touchedbythegreenman:hogwartsconsultingtimelady:reversetimelord:uncommonbish:THISTHISTHIS, and lingu
touchedbythegreenman:hogwartsconsultingtimelady:reversetimelord:uncommonbish:THISTHISTHIS, and linguistic prescriptivism also falls into this category. Completely pointless, historically arbitrary way to keep TALENT + MERIT as secondary qualifiers. “First impressions matter” my ass. Get Gen Xs out of hiring positionsAll this also applies to neurodivergent people. Social constructs and social situations can be really difficult to comprehend I’ve never been able to articulate why I hate these stupid little unspoken rules so much but here it is. Someone figured it out.Also an interview invite can come from an automatic system half the time. I barely ever send a thank you email because the invite comes through an auto system that’s on do not reply. The few times that’s not the case I’m not gonna remember otherwise. This also assumes that people applying for jobs have the time to write individual thank yous as well as individual cover letters and lengthy job applications when you have to literally apply for 50-100 jobs to even have a chance at an interview these days. Do employers NEED individual cover letters where we bend over backwards to flatter and pretend that this isn’t the 79th application we’ve sent out today? No. They make us prove how much we ‘really want to work at their company’ before we even get into the interview even though cover letters take a huge amount of mental energy. Most of the time I don’t give a fuck about the company, I want a job so I won’t die in a capitalist hellscape and the more you make me dance like a puppet for you the harder it gets to perform to a high level in all applications. Employers who go all holier than thou and act like an applicant not guessing they want you to read their company values and write a five hundred word essay on how much you want to work there or how an applicant is a wash for not sending a thank you note are leaning into their own privilege and ignoring the exhaustion of being unemployed or stuck in a job you hate and how awful that can be to try to navigate with all these unspoken rules.Also? Maybe this is an American thing but I’ve never heard of this. And I went to a very fancy school and my parents and maternal grandparents are or were all involved in the hiring process in various fields, so I feel like I should have heard about this at some point if it was a thing. -- source link
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