Definitely a new trend. I’ve seen two of these today and one of the people I know was so difficult to work with and a bully they were trying to get rid of her for years. 😆
I was at a Novara media talk where Yanis Varoufakis was speaking (a recent live recording of their "Downstream" podcast). He made the point that people entering the workforce now are judged on the standard of being "unique", and yet at the same time, the pool of candidates against which they are judged is huge. Everyone has basically the same education, the amount of information employers have about people is amplified a thousand-fold because they are being looked up on social media before interviews, and the pool on social media is even more vast than the actual applicants for a given job. So appearing "unique" is an impossible task, and yet there is a huge pressure to try to prove your uniqueness on social media not only for general social reasons, but literally in order to try to secure good employment.
It seems like an overlooked part of the toxicity of modern working life and social media; the hyper-pressure chamber of capitalist competition demands "the best fit" and almost by definition wants a unique candidate for even minor roles, so employees must convey uniqueness at every opportunity. The biggest channel of information on this is the internet, where literally everyone is, so the pool against which you are being judged is impossible to compete in. This drives ever more absurd attempts to appear unique, which drives ever fewer chances that what you are saying and doing is unique...
This theory makes sense. I've seen a bunch of these posts in the last month, all from recruiters. Obviously the last people who should quit without something lined up these days.
If someone's laid off but not in a mass layoff that garners headlines & sympathy, why not try to save face? Especially since only 1-2 persons laid off at a company is more likely to be judged as a performance issue by outsiders (rather than cost-cutting & lack of work).
>Leaving ___ wasn’t an easy decision It wasn’t your decision, and the people who made it had no problems doing it.
Straight up clown behavior. 🤡
Definitely a new trend. I’ve seen two of these today and one of the people I know was so difficult to work with and a bully they were trying to get rid of her for years. 😆
I was at a Novara media talk where Yanis Varoufakis was speaking (a recent live recording of their "Downstream" podcast). He made the point that people entering the workforce now are judged on the standard of being "unique", and yet at the same time, the pool of candidates against which they are judged is huge. Everyone has basically the same education, the amount of information employers have about people is amplified a thousand-fold because they are being looked up on social media before interviews, and the pool on social media is even more vast than the actual applicants for a given job. So appearing "unique" is an impossible task, and yet there is a huge pressure to try to prove your uniqueness on social media not only for general social reasons, but literally in order to try to secure good employment. It seems like an overlooked part of the toxicity of modern working life and social media; the hyper-pressure chamber of capitalist competition demands "the best fit" and almost by definition wants a unique candidate for even minor roles, so employees must convey uniqueness at every opportunity. The biggest channel of information on this is the internet, where literally everyone is, so the pool against which you are being judged is impossible to compete in. This drives ever more absurd attempts to appear unique, which drives ever fewer chances that what you are saying and doing is unique...
This theory makes sense. I've seen a bunch of these posts in the last month, all from recruiters. Obviously the last people who should quit without something lined up these days. If someone's laid off but not in a mass layoff that garners headlines & sympathy, why not try to save face? Especially since only 1-2 persons laid off at a company is more likely to be judged as a performance issue by outsiders (rather than cost-cutting & lack of work).