Not really a similar story, but the OP brought it to mind.
I once applied for a position as a software developer. It said āJava and RPG.ā
I hadnāt done any Java in about 4.5 years at the time. And Iād never so much as touched RPG.
When they asked if Iād done any Java programming, I responded that it had been a few years, but Iād be ābrushing upā on it. I wasnāt completely new to it.
But I said since Iād never touched RPG, I had been studying that in preparation for the interview.
And the interviewer looked at me funny and said āwhy?ā
I explained that it was in the job description for the position Iād applied to. And he basically facepalmed, exasperated at whichever department was responsible for the job listings.
Iāve worked there for almost 8 years now and havenāt done so much as a single line of RPG.
Then there was the time I applied to a job listing for a Python developer. I showed up and they asked if I had any C# experience. I told them Iād never touched C#, but am a quick study. They said they were migrating away from Python to C#. Said it as if I shouldnāt have applied if I didnāt have C# experience. But I donāt know by what logic they expected me to have been able to intuit that given that the job listing said nothing about C#. Just Python.
Basically, Iāve never applied to a job that didnāt have glaring inaccuracies in the listing.
Same experience here.
Iāve learned the basics of 15 different database, coding, web design languages over the course of many different tech jobs ā¦ because my job description would just randomly expand into something new within 2 months.
And of course, I had to teach myself all this, with only one exception of an actual competent manager who actually properly trained me.
Nothing is ever documented, or the documentation is wrong.
One job I had as a data analyst for the executive level of a logistics company. The person I was replacing had coded some extremely high level reports wrong and was double counting some categories such that total, global revenue for the company was overestimated by about 30%
I fixed it and explained the fix.
Not a single executive of this world wide logistics company seemed to notice.
Is this why 85% of nurses are rude and generally unpleasant to work with?
Theyāre treated like shit by patients and their experience will basically always be considered irrelevant if a brand new doctor disagrees (I get why, but itās still gotta be irritating). Iād be rude too.
I once a applied for a job that said C# .NET in the title, the requirements listed embedded systems programming qualifications, and their automated hiring thing gave me a little āaptitude testā asking questions for a tech support role. Literally one of the questions was if I would be able to install antivirus software on other employeesā computers.
And this is why you never say no to a job posting just because you think youāre not qualified. Apply anyway. You might be exactly what theyāre looking for and be an otherwise great fit.
Every job Iāve had except for my first retail job I have not met the posted requirements, but Iāve been able to either learn on the job or proved in the interview process that I know the subject matter despite not having the degree.
Umā¦ No. If the company doesnāt value my time by posting a correct job listing, I donāt want to work for them. These are the same HR people posting the jobs who will then have trouble maintaining a good work environment, or making sure people arenāt abused/harassed in the workplace. These people will have access to your data and youāll be trusting them to not make paper airplanes out of your SSN. And if itās not HR creating the job postings, itās some low/mid-level manager you might have to work for some day. Do you really want Mr ābetter make sure the new waiter knows how to install HVACsā handling your workload and giving you tasks?
When a company tells you its HR department is full of idiots I think you wanna listen to them.
Iāve never seen a posting that far off. I mean if youāre applying for waiter jobs and they list a bunch of HVAC qualifications, that sounds more like a mistake where they gave the wrong position title or selected the wrong job description. Which would be an honest mistake. These HR people are human just like you and I. Mistakes will happen.
Different, but still hiring fuckery
Friend applied for a job, database admin, HR called to set-up and interview. Two days later he got an email from the IT department, of that company, telling him that they werenāt actually supposed to be responding to applicants for the position. He emailed asking if the posted position had been filled, and then received weirdly worded response saying yes, but implying that it never opened for that particular job post. Then they stopped communicating with him. They were just posting jobs they werenāt hiring for.
He passed it all off to a link for, employment law, at the city chamber of commerce. Not that anything would be done.
Another possibility: what if the manager had a bias and immediately lied to turn away the applicant because their race/gender/appearance/eyc.
Or instead of just immediately playing the bigotry card on some green textā¦
Person could have walked in and was drunk, or high. Having worked in kitchens way back when I have seen both with great regularity.
Person could have walked in and been immediately inappropriate especially with the front house.
Maybe it was an actual high-end restaurant where it requires somebody to have actual skills,
then just say āyouāre drunk go homeā not pretending like the application didnāt exist
Your assuming that all the details are in the story, and everything said was accurate. Or hell, the story even ever happened and wasnāt made up.
Hereās an example, of people not really connecting the dots when they tell their side of the story. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t0QqrgWVvWw
Also, if a person shows up drunk to an interview, do you think they wouldnāt show up drunk to work? The kitchen is a dangerous place, Iāve personally seen many emergency room visits because someone was careless. And some people arenāt good at accepting ānoā as an answer.
Sadly some ājobsā post positions just to collect resumes and sell the data. Just kicking us while weāre down really š®āšØ
Happens a LOT on LinkedIn. Be wary of recruiters who seem to immediately want your resume and nothing else before providing you with information.
Not just resumes either. I went through 2 interviews for a company, and then was suddenly ghosted after theyād collected the data they needed. They reached out to me, offering a position and when I told them how much I wanted for it (I didnāt realize Iād told them less than they had it listed for, since I hadnāt seen their job openings before being reached out to) they ghosted me and updated their job posting to match my desired pay
Lol restaurants donāt have time for that shit. Who would buy that kind of data from a restaurant anyway? Even if you had more than 200 applicants a month that would probably net you less than $10.
If itās a chain I could definitely see corporate setting up some automated system to do that.
doesnāt need a chain. many companies save money offloading the application process to an external website, and that one manages it for a lot of different companies and then sells your data
Iād definitely start prank calling that place to waste their time.
Someone is getting a lot of no-show reservations.