r/antiwork • u/DumbLuckDaDuck • 1d ago

Job market is officially cooked

Been interviewing at entry-level places over the past few months and yesterday I had an interview for a general labor position stocking product in a warehouse and assisting delivery of products to work sites...16$ an hour...Guy tells me it'll be close to 3 weeks before I hear back cause he's got around 20-30 interviews to go through. Cool I get it. But let me just say to you guys WHAT'S GOING ON? How is anyone surviving right now?

This is just ONE of the dozens of places I've interviewed with over the last few months where they either stated before I asked or when I asked about following up the same exact thing...Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for the job I have now but this shits insane to think that it's really THAT BAD out here.

Moral of the story if you have a job currently, think twice before you do anything you might regret cause this shits bad man just be humble and rough it out for a bit you'll be fine.

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u/MAJ0RMAJOR 22h ago

Sworn statements for the missing documentation

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u/salsaman87 14h ago

Hard yes to this. I got lucky as hell when I decided to apply, one huge roadblock was that I had zero paper trail except for my feet.

I did it all myself after creeping the vetbenefits sub, that place has the info you need. If you were in during peak GWOT they will be more understanding and I just plain got lucky with my examiners.