You have to use ai to write the resume and spam apply because you don't know if it is a ghost/fake jobs. Why be honest to a company when the company itself is not being honest to you?
This is a result of society turning feral. Too many good people let others walk all over them, didn't fight back when they should have, and now the inmates are running the asylum.
Bingo!! I was one of the very first whistleblowers with WF - all it got me was jobloss and subsequent loss of everything. The next bank laid me off after 6.5 years Virtually every mortgage company out there rewards slime ball tactics > actually taking a fiduciary role with prospective clients Now it’s so bad that people really cannot tell who is actually trying to genuinely help vs the shake n bake companies Then you have the human element: most people want to believe lies - so once a company gives them a lie = they hold onto it only to get jacked in the end. Women in GENERAL reward men who bring home the bacon regardless if said bacon was made in an unethical manner. I can only hope that the next life rewards morals and I happen to have met a girl that ACTUALLY isn’t your dime a dozen material secular type We have both an existential and ontological disaster and rather than people pursue resolving those problems - they think: “dude bruh I jus need more stuff bruh” In the end most of em end up in divorce court because women ultimately feel unsafe with immoral and unstable behavior especially with guys who stand for nothing It’s a great example of why you see tons of guys with $$$ and cannot keep a woman around
The matrix is a system of exploiting pride to direct people's will. It's essentially forcing selfish people to share goals that benefit someone else by defining how power is earned. If you're a humble person, you don't need to earn power. You won't fit.
This is true. You may think you are the rockstar programmer wanting to tackle the latest algorithm, but they need you go down to the lab and run the same test for next 3 weeks.
Sometimes doing a good job is a career killer. Why? Because if they promote you to say manager, your productivity might be hard to replace with someone else?
The majority of the time that doesn't happen. Typically, the manager promotion goes to the least productive team member. Management doesn't want to lose the work horse pulling the weight of the team.
Large corporations that have the pay and advancement opportunities are becoming dominated by private equity, activist investors, the whole goal of the organization is to extract as much money as fast as possible for as litttle effort or expense as possible. You have talked about enshitification here, it is that. There is no greater good or "mission" as there might have been in the past. Management, "Leadership" pay is driven by short term returns. There is no better example than looking at Boeing past and present.
Has happened to me too many times to count. Ass kissers ALWAYS get the promotion. I am not the type of person that can pretend (at least not very well) that I like someone that I don't. I am friendly and generally if someone has a problem, it's with me, and not the other way around. I think that you are completely right in this video as I've had this happen to me. You're making me rethink my resume. I've been job hunting for a YEAR! Maybe that's my problem, I'm a hard working, nice, intelligent person who wrote their own resume? Yup sounds like a no go... Meanwhile, I've seen people get promoted before me who have less seniority, are younger, have zero experience or common sense, and do not work as hard. But then again, why would they want to put a hard worker who is good at their job somewhere else? The mindset, in my view, is to put the lazy assholes in management to yell at and threaten all the hard working good people who do their jobs well.
@@LaborGains Thanks buddy. I'll survive! I don't want my comment to come across as a rant against young people either, because reading again it kind of sounds that way but that was just a small part of my over-arching point.
2:14 This issue certainly does start at the job interview process. If I spot during the interview that the hiring manager has a 'neg' attitude towards either their own role, organistation or especially their colleagues, then that is a red flag to me to beware that this working relationship is not going to work and to avoid it. Whenever I look back on roles that I have had that have not worked out due to some issue or attitude from a line manager, then I can almost always relate it back to the interview or some personal issues that they are bring in to work from their domestic life. I can look back on those roles fondly though, in the knowledge that in the short time I have been in them that I have often uncovered some longstanding issue that the line manager will now have to resolve without my help, thus doubling their workload. This has happened to me more times than I care to mention.
@@LaborGains Networking as a neet is a meme. The employed don't want to be bugged by the neets and the unemployed can't help you. I made the biggest mistake of networking with other students when I was in uni. The truth is they can't help me plus they are my competitor
Great points and video, Nick! Facts! Most companies DON'T hire the best candidate or candidates! Hiring managers tend to hire mediocre candidates/employees that they personally like! As a hardware, network, servers, and software engineer (past and present experience), I don't use ChatGPT. It's trash! I use my own thinking and writing skills to create my resume and I haven't had any issues interviewing and getting hired for IT and Tech jobs over the past 7+ years in the industry.
