“would you be comfortable with not being paid”
Subjective Question
- Objective Answer
Curious
I’ll pose my own question.
Would you be comfortable if your employees worked other jobs that reduce their schedule flexibility and could cause scheduling conflicts or coverage gaps between shifts? (for example, I can’t work mon, tues, thurs, fri because I have another job that gives me a regular paycheck and they have scheduled me working then.)
Some of the shit I am seeing right now while job searching is just appalling. I have had to opt out to having an AI review my resume twice. The employers CLAIM they won’t see that as a negative, but I have my doubts. The sketchiness of some of them is amazing too. Check this one out:
And the language, it makes me want to get stabby. “Are you a visionary creative leader with a passion for social media and an eye for aesthetics?” Can you go fuck yourselves?
Also, having never worked in the UK before, I’m pretty shocked that they want to know my sexuality and whether I am the same gender I was assigned at birth. That is on a LOT of job applications and it is not always skippable even if I thought it was a good idea to skip it. Totally wouldn’t be legal in the U.S.
A couple of days ago, I applied for the position of “Creative Content Creator.” I believe there is a phrase in the U.K. for being laid off- “made redundant…” I think you’re made redundant when you get hired for that job.
BTW that AI bullshit is illegal in the EU, thank Brexit for that.
Lovely. I am not happy about having to emigrate to a non-EU country, but it’s my only choice.
That said, it’s not a lovely thing here either. They absolutely do discriminate on how your name sounds, in some places being asked for a picture is still the norm, my landlord literally had to see our engagement photos before renting to us, and I could continue.
Back where I emigrated from (similar reasons to yours), there is a saying “the fences are not made of sausages over there either”. But the thing is, they are not made of shit like back home. There is a valid reason you came here, and I think you’ve made the right choice. I know I have.
Employers suck ass everywhere. You can do it. We’re fingers crossed for you from over the Channel.
Thanks so much, I am busting my ass trying!
Totally wouldn’t be legal in the U.S.
Yeah well not for long.
On the sexuality/gender thing. They are actually required to ask this in the UK. It would be illegal for them not to ask (I think it depends on the company size though). This is because employers are required to report these statistics to the government to prove they are not influencing hiring decisions.
If 10% of applicants are homosexual, but only 2% of your hires are, then you are in trouble, because it shouldn’t make a difference.
no the correct answer is fuck off
would you be comfortable with a worker whose productivity may vary from week to week or month to month?
There’s a correct answer?
There is, nobody can be comfortable not knowing whether they’ll be able to afford rent next month.
No, but if those irregular paychecks are high enough, you may be able to create a reserve to work around it. Ti’s how owning businesses and being self employed works.
Everyone thinks being youtuber/streamer is sweet until they realize they have no idea when the next ad-pocalypse or algorithm change will be and when they are getting paid next.
I didn’t realize until right now that part of my personal definition of “career” includes a steady (or at least somewhat predictable) income.
Hahahaha, just a meme right?.. Right?
“We’ve polled our workforce about our new Dynamic Wages™️initiative, and 100% of remaining employees agree!”
Cool, so you’re an employee owned cooperative now?
Yes, only companies can be worried about that profit increase not going up at the same rate as before.
As long as there’s a contracted minimum and advanced scheduling its fine. I don’t think this is what they’re asking.
