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Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86]

shaserlark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Classics aka why are you complaining:

"Back in my day the job market was also tough“
"When I was applying for a job I had to send out 120 handwritten applications“
"When I made one mistake on the typewriter I had to rewrite the entire cover letter“

They also almost had a heart attack when I took a couple months after college to interview because they didn’t understand that there’s like 5-7 interview rounds on average.

And when I told them I have an offer they were like "wow accept immediately otherwise they’ll rescind it“. And when I told them that I’ll just use that offer as leverage for other potential offers they thought I‘m delusional and acting entitled lol

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Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

When I made one mistake on the typewriter I had to rewrite the entire cover letter

Bro just backspace. What kind of typewriter is this?

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- shaserlark@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Idk man I’ve never even seen a typewriter in my life they could tell me anything lol
  
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- thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Looks like most typewriters before 1973
  
  Typewriters before this time did possess a backspace key, but it simply moved the carriage back one character space so the typist could use whiteout to remove a mistake. When struck, the correction key of IBM Selectric II would use internal correction tape to remove the mistake and replace it with a letter key manually chosen by the user
  
  Read more at the ANSI Blog: Invention of the Backspace Key blog.ansi.org/?p=7178
  
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  - Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    but it simply moved the carriage back one character space so the typist could use whiteout to remove a mistake
    
    So use whiteout!
    
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    thallamabond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    This works fine for informal things, like a correspondence with a friend, inter office communication, or perhaps a rambling Zine. However, for something formal like a resume, this would be bad etiquette.
    
    Just a side note, If your mistake was found after removing your paper from the typewriter, good luck getting the paper re-aligned on any typewriter without decent detents built into the platen.
    
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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Eh, we are currently doing our hiring rounds for a few seasonal positions and have offered the job to a few people who have responded with they need some time to think or are waiting on a few other potential offers.

That’s all fine and dandy but we tell them they need to respond with a yes or a no by the end of the week because we need to hire someone and if they no we will need to waste another week waiting for our second choice to shop around and eventually have no time left, they get a day to respond or we ask the next one.

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