• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    These are questions for after receiving an offer.

    The questions you should ask now would be along the lines of management style, corporate culture, and team dynamics. It’s the first few dates, not a marriage proposal.

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      lol no. If a company can’t answer what my work hours are gonna be before we even have the first interview, I’m not wasting my time.

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      To stay in the dating metaphor:

      Would you want the other party to be upfront about serious issues, or prefer to get to know that down the line?

      In dating terms these are topics like “do you have children from a previous relationship” or “i plan to move to a different state in a few months”.

      If you dont respect the other side enough to discuss these things right away, the relationship is destinend to fail.

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      I disagree. They’re important for me to know if I want to keep pursuing this job opportunity or if I should stop wasting our time. I don’t want to do a second or third interview only to find out afterwards about all these factors. I could be out there interviewing for other jobs in the meantime, not in a second interview at this shitty company that doesn’t want to tell me how shitty it is until they’ve offered e the job.

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        If you have market power, make sure you demand the terms upfront.

        People who have market power and don’t do it, are bootlickers

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        9 hours ago

        I don’t see how answering any of these question in s straight forward and honest way would reveal if this company is shitty or not. Their ability to provide free parking is far an indicator of quality.

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          Interesting that you cherry picked that one… I would consider work hours and whether or not you’ll get health insurance to be pretty consequential

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      That’s how corpos want this process structured…

      Why should people waste their time to go through the dating process only to find counterparty is an idiot.

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        11 hours ago

        They can do that because they have the power. You only have power after an offer is made. Then leverage that power to get what you need.

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          That’s the reality and companies are abusing this process by making hiring process a dick sucking, boot licking hunger games style process

          It is disgusting

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            11 hours ago

            I don’t disagree with any of this, but I don’t know how this is connected to when it’s appropriate to ask these questions. What am I missing?

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              If worker are able to shift the power balance to where employer has to tell term of the employment on the front end, we would NOT get abused as much during interview process.

              For example as middle age cuck, I don’t even talk to recurieter unless we agree on salary range that is acceptable to me. I am not wasting my time.

              Obviously entry level can’t do that but adults should be a lot hard on these corporate IMHO

              It is our job to the drive this. Boomers unwillingness to do this got us into this situation.

              But yes, as person on bad luck, young or otherwise unemployed, has to play the game how you outlined.

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                Well, good luck organizing the union of the unemployed people. That’s not a category that is easy to gather.

                Or you can play the individual game, and save your power to use when it will have some effect on your ongoing life, instead of just some psychological comfort on the short duration of an interview.

                Yes, it sucks that you have to choose.