Some good points once again that I have agree with and have experienced myself in my career. It’s like the old saying, it’s all about the people you know. I have worked for so many teams that have worked previously together at other companies and typically the majority of the new team builds. I have to say I was never a part of that group and never landed positions because of who I knew. It used to be about your skill sets, experience and discipline in your craft. It seems like in the past years that its just not important anymore.
Thank you for the comment! Yea, I am not sure how anyone is landing a job these days without tapping into their network. Job applications seem to get lost in a void.
the people ive seen get promotions are those who know how to go along and get along well with others. they have some non emotional non reactive element to them that kind of puts others at ease. yes they may not be quite the best but they dont threaten the status quo or upend the apple cart with challenging the way things are done. they are essentially non threatening to the leaders that are there already. so this is obviously a double edged sword. on the one hand they are easily controlled and known quantities and wont threaten - but - they typically dont know how to innovate or dont innovate new processes or ideas that will keep your company on the cutting edge. so it really depends on what your companies goals are and where they are in a market place. can you mix being innovative and challenging and being non threatening too. yeah but it takes the development of substantial emotional iq. its not easy to achieve. most people fall on one side or the other. ive seen people lie their way into a position yes but ive also seen them pick up the skills because they were ambitious as well and highly motivated. not my pers choice but it can work. every company has a culture that flows from the ceo. find out what that rule set is and at least follow it. yes we should have this ass kissing skill class in school because it is how people move up in corp world. its unfair but its the monkey business of business. this is the planet of the apes after all.
I'm in a similar situation, and your bitterness over not making it to the interview process feels very familiar. It's not healthy, man. I'd recommend putting your energy into an entirely different subject.
Righteous Anger can be a motivator! It can be just what's needed to motivate a person to take a risk - when they've finally had enough, that anger can cause them to take action and move in a different direction. Righteous anger has helped motivate so many, including myself, to make positive changes.
You should get into remote sales...I sell life insurance online through a company that provides us leads and a automated dialer. and made about 3k first month (not working full time)
I’m a 73 year-old retired Silicon Valley electronics engineer and have not seen any of the negativity in the corporate workplace you’ve described in your many videos. My experience is that if you do a good job, the company notices this and will often give larger-than-inflation raises even if you don’t ask for them. So I think high tech companies do try to find the best employees (and often involve their most productive employees in the interviewing process). Perhaps one thing that has helped me is that electronics is my lifelong hobby and you tend to get very good at something you love doing. Your discussion of how some non-productive employees get ahead reminds me of a scene from Seinfeld, where George Costanza explains how he is able to look busy by always looking annoyed: th-cam.com/video/rOQmxNPTJwc/w-d-xo.html
You are blind if you haven't see the corporate bullshit over the past several decades! It has been there since my father started working back in the 1960s! I'm 45 and have seen everything Nick has mentioned on this video and some!
Okay, so you have given your anecdotal evidence, now its my turn. In my experience, working for big tech companies means that I am expected to deliver significantly higher deliverables than my minority/female colleagues, and I got less rewards, no raises, and treated absolutely miserably. You worked in a time where companies actually needed competent engineers and it didn't matter if you werent a minority or a woman because it was about meritocracy. Nowadays, its about checking boxes, not being competent.
I guess you're living in 1982 then lol. Hard work only gets you so far. Typically it gets you more work and the lazy but slick talkers get the rewards in workplaces.
3:16 “ if they are looking for ..AHyy ay ay ayyy yay 😂
😂
Conversely, good people hate companies.
You have to use ai to write the resume and spam apply because you don't know if it is a ghost/fake jobs. Why be honest to a company when the company itself is not being honest to you?
Just get description of job and copy and paste
A dishonest person is the perfect fit for dishonest companies.
@@FullCircleTravis everyone is dishonest but expect others to be honest
This is a result of society turning feral. Too many good people let others walk all over them, didn't fight back when they should have, and now the inmates are running the asylum.
U.S. society has been crazy/feral for many, many decades! Nothing new, there.
Bingo!! I was one of the very first whistleblowers with WF - all it got me was jobloss and subsequent loss of everything.
