The State Of The Job Market Job Seeking Process Is Reducing Applicants To Desperate Beggars. [View all]

[TheMastersNemesis]

The new job market seems more like a terrible gauntlet today. With so many applicants even for the most meager job applicants are stripped of their dignity, their privacy and even of their humanity. Employers seem to be able to demand just about anything of applicants. Will strip searches eventually be common. In effect your very life is strip searched.

Now applicants are subject to endless interrogating interviews, credit checks, psych tests, drug tests, etc. Then they have to wait days in anguish to find out if they got the job or not. In some cases the wait can be weeks. Now you cannot ever see a person but must submit to your resume or application to "the machine" where one wrong or off key word will get your application bounce to the "ether world" or in "file thirteen". And you will never know what the offense was.

Beyond that once you get the job you have to be careful of what you do when not working. An unapproved public word, being in an unapproved political action or even questionable act will get you the "chop". On top of risks of personal behavior refusing even the most outrageous or even illegal employer request you can be fired.

In the era of "immediate disposability" we no know what the Reagan Revolution was all about if you work for a living. Just like FDR once said, "If you are not economically free, you are not free" as a human being. Now that the "market is supreme" as workers we are no longer in any better position than an "aging quarterback's last game".

Sadly the new application and job seeking process is now a "casino". You stand a better chance at the roulette table.

The problem is how do we now change all this abuse now that "de regulation" of everything is the new mode? As long as we refuse to election pro labor or even pro union candidate the country will have to suffer on.