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.
It's just a fact now that we're going to have to build our own businesses and infrastructure that are about ruthless capitalism and meritocracy. That is, if anyone outside these leftist circles want to get ahead in life.
That's how you end up being run by foreigners
No, that's how you form your own country within a country.
but you think white nationalists are stupid, so this new country of yours within your original country that was already taken over by the pajeets and pakis, will just be another country filled with pajeets and pakis, but they'll be meritocratic capitalists who definitely won't be nepotistic and bring in other pajeets and pakis
what's even the point.
Roll over and die then, give me some peace and quiet, I'm fed up of the incessant whining from people who have obviously got no intention of doing anything about their situation.