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Same experience here.

I've learned the basics of 15 different database, coding, web design languages over the course of many different tech jobs ... because my job description would just randomly expand into something new within 2 months.

And of course, I had to teach myself all this, with only one exception of an actual competent manager who actually properly trained me.

Nothing is ever documented, or the documentation is wrong.

One job I had as a data analyst for the executive level of a logistics company. The person I was replacing had coded some extremely high level reports wrong and was double counting some categories such that total, global revenue for the company was overestimated by about 30%

I fixed it and explained the fix.

Not a single executive of this world wide logistics company seemed to notice.

I once a applied for a job that said C# .NET in the title, the requirements listed embedded systems programming qualifications, and their automated hiring thing gave me a little "aptitude test" asking questions for a tech support role. Literally one of the questions was if I would be able to install antivirus software on other employees' computers.

And this is why you never say no to a job posting just because you think you're not qualified. Apply anyway. You might be exactly what they're looking for and be an otherwise great fit.

Every job I've had except for my first retail job I have not met the posted requirements, but I've been able to either learn on the job or proved in the interview process that I know the subject matter despite not having the degree.

I've been studying RPG in preparation for the interview.

Hiring manager to HR: "Good Lord what cruelty have we inflicted upon this person?" 😨

I once was hired after being offered the job because I had at the time extensive LDAP knowledge. In the three years I was there I never touched LDAP.

"Ok, then let's say you give me a coffee so i haven't come here for nothing and we look if you could use me somewhere else while i drink that coffee."

Different, but still hiring fuckery

Friend applied for a job, database admin, HR called to set-up and interview. Two days later he got an email from the IT department, of that company, telling him that they weren't actually supposed to be responding to applicants for the position. He emailed asking if the posted position had been filled, and then received weirdly worded response saying yes, but implying that it never opened for that particular job post. Then they stopped communicating with him. They were just posting jobs they weren't hiring for.

He passed it all off to a link for, employment law, at the city chamber of commerce. Not that anything would be done.

or autism

Or instead of just immediately playing the bigotry card on some green text...

Person could have walked in and was drunk, or high. Having worked in kitchens way back when I have seen both with great regularity.

Person could have walked in and been immediately inappropriate especially with the front house.

Maybe it was an actual high-end restaurant where it requires somebody to have actual skills,

Lol restaurants don't have time for that shit. Who would buy that kind of data from a restaurant anyway? Even if you had more than 200 applicants a month that would probably net you less than $10.