jadelyn:

Employers requiring a 4 yr degree for entry level receptionist and admin positions, then paying a whopping $10/hr for them.

Employers refusing to accept that they will need to train entry level staff and whining about a supppsed “skills deficit” in the job market, so they refuse to hire anyone who’s just trying to get started. (It can be entertaining, in a headdesk-y sort of way, to read business publications. They say all kinds of interesting shit when they don’t think the workers are listening.)

A cultural disdain for blue-collar jobs and apprenticeship learning that has fewer and fewer people entering the skilled trades.

Unpaid full time internships that effectively lock low-income students out of those learning and networking opportunities, keeping them stuck in service industry jobs even though they’re qualified for much more than that.

Employers refusing to consider years of applicable experience in lieu of a degree, which locks out many older workers who entered the workforce in a time when people didn’t just get degrees as a matter of course but who have decades of actual practical experience instead. (My mother couldn’t get another accounting job after her company was bought out and everyone laid off, despite having done accounting since before I was born, because she started working in the 70s and unless you wanted to be a CPA or something you didn’t need a degree for accounting.)

Continuing pervasive bias against disabled job seekers despite laws against it – often due to poorly trained hiring managers who don’t understand the concept of reasonable accommodation. (I had a hiring manager once tell me they weren’t moving forward with a candidate they’d interviewed for a bank teller role because she’d told them she couldn’t stand for more than 5 hours. That’s what chairs are for??? All our teller stations are equipped with chairs anyway???)

I’m sure there are more but I have a headache so I’m stopping here. TLDR fuck most employers, it’s their own damn fault they “can’t find” people for positions. Stop being unreasonable dickholes and you’d have a much easier time of it!