The next bank laid me off after 6.5 years
Virtually every mortgage company out there rewards slime ball tactics > actually taking a fiduciary role with prospective clients
Now it’s so bad that people really cannot tell who is actually trying to genuinely help vs the shake n bake companies
Then you have the human element: most people want to believe lies - so once a company gives them a lie = they hold onto it only to get jacked in the end.
Women in GENERAL reward men who bring home the bacon regardless if said bacon was made in an unethical manner.
I can only hope that the next life rewards morals and I happen to have met a girl that ACTUALLY isn’t your dime a dozen material secular type
We have both an existential and ontological disaster and rather than people pursue resolving those problems - they think: “dude bruh I jus need more stuff bruh”
In the end most of em end up in divorce court because women ultimately feel unsafe with immoral and unstable behavior especially with guys who stand for nothing
It’s a great example of why you see tons of guys with $$$ and cannot keep a woman around
Good point. Thank you for the comment.
The matrix is a system of exploiting pride to direct people's will. It's essentially forcing selfish people to share goals that benefit someone else by defining how power is earned.
If you're a humble person, you don't need to earn power. You won't fit.
You overlook the interest in obedience, the coercion factor in the H1B arrangement is extreme.
This is true. You may think you are the rockstar programmer wanting to tackle the latest algorithm, but they need you go down to the lab and run the same test for next 3 weeks.
Only between now and Jan 20th
Sometimes doing a good job is a career killer. Why? Because if they promote you to say manager, your productivity might be hard to replace with someone else?
The majority of the time that doesn't happen. Typically, the manager promotion goes to the least productive team member. Management doesn't want to lose the work horse pulling the weight of the team.
@@9libertybell And they call this society capitalist. Ridiculous, lol.
Large corporations that have the pay and advancement opportunities are becoming dominated by private equity, activist investors, the whole goal of the organization is to extract as much money as fast as possible for as litttle effort or expense as possible. You have talked about enshitification here, it is that. There is no greater good or "mission" as there might have been in the past. Management, "Leadership" pay is driven by short term returns. There is no better example than looking at Boeing past and present.
Thank you for the comment. You're right.
Meanwhile the Russia economy (truly capitalist) is killing it.
Has happened to me too many times to count. Ass kissers ALWAYS get the promotion. I am not the type of person that can pretend (at least not very well) that I like someone that I don't. I am friendly and generally if someone has a problem, it's with me, and not the other way around. I think that you are completely right in this video as I've had this happen to me. You're making me rethink my resume. I've been job hunting for a YEAR! Maybe that's my problem, I'm a hard working, nice, intelligent person who wrote their own resume? Yup sounds like a no go...
Meanwhile, I've seen people get promoted before me who have less seniority, are younger, have zero experience or common sense, and do not work as hard. But then again, why would they want to put a hard worker who is good at their job somewhere else? The mindset, in my view, is to put the lazy assholes in management to yell at and threaten all the hard working good people who do their jobs well.
spot on.
Oh wow. Sorry you had to go through that. Thank you for sharing. Good luck out there!
@@LaborGains Thanks buddy. I'll survive! I don't want my comment to come across as a rant against young people either, because reading again it kind of sounds that way but that was just a small part of my over-arching point.
2:14
This issue certainly does start at the job interview process.
If I spot during the interview that the hiring manager has a 'neg' attitude towards either their own role, organistation or especially their colleagues, then that is a red flag to me to beware that this working relationship is not going to work and to avoid it.
Whenever I look back on roles that I have had that have not worked out due to some issue or attitude from a line manager, then I can almost always relate it back to the interview or some personal issues that they are bring in to work from their domestic life.
I can look back on those roles fondly though, in the knowledge that in the short time I have been in them that I have often uncovered some longstanding issue that the line manager will now have to resolve without my help, thus doubling their workload.
This has happened to me more times than I care to mention.
You did an mba have you tried to work your network?
I need to do better at networking. Thank you for the comment.
@@LaborGains Networking as a neet is a meme. The employed don't want to be bugged by the neets and the unemployed can't help you. I made the biggest mistake of networking with other students when I was in uni. The truth is they can't help me plus they are my competitor
Great points and video, Nick! Facts! Most companies DON'T hire the best candidate or candidates! Hiring managers tend to hire mediocre candidates/employees that they personally like!
