Comments by "TheSuperappelflap" (@TheSuperappelflap) on "Applying For Jobs in 2025 SUCKS" video.

  1. You forgot about: love, friendship, the housing market, and being allowed to exist outside your house for free
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  2. Last year I applied for a job at an IT helpdesk at my town government. Super easy job, pay was okay, I wasnt looking for anything stressful, I like helping people. I could do this job in my sleep. I was rejected because I was overqualified. So, instead of hiring someone who is competent, can do the job, and then pick up some extra slack, for the pay that is offered on the job posting, without negotiation, they want someone who is going to struggle to barely get the job done for the same money. Cant make it up.
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  3. @ There is a name for that, its called "social democracy"
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  4. Last month I got a call back about a position that I applied for 5 months earlier. I politely asked the recruiter not to call me again with a waste of time like that.
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  5. More money? No cant do that. Heres a pingpong table and we have beer and pizza on fridays. Oh, you say the coffee is shit? Too bad, we paid 800 euro for this coffee machine, you cant have a 20 euro drip filter machine, that would make us feel bad. Have some more pizza.
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  6. Ah yes, the life hack. Just have rich parents and do an unpaid internship that should be a fulltime paid job.
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  7. @ Legally, you are lying to the company in both cases. I dont have any ethical concerns for recruiters or HR people. They chose to be snakes, I didnt make them do that.
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  8. If I could afford to hire someone to find me a job, I could just afford to not work, instead
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  9. If you want to lie on your resume you can just lie on your resume, no need to try to hide it.
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  10. Probably didnt find any dirt on him they could use as leverage.
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  11. I know plenty of people in my industry and the only jobs they can recommend me are ones I dont want to do where I would be stuck doing the same repetitive work for the rest of my life instead of building something interesting. Most people seem happy to have a boring repetitive job where all you need to do is get a new certificate every couple years to pretend youre still trying to learn new things and then you can get a pay raise from your manager who pretends to believe that those certificates actually make you more productive. For me that sounds like hell. I want to build new tech. My resume shows I can build new tech pretty much by myself with a small amount of support setting up infrastructure. Ive done it multiple times. But despite a still booming IT sector, record profits, and massive hiring shortages, Im being stonewalled out of the jobs I want by rich nepo babies who cant do 10% of what I can do. Which is fine by me, I dont want to work for a company that hires people like that.
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  12.  @lemonscentedgames3641  The tets in college are also objectively useless. If you studied for the test, and you pass, then all the time the professor and his aides spent designing, administering, and grading the test was a waste of time. If you fail the test because you didnt study, it was also a waste of time. Instead, if the professors spent all that time making sure their students study and understand the material, and then have some one-on-one conversations about the material, everyone would get better outcomes. The teachers side wouldnt be wasting massive amounts of time on the tests, and students would have more time to study, without the anxiety of exams, and they would get more one-on-one attention. Of course, the universities dont want to do this, because the teachers are mostly antisocial people who want to spend all their time on their research, they only teach because it is legally required for them to teach for the university to get government subsidies. And the universities want to make sure as many students as possible drop out due to burnout and stress so they can pretend their degrees are super exclusive. Its just one giant mill of useless wasted time and needlessly burning out students instead of actually teaching them.
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  13. In my experience, the average millenial or Gen-Zer has less decency than the previous generations, which already wasnt much. Especially the ones who go into HR or recruiting.
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  14.  @KMC-LLVAJ  You don't have to, i wouldn't recommend it. If a company doesn't want to hire you based on your real qualifications then it's not a good place for you to work.
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  15. Because the recruiters and HR ladies need to justify their paycheques. If I were you, I would plan a meeting with upper management and advise them to get rid of all the recruiters and HR ladies because you can do their jobs with chatgpt and get better results.
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  16. Thats what Im doing at home anyway
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  17. Whats the point of hiring drones in 2025? If people dont need to have the capacity for independent critical thinking to do the job, then you can let chatgpt do the job.
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  18. "Master of the custodial arts. Or janitor, if you wanna be a dick about it."
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  19. Dont worry, I have experience and they still dont want to hire me
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  20. You are wrong. Hiring managers dont look at resumes that people submit at all. They just wait for some boneheaded recruiter to drop a CV on their desk. The recruiters dont know jack about the field that the job opening is in, theyre just throwing CVs around in random directions. As an applicant I am forced to work with these recruiters because if I reply directly I dont even get an automated email. It just goes straight in the trash. So yes it is the hiring managers fault.
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  21. just put the fries in the bag, at this point
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  22. Why would I want to work for a company that 1 cant be bothered to read my CV and 2 is so incompetent that a trick like that actually works
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  23.  @KMC-LLVAJ  Just look at any company youre considering applying to, go through their linkedin, look at their last names. Or, you can look at more public examples of nepotism, like how many of the new actors in Hollywood who are neither goodlooking nor have any acting skills, who just happen to come from rich families. Nice recent example is that Vanessa Kirby who was in Mission Impossible and is about to star in the new Fantastic Four movie. Her daddy is a rich upper class British medical doctor. Only reason she has an acting career, because she cant act and looks quite average. Its a shame too because there are a ton of talented people in Britain who can act, just look at all those kids who got cast in the Harry Potter movies, most of those got succesful careers off the ground even if theyre not doing mainstream high budget movies nowadays. And those were just random kids who auditioned for the roles because they loved the books, not because their parents had money.
