I auto join, having no job and zero money yay
Are you me? Been out of a job for over a year. The IT industry fucking sucks right now. Only got one interview for an entry level job, and it was obvious to me and the interviewer that I was overqualified for the position. And that was LAST July.
That sucks so much and I’m sorry to hear that. Feels like the job market is “good” about a tenth of the time and it’s terrible and “It’s rough out there” for the remaining majority.
A relative of mine is a nurse and has been out of a job for many months. That blows my mind!
Feels like a major indicator of a crumbling empire and trashed economy when IT and medical professionals aren’t getting work or callbacks. Holy cow.
I am going on 18 months. I have had 2 interviews. You are right, this is the worst job market I have had to participate in in the 15 years I have been working.
Hey, just saying I am rooting for you. Not having a job sucks. Keep your head up. Best of luck to you.
If I could hire at my company, I would! “We don’t have the budget” for extra IT.
Need to puch down that resume, tailor it to the job.
“Thousands” should be millions.
Uhh yeah, this is totally why I took off work today
Y’know usually I ask myself why I open up Lemmy; often the events that reach the top are basically doom scrolling.
But this made my day. There’s also a related article I should repost about Christians mobilizing and struggling to reclaim our faith’s narrative from the fascists.
Today is one of those rare “hope scrolling” days!
Hey Monke, in case you missed it, there’s a related gallery of pics from all the protests happening today across the country:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/may/01/photos-may-day-protests
I love seeing this, even though I know it’s being vastly underreported: at least it’s getting reported in the UK. NYT doesn’t have anything at all.
That’s AWESOME. Thanks for reaching out to share that with me. Look at how many spirited demonstrators there are!
Looks like overall, it was a good day. I’d love to know the actual economic impact.
Great to hear!
And to those who participated: keep going with your shopping boycott. Avoiding a purchase today isn’t meaningful if you just head out to Walmart or buy from Amazon tomorrow.
Choose stores whose values support yours, shop local, and do without when there is no alternative.
Hell yeah! Time to rise up!
I feel a little guilty by not skipping work entirely, but I have the legal minimum of paid time off. So I’m technically on the clock, but I’m not doing any work.
This is a valid and essential role. Remember when the corporate media was spamming out all those articles on “quiet quitting”? This is exactly what they fear. If you show up to work, clock in, do nothing of value, and clock out, you’re costing your workplace money AND denying them that role.
If I could, I’d do the same. Apply to be some office grunt at Meta or Amazon, sweet talk my manager, do a bunch of meaningless work like configuring things on the PC and taking inventory of random shit, and then clock out. Gamify metrics. Plan stupid projects with the corpo chatbot. Burn money and time. It’s one of those “death by 1000 cuts” actions, and it benefits each individual person because you still get paid. Win-win.
Can’t afford to anyway. The only shopping I do these days is for groceries and other consumables.
“Other consumables”
Oh shit I forgor
That’s pretty neet
“Thousands” seems unimpressive.
If there’s going to be any kind of national strike, it will have to be organized outside of the internet, since the internet is compromised.
I think we all just have to decide to do it and do it and it’ll catch on eventually
Talk about it. With your friends and coworkers.
I accidentally paid a bill
You monster!
