General
News
Video Games
This thread made me think of other articles I've read regarding the state of IT work in the world right now. Apparently the hiring process now works like this:
I've read that some software developers have been laid off for two years, which is also mentioned in the aforelinked thread. They will apply to roughly two thousand job postings, and get maybe two phone screenings, after which they get ghosted.
Apparently, people can't even land cashier jobs at McDonald's or Taco Bell anymore! They submit an application, call the store, and are told "we're not actually hiring", or "the manager is gone, call back in two weeks".
I got really lucky in my job hunt last fall, in that there was a local company hiring, and a human member of HR actually read my resume.
I wonder if "UBI" will ever be a thing? It's only a matter of time before there are robots which can even do physical jobs like HVAC work. What will it look like on Earth when there are four billion people out of work? Looking at the closest historical precedents, it's only a matter of time before people get violent-- and then what? I can't imagine billionaires ever "taxing" their own robots and doling out cash to the plebes, but who knows.
In other news, today I need to start my application to college for the diaconate. Very excited for this fall.
I'm also managing a subset of liturgical planning for Holy Week at my church; participating in multiple liturgies; running the Pastoral Council; running the annual election process for the Pastoral Council; working on estate planning for my family; maintaining my church's SharePoint site; and several other things I can't even recall at the moment. And that's not even mentioning my "nine-to-five" job!
I'm actually getting kind of loopy and goofy acting from the cumulative lack of sleep. After Holy Week, things should start to settle down for me, and I can sort of get my nervous system back on track a bit.
In the little downtime I have had, been plucking away at a "Cyberpunk 2077" playthrough on Switch 2. I'm enjoying the game even more than I did on my first playthrough a few years ago! Also regarding video games: how does a nine hundred dollar PS5 Pro sound to you? It's just a matter of time before the Switch 2 prices are raised as well, I'm sure.
- Company posts AI-generated job listing.
- An army of unemployed software engineers-- like the hundreds of thousands who have gotten laid off by tech companies over the past two years-- auto-generate resumes via AI, to exactly match the job posting.
- Automated bot armies add to the pile by also spamming fake, generated resumes.
- Company instantly gets over a thousand AI-generated applications. It then ruthlessly uses-- you guessed it-- AI to sift through the AI-created resumes; ninety-nine percent of them get trashed automatically without a human ever seeing them.
- Rinse and repeat.
I've read that some software developers have been laid off for two years, which is also mentioned in the aforelinked thread. They will apply to roughly two thousand job postings, and get maybe two phone screenings, after which they get ghosted.
Apparently, people can't even land cashier jobs at McDonald's or Taco Bell anymore! They submit an application, call the store, and are told "we're not actually hiring", or "the manager is gone, call back in two weeks".
I got really lucky in my job hunt last fall, in that there was a local company hiring, and a human member of HR actually read my resume.
I wonder if "UBI" will ever be a thing? It's only a matter of time before there are robots which can even do physical jobs like HVAC work. What will it look like on Earth when there are four billion people out of work? Looking at the closest historical precedents, it's only a matter of time before people get violent-- and then what? I can't imagine billionaires ever "taxing" their own robots and doling out cash to the plebes, but who knows.
In other news, today I need to start my application to college for the diaconate. Very excited for this fall.
I'm also managing a subset of liturgical planning for Holy Week at my church; participating in multiple liturgies; running the Pastoral Council; running the annual election process for the Pastoral Council; working on estate planning for my family; maintaining my church's SharePoint site; and several other things I can't even recall at the moment. And that's not even mentioning my "nine-to-five" job!
I'm actually getting kind of loopy and goofy acting from the cumulative lack of sleep. After Holy Week, things should start to settle down for me, and I can sort of get my nervous system back on track a bit.
In the little downtime I have had, been plucking away at a "Cyberpunk 2077" playthrough on Switch 2. I'm enjoying the game even more than I did on my first playthrough a few years ago! Also regarding video games: how does a nine hundred dollar PS5 Pro sound to you? It's just a matter of time before the Switch 2 prices are raised as well, I'm sure.