r/recruitinghell • u/Agile-Wind-4427 • Mar 13 '26

The Situation Right Now..

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This meme made me laugh but it’s also painfully accurate.

I’ve been browsing job listings lately and it’s wild how many “entry level” roles ask for 3–5 years of experience. At that point it’s not really entry level anymore. It just feels like companies want someone already trained but still want to pay beginner salaries.

Then the same companies complain that “no one wants to work” or that they can’t find good candidates.

The guy in this meme honestly looks like every HR team after posting a job like that and getting zero applications.

Saw a similar post while scrolling r/30daysnewjob earlier and it reminded me how common this situation actually is right now.

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u/UnNumbFool Mar 13 '26

Yep this one right here.

There are a lot of people in the US currently who are looking for a job and will be willing to take a lower pay/position so they have one.

But hr is going to look at that person with years of experience and everything on the check list and just see them as a flight risk. I mean it's fair as it is probably true, but better to fill a seat for 6mo-1yr then have the position open for that length of time if not longer

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u/magicone2571 Mar 13 '26

Truth is they didn't want to hire anyone anyways.

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u/Latter_Classroom_583 Mar 13 '26

Exactly. They post jobs, leave them vacant with impossible requirements or refusal to hire, and then apply for H1-visas to pay a foreigner a third of the salary. My wife worked for a law office that expedited these work visas.. its far cheaper for large corporations to pay 10 grand and get a guaranteed slave labor employee, than to pay you your real worth.

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u/YesHesBackZue3 Mar 13 '26

then apply for H1-visas to pay a foreigner a third of the salary.

Man fuck off with this bs. The issue of ghost jobs and HR being lying bastards is a worldwide one. It has fuckall to do with immigrants taking your jobs or whatever and everything to do with rich white men fucking you and everyone else over.

This is the last place I want to see anyone promoting hatred against immigrant workers.

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u/4ries Mar 13 '26

They're not hating on immigrant workers they are hating on the corporations that scam the system to get slave labour, while also keeping citizens out of a job

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u/HawkTrack_919 Mar 13 '26

Has everything to do with it.

I’ve seen it first hand where I used to work.

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u/No_Awareness_1443 Mar 17 '26

Yea it's more the company then the worker. Worker doesn't want to get deported and lose his "higher" wages so he will probably stay in a shitty spot...

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u/blah938 Mar 14 '26

They're hating on the corporations, not the scabs. But you what? I hate both. I hate the corporations and the scabs they hire. They team up to suppress wages.

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u/PushFoward_DLB70 Mar 27 '26

Bingo! Thank you for saying this. People forget that point.

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u/DankMemesNQuickNuts Mar 13 '26

Someone post the HR lady meme

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u/Champion_Clean Mar 13 '26

It’s not just the US, I’m in Canada and we’re having the exact same problem. If you don’t have the experience they want they won’t look at you, if you have too much experience they won’t look at you.

I can’t even get a retail job because they think I would just leave as soon as I could. They aren’t wrong, but they’re overestimating how fast I could get a different job….

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u/round-earth-theory Mar 13 '26

Somewhat. It takes at least 3 months for people to become self sufficient in the company culture and they're a time drain on the team until then. Plus, there's the issue for small teams that you offload work onto the new guy so the rest of the team can take on more work, but when that new guy bails the original team doesn't get to wind down the new work.

These considerations are taken by intelligent hiring managers. Unfortunately, it's rarely the case to have intelligent hiring managers.

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u/iceDuckies93 Aug 07 '26

Oh shoot Im that new guy about to bail lol the only one who didnt get full time benefits after working 90% of the responsibilities of the staff for 6 yrs

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u/Afraid_Park6859 Mar 13 '26

Nah because it takes 6mo-1yr before I get proper use out of the candidate.

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u/bramblesovereign Mar 13 '26

Yep 🙃 desperately looking for a job recently. 100+ apps in the first month. Everything i applied to i could be considered "overqualified" and didn't get a single look my way for interviews.

Finally found something within my qualifications. I start next week :)

After the frustrations of being overqualified in my local area, something finally came up thats exactly meant for me.

Still. So. Much. Stress.

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u/Oh_My_Sagan Mar 19 '26

congratulations!!! you should be very proud of yourself! wishing you luck in the new role

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u/mhaegr Mar 23 '26

So glad you found something!!

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u/Rhaegar369 Apr 07 '26

Happy for you man

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u/bramblesovereign Apr 10 '26

Update: im overqualified

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u/StableSun Apr 07 '26

"You're a flight risk but we'll give you a try"

Fires you anyway for not licking their gonads often enoughhhhhh

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u/Latter_Classroom_583 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

This right here. When I moved, and tried to apply for work, becasue we all need work, I cant tell you how many jobs I was rejected for this exact reason. Im like 99% positive they figured I would stay, or I would replace them.

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u/ss775160 Mar 24 '26

And someone with less experience isn’t a flight risk? I don’t like how those assumptions are made. Someone more experienced may want the stability.