When people who are obviously very well to do show up at open interviews for jobs that virtually anyone can do.I mean, they can afford to get an education and go into a nice cushy job, but instead they have to go ahead and take jobs that lower class people (like me) actually need because they can't afford to take classes year-round. I know it's really classist, but it bugs me all the same.
Being able to afford an education says nothing about the availability of jobs, nor a person's ability to get a job.
qft I don't hire ppl who are overqualified though. gimme those fresh high school kids looking to get their first job
Of course I am. Everybody is. Each point in the universe in moving away from every other point at the same rate as any every other point. From every single point's point of view, it is the center of the universe because all the other points are moving away from it, that means it must be at the center of the expansion. Draw some dots on a balloon and blow it up to see for yourself. And besides that, my life is my story. Everybody else is just a side character. In a perfect world, the same would apply to everybody else. In my story there isn't even a leading a lady, which means that I am the sole main character. All that aside, though, what business does a rich person have looking for a job loading trucks at FedEx? It's obviously to keep us poor people in our place by making sure we never have jobs long enough to pay for the schooling required to get a nice cushy job. In this particular case it was his expensive clothing, the top-of-the-line gadgetry that he used while waiting for the interviews to start, and the smug look on his face indicating that he thought everyone around him was a lower class untouchable. He didn't even shake the interviewer's hand, probably because he didn't want to dirty his solid gold watch by touching a hand that had already shaken the hands of so many filthy peasants.
This. I'm dealing with the same. Starbucks is about the only place that doesn't require past job experience, but past job experience says nothing about the person, just like school grades don't say anything about the person, either. I could have gotten straight As in high school, be working two full-time jobs in the field, and dress nicely, but I could be absolutely terrible in a customer service environment job or I could have flunked high school, have no work experience, dress not horribly, but casually, and be absolutely amazing at a job.
I didn't think big words would be a problem. I was calling you selfish, annoyingly selfish at that. What business do you have making the rules? If you think for one minute that "rich people" are taking your job just to keep you down, then you are a fool.
I have to say that this is actually quite refreshing as opposed to the usual 'immigrants took er jerbs' you usually hear from jobseekers..
You realize the fact that you can be on this site regularly almost garuntees that you are filthy rich on the global scale. This is a case of the rich taking jobs from the less rich. Also, people don't take jobs to keep other people out of that job. They take jobs because they want or need that job. If they could have the "nice cushy job" that likely doesn't exist as you think it does, they would take that. Fact of the current job market is that companies can ask for the employees to be almost anything and they will get it as people scramble to fill it. They want a purple unicorn, they will get a purple unicorn. If you are a blue unicorn GTFO. The smugness might have been trying to look confident for the interview, or it may have been because he saw himself as the most purple unicorn in that room. Does it really matter? He doesn't decide if he gets the job or not.
I know two guys who have worked loading trucks at FedEx. One is supported and bought such gifts by his parents, but needs money for school and such. Another is supported by his parents and is $20k in debt. Just because someone isn't walking around in rags and therefore doesn't meet your expectation of a person applying for a job at FedEx doesn't mean anything, you have NO idea what their financial situation is. Not only that but loading the trucks at FedEx is an early morning job (like 4am to 9am or something) -- it's very possible that guy has a fulltime day job and is looking for something to help make ends meet.
I'm aware of how selfish I am. In a perfect world, everybody would be selfish like me. Everybody would see how useful it is to help others and constantly strive to do what's best for themselves rather than holding everybody else back by staying in a rut that they've long been able to get out of, thus freeing up a space for someone new. Buying that homeless man a burger every now and again gets me a friend to chat with while waiting for the bus. Moving up in the corporate ladder frees up a job for someone below me. Helping to unload the truck every week for my local food pantry gives me a chance to show off my capacity for hard work and gets me a great reference to put on job applications. Taking a ****** manual labor job when I have the qualifications for any number of better jobs benefits neither myself nor the people who actually need it. I'm kind of on the side of the immigrants, or at least the ones jobseekers complain about. They're part of the people who actually need the ****** manual labor job that I mentioned before. Well yeah, but ONE PERCENT ZODIAC ABORTIONIST OPPRESSION OCCUPY CULTURE INTERNALIZED CONTRACEPTION MARRIAGE. I think those irrelevant buzzwords should get my point across rather nicely. The first one is basically my situation except (a) my number one goal right now is to not have to be supported by my parents anymore and (b) I've been needing to get back in school for a couple of years. People can do whatever they like, but it's downright disrespectful for upper classes to stomp all over the space that the lower class needs. I don't think it should be illegal, just that upper class people should have the common decency to stay in their safe upper class bubble. And really, having to be supported by one's parents fits into the "lower class" that needs those jobs. Why do you think I'm trying to get myself moved out?
This goes back to the whole "I am the center of the universe" thing. You aren't the only person that matters, and come to think of it a person can run a business however they want. If they don't want you / if they pick someone else over you regardless of it having ANYTHING to do with how much money you do or don't have (that shit doesn't matter) then too bad, life sucks. Instead of whining about it on a forum you could always spend your time/energy on something a tad bit productive if you need money so badly.
I was speaking about my ideals, not how the world is. In my ideal world, all people would think of themselves as the center of the universe, recognize that this is the case for everybody else, and that would cause world to move in the right direction because everybody would help everybody else out of their own mutual selfishness. It would be like great chain being pulled out of a well. Upper class people would stay at the top and move the chain forward, which would raise up the lower classes while new links, representing the new additions to lower classes, are added to the bottom and continue to be pulled forward by the higher classes. Obviously this isn't the case and my ideal world is just an impossible dream. As things are now, with upper class people working lower class jobs, there's weak link somewhere in the middle of the chain that will eventually break, causing the lowest of the lower classes to drop off and get stuck at the bottom of the well. And look, I don't think that guy got the job, least of all over me. The interviews were done on an open floor where we could hear the other interviews going on, so I know from what I heard before they called me that the guy's attitude was awful in his interview. Unless his attitude did a perfect 180 after I was called in for my interview, there is no way they'd even consider him. Attitudes like that lower morale, after all, and unless I have everything backwards, low morale is a really bad thing no matter how you want to run your business. It's just the principle of the thing.
Ranting and soapboxing about your ideals when you are not asked is not only selfish. It is self-absorbed. It does not work to the betterment of anyone, including you. All actions are selfish in motivation, including those that work directly to the detriment of others. People want different things. Many will choose not to give to the homeless man because of selfish motivations such as valuing the currency over the good karma. Your ideals are misguided if utopia is your goal.
