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Urgh, yeah it is just so bad. Most places don’t even have a possible job above yours to even potentially move to. Where I was they literally sold us to a competitor (then unsold me as they forgot about a few contracts) and then just removed all the positions above us or related to our department. I lost 3 layers of bosses one day (not that anyone noticed much). And then expect people to just happily go on and on and on.

The fact they could not hire anyone (I was the “new” guy for 10 years on my team) was down to really shitty hiring practices, that automated the requirements in such a way that the only people who could get an interview would have had to lie on their applications. They where desperately trying to say they wanted to hire more people but no one was “qualified”, meanwhile they froze pay for years (really showing that dood that was there for years how much they care).

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NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
When android and ios were taking off, I’d see job requirements saying 8 to 10 years experience on Android development.

It hadn’t been out 8 to 10 years.

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- M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Oddly a very common occurrence. It was normally one or a combo of 3 impossible things:
  
  Experience needed with a thing that has not existed for the time asked for (like your example)
  
  Experience needed with a thing that does not exist at all (typos or just full on bullshit like “5 years in QQR8F deployment”)
  
  Or my favourite, Experience needed in a tool/program that is only used by the company like our proprietary call management software.
  
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The fact they could not hire anyone (I was the “new” guy for 10 years on my team) was down to really shitty hiring practices

Not a bad time to start collectively bargaining, especially if you’ve got your fingers in the dam.

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- M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  HA, not at that sort of place. Unions where never even allowed to be talked about, they instafired anyone that even hinted, illegal or not they did not let that happen.
  
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