Canada

There's two things here:
"How is only a 100 news? That's nothing."
And:
"It's absolutely fucked up that our reaction to this is that it's nothing."
That reaction shouldn't exist, and it's even more fucked that most people who have that reaction don't realise that's a bad thing in the first place. No one should have to go through all that just to be able to survive.

He’d like to move into construction — siding, roofing, interior work — but the sector’s downturn has narrowed his options at the worst possible time.

That we have a housing crisis and a construction sector downturn and people wanting to work in it and struggling to find work tells you everything you need to know about the insanity of the profit-first economic system we have.

There is a widespread social need, there is infrastructure, and there are people ready to work to fulfill the need. The only hiccup seems to be that some ghoul can't make enough of a buck out of it. This is market failure. The government should be stepping in, and hiring and training people to build non-market housing.

What a fucking waste capitalism is.

Lol 100 makes the news? I think my partner has like 3-4x that on a spreadsheet, she's been unemployed for two years and has two masters

Sad to say, 100 is rookie numbers, especially for someone likely junior or maybe mid-level in their field. I"m senior in mine, and I applied to 54 before even getting a single phone call.

Before getting tje job I have now, I sent like 50 applications a week for six months at least... Im 19.

100?! Those are rooky numbers, the wife has been applying for about a year with no leads.

She's probably in the high thousands.

Lol last time I needed help my boss paid to put out an ad on indeed, got like 200+ resumes then just said fuck it and hired a friend's kid rather than go through them because he didn't feel like it.

100 only?

I'm at 200 and had a single introduction interview with no results.

5 years ago I had 20 applications and got literally 30 interviews as the word spread that I was available somehow. Recruiters were relentless.

Now? 5 years later?

Nothing

i did this pre-covid, and it wasnt even easy then, its just worst under AI.

100 seems kinda mild? I think it took me closer to 1500 to get a job.

What it Reza and other Canadians were paid some sort of universal income?

I know, crazy talk. Let’s keeping giving corporations and billionaires tax cuts, sell off natural resources, and privatize everything. Surely, neoliberalism economics will get us out this mess.

This is somehow more insulting than if they hadn't written a story about the shitty job market at all.

Over 1000 for me. Fuck AI.

100? Those are amateur numbers.

Them are uncertain times now. It might get worse still in this global political and economic climate.

It's funny that they went to the news.

100 applications is nothing.

"For a couple of years, Mahmoudian worked as a home energy advisor — a self-contractor who says he used to put in 70-hour weeks. However, most of the government incentives that sustained that work, including the Canada Greener Homes Loan program, have ended, and business has dried up"

That paragraph says an awful lot, if you read what is NOT said. Reads like he made his money in the past by sweet talking people into applying for government handouts. Government money dried up, and he has no skills to work at a 'real' job.

I really think they picked the wrong person to highlight in the article to make their point.