{"id":1049,"date":"2012-08-02T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T16:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:33:28","slug":"my-god-i-am-tired-of-the-job-hunting-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/08\/02\/my-god-i-am-tired-of-the-job-hunting-games\/","title":{"rendered":"My God I am tired of the job hunting games!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about the EDD, I&#8217;ve written about companies demanding Twitter and Facebook account information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, It&#8217;s crap where companies are asking questions that sound an awful lot like&nbsp;&#8220;<em>Does this dress make me look fat?<\/em>&#8221; Every single man in America knows that no matter what answer you give&#8230; it&#8217;s the wrong one!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Why do you want to work for us?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Well&#8230; My unemployment benefits are running out. I&#8217;m tired of jerking off or fucking all day. I&#8217;d like to go back to contributing to my 401K. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I don&#8217;t really know much about your company since your web site is all about marketing hype but doesn&#8217;t actually say what the hell you do. However, your ad matches my experience and qualifications pretty closely so I figured I&#8217;d apply. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Finally, to steal a quote from Malcolm Reynolds, &#8220;I have a powerful need to eat sometime this month.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oh and that dress makes you look really fat! Ya probably want to loose that skirt\/tutu thing with that leotard&#8230;&nbsp;The whole ensemble just makes your fat ass look like Saturn!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course that kind of brutal honesty isn&#8217;t something that anyone nowadays is ready to hear. Honesty it seems is just too &#8230; honest.<\/p>\n<p>You know&#8230; honesty, like reality can be painful!<\/p>\n<p>Instead some companies apparently want to be wooed like a fucking Prom Date!<\/p>\n<p>Which, by the way is one of the reasons that prostitution is such a popular service industry. At least prostitution is honest. You see the goods, you like the goods, you rent the goods, and you get off. Everyone is happy. There&#8217;s a straight forward no-nonsense business transaction and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/AfterDollar.png\" alt=\"Dollar\" width=\"273\" height=\"470\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But corporate America apparently wants to play games, and have you win a popularity contest before they&#8217;ll even look at your resume.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t we play enough games? Look at my fucking resume, then using that information narrow down the list of candidates, then call us, then schedule an interview.&nbsp;Shouldn&#8217;t a cover letter and resume be sufficient for consideration? Why on earth would qualifications be secondary to how pretty the lies you tell are?<\/p>\n<p>If Corporate America wants a popularity contest that&#8217;s fine&#8230; I&#8217;ll put on my best suit, (Or my sexiest outfit) and take a bunch of pictures of myself leading up to a grand finale where they see my cock and then some little HR bitch can decide if I&#8217;m worthy enough to actually speak with the hiring manager<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; I&#8217;m over the bullshit!<\/p>\n<p>I can do the fucking job! Stop toying with me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s real simple corporate America<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do the job, and you&#8217;ll pay me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably not going to want to spend my off time with my co-workers<\/p>\n<p>I will use the money you pay me to eat, buy shit, date, and screw. And you Corporate America can&#8217;t say shit about that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be professional at work<\/p>\n<p>I will never be owned by you, and honestly if someone comes along and makes me a better offer I&#8217;m likely to consider it <strong>JUST LIKE YOU WOULD!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The only difference is that you&#8217;ll align and realign with large corporations in strategic partnerships and I&#8217;ll align and realign with your competitors for straight up <strong>Cash<\/strong>! I won&#8217;t give your secrets away because more often than not those are given away on the golf courses of America&#8230; CEO to CEO.<\/p>\n<p>SO Don&#8217;t ask us to participate in your popularity contests.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry about equal opportunity employment crap, just hire the best fucker for the job and move on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about the EDD, I&#8217;ve written about companies demanding Twitter and Facebook account information.&nbsp; Now, It&#8217;s crap where companies are asking questions that sound an awful lot like&nbsp;&#8220;Does this dress make me look fat?&#8221; Every single man in America knows that no matter what answer you give&#8230; it&#8217;s the wrong one! &#8220;Why do you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/08\/02\/my-god-i-am-tired-of-the-job-hunting-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My God I am tired of the job hunting games!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}