting a better life leaving the farmlands, only to be enslaved by once American, now CCP owned companies.
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