Basically I have been unemployed for about a year now. I’m a real scumbag, a bottom-feeding dole collector.

But things weren’t always like this, I had a great job graphic designing last year making around £35k pa.

Since the recession has kicked in, I have lost my job and dignity. It doesn’t help that I sent out around 300, yes 300 job applications and only got one interview. For a while I was under the impression that it was the companies themselves rejecting me, but then it clicked.

It was these scumbags that were doing the first CV short-list.

So, if someone is hiring for a 3D designer role, they should have some technical knowledge about the field right? It is them after all who are making these big decisions on people’s lives.

Wrong, these cock suckers’ knowledge of 3D is limited to ‘that thing they used in that movie Jurassic Park’.

I got real pissed one day and demanded why my CV wasn’t put forward. The smug motherfucker told me that they had much better, more suitable clients (exact words).

So I asked to see one of these so called portfolios. Finally he sent me a link and I checked it out. I ain’t going to lie, this guy was good, but he had major weaknesses in animation (a large requirement of the role).

I sent an e-mail back saying there was no way this guy had a better technical knowledge. I asked him to tell me the difference between ‘poly’ and ‘nurbs’ modelling…he didn’t know shit…and it’s these people who decide if we are good enough…fucking cunts

I bet only 1% of the CVs you sent actually get put through…Imagine if you could contact these companies directly, your success rate would be way higher.

By the way, notice how you apply through one agency only to be contacted by another cocksucker from a completely different agency? wtf

I got here by googling people who work in hr are cunts. I now have full confirmation of my suspicions. You have experienced exactly the same level of Human Resourcefulness as I am currently receiving daily.

Even applications via HR departments have been hopeless; I had an interview a few weeks back that I was a shoe-in for, but the only person to interview me was a non-technical manager who couldn’t answer anything about the job itself. He then handed me a sheet of technical questions to answer, only for them to be on the whole aimed at people already working for the company, as the questions were specific to particular customer’s needs. The rest of the technical questions were either extremely basic, or worded so vaguely they could have been answered in several ways. I wonder if he deliberately gave me the wrong set of questions?

This is completely spot on. I am busting my balls 9-8 continuing to absorb as many web technologies as i can and understand them. I ended up growing really comfortable with a physics engine which was out of my comfort zone but i assumed if i was component in this then it would prove i had a strong grasp of Actionscript 3.

Finding a job is just really unfair.

Dont get me wrong, i dont mind being told i dont have the skills or the ability to do a certain role…. ANYfeedback would be really welcoming but im getting no where.

ComputerFutures is the worst out of all the agencies. They never ever reply to me, regardless of what job i pursue with them…. never recieved an email out of about 25 applications for roles.

Also, one of the redeeming features of finding a job with the latest technology is that very few people (apart from Santino Boffina (sp?)) has any idea what Flash is. I seen a role that wanted APE physics understanding…. this was exactly what my skillset is apart from Box2D is 1000 times more complex and feature rich. I applied for the role instantly and clearly they didnt understand what i was telling them and they didnt even reply.

I can swear in my life though that had i been able to contact the employer directly and pitch to them… look im new but i am more than famililar with APE and more importantly, would like to say that i use the much more complex Box2D and believe i could show some ground breaking demos of my work….

then id have atleast been noticed.

The very truth of the matter is, i apply for any roles, even jobs i know i might not ever do… and the reason i do this is for a sanity check….. its like i am craving some kind of a recognition that i am alive and exist.

Right now i feel in a bubble, my life is pointless as i never have a penny to do anything with, i cant ask for advice from the job centre because the technology i work with is new and jobcentre or many other agencies offering advice… cant advise me and offer me completely unrelated advice. Agencies in general dont want to know, im wasting all my days infront of a PC with a single goal of getting a job, my friends and family must struggle to accept im not just a lazy cunt layabout…. but i have nothing to show them to prove im trying my hardest.

The last 2 days i applied for 9 roles and my inbox is still empty. And to be really honest, i met a guy at uni who dealt weed and had an amazing lifestyle because of it and im not far away for pursuing a career on the other side of the law instead. You can only try so hard every day and get slapped in the face for it for so long….

Thoroughly out-ranted on my own site!

I phoned the company direct to find out that they had in fact asked to see me for a second interview but been told by the agency I wasn’t interested. I guess there’s not as much money in it for them when people accept jobs at reduced wages. Absolute bastards.

Currently I am stuck doing contract work with Computer Futures Solutions. After my first six months I told my company that I was thinking of leaving as I just wasn’t earning enough to get by. It was only then that I found Computer Futures were taking a 38% margin!

After three months having demanded a better rate, they decided they weren’t getting enough. They threatened to prevent me working for the client any more unless I was willing to take a cut.

Now I’m still tied to working through CFS. They took over six weeks to sort out my last contract, meaning I wasn’t paid all that time and there still seems nothing I can do.

Evil, pure evil. I wish them and those like them the very worst.

Anyway, all the best to everyone else