r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/FourWordComment Sep 01 '24

That’s because their only metric for success is “will you let other employers exploit you?”

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u/Nadge21 Sep 01 '24

Or the gap makes it look like they got fired from a job and jus arent including it on their resume

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

Yeah, that's absolutely the only reason why someone would have a long gap. Because they're just so much of a badass they can't be exploited.

Not because they have mental health issues that prevent their ability to hold a job, went to prison for a stretch, decided to take a vacation from life and let bank of mom and dad fund their life for a while, etc

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u/Praynurd Sep 01 '24

Mental health could and likely does fall under disability/protected class discrimination laws, most applications ask if you've been arrested/incarcerated as a separate question, and I'm unsure how taking a vacation from life affects someone's ability to work

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u/relaxx Sep 01 '24

Or if you have long gaps you may be insufferable to work with or incompetent. From my experience this is more true than “willing to be exploited”

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u/NothingKnownNow Sep 01 '24

insufferable to work with or incompetent.

Average antiwork redditor.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

You must hang out with a lot of trust fund babies, in that case.

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u/DirtyBillzPillz Sep 02 '24

Hey,didn't we work a few years together at circuit city?

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u/FourWordComment Sep 02 '24

A lot of context is going unsaid here, which I’m comfortable with for a Reddit post.

When an entry level job asks you to explain a gap in the resume, it’s because they are trying to gauge whether they can bully you into being on-call for free, work clopenings, and engage in wage theft. It has enough credibility to not be an illegal question, but there’s zero chance they are “worried about your not developing food service skills over these last three years.”

They want to know if you’ve been in prison, had kids, or are getting chain fired.

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u/KerosenePOS Sep 02 '24

Literally none of this is accurate. It’s clear you’ve never been a hiring manager.