On this wonderful job hunt journey, I have realized that there are too many employers lying. I guess that they need to lie to people to try and fill a position that they know isn't going to be filled by any of the applicants that are there. Instead of wasting our time/energy having us make copies of resumes and dressing professional and driving through horrific traffic to get to an interview where the candidate has already been chosen!!! WHY!!! Why not just be "honest".. Tell us that the position has already been filled by someones first cousins best friend who has no freaking clue what a job is... Life in itself would be so much simpler that way... I have seen this too often happening..
In these uncertain times that we are in and so many of us without a job, employers should really just be honest. It doesn't hurt to be that way. I would respect you more with honesty than trying to "blow smoke up my ass".. It's true.. Many of you will agree with me.. I'm not making this up!!! Don't give us empty promises.. Especially, when we are all dying to put food on the table, pay the bills and try to keep a smiling face for the kids that know that we are suffering inside... It baffles me to see how many of us really fall for the BS... I went on another great interview today, and maybe it's because I have worked in law enforcement and have my education in it, that i can smell a liar a mile away.. It's nice to feel like someone really cares about your situation or understands that you truly need a job.. When in reality they could care less and they are only looking at you as a number.. A number that they get to make if they can offer you the job...
So, as you sit there (as I did) and feel all warm and fuzzy because you received a reply email to a job that you applied for, your brain starts asking the questions.. Wow could this really be the break that I'm waiting for?? Is this the place that I will be working at?? Can I see myself working here and making this my career?? All great questions.. The night before your all nervous because you start thinking of the possibility of being able to make the bill payments on time and be able to buy food and not be thinking of what not to buy because you can't spend more than $40.00!! It's nerve wracking to say the least.. So, when you finally go to the interview and you sit there waiting your turn, you hear people talking.. You hear their speech and you start putting two and two together.. OMG they are saying the same speech to all the people that are in front of me. Of course not all at the same time in different rooms but the same speech... They didn't really answer your email back!!! This was a "mass email" saying the same thing to everyone that it reached.. So when you called and they made you feel like you were special, you really aren't.. Your just a number... Or better yet we are all "cattle" going to a mass call...
I felt really stupid once my name was called and I went to that room and heard the speech.. I felt like telling them, "do I really look that dumb to you"?? But I didn't.. I sat there and heard what they needed to say and then I left.. Did I learn something?? Of course... Will I apply it in the future?? Heck yeah!!!! I know that if I ever get a call back, I will need to make a decision on whether or not I can work for people that are like that..
I want to be able to help those that are out there and that are struggling to make it!!! I want you to know that just like you, I am here going through the same thing... We might be in different states and have different needs, but we are all going through the same trials and tribulations.. I want a job where I can make a difference in someones life.. Where I know that I helped someone get to where they needed to get too.. I want people to know that it's great to be honest and that you shouldn't have to lie to people to get ahead... That's not what we were taught to do... Maybe this new and improved technologically inclined generation is just all about that!!! But I know that I am NOT...
If for nothing more, I hope that my BLOG made you laugh, think and realize that we are all on this same boat.. That helping one another is how we are all supposed to be.. Not stepping on you to see where I can get to.. Life is a circle.. One day you are up and the next you are down.. It's better to have helped those you meet, than step on them on the way up.. You never know when you are down and those that you stepped on are above you...
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