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UK here and I was unemployed/irregularly employed back around 2012-2014. The requirement was like 10 applications a week.

I used a web plugin that automated it. Just one click applies. You also need to log each thing you do to search for a job. It is trivial to lie. Honestly the system is so awful I think it actually makes it harder to find a job than having zero requirements beyond being unemployed. Not like it's enough money to live off anyway, it would comfortably cover food and water, but that is all.

Then they made me work full time at Argos (retail) to continue getting welfare payments which works out to less than a quarter of minimum wage.

Why is the government mandating how many applications you submit? Was this in order to be eligible for unemployment pay?

Why even have a human at that point? We shouldn't even have conversations with each other anymore. Let's just hold up our phones and let them do the talking.

Just send the bullet point

"Why can't I just send bullet points?"

"It's bad etiquette. You have to put in the effort to write a proper email, to show you care."

"Okay, how do I write a proper email?"

"Oh I just use ChatGPT mostly."

Sometimes it's frustrating not being able to answer a yes or no question with just yes or no

Alchemy isn't real. What you just described can be adequately explained by Hawking Radiation.

I sent a department wide email announcing a new release on an internal piece of software my team maintains, it was very concise, almost like a telegram, it was something like:

To everyone at this department:

Internal Software version 6 has been released.

Added support for ABC feature and fixed the issue with XYZ.

Full details in this link.

Kinds regards, me.

Shortly after I got a very verbose response by someone explaining me why should I use AI to write "better" emails, by better it meant longer and verbose. I replied with this comic

Most of my emails are "Set up" and some login info that I shouldn't send over email but I was told to send over email.

I work in international freight and this is still a thing. Most customs brokers are email now, but some still require documents be faxed. So our system takes the PDF that it auto generates for every shipment and faxes it to the number on file. From time to time those same brokers will email us a copy of the PDF we faxed them to have something corrected. So they are getting the fax in their email rather than having us just email the thing directly. It makes zero sense, like I understand keeping the fax capability for legacy customers and as a backup, but your primary should be email if it's all going there anyway.

Google translate was the original AI. We would copy an essay, run through translate 2-3 times and correct the grammar errors. Worked every time up until people caught on.

Decearing egg!!

people can’t handle not looking professional 😭

For weeird definitions of 'professional', right?

At both my jobs, I talk in points; I write in points; I rewrite their long-winded shit "just to be sure we're clear," in points.

It's not god's work I'm doing, but it preserves my sanity when it's distilled down to facts and goals like my technical writing prof recommended so many years ago. \shrug

I could look professional.... for money.

That can make serious mistakes. I predict, that someone will lose great money due to hallucinations in the way...

Do you comment on those videos? Do you engage with them at all? Even stopping and watching for more than a couple seconds will pique the algorithms interest.

I don't get any Trump on TikTok. Surprisingly the worst for me is LinkedIn. So many straight up retards. And theyre always the quintessential 60 year old sunglasses pfp white man.