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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by NickwithaC@lemmy.world to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world

Also, just a general "fuck the job search" from me.

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[-] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Why is it even a text input in the first place?

[-] SCmSTR 12 points 1 day ago

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 99 points 2 days ago

Forms like that I just copy and paste the error notification in with the submission:

 

Yes.

The text you entered is too short. Please use more than 50 characters.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago

I'm going to start borrowing this. Thank you.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

yep. there's a small chance it's an honest mistake

a bigger chance it's malice

and mostly just incompetence

either way, not a company I want to apply to

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 92 points 2 days ago

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago

In short, I would have to say "yes, I'm applying for the full-time role" - though as you have 5000 characters available for this answer, I imagine you want a more thorough response to this question. Let's start from the beginning:

In... West Philadelphia, born and raised [...]

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago

Nobody is talking about the “3996 characters left”.

That’s room for a novel of positivity.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

17 pieces of flair is just the minimum, but a real team member goes for more.

[-] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 21 points 2 days ago

This is the one and only use for ChatGPT - a polite fuck you to whoever thought a 50-4000 character limit was appropriate for a yes/no question.

[-] syreus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

If there are 10 of those fields you could fit the whole script of The Bee Movie[2007].

Yes, I am applying for the full time role (36 hours).

53 chars

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

This is what I would do as well.

It's the professional response.

Could be purposeful to see how one reacts to fustrating situations.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

if the reaction they want is to see you bend over and take it, fuck that place

things should be neat and orderly and proper, so that people can spend their effort on the stuff that isn't instead of broken-window tasks

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

If that's your idea of being bent over, how the fuck do you survive any work place?

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see shit that could be better and work to improve it instead of just saying "meh not my problem"

or, I mean, I used to, when we were a growing company full of people who also worked to make things better. now we're big enough to have a bunch of people that don't really care and are perfectly fine with repeatedly wasted effort and it's actually not my job to do some stuff. so instead I just judge them for their shitty performance doing a thirty minute task every week that would take five minutes with an hour of initial investment

you don't have to settle for being made to do bullshit tasks, though. if somebody is making you complete a ten steps process that should be five, change it. if it can't change, fuck that place

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Sounds like it's time for you to look for a new company. Anytime I feel jaded or disgruntled, I leave for greener fields.

But what does any of that have to do with filling out weird forms?

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

nah, I'm just gonna settle into my position and do what I'm compensated for and try not to worry about what I'm not. if something makes my life shittier, I'll fight to improve it. otherwise, I'll offer my opinion and move on.

if you can't make the connection between what I'm saying and a poorly set up form, I'm not going to bother explaining more

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Insert 48 additional invisible characters. If you need an easy generator to copy/paste I found this one with a quick google search:

https://textcleaner.net/invisible-character/

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago

My favourite is the zero width space. It has interesting interactions with many text fields.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

oh man I was fighting with a supplier of one of our systems and about this exact thing a couple months ago, I think. copy/pasting something from one part of their software would allow an invisible/zerolength character in a unique identifier field, which obviously fucks shit up. they, as always, were incredibly difficult to deal with instead of just acknowledging the bug and saying they'll fix it

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

 

aw yeah it's still alt 255

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or Alt+0160 for a wider invisible character.

Because of 4chan, those two alt codes are permanently burned into my memory.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

for me it was ascii editing.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, I am indeed applying for this full time role.

50 characters. Dammit!

[-] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

Pro tip: Emojis count as multiple characters in bad applications ☺️👌

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Yeah, OP, it's just that easy; like this:

Whoa, WHO getting 🔫SHOOTED💦 like that? 🫦It’s Charlie Kirk 🍆👓, the SEXY little conservative taking a hot long DICK 😍🍆 right in his 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀able face 🍑, am I right? 😂 Hot and STEAMY💦 with a side of GUSHING! 💦😋 Time to call the AMBULANCE🏥⁉️ but first LETS DRIP 💦 that sweet, messy blood 🩸 on the floor like a freshly SPLATTERED 🍅sauce! 🍅💦🍆🍑💦💋, always preaching 🍗 about his FAVORITE policies 📰, finally getting his mouth hole STUFFED 👅🍌 we know he’s just trying to get that HARDCORE applause 👏💦 from the crowd, while secretly wanting to DICK-tate some sweet ASS 🍑! With his hands on the podium 👐🏻, he's got those CUM-suming ideas 💭💦💦 that make people go spewing 🗣️ like they just saw the hottest Twerk dance! 🍑💃💦 Now send this to 6️⃣ of your most HORNIEST friends 🥵💌 or else you’ll be money shotted next 💰🔫 👅💋💦

[-] dan@upvote.au 29 points 2 days ago

How do I unread someone's comment?

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Officer, it's this comment, right here.

[-] SkyeStarfall 4 points 2 days ago

Ty

I will now send this to everyone on my contact list

oh hells yea, we makin it outta suckingham phallus with this one

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

These bad boys are really great: 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏿

It has to encode the skin color and gender and that it is two persons and that all of that needs to be joined together. Or in other words:

Screenshot from a website, which counts a single emoji as 12 characters or as 26 bytes.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I seem to recall that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is freakishly long as well for some reason

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Four score and seven years ago I applied for the full time role.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

awww YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Yes. Yeah. Yep. Affirmative. Absolutely. Aye. Yup. Totally.

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

This is when I'd bring out the ASCII art of Jotaro Kujo "YES YES YES YES YES"

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Can you fill the rest with spaces?

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

84 chars:

I affirm in the positive, that I am applying for the thirty-six hour full time role.

58 chars:

Yes, I am applying for the thirty-six hour full time role.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i think they are expecting some lengthy begging

[-] determinist@kbin.earth 5 points 2 days ago

@NickwithaC@lemmy.world repeat 'yes' in multiple languages. win-win. now you look super multilingual AND you want the job.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

More than 50 characters?

What kind of dungeon master do you take me for?

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Hmmmm…try “Yupperz” maybe?

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yes:

Frodo
Samwise
Merry
Pippin
Gandalf
Bilbo
Aragorn Boromir
Faramir
Legolas
Gimli
Elrond
Galadriel
Arwen
Eowyn
Denethor
Eomer
Gollum
Saruman
Sauron

Luke
Leia
Han
Chewbacca
C-3P0
R2-D2
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Darth Vader
Emperor Palpatine
Lando
Grand Moff Tarkin
Yoda
Sebulba Darth Maul Jar-Jar Binks Mace Windu

Kirk
Spock
Bones
Scotty
Uhura
Sulu
Chekov

Picard
Riker
Data
Geordi
Worf
Dr. Crusher
Troi Guinan

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Just restate your yes in unnecessary complicated language.

[-] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Ahh just fill them all with null

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

ASCII bell (7) and hope for the worst.

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