LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
… Until you need a job.
I need a job so yeah, I did angrily send my passport to persona. What can I do? No job means I’ll have to remigrate back, I’ll lose everything I have built here for the past 5 years.
So I need linkedkn as half the jobs are there now.
Not that it mattered. I sent out hundreds of job resumes by now, and I had literally a single reply.
I did get an offer from a company, pay us 10.000 dollars and we will get you a great job, no guarantees though. Thry actually do seem to work, not directly a scam, but what the fuck, why is it that this is how i need to get a job?
Either way, its fucked and its done. 2 months from now I’ll be living in a different country because I have gotten exactly a single interview in 2 months so far…
I’m in IT, so that’s fucked, but I’m also on a work permit that requires anyone who wants to hire me to jump through a few hundred hoops, and they may need to wait 2-16 months (!!!) for me to get the required permissions to start. Granted, 16 months is an extremely worst case scenario, BUT IT IS A POSSIBILITY as laid out to me by multiple immigration lawyers by now. I’m highly qualified, I’m very nice in person, respectful and calm, I can build up your entire IT department myself as I’ve worked literally at every position from the lowest to the highest. I have broad knowledge about almost everything IT. I’m willing to take low level jobs if that will get me something.
Nothing
So I’m fucked and fuck this world