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BLS revision shows annual hiring was overstated by 911,000 jobs
Turns out there was nearly a million less jobs then previously thought
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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Just lie, say self employment as like... Anything. IT services are great for this because nobody can fucking check anything if it doesn't exist anymore. Or just "painter and decorator" is pretty good. Gardening services. The kinds of things you can cold call people for and there'll be odd jobs people need doing.
Pretty much anyone could pretend to have done a variety of IT services as self employed without any ability to verify any of it. Say you were the top seller for search optimisation services on Fiverr. It's impossible to verify and easily makes more than enough income for one person a year to justify it.
Yep "my uncle hired me for landscaping" nobody asks more.
unironically, thanks
No worries, it works and is actually a selling point to some. There's no need to admit unemployment ever.
Ive been to double digit job interviews this year and gotten nothing, I'm going back to school instead now lmao 
I went to a job interview and got ghosted by HR, I sat in the lobby for half an hour before stealing a magazine and leaving
Another interview was 3 hours long (
I got a rejection email 4 months later so thats something I guess
man the ghosting kills me. how is that in any way professional
Professionalism is when we make you eat endless shit and you never complain
I got myself into a situation where I needed a job NOW and almost two years later I'm still delivering boxes for Amazon. Gonna put my diplomas up in the un-air-conditioned cargo hold
Looking for a job on top of 10 hour days in 100 degree weather is just too much...
i applied to about a thousand jobs over the course of 2 years but i gave up, it was ruining my mental health
no one wants to hire someone who needs disability accommodations
Yeah I worked through trying to get accommodations at work, got a small fraction of what I asked for, and have been suffering since. It’s probably in my head, but I feel like it mostly made things worse. This is why people suffer in silence; at least that way there’s no retribution
they say that they're very accepting and accommodating, but at the end of the day a capitalist will never do something that'd hurt their bottom line. making money is way more important than throwing scraps to the people making them that money
It’s been a very humbling experience -was diagnosed later in life and mask/present as “typical”. Seemed to go:
Me: ahh finally learned why I feel the way I do - I’ll feel so much being able to accept myself!
Them: hey put that mask back on! No one wants to see that!!
At least when I was delusional, there was less self loathing
i feel you, went through about the same myself
Appreciate it. At least we can try to use the experience to help others!
But at least the whole process was also dehumanizing
This is real, the moment I say I have Autism, I'm not getting hired and it fucking sucks.
Been volunteering in Community Radio for a while now, it doesn't pay but it's at least shit to tide me over, but atp I doubt I'll ever have a job that isn't volunteering, thank god for parents and the albeit small Canadian Social Safety Net.
basically same for me, im trying to get on disability aid and just volunteer places
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 
Either fighting in the revolution or dying in the water wars.
If they say "We'll let you know by Friday" then you didn't get the job
I'm honestly surprised more people aren't going postal at workplaces. There's a lot of wannabe Charlie Kirks that love to make people jump through hoops for $12/hr
Guns and ammo are pricey these days, much like everything else
Capitalism solving the mass shooter problem by making people too poor to afford guns
the guns are easily affordable, its the ammo that'll kill ya
Oh just like razors and inkjet printers and phone contracts and smart TVs and fucking everything else in this scam zone we all live in
Do they have Temu guns? Pew pew for the penny pinchers?
I spent 2 years looking for a tech job, with 10 years experience in the roles I was shooting for. Its fucking ROUGH out there. Luckily I started working for a nonprofit via Americorps right now, but if there's any people who want to apply to software companies, hit me up and I can share some sites that aren't on the beaten path that got me some interviews.
It fucking sucks, and im underemployed now but im in the "at least its something" camp, plus its good work so hopefully this next year let's me career pivot into homelessness work
same.. im about 1 year in and though i've had a few interviews, they've all been real WTF moments.. 4 years ago all i had to do was think about looking for a job and i'd have 3 offers lined up.. now i get the first interview, the guy can't find my resume, doesn't listen to a word I say, doesn't know anything about the job he's interviewing me for, and then i get the rejection afterward. this is the craziest shit
Is hiring.cafe one of those sites?
No, I was thinking more Idealist and whatever Angels List (the job board for tech startups) rebranded to
My contract ended early where I was working and I've been applying to things nonstop for the last two months, not a single place has responded to me.
I couldnt even land a job DRIVING A FUCKING TRUCK.
I'm not yet looking for a job, but I'm not looking forward to getting into it 
If I end up losing this job because of bullshit I'll just start selling shit again lmao
Told myself if i lose this job im just gonna teach
I spent almost 2 years looking, then I lucked out and found out that my old job from about 20 years ago was open again. My old boss was even still there. I'd probably still be looking otherwise.
i don't put any gaps.. i just extend the date of my last job to the start of my next one. No one knows, no one cares.
Why don't they just ask chatGPT since it seems to be ingrained into every single other part of the hiring process now?
hey it me
Yep, I'm trying to get out of my particular retail hell, this place fucking sucks, I'm so chained to the register all closing shift I can't even go pee or drink water, fucking full on labor violations but no one gaf few coworkers tried reporting and no luck, and I already have shitty kidneys. I have such bad luck I can't even catch another equally shitty job for an interview to scare people off. It doesn't help I live in a pornographically poor rural Gummo hellhole, so all that's available are retail hell jobs and hellish medical. Online jobs scarce af, and I'm so thoroughly burnt out at my in person job I've fucked up on my online job I'm on my last warning for performance, my health has also taken a huge hit, talk about a ridiculous catch22.
Right now I'm really eyeing some hell medical jobs that offer paid training since its a way out, but I'll probably get ghosted after the interview, if I even make it that far.
the gap keeps growing and the employers keep leaving 
https://econu.substack.com/p/the-job-applicant-who-was-ghosted?r=64j4w3&triedRedirect=true
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