• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Even better, each job app asks for something specific so you have to alter or re-write your cover letter hundreds of times for the hundreds of apps you have to submit to get a single shitty job.

    Or they have a questionnaire, so instead of just submitting the cover letter and resume you’ve painstakingly constructed (and probably having to alter those), you have to type a paragraph long answer for each of the questions, amounting to at least another page or two you have to generate every. single. time.

    I work in IT and essentially every job app had a questionnaire.

    That way when you get a job you feel like you’ve won some sort of dystopian lotto and are just happy you aren’t starving in a gutter. Feels intentional.