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  24. Unfortunately Trump isnt going to fix this. You are beyond the event horizon. The demographic collapse has already happened. Its simply impossible for there to be enough working age people in the future to keep things running. Next, the tax base will collapse. And there simply isnt enough purchase power for the working class to keep the engine of the economy going, nor is there enough reward for actually working because even if you slave away for much more than 40 hours a week you still cant afford to buy a house and have kids anymore. This is not just the USA, the entire western economy is FUBAR.
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  25. @Frille512 Then they hire guys from India on a work visa who have 2 phds that they got with a pack of crackers and cant actually do the job. Then they wonder why the department is less productive.
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  26. I get contacted by multiple recruiters each week via linkedin alone. The process is nonetheless the same as when I apply to jobs myself. I either hear nothing back, or I get an interview, and then 3 weeks later I hear back that I dont have the skills they are looking for. If I ask what skills Im missing, they of course cant tell me, because Im not missing any skills. HR departments and recruiters need to justify their paycheques so they just schedule interviews with people without the intention of hiring anyone. Otherwise, higherups would start asking questions about what they are doing with their time.
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  27. same
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  28. Its not confusing at all, if they want to hire you they wont care that youre autistic and they wont make you lie to get the job. If they dont want to hire you, theyre just dicking you around and wasting your time, and you have every right to be angry about that.
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  29. In my country in Western Europe, hiring truck drivers is outsourced to companies in Estonia who then proceed to hire drivers from Kazachstan or China for 300 euro per month. Of course this isnt exactly legal but we dont have border controls so they get away with it.
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  30. Google stopped using those questions because it turned out that there is a negative correlation between people who are good at memorizing leetcode questions and people who can actually get the job done. I dont even go for interviews like that anymore, if they give me a case study with a practical problem in their organisation then I will spend an hour writing down a design with some pseudocode, but if they start asking me to write mergesort then I decline. I already did that in college, I still have the book from my algorithmics class, and you can find that code implemented in every language under the sun on github for free.
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  31. ooking to hire someone with no experience just means they want to hire someone with 10 years of experience but pay him entry level
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  32.  @garyhomanick6129  Nah, youll just get stuck in the "related field" doing work below your skill level. What you need to do is get experience doing your own projects. For example, for me in IT, that means writing my own software programs and either putting them up on github open-source, or starting a side business, while looking for work. You can put that on your resume as experience and you will have something tangible to show a potential employer that isnt under NDA from your previous employer. In robotics, you could make a cool robot for an art installation or to solve some problem. One of my friends in college built a search-and-rescue robot with a small team that could be used to search for people in collapsed buildings. I had a different project in EE where we designed and built an amplifier and a 3-way speaker tower from scratch. You can do this kind of stuff at home, and hey, if you like building amps and speakers, those things are ridiculously expensive nowadays, there you go, you have a good business opportunity with a good profit margin.
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  33. a dollar an hour? Those temp agencies take 40-60%
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  34. Just refuse to do them
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  35. Thats why you make sure the system upgrade doesnt complete on time, and by the time it does, several years past planned date, it will need so much maintenance that they can never get rid of you.
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  36. I quit my job last year because I was no longer able to make a meaningful contribution to the company after finishing my part of a project. Usually, when I do this, I have a new project 2 weeks later. Its now been almost 12 months, and I have had one concrete job offer from a company that had me do 2 interviews. In the first one they promised me that I would only need to spend about 1 day a week doing boring repetitive work below my skill level. That then turned into 2 days a week at the second interview. After that second interview I got an email with a job offer, which stipulated in writing that I would be spending more than 50% of my time on the boring repetitive work that I explicitly told them I did not want to do multiple times. They also wanted to offer me 20% below market rate, and I had to fight them to adjust their offer up a few %. Which still put it well below market rate. I would have a hard time finding a place to rent with what they were offering to pay me. For a tech job at university grade, with my 5+ years of experience. I rejected the offer and got a very butthurt response that if I didnt want to do the boring repetitive work then it wasnt going to work out. Yeah, thats what I told you at the first interview, thanks for wasting my time. I have submitted lots of other applications, and I either dont hear anything back, get a message 3 weeks later that my job application has been closed without an interview, or I get an interview and then hear back 3 weeks later that im not getting a job offer. If I ask why not, they wont tell me, because there is nothing wrong with my technical skills, the hiring manager just had to check a box that they looked outside the company to fill a position instead of promoting his buddy immediately. I even had one recruiter, for a company that is very close to where I live, I would be able to walk to work in the morning. She contacted me, we had a phone call, I immediately sent her my resume over email. I dont hear anything for 3 weeks, like usual, so I write it off. Then I get a butthurt message on linkedin, that she is closing the application because of lack of interest from my side. I say, excuse me, I mailed you my resume 3 weeks ago and you didnt respond. She said she didnt get the email. I know that email arrived because the address matches and I did not get a delivery failure. This lady was too incompetent to check her email and gets paid to work as an in-house recruiter for a business. Now, I am absolutely OK with being unemployed, I have plenty of projects that I can develop in my own time that can all turn into decent business opportunities, and Im not going to starve or end up homeless. But, I do want to be treated with some basic respectg and dignity, by these recruiters and hiring managers and other HR people. It pisses me off that they cant be polite to applicants, and I dont mind telling them that. What are they going to do, write me another email?
