In mid-January 2023, my temporary contract with my employer ran up and I was laid off. Since then, I have applied to over 140 jobs. I know the number because I have to track and report all of my applications in order to get unemployment benefits.
Most jobs didn’t call or email back. Only a handful called to do an interview. Only one place hired me in late March for what seemed like a simple payroll/data entry position, and within a week, I realized it was a pyramid scheme. I came down with a bad flu the next week, and while I was recovering, I was fired via text.
I don’t remember where I heard this, but it was said that many of these jobs aren’t actually hiring at all, and they’re putting out bogus applications on job sites to make investors think they’re a big, growing company worth investing in. I can’t help but feel like there’s truth to it.
I can cite the whole Fake Listings thing for you. It is true.
About between 1-in-4 and 1-in-3 job listings in the US are just fucking fake. A combination of identity theft scams, attempts to prove growth to investors, and attempts to suppress labour complaints by understaffed and overworked employees.
