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Several boomer relatives have NEVER been dinged on a job application
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:23 PM Author: Hairraiser gas station reading party In high school, the local record store had a help wanted sign, so you walked right in and got a job.
In college, they asked who was hiring for interesting entry level work and someone got them a job.
After that, they just job hopped until they all lived in million dollar houses and the economy was in shambles. No sending hundreds of apps. No ghosting. Definitely no 4 rounds of interviews.
These boomers run the gamut from HYP high achievers to more average SUNY alums. Individually, they're all very nice, if completely clueless. |
Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:27 PM Author: Bright State Round Eye I've never been dinged for a job either but I understand I've been very lucky. LJL @ what new recruits have to go through. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878132) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:32 PM Author: Hairraiser gas station reading party How is that even possible in current year clown world, unless you've only worked for a family company or have some soft factor in play? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878145) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:35 PM Author: Bright State Round Eye I'm in my 40's. I went to law school and did OCI. Not every firm wanted me, but I'm not counting that as a ding. I did the summer associate bullshit, got the offer, spent seven years there before getting the talk. Called up someone who had worked for the firm and also received the talk, he went in-house at a major client. They had another opening that I interviewed for, and I'm still there ten years later. I work with lots of people who have been around for decades, I anticipate just retiring eventually and never going on another interview.
The flip side of this, by the way, is that I've been fired from 100% of my previous jobs lmao. I'm also not counting high school shit. I worked at a Chinese restaurant during high school and had work study in college. I'm sure I applied for other stuff I didn't get but don't really remember it. |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:47 PM Author: Hairraiser gas station reading party So it's also possible for someone under 50 if you don't count all the times he got dinged in high school, college, and law school, and he lucked into a job when getting pushed out of a firm that would have made him partner 25 years earlier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878223) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:51 PM Author: bearded bat shit crazy menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878250) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:07 PM Author: Bright State Round Eye I was giving never been dinged a reasonable construction. The archetypal boomer might have gotten a job by going into the record store and asking if they were hiring. That doesn't mean they literally got hired at the first record store they walked into. Their useless advice is typically to pound the pavement and go from business to business, not to just walk into any business and start working there. I suspect if you asked the boomers you're so irate about have been rejected from at least one job one time.
A strict reading of this is just absurd. "Oh no, I didn't get the job at Burger King, instead I worked at a Chinese eatery, I've been DINGED. If only I was a boomer!"
And I lucked into nothing. In house jobs like to hire known quantities because determining legal skills in an interview is hard. If you were any good in lol school you had biglaw if you wanted it. If you were any good in biglaw, then you very easily transitioned into in-house work even if you had to apply at two places. If this wasn't your experience, either you didn't want it or you weren't good. |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:10 PM Author: Hyperactive abode OCI dings obviously count dumbass. If you don’t count those than tons of lawyers can say the same thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878361) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:13 PM Author: Bright State Round Eye Oh, okay, so if you apply to all the V5 and only get into 4 of them, then you've been DINGED!!!! Okay, fine, but by that standard the boomers were all dinged too. Unless someone swore a religious oath at 18 and was a monk their entire life, nobody ever got EVERYTHING they applied for even boomers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878371) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2023 5:55 PM Author: Hyperactive abode The whole point of the conversation is that some people claim to have NEVER been dinged. Yes the idea is that it should be absurdly rare which is why we count getting dinged by law firms in any context.
OCI as we know it didn’t even exist for boomers. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2023 6:44 PM Author: titillating slate forum striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45883978) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:19 PM Author: titillating slate forum striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878391) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:13 PM Author: Slap-happy office IANAL (eye-anal) but it seems like the majority of the inhousemos here got their job after countless applications over a number of years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878373) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:19 PM Author: titillating slate forum striped hyena cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878392) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:30 PM Author: claret kitty cat My parents are like "it's cool, everyone just gets tons of promotions if you put any effort in at all and then you'll get your pension and chill forever"
Makes me maf. |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:32 PM Author: Bright State Round Eye lol I have a friend who works at some places that administers pensions for retirees, and she *doesn't get a pension*, she has a 401(k). Seems like an insane career choice, when these old fucks die the company will no longer exist and she'll have a totally obsolete career. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878153) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:50 PM Author: mint frisky principal's office In college I got a job because I went to get a sandwich, and the shop proprieter yelled at me "Hey man, do you need a job? We're hiring." I hadn't even really thought about getting a job at that point (it was the beginning of Fall Semester), but I thought for a second and I said, "yeah sure." He told me to fill out an application and bring it back on any day at 10:30. On the day I brought it back he put me on the line, rolling the sandwiches. At the end of the day, he said, "do you still want a job?" I said, "yes." He said, "here, memorize what's in these sandwiches. when you can get the whole menu committed to memory, I'll give you a quarter raise." And that, my friends, is how I went from making $7.25 an hour to making $7.50 an hour making sandwiches for people. |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:55 PM Author: Purple Passionate Business Firm And that, my friends, is how I went from 195lbs to 275lbs making sandwiches for people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878278) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:56 PM Author: mint frisky principal's office When I had that job I was 180-190 lbs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878285) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2023 6:01 PM Author: shaky diverse spot Bro, I made $10.25 per hour at my first job as a fucking EMT. I can't believe I was only making $3 more--excuse me, $2.75--to literally save lives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45883826) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:10 PM Author: Violent Location Macaca (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878362) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 4:16 PM Author: iridescent french indian lodge haunted graveyard "woe is me!" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878383) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2023 3:56 PM Author: bossy buff selfie Firm handshake. Eye Contact. Certified Letter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45878283) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2023 7:08 PM Author: Scarlet histrionic boiling water regret The ridiculous thing is that this even applies to non-boomers in prestige jobs if you graduate in the right economy. I had a buddy in college who was applying to i-banking jobs in the early 2000's right after Enron. An interviewer at one bank dinged him because he told them that he had applied to other banks. The interviewer said something to the effect of, "If you were any good, you wouldn't need to apply to these second-tier banks. Me and my frat brothers only applied to one bank when we were in school." Of course, they graduated at the height of the 90's tech boom where anyone with a pulse and an HYPS degree could get a big banking job. It didn't seem to occur to him that the job market might be different a few years later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5282853&forum_id=2#45884053) |