Once per year, every CEO should do the lowest paid job in the company for a week.
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If you think that this is a broken system and not working exactly as intended, you are delusional. The system serves many purposes including: making it harder to leave your job, thus suppressing wage growth, making candidates less likely to negotiate or leverage multiple offers, thus suppressing wage growth, and making it easier to argue that they "just can't fill" their ghost jobs and must outsource or import labor, thus suppressing wage growth.
I heard something like that once, it went something like this: "if you see poor people under capitalism it's not a bug it's a feature"
Any conservative CEO would argue passionately about how difficult job applications build character and show grit and select for the only type of people he wants in that company.
Management should be elected by the workers.
Not sure what bastion of knowledge and responsibility you work in, but in every company I've worked for, my average co-worker has been an idiot. Letting them decide who management is would be a disaster.
Employees have better information than investors, especially now. Most markets today are more feudal than free.
If we voted on management, then our workplaces would become even more meritocratic than they are today. The board member's son would have to impress us first.
Aversion to politics is a symptom of alienation. We should want more politics and more meaningful work rather than the 'I'm forced to work in order to pay rent' system we're currently living.
Would the total amount of politics in our lives change? I mean, right now we're talking about politics for free, like suckers.
If they only cared.
I think that, before every manager interviews a potential employee - every single time - they should go through the ENTIRE application and hiring process themselves. For each and every employee they interview.
EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I own a small business, so I have the advantage of being able to actually do this - and I do. Every time we hire someone. I personally have no tolerance for a fucked up recruitment process, and do not expect good candidates to tolerate it either.
If you are out there looking for a job, remember you are interviewing them as much as they are in interviewing you. How they treat candidates is a good indication of how they will treat their employees.
I hate .. I think it's called Workday? It's the worst. You can't have quotation marks in your resume or it blocks it.
Workday is the absolute fucking worst thing. One job I had I was hired as a programmer and they shifted us to all learning Workday and converting our systems to it. Basic shit like adding two numbers in a dataset could take 10 minutes of work for every fucking number. Absolute cancer of a system. I don't even put that year of work on my resume I never want anyone ever again to think I can be useful working in that system I'd rather be jobless
They should try to live 6 months with the lowest salary they pay at their company.
It seems like an AI written article about a Reddit post that they did not link. The site loads wonky for me so maybe the link was stripped, but I don't know if I believe any of that.
Yeah I agree. Additionally in my experience, management level doesn't have the authority or ability to fire an entire department like HR
It looks like it is right in the piece linked:
Following the manager's report to upper management about the flaws in the ATS, significant action was taken. "Half of the HR department was fired in the following weeks," he stated. The situation serves as a cautionary tale about the potential pitfalls of relying solely on technology in the hiring process.
I'm sure they know. I'm also sure they don't care. I'm 1,000% sure they have never even cared to think about it.
I think most of them will be amused by how frustrating it is.
They believe they became CEO because of their innate ability and hard work. And that every other worker should have a harder time than them. And if they ever experienced the hiring process, they would make it more frustrating on purpose, for the same reason.
How can I be sure? This post proves that even the victims want to impose their same suffering on someone else. Now imagine if someone as entitled as a CEO were to experience that.
The victims don't want to impose suffering for the sake of suffering though. It's supposed to be an empathy building exercise.
The mistake is thinking CEOs have access to any empathy in the first place.
Oh they can use their actual name. That's how broken everything is.
They'll get an AI video interview request, if they are lucky.
Uuuhh so nasty! I say once a year there should be an open season for CEOs and every employee can participate in the hunt. You can bring family and friends, it’s fun for all. We can live stream it.
I've only found a single company that really passed me off. There were a few annoying ones with bad forms but for the most part everyone was very respectful of time.
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