Job searches in America right now are up but hiring managers are still assholes; still ghosting people, and largely wasting people’s time. This series was first triggered by an article we saw in the Wall Street Journal where companies were complaining that workers weren’t showing up when it is already hard enough to get in the door, to begin with.
So we took to the streets to find out just how difficult it is in lets say New York City to find a job right now in modern America.
“It’s not at all what it is cracked up to be by the MSM. They make it sound like everybody and their grandma is hiring but in reality most of the hiring is for jobs older people can’t or don’t want to do or are over qualified for. I’m 35 a masters degree and worked in tech before my job dumped everybody as COVID hit and sent our jobs to cheap labor overseas. I’m not about to go to work at McDonald’s (there’s nothing wrong with that) but that just isn’t where I will be or will willingly go to be at this stage in life.” – Marcus P, 35, Bronx New York
“Especially trying to find a job in New York City is already hard as it is because there are so many people here and there are an equal number of employers and hiring managers looking to fill quotas and that’s about as far as that goes. We all heard what happened with Wells Fargo and their fake hires for diversity…. as quiet as it is kept in corporate New York…. that is so much more common than people are aware of making it even more difficult as a brown person to find a job or to move up.” Anderson Jeffries, 30, Brooklyn, New York
“I applied to one job that told me I was overqualified but then proceeded to offer me a minimum wage job instead of that they had simply because they felt guilty because they wouldn’t hire me according to my credentials but then ended up giving the job to some white guy with the exact same credentials. Finding a new job post-COVID is a joke and I don’t blame those who have either started businesses or somehow found a new way to financially go about life. Don’t blame them at all.” Sarah E, 29, Manhattan New York
“I find it incredibly inappropriate that we need to have a job to survive and it is harder to find a job nowadays than it is to get a root canal. There is something very wrong with this picture and it feels very systematic. We should not have to fight like wild dogs to get a job to be able to support ourselves and our families. They expect us to have a family; go to work, and all of these things but the work part often proves to be the most difficult part. Getting one is hard enough staying there once you discover you have a petulant childish manager makes it even harder. It really just shouldn’t be this difficult to stay in a job or find one.” Camille, 24, Harlem New York
“One day people will stop saying everybody is hiring when they’re not. Most of these jobs that are hiring or people are getting aren’t like full office jobs or anything above like a call center allot of the time. They’re dead fast food jobs; call center jobs that require obscene hours, or jobs that are so bad you dare even have a doctors appointment — you’re fired on the spot. There’s no sense of job security anymore because if it isn’t the hiring manager ready to give you hell and manipulate you there’s a fellow employee or manager not far behind ready to make the process even more hellish than it already was. I recently applied to a financial organization in midtown and was told that I would have to wait 5 months for my application to even be considered leaving me with no real credentialed options.” Carter H, 25, Bronx New York
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