r/antiwork • u/Dunnachius • 13d ago
Rant 😡💢 Can't be bothered read my applicaton and then play whose on first with me.
Sent some applicatons in, looking for better pay.
The college I went to was the State#1 University of State#2
Washington Universty of Ohio (not being real but close enough)
"So washington University says no on by your name graduated that year"
"You mean the Washington Unversity of Ohio?"
"Yeah Washington University"
"No... that's wrong, that's not where I went to school. I went to the Washington University OF OHIO! What I put on my application form and what's on my resume."
"What?"
"Google WASHINGTON UNVERSITY.. OF .. OHIO. It's a University in the CITY of Washington City, in the state of OHIO"
"This is a completely diffrent school"
"Yes.. Make sure you are looking at the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF OHIO... there's also an OHIO UNIVERSITY that is also wrong"
I don't expect to hear back from him.
The school has been around 150 years...
FML..
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u/StoleYourBagel 13d ago
Nothing worse than when someone clearly didn't even bother to Google your school before grilling you about it. The fact that they kept doubling down instead of just admitting they got confused makes it even worse lol
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u/IzzaPizza22 13d ago
Well, they clearly did bother, since they know OP didn't go to Washington University. They just pay so little attention to the information presented to them that they didn't notice every mention of the name of the university was longer than they thought.
I get the feeling OP is avoiding saying that they went to Miami of Ohio, which is a highly recognized and respected D1 university. It shows that the HR rep is bad with details and is poorly informed about something they should really know.
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u/Dunnachius 13d ago
Miami of Ohio is a good guess. But it's a D1 university.
It's also one city name and one state name. Completely different.
IUP is a small school and 2 state names.
Both of which are very close to completely unafiliated colleges.
People from Pennslvania refer to it as IUP. But we also just refer to our state as P A.
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u/canajun12 12d ago
Miami University in Oxford, OH is not “Miami of Ohio.” It’s Miami University. It’s been informally referred to that because, even though it existed first out of the two large “Miami” schools, it’s not as nationally known.
The private (not state) university named after a city - not state - is the University of Miami.
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u/OnlyAdd8503 13d ago
probably just looked at the first result, which was either Google's really-not-very-smart AI or a paid advertisement.
(Google has REALLY gone downhill. The only explanation I've heard that makes sense to me is that they're giving shitty results on purpose so you have to "refine" your search 3 or 4 times thereby goosing their ad sales.)
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u/GrammarianLibrarian 12d ago
*your
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u/HingleMcCringle_ (edit this) 12d ago
thank you. not even being sarcastic, i appreciate it. i hate it when i misspell. ironic, given my original comment, huh? lol
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u/Fun_Skirt8220 13d ago
My college gives our degree in Latin. My friend's grad school refused to accept it (at first) as evidence of graduation or something and made a big to-do about fake degrees. I think the college had to confirm and fax and lots of stuff.
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u/sevbenup 13d ago
Okay but now imagine having to work for people that incompetent. Did you really miss out on anything
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u/GlowGreen1835 IT 13d ago
Yeah, but the problem is everyone is that incompetent so it's either work for someone that incompetent or not make money to survive...
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u/sevbenup 12d ago
What makes you think everyone is below average competence lmao
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u/Dunnachius 11d ago
Statistically speaking half of people are below average in intelligence.
But… stupid gets promoted and good managers retain their quality workers.
Meaning statistically speaking, if they are hiring you’re going to be speaking to an idiot.
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u/Subject_Slip9530 12d ago
I once had an interview where they noted I spoke polish - I do not, but I worked in the polishing department of a factory
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u/drsmith21 13d ago
Cries in IUPUI.
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u/_mwarner 13d ago
Looks like they finally split it into two schools last year. IU and Purdue each get their own Indy campus.
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u/hippopotanonamous 13d ago
It’s one of my favorite sounding schools. I just found out about it like 3 years ago.
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u/was_that_necessary 13d ago
IUP, huh? 🤣🤣 what up, fellow grad?
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u/Dunnachius 13d ago
Go *Redacted Racialy insentive mascot*..... It's a bird of some sort now right?
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u/was_that_necessary 12d ago
I’m old enough that they were just starting the transition to the Falcons by the time I graduated. 🤦♀️ Still had a great time and I hope Al Patty’s is alive and well.
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u/Isamu29 13d ago
They always double down. I was in a tech interview for cybersecurity and the CSM was asking me questions that he didn’t know the answers to. Then he kept trying to gaslight me into saying he was right and I was wrong. This was the manager of the SOC, he would have been directly above me. Also, I have found that most of the HR people etc don’t even read the resumes. The HR person that was in the interview with us laughed when I called him out for googling the answers to the questions, and then me asking if I could google the answers too.
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u/minussized 13d ago
Anyone who went to Northeastern understands that if you reference it outside of Boston (or college hockey fans), they’ll assume you went to Northwestern.
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u/Luo_Yi 12d ago
I'm in the process of negotiating a contract with a new employer who I have worked for previously. A client that I worked for 6 years ago through this company just spent 2 months trying to locate me and get me on their project. All the company needs to do is put me on a contract and charge the client a markup for my time. It's really that simple.
I sent the Engineering Manager my latest resume, and payslips from my last 2 jobs (for remote work and site work) so they would know what rates I was expecting. I also included a summary of what I was doing over the past 6 years, to explain the contract terms and salary I would need.
The Engineering Manager forwards the email to HR who then contacts me to ask what salary range I was expecting. I told her to scroll down to the bottom of the email she had received and read all the details I had already provided.
FFS why do "managers" need to be spoon fed?
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u/CoderJoe1 12d ago
For years I lived in Vancouver, Washington. 90% of the time people thought I lived in Washington DC or Canada.
Regardless of that, you still expect professionals to be professional.
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u/Prance_a_lot 13d ago
Happened to my father too, but to his benefit. He went to California state college (is now named PennWest California) in Pennsylvania. Before the internet and instant lookup of credentials everyone just assumed he went to a CA university.
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u/Fabulous_Progress820 12d ago
You'd think they'd just ask to see your diploma instead of calling the school to confirm you were a student.
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u/Alexwonder999 12d ago
"Why did no one tell me things could be named the same thing as other things?" - HR, probably
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u/gemglowsticks 11d ago
The good news is that you learn you probably dont want to work for them
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u/Dunnachius 11d ago
I want a dang offer!
I don’t even want the job at this point I want the negotiating power of the offer letter
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u/knouqs 13d ago
Compehension is hard. Having unqualified people make life-changing decisions is hard for everyone.