@mackwubz The meta of dubstep being a wonky experimental bass drop with dubstep drums and a popular songs vocals over it has kinda ruined my enjoyment of dubstep in the last couple of years. Like give me some fun up beat brostep. Maybe I'm the minority but man I'm so bored of it.
never ask me for food recommendations if you're coming to Tokyo. "any ramen places you recommend?" like bitch we do not have a shared mutual understanding of ramen, to you ramen is just a bowl of soup noodles but to me it's a religion. I can trace the lineage of every ie-kei place back to yoshimuraya before you can even finish looking up the nearest ichiran beside your hotel. I have 300 points saved up on the nakamoto app and my local ramen shop gives me extra chashu for ordering the correct option everytime. to ask me for food recommendations is like asking LeBron James for shooting tips. We are eight leagues apart and nothing I can say to you will resonate in your uncultured brain for even a millisecond.
but yeah just go to ichiran
this whole ABG discourse is stupid literally not one of u knows what a real ABG is. if you have never smoked a backwood this discourse isn’t for you ok get right please
Real ABG has a thug boyfriend who drives a Subaru and traps, she lives in the Bay she’s not online catfishing to attract autistic b2b Saas tech bro. She drinks henny, rolls blunts, dyed hair, dragon tattoos. Before ABG was “asian baby girl” it was “asian baby gangster” thank you for coming to my TED talk
Last year I posted 500 open positions for my company.
We hired 34 people.
The other 466 jobs were never real.
I'm the Head of Talent Acquisition.
That's not what I acquire.
What I acquire is data.
Resumes, salary expectations, skill sets, market intelligence.
160,000 applicants gave us their career history for free.
We used it to benchmark compensation.
Not to raise salaries.
To confirm we were paying below market and get away with it.
I call it "building a talent pipeline."
A pipeline is a thing you build and never turn on.
Recruiters call this "passive sourcing."
There is nothing passive about wasting 160,000 people's time.
But it sounds like a strategy.
Some of our listings have been posted for 11 months.
One has been up for two years.
It's for a "Director of Innovation."
We don't have an innovation department.
We don't have the budget.
But the listing makes us look like we're growing.
Investors see open roles and think momentum.
Our stock went up 8% after we posted 200 jobs in one week.
We didn't hire anyone that week.
Or the week after.
We have an applicant tracking system.
It auto-rejects 95% of applicants.
Based on keywords.
I don't know what keywords.
No one does.
It was configured in 2019 by a contractor who no longer works here.
We've never updated it.
Some applicants spend hours customizing their resumes.
The system reads them for six seconds.
Then it sends a rejection email.
"After careful consideration."
There was no consideration.
Careful or otherwise.
I know this because I'm the one who wrote the template.
Sometimes I repost the same job with a different title.
"Senior Data Analyst" becomes "Data Analytics Lead."
Same description.
Same salary.
Same no one getting hired.
But it resets the posting date.
Fresh listings get more applicants.
More applicants means more data.
More data means better benchmarking.
Better benchmarking means I present at the quarterly review.
I presented last quarter.
I showed a slide that said we "received unprecedented candidate interest."
160,000 people applied for jobs that didn't exist.
That's the unprecedented interest.
The VP of People called it "brand strength."
The CFO asked about our hiring efficiency.
I said we were "optimizing for quality over speed."
Quality means we haven't hired anyone.
Speed means we don't plan to.
HR asked about candidate experience.
I showed them our NPS score.
It was 12.
Out of 100.
I said that was "within industry range."
I made up the industry range.
No one checked.
They never do.
Last month a candidate emailed me directly.
She said she'd applied to four roles over eight months.
Customized every resume. Wrote every cover letter.
Never heard back.
She asked if the jobs were real.
I sent her to the automated FAQ.
The FAQ says "We value every application."
That's not true.
We value every data point.
There's a difference.
I'm up for promotion.
My metrics are outstanding.
500 roles posted. 160,000 applicants captured.
Cost per acquisition: $0.
I didn't acquire anyone.
But the cost was zero.
Zero is a good number in a dashboard.
Dashboards get presented.
Presentations get approved.
Approvals get me promoted.
I'll be VP of Talent by Q4.
I don't find talent.
I collect it.
Like a jar you never open.
>be 28 year old Korean office drone
>graduated from "Who?" University, missed SKY by 2 Suneung points
>chaebol said "no thanks," now at SME making ramen wages
>sunbae makes me pour his soju with a 45-degree bow during hweshik
>plastic surgeon says my jawline is "failure-coded"
>drop 8 months salary on new chin for better "specs"
>dating app girl asks which Gangnam complex I own
>tell her it's a "villa" (glorified closet with mold)
>unmatched faster than my sunbae blocks promotions
>mom calls: "just borrow $500k from family for deposit!"
>become N-Po: no marriage, no kids, no dignity
>but bought a Chanel bag on 12-month credit for flexxing
>boss calls mandatory hweshik at 11pm
>it's my birthday
>sunbae makes me sing solo karaoke until 2am
>stumble home, look in mirror
>my chin could cut glass
>too bad it's the only asset I own
>everything else is debt and soju fumes