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Interviews as seen by HR and the candidate

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One thing that infuriates me with job interviews is how they will write you off the second you are late. But they sure as hell can be late by as much as they want. And will treat you like shit if they are in a rush, or if they forgot about your scheduled time slot (had this happen with a phone interview that I even proved to the receptionist that I had in fact followed the instructions). They should be required to pay the person being interviewed for each hour (rounded up even if just 15min) wasted or their own lateness.

I absolutely despise these implied "trick question" mentality that HR and job market shills have.
- Yeah they really like to act like they're giving away £50k on a whim and not paying someone for their labour.

Capitalism would be slightly more bearable if all companies dropped the "we care about you" shtick and just straight up told you their only motive is profit and that they're here to exploit you.
Right now we're literally living under capitalism but you're not allowed to point that out to any of the capitalists. I'm so damn sick of this stupid charade I have to play just for the privilege of being a wage slave.
- No it wouldn't. :)

"I'll care about the company if you make me a shareholder, until then, not my problem."
- Last year I was talking with a veteran coworker who was worried about where the company was going to end up in 10 years, but my contract ends in a year and will not be renewed. I told her openly, they're not paying me to think about 10 years from now, they're paying me to make the next year a good year, and I don't really care about the long-term future cuz I won't be here. She was furious, but she wasn't furious enough to go get me a long-term contract. I think she never saw the hypocrisy; even today she still thinks that I'm a bad worker.
- Exactly, unless it's a cooperative all I care about is my compensation.

I have a friend who used to work in HR at some point, before he decided to leave and rejoin college. From what he tells me, it seems like many HR people hate this shit as well. But they're simply supposed to work like this. There's this nebulous concept of what they should do, and they do it as a whole, even if most of the individuals don't like it. The destruction of individual decision making, and any kind of critical thinking and discussion is an aspect of capitalism that isn't discussed enough.
- It's certainly true that the system is broken, but at the same time you're suggesting we should forgive HR employees for the bad stuff they do, and I don't think that's how morality works.
  Not only that, we all understand that sometimes employees don't have control of a situation and they're going to follow company policy or go along with their bosses. But we can see through their words and their body language how they feel about it, and we can recognize small actions that they could take to make a bad situation slightly less bad. In my experience it's very rare that you will encounter such behavior in HR, because the vast majority of HR workers are perfectly happy to f*** us over as much as they can.
  
  To be completely clear, I'm not making excuses. I still hate HR people. All I'm saying is that it's a feature of capitalism, that turns people into shitheads. Sometimes against their wish.

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