How to get a job nowdays: (1) If they ask you if you have commonsense answer no they will hire you; (2) if they ask you if you have good work ethics answer no they will hire you; (3) if they ask you can you count to 10 without taking your shoes off answer no, they will hire you.
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It sounds as if you have been applying for rather low-grade work in competition with recently rehabilitated druggies & alkies, and recently released convicts. It may be the case that they have an advantage over you, in that some agency or other will pay the potential employer a substantial bonus (=bribe) to give them the job. Much as it sticks in my craw, there is a utilitarian argument in favour of this system.
Given two individuals, one with a known record of misbehaviour and the other with none, and only one job, it can make sense to give the job to the bad hat rather than the good guy when you consider the likelt consequences of NOT giving the job to either.
The bad hat will most likely drift back into his previous ways, which included crimes against property and the person. Society in general will suffer, as will individual victims, and when he's caught, society will have to finance another jail term.
The good guy will live as well as he can on his social security, possibly supplemented by some trading on the net or casual work for cash in the Black Economy. The social cost of that is a lot less.
I regard this argument as deeply immoral, as it rewards the ill-doer at the expense of the good citizen. But you will notice that I was writing in terms of utility, not morality.
The only resolution to this problem that I can see is to kill a lot more criminals. No more 'Three strikes and you're OUT!' How about 'Three strikes and you get broken up for spare-parts surgery!'? Here in the UK there's a long waiting-list for usable organs, with many people dying before they reach the head of the queue.
| 3 months ago. Rating: 2 | |
Not where I work, candidates sit a series of panel interviews, are given scenario's to which they must answer correctly and if they get that far have to wait for a police check to be done, if they have a clean record they are then considered for employment on a probational 12 month period, and incidentally the pay's not all that good either!
| 2 months ago. Rating: 2 | |
Just look at the interviewer. Dumb as dirt, an egomaniac, probably 30 ish. Thinks he invented AIR. If your not ass kissing material, you will not get hired. So, develop a taste for s***, or stay unemployed. If your asked to return more than two times, tell them to piss off. This is generally an indicator to see how desperate you are and for how little you'll work for. Times have changed, there was a time that you actually were hired on skill, character, worth. Young people, my heart goes out to you.
| 2 months ago. Rating: 0 | |
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