Waiting is one of those tasks that becomes easier the older one gets, especially since we have all been overstimulated to distract ourselves from the actual waiting itself. Thanks to smartyphones and social media, hours can go buy before we realize that we have waited. People generally like to do other things while they wait, because that way, time is not simply lost in a vacuum, never to return. However, there are some tasks that take too long that prevent people from doing anything else, and those are jobs. In an era when everyone can pick up a phone and spend money without even thinking about it, it is unconscionable that earning money takes forever, especially when money drives everything else.
Too many employers are obsessed with the appearance of being wanted, and they will do whatever it takes to satisfy their need for validation. One tactic used is to shortstaff their entities, but leave a couple of job openings always posted. The employees are simply exhausted, so they will tell anyone who will listening that the company needs more people and to please send resumes and apply. Desperate, those job openings receive hundreds of resumes and applications, but instead of filling the position, employers run candidates through the rigamorale of multiple interviews, and sometimes tasks for which candidates receive no pay. By doing this, such employers get to feel that everyone is jealous of their employees, not that the employers are out of their minds by wasting everyone’s time, including theirs.
On that vein, many employers also want to appear as though they are expanding, and will post jobs that are unavailable, also called ghost jobs. Even though there is a finite amount of resources and capacity for people to work, there are so many people who are desperate to appear that they have more than they do. If people see that a company is expanding, that could prompt investors to offer money and consumers to purchase goods. Again, nothing about the company has changed, but the appearance that things might change is obviously enticing to people desperate for jobs. After all, who would feel badly about getting flooded with resumes for fake opportunities when all the work is getting done and money is still being generated?
Sadly, companies are also buying housing, and because he who has the gold makes the rules, the property management companies are also confirming that all the residents have jobs. How could this possibly make any sense when job searches take so much longer, and people are usually out of work for months if they 1) lack a current job, or 2) are being harassed out of their jobs? Most of these companies also require people to have addresses to get jobs, so by driving up the cost of living and not hiring for far too long, these same companies are exacerbating homelessness just because they want validation. If someone is showing up to work at a job, where they sleep should be irrelevant, and the expectation that “everyone has a home” is an obsolete concept.
Lest everyone forget the most devastating issue about getting a job: human beings are not even looking at all the resumes and applications because there are programmers working for the employers to weed out the majority. For the people in the back still nudging and smirking, no human being is looking at all the applications that major employers are getting for jobs, and employers like it that way. Think of it like those who ran away to suburbs when the consequences of their discrimination would otherwise be able to stare them in the face. In the United States, too many people run around with their eyes closed and their fingers in their ears, but way too many of those precious programmers do their level best to prevent people from earning money. They enjoy having leverage over humanity, and that is not changing any time soon.
The simply fact is that good jobs take too long to get, and that includes the trades, despite what anyone is inserting in their easy-answer narrative. Jobs are not life partners; they are required components of existence that people will die without acquiring. Only bad jobs happen quickly, and that is because they have no intention of providing any substantial amount of income for anyone over the long-term. If businesses and the “elites” are interested in fixing the problems that they ignore in front of them, they are more than capable of cutting the crap, and letting people have jobs for the charges they cost.
Chasing A Dying Empire 