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Its the dumbest fucking advice I've found since everything is centralised and run from head offices but they dont seem to understand thats not a thing

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ok, I agree with you, I do, buuuuut

If someone shows up to an interview wearing pajamas, they are probably less likely to get a job. So you do have to dress up a little bit, depending on what the job is.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not even just job stuff, its as impractical as pushing you to apply for something government related and that your dressing up and showing up in person will somehow override literal requirements you know you dont meet

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gen-X here. The reason they're giving you that advice is because that used to actually work. If you wanted a job, for instance, you needed to comb through newspapers or physically go around and look for places that were hiring. It wasn't uncommon for ads to to say "apply in person." Without the Internet making applying for a job almost trivially easy compared to how it used to be, going through the extra effort of showing up dressed professionally was a way to show that you were serious and willing to put in real effort.

The Boomers and Gen-Xers telling you to do the same aren't living in the same decade as the rest of us, mostly because the Internet wasn't pervasive in the time they were looking for jobs. Back in the 90s the Internet was kinda a novelty that you had to go looking for. It wasn't, IMO, until smart phones came along that being online REALLY took off, though arguably iMac computers really pushed the "tech is trendy" idea out there.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

My mom knows I’m job searching so she brought me a newspaper lol “mom those jobs are 100 percent human trafficking. I’ll just go online”

[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Movie recommendation - Catch me if you can (2002)! Apparently Jobs used to work like that so much that in the late 1960's a 16 year old just conned his way into becoming a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer with no previous qualifications.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You should probably know the best con that Abagnale pulled is making people believe he actually did all of those things. Journalists have discovered that the vast majority of his claims are completely fabricated.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If I remember correctly he was also kinda a creep. Stalking women and what not.

If you want a good con look up the story about England’s brief #1 restaurant the shed at dulwich

Dude made a fake restaurant that became #1 on trip advisor even though it never existed. He then did one fake day of operation where he served microwave tv diners. Then when he was found out he did a bunch of interviews…. Except he didn’t, he hired actors to pretend to be him.

That’s the kinda con man I like.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah Abagnale pretended to be a doctor and conducted 12 "fitness examinations", supposedly for Pan Am, on young female students. Definitely creepy.

And then there's the individual women who accused him of all sorts of stuff.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

hell, even to this day in...1/3rd of US states there are literally zero requirements to become a judge, it's just a popularity contest.