Work is for suckers.

With that said, I feel you with the temp agencies not getting back to you. If you go in for an interview and end of not getting the position, they should have the courtesy to let you know.

You are clearly owed a job, I, Anon. As a (probably) recent college grad about to default on their student loans it is the responsibility of society to bestow you with gainful employment, regardless of ability. I suggest you suck it up and be a bartender like every other grad student in Portland.

Don't use 'that' so much, or ever if you can help it. Except when saying, "fuck that shit."

I'm flabbergasted. I actually agree with one of arenit's posts.

Welcome to Portland, Ory-gun.

Sounds like you need to go on a shooting, IA.

Aw, I feel for you, I personally have been unemployed for six months. You'll probably see me working at a local Mcdonalds soon :-(.

Jesus fucking Christ do you slackers expect someone to just hand you a job because you have majored in basket weaving at Wesleyan?

Hang in there man. The modern hiring process has gotten so ridiculously callous and impersonal.

I think it is bullshit not to respond to applicants for a job. Get an email address from all of them, and send a form email telling them they didn't get the job. Not that hard.

And if you interview someone, you call that person on the telephone with the results. Period. It is strange the Human Resources, of all departments, is becoming one of the least courteous and professional departments in the work world.

Although I sympathize with the difficulty of finding a job in this market and detest the state of our economy and the downgrading in value of a degree of any kind, I can't help but wonder what kind of grad degree IA has that he/she doesn't have at least a cumulative year's worth of internship experience? That experience requirement is exactly what internships, paid or unpaid, are meant to provide you with.