I use a couple of online websites to hunt for jobs. I have since 2003.
Actually, to digress, I live a whole life online for the most part: I found my house on the internet. I found my acoustic bass on the internet. I found my car on the internet. And I found my wife on the internet. (So what if she was 8500 miles away? Life is difficult, right?)
Anyway, in recent months I have noticed this trend with one online site (won't mention it). I have a healthcare backgorund: mental health in hospitals, group homes, and outpatient clinics.
Lately I have had a slew of 'contacts' from different companies - Insurance Companies, to be exact - who tell me they have "seem my resume" and they think that I would be a "good fit" for their "corporate sales program". I usually delete these, but lately they have been pissing me off, so I reply to them with a terse reply indicating that I don't really believe they read my resume at all.
Recently I excoriated some guy in such an e-mail and slammed him for not really reading my resume before he sends his friggin' spam to me.
I find it offensive because I think they are trolling for desperate people.
I hate insurance companies, by the way. I should make that clear.
So today, I am doing my documentation for yesterday's session, already needlessly complicated by bullshit rules from Medicaid (who does not want to help the mentally ill anyway) and I get a call.
I answer and a nice lady gives me a cheerful "Hello, Mr. Zombie". I reply "Hello, how are you?"
"I am so and so with American Life and I am in recipt of your resume. We would be very interested to schedule you for an interview as soon as possible for our corporate sales team".
"Did you really read my resume, ma'am?"? I asked, already wise to this crap.
"Yes I did."
"was there anything on that resume that would lead you to believe I have the first shred of interest in selling things?" I asked, bluntly.
"Well", she said, "you are in healthcare and we are an insurance company".
Brilliant, I thought.
"That's right" I said; "I work to help treat people and you insurance agencies are my adversary. You're like "the enemy" of treatment".
"Have a nice day sir". Click.
These insurance companies are bastards. They want people to pay out the ass for services that the companies then turn around and nickle and dime the companies who provide services, deny this and force payback on that. As far as I am concerned they are a central feature of "The Problem" that is "healthcare access in America".
Insurance companies and "managed care" - a conspiracy by the insurance companies to rob us blind while telling us they will control costs (remember THAT promise? I do)and deliver the best in care - are plainly hostile to mental health care. I will be writing something in-depth about this soon.
I may be dying for a better job but I won't work for those vultures.