Huh. Guess it’s time to fire up the AI script deepfake generators and put ‘em to use.
The nice thing about developing a skill is that it really puts the inter in an interview. The employer has to be polite and answer questions. They feel bad about wasting your time because you will walk away if they do that too much.
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
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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.
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.
All excellent points.
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.
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.
Unless this is for some kind of public speaking position, I would instantly drop the application and not apply to the company again
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.
This is on the state unemployment departments website in order to be eligible for unemployment cheques
I saw something similar on a customer service job
Or upload some kinda freaky shit.
Luckily somebody circled it for us, I’m not sure I would’ve known what was being pointed out to use otherwise.
“Nevermind, I don’t work with people who use idiotic interview processes. I can only imagine how dysfunctional and adversarial your company is, based on this idiocy”.
“Thanks for the red flag right away.”
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They really should name the company.
It’s not a person, it’s a company behaving badly.
definition of: taking the piss
That’s the drug test, which comes after.
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.
So even if I could understand filtering out the lazy folks from those who are willing to jump through this particular video submission hoop, why the fuck do they waste people’s time with such a ridiculously nebulous prompt? I honestly don’t know how I would answer such a vague question for more than 30 seconds.
They are seeking the desperate who are easier to exploit.
Yeah beyond „'s iight“ I’d just be bullshitting but prolly couldn’t talk more than 20 seconds.
“nobody wants to work with a Debbie downer”
Oh that’s easy. It’s to filter out people who acknowledge that anything other than their actions impact their quality of life.
It works on the same basis as those email scams. They only want the people dumb enough to fall for the scam so the email scammers litter the emails with spelling and grammatical errors to filter the people out that can’t be easily manipulated. This employer is filtering out people that aren’t desperate and people with any sense of employment ethics or self worth.
The ability to bullshit on demand is an invaluable skill in the corporate world.
I know now how my manager got her job.
I just failed a job ‘interview’ because I kept freezing up on the video. I hate this shit so fucking much. This people should rot in hell. Not kidding, these companies are evil and probably do have that child sex ring the Q freaks talk about. I want to fucking die now.
I don’t know if you’re in the same boat I am, but this is about the boat I’m in:
saw that on here a couple days back, and I’ve been applying to jobs for six months! The 'tism is some bullshit.
I’m sure I could get a job at Walmart or McDonald’s if I had no standards, but frankly I’d rather just scrape by doing Uber and Lyft. And everything else that I have applied to? Got me two whole interviews. In six months. Which I then never heard back from.
Fuck modern employment culture, man.
Yeah, my grandmother kinda gets how bad getting hired is now so she has stopped pressuring me to a degree. My plan is to try streaming once STALKER 2 comes out since I already plan to play the shit out of the game.
Trying to find a job is psychological torture. Remember it’s ok to take a break from it sometimes (it’s a slog) and talk to someone if you need help.
The main problem for a number of people is that they need any job right now. Being unemployed and never being called for any interviews is another hell
It’s just gonna be me staring into the camera for 5 minutes.
don’t worry! that’s all is needed to make sure you aren’t unqualified by “being black” or “looking vaguely foreign”, hope this helps!
…Oh yeah, that’s true.
Fuck.
Under [Andy] Warhol’s direction, subjects of the [artwork] Screen Tests attempted to sit motionless for around three minutes while being filmed, with the resulting movies projected in slow motion. The films represent a new kind of portraiture—a slowly moving, nearly still image of a person.
Assuming this in America, I love how illegal this request is.
It’s the perfect crime. Most people don’t realize it’s illegal and those that do either don’t have the resources to fight it or don’t want the exposure.
"Great job on figuring out the illegal part. You got the job of legal representative. "
How is it illegal?
I couldn’t find any legal cases about “uploading an image or video of yourself”. But Google is awful so getting any sort of results is a massive pain. That doesn’t mean a case exists but employers do discriminate based on applicant names. Uploading an image would allow employers to filter out people they don’t want to hire based on income, disability, race, etc. That’s what’s illegal. Unfortunately, American laws related to technology are nonexistent.
https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
Right to Work State, baby! We can do whatever we want good luck getting the Federalist Society Judge who fields your case to agree anything untoward happened.
My job application will demand a pair of your used underwear for me to evaluate with my nostrils and you will do it or you will not get the job.
I mean uploading an image of yourself and not getting a job is pretty solid evidence of discrimination that no corporation wants the media to hear.
“Since our corporation maintains an office in Texas, we’ve had your case moved to a Texas court district with exactly one judge who just so happened to be appointed by trump to rule for corporations, enjoy running it up to the SCOTUS judges I take on cruises with me”
You’re thinking of employment at will. Right to work laws prevent making payment of union dues a requirement for employment.
I’ve been asked illegal questions, like “what is your current salary” in job applications before. I like to respond by calling it out and leaving a link to a source. I’ve never gotten a response from those applications though…
That’s illegal? The income question was on every single application I filled out when I was younger. When did it become illegal?
It is in CA, which is where both I and the company I was applying for were based at the time
Hmm, I lived in California for a long time and companies definitely asked on a regular basis. Do you know when it was made illegal?
According to the link I posted in a different reply in this thread, at least since 2018. But also just because something is illegal doesn’t mean companies won’t do it.
Ah okay, this was long before 2018.
“How much money are you looking for in this role” is very common. “How much are you making right now” is not allowed.
This depends entirely on where you are. This article is from last year, so it could have changed since then, but there is no federal prohibition on requesting your current pay in an interview, @[email protected]
Didn’t expect my state on here. It’s a routine question in interviews
Love the swing states with preemptive laws on the books to prevent progress
How is it even legal to pass a law saying you can’t regulate this thing? That seems highly contestable.
Probably for the same reason its perfectly legal for a state with republican controlled state senate to hold a post-election lame duck session where they shove through a bunch of legislation limiting the powers of the state governor because their guy happened to lose the election
California definitely used to have a shit load of companies asking for salary history. Idk if the law has changed, or if it’s just not enforced.
They probably use that to filter out people who know their rights.
Sounds like an employer that needs investigated by several departments.
I’ve been asked illegal questions, like “what is your current salary” in job applications before. I like to respond by calling it out and leaving a link to a source.
Ok, where is said source?
(Given both I and the company I was applying for were CA based at the time)
For the lazy:
- May a prospective employer ask me what I am currently paid or was paid in the past?
Effective January 1, 2018, Labor Code section 432.3 prohibits an employer from, either orally or in writing, personally or through an agent, asking any information concerning an applicant’s salary history information, which includes compensation as well as benefits. Furthermore, the law prohibits an employer from relying on an applicant’s salary history information as a factor in determining whether to offer employment at all or in determining what salary to offer.
That’s a good new-ish law for California! I doubt people in most other states are similarly protected.
Time to pick a random minority one can pass as, record the most stereotypical video ever, and then get an employment attorney on speed dial
Nobody’s going to take that case unless you have enough money to fund this as a vanity project. The conservative stacked courts will dismiss it out of hand and you’ll be fighting your way uphill through a sea of increasingly hostile appellates.
You’d have better luck posting this shit to social media and trying to name/shame the business at hand. But even that is likely a dead-end, given how inundated with corporate flaks and civility police the modern social media ecosystem has become.
