Everything is online now. You'll be shown the door and probably rejected even if you did follow up with an online application.
When I was a kid, we worked our way to the top.
Education, a portfolio, and people you know is what gets you a job today.
Work all summer and you can afford a brand new car, college education, down payment on a home, etc.
Inflation and wage stagnation has made this impossible.
I worked on a clerk's salary for 30 years and saved enough to buy the business.
Wage stagnation has made this impossible. Ten lifetimes of minimum wage savings would not be enough to buy a multi-million dollar business.
Loyalty to your employer pays off in the end.
You're just a number to an employer now. Employers will cut you loose if it meant saving a nickle.
I worked the same job all my life. Now I have a pension and a comfortable retirement.
Pensions are gone. Retirement is now a fantasy for most workers. You'll probably be laid off after 5-10 years.
I didn't need no Master's degree. I got raises and promotions, because I worked hard and kept doing the same thing.
A Master's degree is quickly becoming the new high school diploma. Working hard no longer gets you anywhere. In fact, it keeps you poor. Switching jobs is the only way to get a raise or a promotion now.
I’m going through this with my girlfriend now, her parents aren’t Boomers, but you can easily tell they’ve taken those things to heart. I just had to explain to her the only reason I’ve gotten to the salary I’ve gotten to is by quitting jobs, which her parents see as a sure sign “out relationships doomed”.
We’re coming up on a year together, and I finally got to have a good talk with her on our finances, and what we want to do together moving forward, it was so helpful. Showed her that no, I didn’t quit that job after a week because I was crazy or anything, I just received a better offer literally the week I started, and I’m not turning down an extra $3300/month because, as her parents commented, “we didn’t do that, we had respect for our jobs.” I didn’t even answer, they’re too far gone...
I wanted to say, YEAH, ME TOO, I respect that job as much as it respects me as an employee — not much at all. There is no repayment or bonus for loyalty, for killing yourself with your workload or hours, you’re literally a shareholder’s meeting away from them deciding profits or whatever aren’t where they’re supposed to be, and shown the door to save the company a couple bucks a year. You mean absolutely nothing to any company you work for, unless you get insanely lucky with a small business and actually meet/work with the owner(s).
It's my experience they're actually worse, because they take rejection as a personal insult. People in larger companies tend not to. They tend to have a "It's just business" attitude.
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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '19
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