• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not really a similar story, but the OP brought it to mind.

    I once applied for a position as a software developer. It said “Java and RPG.”

    I hadn’t done any Java in about 4.5 years at the time. And I’d never so much as touched RPG.

    When they asked if I’d done any Java programming, I responded that it had been a few years, but I’d be “brushing up” on it. I wasn’t completely new to it.

    But I said since I’d never touched RPG, I had been studying that in preparation for the interview.

    And the interviewer looked at me funny and said “why?”

    I explained that it was in the job description for the position I’d applied to. And he basically facepalmed, exasperated at whichever department was responsible for the job listings.

    I’ve worked there for almost 8 years now and haven’t done so much as a single line of RPG.

    Then there was the time I applied to a job listing for a Python developer. I showed up and they asked if I had any C# experience. I told them I’d never touched C#, but am a quick study. They said they were migrating away from Python to C#. Said it as if I shouldn’t have applied if I didn’t have C# experience. But I don’t know by what logic they expected me to have been able to intuit that given that the job listing said nothing about C#. Just Python.

    Basically, I’ve never applied to a job that didn’t have glaring inaccuracies in the listing.

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      3 months ago

      Same experience here.

      I’ve learned the basics of 15 different database, coding, web design languages over the course of many different tech jobs … because my job description would just randomly expand into something new within 2 months.

      And of course, I had to teach myself all this, with only one exception of an actual competent manager who actually properly trained me.

      Nothing is ever documented, or the documentation is wrong.

      One job I had as a data analyst for the executive level of a logistics company. The person I was replacing had coded some extremely high level reports wrong and was double counting some categories such that total, global revenue for the company was overestimated by about 30%

      I fixed it and explained the fix.

      Not a single executive of this world wide logistics company seemed to notice.

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          3 months ago

          They’re treated like shit by patients and their experience will basically always be considered irrelevant if a brand new doctor disagrees (I get why, but it’s still gotta be irritating). I’d be rude too.

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            I guess. I’m treated like shit by nurses, doctors, and patients daily; yet I somehow manage not to be rude. I was curious if it came from them not exactly wanting to be in the roles they’re in.

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            Lmao, wow. I certainly didn’t give any to you, and this was your reaction. I was curious if their unpleasant disposition was due to not wanting to be in the positions their in. It appears it is just ya’lls state of being. Though, in my case, I’m sure there is classism involved considering where I work in the hospital.

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            Honestly, I sometimes miss the earlier days of Lemmy when folks were generally kind to each other by default. Seems like this kind of comment is becoming all too common.

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      I once a applied for a job that said C# .NET in the title, the requirements listed embedded systems programming qualifications, and their automated hiring thing gave me a little “aptitude test” asking questions for a tech support role. Literally one of the questions was if I would be able to install antivirus software on other employees’ computers.

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      And this is why you never say no to a job posting just because you think you’re not qualified. Apply anyway. You might be exactly what they’re looking for and be an otherwise great fit.

      Every job I’ve had except for my first retail job I have not met the posted requirements, but I’ve been able to either learn on the job or proved in the interview process that I know the subject matter despite not having the degree.

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        Um… No. If the company doesn’t value my time by posting a correct job listing, I don’t want to work for them. These are the same HR people posting the jobs who will then have trouble maintaining a good work environment, or making sure people aren’t abused/harassed in the workplace. These people will have access to your data and you’ll be trusting them to not make paper airplanes out of your SSN. And if it’s not HR creating the job postings, it’s some low/mid-level manager you might have to work for some day. Do you really want Mr “better make sure the new waiter knows how to install HVACs” handling your workload and giving you tasks?

        When a company tells you its HR department is full of idiots I think you wanna listen to them.

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          I’ve never seen a posting that far off. I mean if you’re applying for waiter jobs and they list a bunch of HVAC qualifications, that sounds more like a mistake where they gave the wrong position title or selected the wrong job description. Which would be an honest mistake. These HR people are human just like you and I. Mistakes will happen.

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      I’ve been studying RPG in preparation for the interview.

      Hiring manager to HR: “Good Lord what cruelty have we inflicted upon this person?” 😨

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      “Ok, then let’s say you give me a coffee so i haven’t come here for nothing and we look if you could use me somewhere else while i drink that coffee.”

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      Different, but still hiring fuckery

      Friend applied for a job, database admin, HR called to set-up and interview. Two days later he got an email from the IT department, of that company, telling him that they weren’t actually supposed to be responding to applicants for the position. He emailed asking if the posted position had been filled, and then received weirdly worded response saying yes, but implying that it never opened for that particular job post. Then they stopped communicating with him. They were just posting jobs they weren’t hiring for.

      He passed it all off to a link for, employment law, at the city chamber of commerce. Not that anything would be done.