“Just walk in and ask for a job, that’s how I got mine back in the day,” said boomers everywhere.
When I entered the workforce in the early 2000s, I struggled to get a job. To get unemployment payments I had to attend a weekly session at a local job agency to prove I was actively trying to work.
I remember the advice from there clearly - “Just think of a place you want to work, go there with your resume, ask them what positions they have and offer to work for free. Then they’ll hire you if they like you.”
“Job search is proving difficult? Have you tried becoming a slave?”
Slaves get food…
lol no one is going to let you work for free.
“Unpaid internship”
That reminds me of this cringe YouTube short I saw.
This recent college grad was talking about how he was an intern on Wall Street but decided to take a risk and quit his job to start a company in Dubai.
He then shows a clip of him in this really fancy condo and then asks if the viewer will do the same thing of following their dreams.
Where the fuck did he get the money to move to Dubai and start a company? Who’s paying for that fancy condo?
Pissed me off to no end. He clearly just started working but had plenty of money and then acts like following your dreams is a matter of courage. Fuck off!
Do they still do those in some places / industries? For software jobs they wouldn’t do that. It was explained to me something about copyright and ownership if you pay someone to write code vs if they are unpaid.
I don’t know about programmers specifically but they use unpaid interns in droves in other aspects of the software industry, entertainment, politics, law, etc.
We have them around sometimes but I’m pretty sure there’s a pipeline from local schools so it’s “official” and they’re finishing up their degrees. They usually get hired but not always.
Not a Boomer, but did get an internship that eventually became a full time job this way, during the post-2008 recession.
I got laid off and wasn’t getting any solid leads from traditional application processes or the town “career center” so I made a list of businesses in walking distance of eachother that might need my services, printed a few dozen copies of my resume, and beat the streets. I just walked in and asked for a manager but settled for whoever would talk to me, gave my brief elevator pitch, left a resume and contact info. A few called me and one actually worked out.
It is very humbling but it can work.
It can still work if it’s a small business, fast food or certain blue collar work. I’ve done it a few times in my life the last time was 2 years ago, I walked in and asked for a job as an EMT 2 months ago but I did need a certification for that. Recently I got hired for a new position but not the one I really wanted so as soon a I got hired I walked in to the hiring manager for the position I really wanted and asked for that job, to be continued.
Re-waching that show as an adult, the animation is terrible and doesn’t live up to my memories at all… But I’ve a new appreciation for the scenes with krang n shredder arguing like an old married couple. That shit is gold
Yeah, one of my childhood favorites was Thundercats. I tried watching once as an adult and the nostalgia died immediately. I’m ashamed of childhood me’s lack of standards.
Me and my wife loved the X-Men show in the 90s. We loaded it up (the original, not the new one) and got about 10 mins in before turning it off.
OG Xmen animated series is not like Thundercats in this regard. The first season is a bit rough, but it gets much better. It’s still a kids animated show, but it’s also very good.
I was only a teenager when I got an opportunity to get some Thundercats nostalgia… cartoon network or somebody was re-airing it. I was horrified. I’ve not tried again since.
Xmen on the other hand, I’ve rewatched twice in the past few years, and I’d do it again.
Except the final season. Wth happened there? Felt like they were told to finish up with a shoestring and MS Paint.
I just rewatched it last month and it was great; but yeah, season 5 was bad. They had their budget cut for that season so they switched animation studios. The change is painfully obvious.
I assumed that’s what it was, or something like it. Horrifying. And they use some of those bad aminations on banner etc. Like they’re proud of it. Lmao
Thundercats 2011 was the shit. Watch it if you get a chance.
Wish it finished. Cut too short.
The nineties were wild, man. You had to be there.
Edit: Technically the very end of the eighties. That episode first aired on October 27, 1989 but I watched the show in the nineties.
Casey Jones had a firm handshake. That’s all you needed back then. /s
It’s a nice suit! You can’t just discount a candidate because they wear a hockey mask 24/7.
This is the way
spoiler
(I am gonna get so downvoted, tho it fits quite well here with the original Mando)
This is the way.
He got a job in the mail room after getting extremely mad and breaking a table during the interview.
Also he got promoted after threatening the mail room boss.
Sounds like a straight shooter with upper management potential written all over him.
You just haven’t been challenging him enough!
God, I had such a crush on Casey Jones from the live action movie. Tbh, my dumb ass probably would’ve hired him like this, too.
I just came across comic book collections I-IV and learned the live action movie was a mishmash of plots lifted from the original comic series. So that was cool! Hope this is interesting to you too
I heard Casey Jones from the live action movies went on to be a detective of some special unit in NYC a few years later. He’s clearly over-qualified for whatever office job this was.
Welll, I think you’re joking, but Elias Koteas, who played Casey Jones, wasn’t in any of the NYC cop shows as a regular.
Christopher Meloni, who does indeed look similar, was in l&w svu.
Now, Koteas has played a cop as a regular cast member, but in Chicago, not NYC.
Also, as a total tangent, it never ceases to amaze me how many of Meloni’s Oz castmates ended up playing cops over the years. And it isn’t like most of that cast didn’t show up in svu here and there lol. I always joke that there was a prison break, and everyone just ran to NYC and became cops, except Beecher, who turned to murder.
Ah damn. A friend told me it was the same guy. Still, he seems qualified…
I’d hire him for sure!
What makes this funnier, to me, is that animators and directors all had discussions about how this scene was going to be drawn. It’s not like some rogue illustrator slipped this one in - the studio itself committed to the gag. Plus, it’s very in-character for Casey Jones who is rarely seen without that mask, or unarmed.
This also has strong video-game energy, like “Dragonborn wearing a chef’s hat”, or “Solid Snake in a cardboard box.”
Maybe if I wear this suit
no one will be able to tell I’m Casey Jones.
It was the power tie.
He came highly recommended
it’s been more than a quarter century since I’ve seen any of it (although the theme song is still in my head) … was there any point to Casey Jones? was he like a metaphor, or a stand-in for a real person or something? such a weird character to have a pretty normal name in a show with characters like the turtles, Splinter, Shredder and whatever the fuck that brain dude was…
Probably a reference to this
That’s the guy that was high on cocaine.
Krang!
depends on the position?
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