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  37.  @Grizabeebles  Any person with half a brain would understand that those 65 year olds with lots of experience arent a good long term investment. They will eventually keel over and then you need to have the next batch trained up when that happens. Once the experienced people are out, you cant then start training new recruits. You need to do that while you have the experience in-house.
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  38. No, engineering college is hell because the professors are antisocial douchebags who dont actually want to teach, they just want to spend all their time on their research but they are forced to spend 50% of their time teaching per contractual obligation to the university, and because the more people drop out, the more the university can pretend their degree is really prestigious and exclusive, while it all really is just a test of how much mental abuse you are willing to endure to get a piece of paper that says you are marginally competent. pro tip: you dont need a piece of paper to give you permission to be competent
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  39. 99 was great, just look at the movies that came out that year. You could buy a house for a few years salary. The stock market was doing great. Groceries were affordable. Having kids was affordable. People had hope for the future.
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  40. @ Preaching to the choir, I strongly believe the social democratic system of the second half of the 20th century was much more effective at creating value than our current full laissez faire capitalist system does.
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  41. Volunteer work only exists so that companies dont need to pay someone to do a job that has market value. Stop doing it. You are directly undermining your own and other peoples shot at a paid job.
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  42. Eeyore in marketing, that is something Id like to see.
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  43. Well if they arent giving me the 55K from the start Im out because I made more than that at my last job and inflation is still a thing
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  44. I had a 100% hire rate until last year, now Ive been unemployed for almost a year and applied to hundreds of places.
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  45. When I started in IT there was a shortage of workers in the field. There is now, 15 years later, still a shortage of workers. There has been a continuous shortage of IT workers in my country since the 90s. I never had any trouble getting a job, usually I would get contacted by a company within 2 weeks of becoming available and get hired on the spot. Now I have been unemployed for a year despite there still being a shortage. I know its not me, its them, so if they dont want to hire me, I will just sit at home and write youtube comments to pass the time.
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  46.  @joeme  No, it's not. I could start today at a bunch of companies. They just have incompetent HR departments full of ladies who don't understand the slightest thing about the field.
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  47. Let me tell you a bit about my experiences the past year. I apply for a job, I have all the qualifications, I get invited for an interview. Interview goes well, and I say Im willing to accept the job without negotiating a higher salary than what was listed. Get turned down for being overqualified. Get contacted by recruiters every day on linkedin, send them my CV which I keep up to date, get invited to do a bunch of interviews at different companies. Interview, and either hear nothing back or get an email/phone call three weeks later to tell me I dont have the qualifications theyre looking for. If I ask which qualities were lacking, they cant tell me. I recently had one recruiter who messaged me back after three weeks that she was closing the application because I hadnt sent my CV. I answered her back that I did send my CV to her email address ten minutes after our first phone call, and I didnt get a delivery failure in my email inbox. She insisted she didnt get the email. This lady was too incompetent to read her email, which is kind of important if you are a recruiter. These companies arent actually looking for candidates, its just HR departments and recruiters stringing people along so they can justify their paycheques. I had exactly one concrete job offer from a company where I went through several rounds of interviews. I told them at the start that i didnt want to spend a lot of time working on infrastructure, i dont enjoy doing DevOps, editing yaml files and helping other people fix their Docker files and kubernetes deployments. They told me in the first interview I would only need to spend about 1 day a week working on infrastructure instead of coding, which I said was acceptable. At the second interview that turned into 2 days a week. Then I got an email with a job offer 20% below my previous salary stating in writing that I would be spending more than 50% of my time on infrastructure. I rejected the offer and got a very salty email back saying it wasnt going to work out. I want to work but I do expect people to communicate properly, give me some common decency, and not try to rugpull me, otherwise Im out. Apparently that is too much to ask. Its fine by me, I can just chill out and develop some of my personal projects at my own pace, I have several that have good potential to start a business with and Im not going to starve any time soon.
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  48. They probably just forgot about it. People dont go work in HR because they are competent. HR and recruiters are the bottom feeders of society. The bottom 10%. Unfortunately they have screwed up the job market so you have to go through them to get work. Cant wait for them all to be replaced by AI tbh. At least AI can objectively evaluate my skills.
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  49. got what you deserved for going into fkin marketing
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  50. Next time when you do get to do the 8 interviews, just put on a little bit more clown make up for each one. At the final one, I expect you to show up in a full clown suit, with a red nose and a wig and those big clown shoes.
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