I am willing to give up time out of my life (which is not renewable) for money from a company (which is renewable) and I am treated with contempt at job interviews like they are doing me a favor and treated as if I am trying to scam them. Why is society like this?

If I am helping your business make money shouldn’t there be some minimal gratitude? Instead companies treat you as if you are lucky to be helping them and they treat you as if you are constantly trying to scam them.

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    If you feel, in an interview, that you’re being negatively judged. Leave. You are interviewing them just as much as they, you. Sure there is a slightly different power dynamic at play but the point of contempt and feeling like they’re doing you a favor shouldn’t exist.

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      This isn’t super useful for people that are paycheck-to-paycheck and close to desperation mode.

      Though to add to that, I’d suggest everyone live as far below their means as possible and save their asses off just for this reason.

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    I am willing to give up time out of my life (which is not renewable) for money from a company (which is renewable) and I am treated with contempt at job interviews like they are doing me a favor and treated as if I am trying to scam them. Why is society like this?

    Interviews work both ways. You are interviewing them just like they are interviewing you. They are doing you a huge favor in acting this way. Now you know you don’t want to work for them. This is much better than them pretending to be nice and you finding out later that it’s miserable.

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    It’s all about supply and demand.

    If there is 150 more applicants coming in after you, they simply don’t need to treat you well. They can just wait till someone comes along that doesn’t have outrageous demands like “respect” or “dignity”.

    My advise would be to get skills in an high-demand area, then recruiters have to kiss your ass!

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    To the employers who treat their employees like this, employees are just numbers. Why put in the effort to build a relationship with a replaceable part? I agree with Ashy’s supply and demand point as well.

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    A job should be a mutal relationship. Just like anything romantic, if there toxic you should look else ware. I have worked at one company for 6 months and the people are nice, but the job is awful and i put in my 2 weeks today. Because i checked out other business’s and the one i am currently am set up to go work for is sooooo much better. They wanted to make sure that the company and i were both happy. Compared to my current job that is “your hired”.

    You just gotta find the right place to work, just like finding the right partner. It may take some time, but you will not regret it. Capitalism is self regulating if people are willing to fight for there workers rights and not take a job that pays less and cheats there workers. Those busniess will raise there wage and improve work enviroment. Or will no longer be in bussniess, because they went bankrupt.

    My first job, i really liked. Good pay short hours, but one day the boss chewed me out infront of other workers. (Which i must add is not approrate) i told them i was thinking about quiting and THEY BEGGED ME not to. I still did and went belly up, i still dont regret it.

    Fight for what you belive in! And hang in there, dont feel like your trapped to a business

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      Capitalism is self regulating

      It most certainly is not. The bargaining power of a corporation and individual worker are not the same. It’s why labor unions exist. Additionally governments should regulate commerce for the benefit of everyone.

      Lastly, please review and understand the differences between your and you’re, as well as their, there, and they’re. Absolutely frustrating trying to read what you wrote.

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        Unions are part of that system, though - and the OP mentions them as being a leverage tool specifically.

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      Capitalism is self regulating if people are willing to fight for there workers rights and not take a job that pays less and cheats there workers. Those busniess will raise there wage and improve work enviroment. Or will no longer be in bussniess, because they went bankrupt.

      Lmmfao, have you been living under a rock?? Never mind the privilege that oozes from your comment…
      Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, OP! 🙄🙄🙄

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      Self regulating, LMAO.

      Ever heard of the term ‘capital strike’?

      You won’t hear about it in the news, I wonder why?

      The people today are at the end of a 4 decades long capital strike, and it doesnt look like its abetting, in fact, it’s looks like the slave owners are doubling down throwing inflation into the mix.

      Inflation, is a tool not an outcome. It’s used to cudgel the poors back into complacency. Reduce their purchasing power, increase levels of despair.

      Do you think I’m wrong about that? You might be thinking of the old version of the game. There’s been an update, it just didn’t get many headlines in the papers. Look up Modern Monetary Theory. I mean, why have the largest armed forces and a fiat currency if you aren’t willing to leverage them to get what you’re donors want?. Do you even capitalism bro?

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    Because to companies, labor is just a business expense, you’re a cost to be kept low so they can please investors/shareholders. Our system isn’t for your average worker, it’s for the people who own the businesses.

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    What does it mean for a company to be renewable? Like you’re trying to say you want work in the field of renewable energy?