• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    9 days ago

    My personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    492·
    9 days ago

    1970s: … this man has a pulse! … we’ll start him in the warehouse … wait a minute, he’s white! … put him in management!

  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    40·
    9 days ago

    I did an internship at a crime lab for college. College over, I eventually applied to that very lab. I probably didn’t interview well (too much detail in my explanation for the layman juror), and I didn’t get the job. I asked where I could improve and was told the aforementioned along with the fact that other people who were interviewing had masters or were already certified forensic scientists. I had a bachelor’s. It was an entry job that I could’ve done in my sleep.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      1·
      6 days ago

      My BS is a dual major microbiology/chemistry. I was working temp because getting in full time was hard as heck and was usually the most unwanted of jobs, production (dangerous) or quality (boring). Full time also paid less and temp pay was shit. Certainly not enough to have your own place. Spent two years getting my pay as high as possible and realized a guy with a masters was making the same as me doing the same stuff. Then you had them highering associates for little over minimum wage doing much the same lab work. That is when I got a cert and changed to tech work.

  • ladicius@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 days ago

    1980s were very different, and since then companies started (and never did stop) to behave like assholes towards employees, environment and regulation.

      • ladicius@lemmy.world
        17·
        8 days ago

        That a…hole really marked a turning point, and Thatcher and Kohl transferred the evil to Europe.

        We could have had a kind and healthy world and got a hellscape of hatred and greed instead.

        • TheFriar@lemm.ee
          8·
          8 days ago

          Welllll…capitalism was always on a less than virtuous path. The robber barons, the long history of violent attacks on strikers…capitalism was never going to let us be happy. We pie had to fight for everything we’ve won.

          • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            8 days ago

            If they failed to steal that one, they were going to steal the next one. 2000 wasn’t some kind of fluke. It was an organized, targeted effort to change tje political landscape, and it had been in progrwss for many years at that point. They weren’t going to stop if they fell a little short.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    8 days ago

    The missing last two panels: "Oh, you know Tony Shitforbrains, our head accountant?! Right this way, why didn’t you say so in your resume? We’ll get it set up right next to his office.“

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    10·
    8 days ago

    Ive had interviews where they’re concerned that I haven’t used their specific software stack. Bro I’m a tech nerd I can easily learn your shitty software stack and apply my skills because conceptually it’s all the same. Plus it was an entry level job offering a trash wage so get fucked.