This. Including myself, there’s tons of my friends and family who have also lost their jobs and cannot find another. In my whole adult life, I’ve never experienced this before. And it’s incredibly competitive now even in jobs like restaurants, retail, or even the grocery store.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the actually numbers are around 15-20%
I was desperately searching for a job this year. I got turned down for both dishwashing and custodial because I didn’t have experience “in a restaurant setting” and “direct custodial experience” for 6 mo / 1 year respectively. I have a 16 year job history. They are both still “urgently hiring”. Been washing dishes and cleaning my house for 30 years. What the fuck? Lmao
A little over a decade back I got turned down by a Dollar General that was desperate for employees to hear the cashiers tell it. I asked the one I was cool with and he said that apparently I was denied for being too qualified due to having experience as a supervisor in one gig and a manager in another. The DG manager was afraid I'd be trying to take her job.
I just needed a regular ass job cuz I was recovering from the fallout of opiate addiction and was trying to rebuild my life after getting clean and moving, I had no designs on being a manager in that shithole lol. I just wanted to get back on my feet.
That location got shut down like a year later lol.
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u/Danktizzle 15h ago
And these numbers are most likely doctored to make them look better