I also remember having to answer a shit ton of questions for jobs back then. Applying to Safeway or Raley's had me answer up to 100 different pointless random questions on their website.
Manager at a resturaunt now - we still don't look at them. We just care if you can do the job while not being completely drunk or high and not crashing out.
Service industry is harder mentally than most think.
It’s a hard job, for sure. I always tell people that’s a job you just have to go talk to the manager to get. They’re not going to be looking at the online applications.
My project at my job was being retired so I started looking internally and externally the past year. Dude, so many weird cold call emails and even text messages. I was not looking forward to the job search at this point of my career and age. I lucked out though, thankfully, and mostly due to connections I’ve made in my career.
They all act weird about you wanting them to SAY WHO THEY FUCKING ARE before you start acting all buddy-buddy and giving out info. I will give them my name and answer reasonable questions, but I hate being gaslit into feeling socially inept because some moron thinks I am going to give my info to a cold calling number I've never seen and they did not have the wherewithal to communicate this number or when or why they would call anywhere on the site, application, any emails, etc.
I've learned I'm not a good fit for any roles where you have to deal with people who don't know how to, or just generally dislike communicating. Because it's so fucking easy to just communicate and then you can go back to not doing anything, or whatever these people are doing that is more important than their literal job of communicating relevant information!
Yeah, I had applications ask for referral contract information. I just put that I’ll provide that at a responsible time in the process. It might disqualify me, but that’s an absurd expectation.
I've rarely ever encountered an application that allowed you to submit without a real phone number, name, and sometimes address in each field. It won't let you type something like that out and move forward.
I would honestly love to hear from someone here who works in HR or recruiting and listen to the 4D chess justification they try and come up with for this
The auto-rejection comes after they run your name through the system to get data on how much credit card debt you have because having too little means you aren't desperate enough.
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u/Fragrant_Major_9553 Aug 18 '26
You forgot to add in 2026, they also sell your metadata they pulled off your application before auto rejection so they can make money off that