Like seriously, time is money right? I’m sure most people can relate to wasting time on numerous applications before ever landing a job. If they set that into law, employers will probably be much less likely to reject applicants, and even when they do, you still get paid for your wasted time.

Edit: I’m not particularly referring to the application part alone, I’m referring to application + interview = rejection. People should get paid for someone calling you in, only to end up wasting your time. Hell, I could have spent that time better at the sperm bank.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 months ago

      Right, because “if you don’t get a job, you get to live in a cardboard box under a bridge” isn’t duress at all.

      I’m not saying I’m for OP’s plan. I’m still thinking it through. But there’s nothing “voluntary” about working for a paycheck, or about applying to do so.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Right… we aren’t free. Much like the past, and perhaps even in the future. You cannot get hung up on something that is out of your control. We may live and die 10,000 more times before humanity can know true peace.

        The best we got right now is “maybe you to could exploit the working class if you grind hard enough”.

        Sad as fuck considering our level of technological development. Gatekeeping necessities from people to drive them to do what you want. The extra steps to feudalism is not doing it for me.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          2 months ago

          The last time I had unemployment, it was a lousy $64 per week, and only for 3 months no less. Unemployment is a joke.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.world
            13·
            2 months ago

            Depends on your income before you were unemployed… My wife is drawing it right now and it’s something like $450 a week for her.

            • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              Ah yes, only 17% what I make in a week at a job. Surely that’ll keep my household running efficiently

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              2 months ago

              I was working for 6 days a week, 6 hours a day, for $10 per hour, for over 2 years. Yes, $10 an hour sounds like chump change these days, but this was back in like 2007.

              Still…

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      2 months ago

      Yes, true that. I was more specifically refering to the interview part, being a pure waste of time if you’re rejected. And if it was an in-person interview, you’ve not only wasted time, but very likely have burned gas going there and back.

      You know the saying “When you don’t have a job, your only job is to get a job”? Yeah, I think that saying is about a load of horse shit. If looking for a job is considered a job itself, then I feel people should get paid for their wasted time.

      Or, ya know, don’t have a system where someone files 73 job applications only to get basically nowhere.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Much like looking for housing, we should all be using one service so you only have to enter this information once and there is less of a chance to get scammed.

    I have to go to dozens of sites, entering my data into each one manually hoping it’s not a scam website.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      looks around

      checks environment

      No…no, I am still on Lemmy. Just had to double check if I somehow was on one of the corporate sites.

      I just wasn’t expecting all this pro-centralized services talk here. Not that I disagree. I was just expecting some user unfriendly approach.

  • superkret
    3·
    2 months ago

    In Germany, they all pay for travel expenses, at least.
    I don’t know if that’s the law, but it certainly isn’t what I’d consider a Crazy Idea.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Ok…but now what if I just start applying at really really high paying jobs, thus getting 1 hour at 4000 dollars an hour for a CEO position, while I have no experience in that field, and a GED.

    And then I just apply for 40 jobs I’ll never get simply by mass applying. On indeed you just need to upload your resume once, and then click a button. 20 resumes in an hour wojldn’t be hard, but now you have 20 hours of billable time. So I work one day every 2 weeks, and never have a job.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Google and Indeed apparently files my job application responses as spam. Fuck online applications, I wanna talk to a human, in person.

  • Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    This doesn’t encourage application processes to be simplified. If anything it will dramatically increase the difficulty in applying for jobs and provide more economic incentives for nepotism.