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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

That being said, recruiters are all pieces of shit, because if they’re not then they’re going to get taken off recruiter duty which is the cushiest posting in a lot of branches. So they do what they have to do to make their recruitment quotas.

So it’s possible some idiot really tried this, but no one should believe anything a recruiter says.

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cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There seems to be a fella by that name in the Minnesota National Guard, but that doesn’t mean it’s real.

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arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I once had a recruiter try to recruiter me while I was in the job as a cashier. Just checking out his stuff and he just says “do you like working here”.

I said “yeah it’s fine”. Then he began questioning me on if i thought this was a good career path or where I wanted to go in life etc. I told him I was in college. Then this man’s eyes just lit up and he thought he had me. He said “and who’s paying for that?”

He was so very disappointed when I told him the government was paying for it. I explained I recieved a decent Pell grant that covered all my school costs. He looked immediately defeated. The second he knew I want struggling for money or deep in debt he knew he didn’t have a chance and gave up.

Pretty disturbing how excited he got when he thought I was in crippling debt. I guess they’re trained to exploit desperation. I’m also still annoyed he did this to me on the job where I couldn’t tell him to leave me the hell alone

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skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

Pulling the ladder up behind you is not at all rare.

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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not even that, just too on the nose.
  
  But a lot of people do join up for citizenship, the shitty part is it gets slow-walked so people end up needing to re-enlist at least once before they can gain citizenship.
  
  It’s one of these weird quirks of today, like, if trump ever does deploy the military to do what ICE is doing, it’s going to be non-citizens detaining US citizens…
  
  I served with people whose only citizenship was Nigeria, Ghana, and a lot of the Caribbean countries, but I think they’re pretty lax on what countries can join. A guy in my boot camp was a Russian ex-cop who was in his late 30s and barely spoke English, I’m pretty sure he didn’t even live in the US before boot camp.
  
  I was curious and looked it up, right now 40k US military members are not citizens:
  
  www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48163
  
  So about 2% of the US military, not huge, but not zero either.
  
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  - DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Isn’t there some thing where you get citizenship after serving in military?
    
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    givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Same source says 110k non-citizen veterans, so not all get it.
    
    Like I said, the process often takes longer than a single four year enlistment. They may have legal right to stay here, but not full citizen. And would just rather get out and become a citizen another way.
    
    The military kind of sucks bro…
    
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DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s just used to trick children, to make them seem more trustworthy. I can almost guarantee you it’s not their real name. It’s like the customer service line you call, get someone with a thick accent named “John”

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