As a hardware, network, servers, and software engineer (past and present experience), I don't use ChatGPT. It's trash! I use my own thinking and writing skills to create my resume and I haven't had any issues interviewing and getting hired for IT and Tech jobs over the past 7+ years in the industry.
@@izamalcadosa2951 it's not the past 7 years that's been brutal, it's the past 3. And chat GPT has only been out for a year.
Some good points once again that I have agree with and have experienced myself in my career. It’s like the old saying, it’s all about the people you know. I have worked for so many teams that have worked previously together at other companies and typically the majority of the new team builds. I have to say I was never a part of that group and never landed positions because of who I knew. It used to be about your skill sets, experience and discipline in your craft. It seems like in the past years that its just not important anymore.
Thank you for the comment! Yea, I am not sure how anyone is landing a job these days without tapping into their network. Job applications seem to get lost in a void.
the people ive seen get promotions are those who know how to go along and get along well with others. they have some non emotional non reactive element to them that kind of puts others at ease. yes they may not be quite the best but they dont threaten the status quo or upend the apple cart with challenging the way things are done. they are essentially non threatening to the leaders that are there already. so this is obviously a double edged sword. on the one hand they are easily controlled and known quantities and wont threaten - but - they typically dont know how to innovate or dont innovate new processes or ideas that will keep your company on the cutting edge.
so it really depends on what your companies goals are and where they are in a market place. can you mix being innovative and challenging and being non threatening too. yeah but it takes the development of substantial emotional iq. its not easy to achieve. most people fall on one side or the other. ive seen people lie their way into a position yes but ive also seen them pick up the skills because they were ambitious as well and highly motivated. not my pers choice but it can work. every company has a culture that flows from the ceo. find out what that rule set is and at least follow it. yes we should have this ass kissing skill class in school because it is how people move up in corp world. its unfair but its the monkey business of business. this is the planet of the apes after all.
Oh wow. Thank you for sharing.
I'm in a similar situation, and your bitterness over not making it to the interview process feels very familiar. It's not healthy, man. I'd recommend putting your energy into an entirely different subject.
I understand where you're coming from, but I feel the anger is a therapeutic response to being strung along.
Righteous Anger can be a motivator! It can be just what's needed to motivate a person to take a risk - when they've finally had enough, that anger can cause them to take action and move in a different direction. Righteous anger has helped motivate so many, including myself, to make positive changes.
You should get into remote sales...I sell life insurance online through a company that provides us leads and a automated dialer. and made about 3k first month (not working full time)
Are they good leads? What's your average conversion rate?
@@herbertscott9575 they're warm leads, conversion is 1% but you could do more if your better...im just 2 months of sales experience
@@herbertscott9575 thy're warm leads, my conversation rate is 1% but im new to sales. if you want more info lemme know . the company is very small atm
Thank you for the suggestion!
@@LaborGains teams hiring lemme know if you want in
I’m a 73 year-old retired Silicon Valley electronics engineer and have not seen any of the negativity in the corporate workplace you’ve described in your many videos. My experience is that if you do a good job, the company notices this and will often give larger-than-inflation raises even if you don’t ask for them. So I think high tech companies do try to find the best employees (and often involve their most productive employees in the interviewing process). Perhaps one thing that has helped me is that electronics is my lifelong hobby and you tend to get very good at something you love doing. Your discussion of how some non-productive employees get ahead reminds me of a scene from Seinfeld, where George Costanza explains how he is able to look busy by always looking annoyed: th-cam.com/video/rOQmxNPTJwc/w-d-xo.html
You are blind if you haven't see the corporate bullshit over the past several decades! It has been there since my father started working back in the 1960s! I'm 45 and have seen everything Nick has mentioned on this video and some!
Okay, so you have given your anecdotal evidence, now its my turn. In my experience, working for big tech companies means that I am expected to deliver significantly higher deliverables than my minority/female colleagues, and I got less rewards, no raises, and treated absolutely miserably. You worked in a time where companies actually needed competent engineers and it didn't matter if you werent a minority or a woman because it was about meritocracy. Nowadays, its about checking boxes, not being competent.
@@Joe-n4q Preach!💯
I guess you're living in 1982 then lol. Hard work only gets you so far. Typically it gets you more work and the lazy but slick talkers get the rewards in workplaces.
That's a great scene.