The failure of recruitment practices and a strategy to combat them - don't stop

I've been working a new job for 3 years. Some may think 3 years is hardly new. But this environment I'm working in is constantly changing. It is in a sense it is schizophrenic. Sometimes a manager may mention Lean as if this is a holly word, but not understand really what it is. Then it's all change and when a change happens we have just 5 minutes to get trained on it, on a specific day at a specific time. If you happen to be on leave, then you'll miss out. But 6 months down the line you'll then find out what you missed out on. It is chaotic.

Working there 3 you most people may think it's no longer a new job. which is not the way I see it. In my previous workplace for 32 years it is new. In fact, if I hadn't of known otherwise, this Organisation has done more to ensure I didn't get employed than get employed with them. My experience in this area is not the same but juxtaposes so much most of what I already know has some relevance to this new job role. yet in the recruitment process I had tried in excess of 20 times. If anything, this shows persistence leads to results. Even though they rejected me many times. My manager has also gotten to see my value, although at one point during the probation period it felt like he wanted to get rid off me because I kept saying I didn't know how to do certain things. Things which the crap computer system would barely allow someone who knew how to do it to do. 

So I took screenshots of the online recruitment questions and particularly my multiple choice answers. I
would see if that set of answers worked or not. There would be a computer generated reply, possibly AI generated, giving reason and clues as to why I did not fit their criteria. But eventually I did. The bastards, however, gave two sets of tests. One was of personality. It was I thought somewhat offensive to say I didn't have the personality, and also at the same time to say the answers to the personality questions needed to be honest and there was no right or wrong set of answers. However, It was clear from their you-have-failed email they did take into account personality. So I changed my personality answers. Taking several failed applications, I created a spreadsheet and found the answers which got through. Funnily enough, it was my 3rd application which got me a job. My other applications were for different jobs and none of them were successful. Even now I continue to apply for other jobs in the same organisation, I expect I'm now up to 10 other failed applications. It is in my view an incredibly flawed and unfair process.

As a manager and a decision maker, I've had to deal with many situations, most of which I've now forgotten about.  Yet, I have confidence in my abilities. Put me in the situation and see what happens. See how I react and how I deal with it. Instead, this Organisation likes to see how good my written supporting statement is. They look at things called competencies. Hell, I was studying competencies and recruitment practices 20 years ago. Funny and tragic thing is I have known of applicants who have never written their own applications. They have been done by people in their lives who had better literary skills. Yet, these individuals have got through and beaten the system. Got the job. I do my own work. I don't get anyone else to do it. You could call me donkey man. Mind, that might mean something else. Donkey, as in carrying all the weight and baggage on my back myself. Just like I pay my taxes and don't take out of the system. It almost makes me feel a bit bitter. I have seen many a manager who were incompetent, jumped to conclusions and decisions, acted inappropriately, even the occasional bully. The recruitment process failed in allowing these persons through. I've seen good, hard-working employees leave organisations because they just could not get on with the person who managed them. I've nearly done so myself. Yet the recruitment process doesn't account for these.

So I still continue. I'm not stopping at all. Even if I may be in the older age range where I'm expected to retire and shut up. I really want to get my job done and want to show I can do it and do it better than many other people. So I'll copy all of my statements I make, request feedback every time and then do what I can to improve my answers. So far I've got to learn it's what they haven't said in the recruitment process which is most important.  It's these unwritten rules which are more valuable than any introduction session on how to fill in a form and what they are looking for. Back to basics, I will get better and better and they'll not get rid of me. I will retry again even though my job is so demanding and I could not adequately do it if I worked 60 hours a week.

 

Right Wing Press, Tabloids, Racists, Propagandists

Then there is that dreadful organisation known as Antifa. They put their stickers up everywhere. Lampposts, abandoned buildings, unused shop windows. They are so outlandish I don't know where to look. Well in fact I tried looking. I did a google search. Asked my neighbours. Sent a thread into the treadosphere. Where can I join up, I asked? This sounds like an organisation I want to be part of. An organisation worthy of being a member. They fight against injustice and fascism. 

I was informed my grandad would have been a member. He fought in the second world war, on his belly he was had a rifle and shot at the nazis. He never mentioned whether he killed any. So it come to mind there is actually no organisation called Antifa. None at all. I could not sign up, could not pay any subs, could not get a monthly magazine. Because by fact of being open minded and thinking in the words of Jo Cox there is more we have in common which brings us together than difference. And of course, the understanding when it comes to taxes, migrants have paid more tax per person than taken out of the system than ordinary indigenous white people. They create businesses, they are compassionate and have charities and they support communities. Yet they are villainised. 

Our NHS would collapse and there would be no NHS at all without immigrants. Yet the right wing want them out of this country. So every white racist small minded little Englander will to shoot themselves in the foot and they don't care about their health, their wellbeing. Of course, the result is a Privatised healthcare system. That's what the Tories and Fartrage want. To which I would ask does this improve the situation? It does not. All those racist little Englanders will find they will have to pay two or three thousand pounds a year for the basic level of health insurance. So, they will inevitably get sick, but it will not just be the racist voters who get sick, it will be their children, their grandchildren their elderly relatives. Because they can't afford either medicine or healthcare. Britain effectively becomes a little America. People will die. Preventable deaths. Yet the racists don't get it. They will waive their little flags think they are patriotic, but all their actions have been those of very unpatriotic people. They will as well suffer from their illnesses and inevitably die of them. But so will the left voting populace. 

Over a long period of time a lot of change has happened to the press in Britain. It was once just right wing in general. Always bias, because of course there is no such thing as a neutral fact-finding press, always supporting the Tories and always spinning a web of bias if not lies. But it has now moved so far right most ordinary right-wing papers are now digging up the remains of Mussolini and making shrines of him. Here's a kneecap. Yes, the perfect thing to smash any liberal in the face with. Yes, we don't care about their views we just want to smash them, bash them, tread them into the dirt so they cry and can never get up again. Now really? Will that solve anything? Of course it won't. The future will be worse for Britian, the Overton window has moved. These voters who like Deform may think they are defending Britain and things will change for the better because a snake oil salesman says so. Some I believe don't understand the power of politics, they don't understand the repercussions of their votes and the characters of those they vote in. 

We are now in a fight, it is starting to buble up in the streets as flags bought from a factory in China are hung on lampposts. By so called patriots. Who in reality will bring Britain to it's knees. This is not the Britian I have been brought up in. I am Antifa. I'll use words, and if it comes to it actions to demostrate peacefully.