This is worse in some industries (academia. Academia is fucked), and I hear it is even worse in the US, but my god is this ever frustrating…
It really shows you how low people think of you, when you’ve worked with them for some time/think they know you moderately well, and then you ask them for a reference, and they either flat out ignore you, or claim not to even know you “well enough”… 😔
Teachers (well, lecturers, tutors, et al) are particularly bad for this - “Oh, I worked with you on and off for a year. Soz lol, still don’t know you from a bar of soap.”
Look, I get it - it takes a degree of effort, and no one wants to be held accountable for “vouching” for someone else anymore, but fuck, everything requires them - Grad School, jobs, internships, everything.
If no one is willing to (legitimately) provide something so basic, how the fuck is anyone expected to even take that next career step??
This seems much, much worse than when I was last in this position (asking for academic references), 8 years ago, too…
Didn’t think we had slid that much, as a society, in that time, but… Yeah. 😔
Stupidly hard to work around, FML.
The people I’ve asked have responded in a number of pretty unpleasant ways…
Except one, who is much older, and was both fine with it, and perfectly willing to help.
But yeah, the Millennials and Gen X folk I asked? Ouch.
Especially the “I have a family now. I don’t have time for this” one.
Not sure what that says about me, that these are the people I’m having to ask, lol…
I hate everything about this. 😔
I wish it was to my face…
But nah, e-mail/text…
Much worse, ha.
Just made me sad, really… 😑
I need this, though, so I’ll have to keep asking around.
I looked over again what I was asking, thinking “Surely they could do this if they wanted to?”, and yes, yes they could.
So yeah, you’re probably right. They just don’t fucking care.
Even with the courses where I was an “A Student” and got to know the supe well - they couldn’t be fucked, lol.
I hate this shit. All of it. 😒
I just wish I could meet more fucking normal people, dude…
Like, all of the people I am having to ask for this shit, pretty much, are like this…
The only “normal” people who will actually play ball here are fucking immigrants. All the whiteys I know are some form of degenerate, pathetic simps like this individual OR they’re just unpleasant, like the academic I spoke about earlier…
Fuck. Fuck this shit. I hate it so much, fml…
So the one who said that to me…
I’ve just discovered (via emails bouncing back) that he is a gigacuck who literally changed his name to his wife’s name, only answers to a shortened, androgynous version of his real name (Jem instead of Jeremy) and has changed all his records to pretend his birth name doesn’t exist/can’t be accessed…
Jesus H Christ on a stick…
I hate people.