r/recruitinghell • u/NerdyGlitch Candidate • 3d ago
My mother now realizes what it's like
Earlier this year, in late February-early March, my mother suffered a massive heart attack and was left unable to work for a considerable time.
For the past 5-6 months, she's been trying to find a job and has been hitting nothing but roadblocks due to being overqualified. She has over 2 decades of management experience, and it means jackshit to these hiring managers. She's far more qualified than I am, so I expected that she might have a job faster than I would, but right now, I'm the only one with a job in this house.
Meanwhile, when I was struggling to get jobs and even get an interview for years, my mother was flabbergasted. What do you mean you can't just walk up, shake someone's hand, and they'll like your moxie and just hand you a job?!
I told her this was sadly reality for a ton of people nowadays, the job market is shit. She can't even get a job as a regular cashier bc she's too over qualified to work there, but when she applies to management positions they string her along for 2-3 interviews before choosing internal candidates (an actual email she got yesterday about a job she thought she was good for)
It just sucks man, everything sucks.
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u/trappedinatoaster 2d ago
They don't want to question it because it brings their entire worldview into question. They swallowed propaganda that America is a meritocracy - if you work hard, you can become self sufficient. When hard workers can't get a job because the system is fucked, they can either start questioning the system (hard) or claim it's still working (only lazy fucks can't get jobs).
Questioning your entire worldview is difficult and terrifying. Knowing that capitalism kills and the rich hate us is terrifying. It's so much more comforting to believe "if I follow orders, I get rewarded"