Unless this is for some kind of public speaking position, I would instantly drop the application and not apply to the company again
I saw something similar on a customer service job
This is on the state unemployment departments website in order to be eligible for unemployment cheques
Nah. You find this in the wild you gotta troll em a bit. Just do the Carlton for 3 minute with Never Gonna Let You Down playing in the background.
Yeah this reeks of discrimination and exploitation.
Or upload some kinda freaky shit.
Upload something where the first 5 seconds is someone apparently doing that, then instantly cut into hardcore porn with extra loud noise
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You know without that circle I would never have known where to read
I kept rereading the time stamp and view count for a solid 20 minutes trying to figure out the point of the post until I finally saw the tiny red circle buried in all of that white background. Damn near impossible to see.
There is a red circle?
Yeah, but you basically need a tunneling electron microscope to see the thing
Here, does this help
Yes thank you so much
You’re welcome. I would do anything for you.
Paste in the link for Rick Astley. You know the one.
I was thinking some third wave ska. Five Iron Frenzy maybe.
A lot of good options. You can also do a link to something that comments about how distopian work can be, and/or how mundane/monotonous it all is…
I think an example of this is “every day is exactly the same” (NIN), or maybe gratitude by VNV Nation… IDK.
Gee why are we not getting any new applications? Damn millennials don’t want to work!
“Thank you for uploading your video submission. Our AI system will review your video shortly.”
DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
There was literally a patent filed for a system that only stopped the ads when the user yells the product name aloud.
“McDonald’s!”
shot-guns entire can in 2 seconds
In the age of deepfakes, no way I’d make that video and submit it with all the other personal details I’d be putting into the application forms. That’s a recipe for ID theft.
Obvious -plot-twist: the entire thing is a phishing scam.
Just send a rickroll and be done with it.
There’s a very good way of gauging how much of a dystopian shithole our world has become, and that’s by simply watching quiz shows on daytime TV.
Compare Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to The Chase. In its original run, WWTBAM had two milestones for answering 5 (£1,000) and 10 (£32,000) questions correct respectively. This meant that failing after one of these checkpoints guaranteed you that prize. The Chase on the other hand is a series of quick-fire pub quiz rounds with some notoriously difficult questions where you’re up against a professional quizzer and have to survive multiple rounds, before all the remaining contestants have to beat the ‘Chaser’ in a two-minute quick-fire round of pub quiz questions. Fail at any point? “You get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!”
The Chase is legitimately a much harder show where it is exponentially harder to actually win a cash prize as a contestant and that is one of the main reasons I fucking hate that show.
Where am I going with this? With the way the economy, automation, AI, scarcity, human population growth, etc is going, we are one day going to reach a point where we’ll have to compete in game shows just to get a fucking job! If recruiters are making you record 2 to 5 minute video responses on a fucking job application, then we’re already part-way there.
There was a game show in Russia in 2000s where high schoolers had to answer ridiculously hard questions about Ancient Greece in order to enroll into MGIMO, a prestigious state university of foreign affairs, which was near-impossible to enroll in any other way (e.g. entrance exams) if you weren’t a child of a top-level government official.
The contestants had to sit as the audience first and answer some pop-up questions before even having a chance to actually participate in the game show, and then win in a series of games (like quarter-finals, semifinals, finals…)
It really does look like modern job application process where you have to participate in a series of never-ending interviews and test tasks
It sounds like something out of a YA novel. If that theme continues, the nepo babies that got in through enrollment have a derogatory term for the kids who got in through the game show.
Come to think of it, yeah, sounds also like a Korean drama about bullying or social inequality :)
On a more serious note, there is only one public person I could think of who has enrolled into MGIMO through the game show, that’s Alexey Navalny’s aide Kira Yarmysh (there is even an episode of the game with her on YouTube; she lost that year and won a year later). I don’t remember her mentioning any animosity towards her because of her participation.
Incredible find, thanks for sharing
I had the same thought when I was watching “Alone”. They pay them about 1000 bucks a week to document themselves struggling to live in the woods. Some of them are pulled out for medical reasons, some quit. But for some, this is probably the only way they can afford a vacation.
The challenge is part of the appeal. Perhaps Tipping Point is more your speed.
Reminds me too much of those penny arcade machines.
Just record a video of yourself scream crying while making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and singing the national anthem.
Send em this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_9bYs5iM5Tc
“Are you a fuck up? Please expound, in detail.”
I hate this so much.
If you want to do a video interview, sure. But I’m not going to willingly give you a recording of myself without clear use terms.
How long are these files retained? Is this video subject to data privacy laws? Since they’re requesting it be uploaded elsewhere, how many 3rd parties am I involving myself with by the end of this interview process?
Not to mention, we live in the era of deepfakes for voice and video. Do I have any gaurentee that this won’t be used to train some AI model somewhere?
This level of hoop-jumping pre-employment should be made illegal on par with hazing laws. Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
It’s not just about what they can use the video for. This also lets them screen for a lot of protected classes without actually asking about them. Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color, your accent doesn’t come out in your work history, nobody can make guesses about your sexuality based on your work email address, but these all become much more easy to discriminate against with a video. All under the pretext of “We didn’t like their answer to the question.”
And you don’t even get the context of an interview to defend yourself.
All excellent points.
I understand others, but your sexuality? If you’re not literally wearing a pride flag, how could they work that one out just from a video of you?
Stereotypes. A few that come to mind:
An affectation like a lisp
A buzzcut
An androgynous appearance
Bigots always have their ways. Even if it bunches metrosexuals in with actual homosexuals, and makes for all sorts of other stupid lack of nuance takes, a bigot doesn’t care, because they’re always right. If they thought their view could be wrong, they’d be less likely to be a bigot.
Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color
Your name is (usually) a pretty big giveaway for your ethnicity, and in most countries it’s the norm to have a picture of yourself on your resume
In the US, it certainly isn’t. It’s viewed as a red flag for a US company to ask for a photo unless the job is something where appearance is an important quality like actor or model. I think the US grapples with this kind of discrimination more than many of the countries where it’s the norm.
If you want to know what I look like, bring me in for an in person interview.
We recommend using loom.com for this
Loom is an AI company. You have a guarantee that it will be used to train an AI model.
Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
I was talking to a friend about a company that treats its employees poorly and he said “Well, they chose to work there,” and I wanted to give him a lecture about how sometimes people have to choose between a shitty job and the streets.
Doesn’t actually say the video has to be of you; just to submit a video response.
3 min loop of the “this is fine” dog redone as a gif would be my response.
HR: why didn’t you do the video part?
Me: I don’t have a camera
HR: What about your phone?
Me: I don’t have one of those either.
HR: I literally just watched you use the calendar!
Me: No you didn’t. Are you okay? You seem to be imagining things.
HR: You’re literally recording a video of me right now!
Me: I think you mean I’m Livestreaming you right now. But I’m not doing that either. You’re definitely imagining it.
What’s that? A website is asking for public randos to upload meatspin and any other videos found from the internet to their servers for review where HR will need to watch them. I give this form 3 months to live if you share the url
Just find something wild on tiktok and paste it
