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> And employers moan that they have trouble finding good staff.

Employers have trouble finding good staff that they can pay peanuts.

A shitty application form is a great filter for people who are desparate and will put up with low pay and toxic corporate idiosyncrasies.

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Reminds me of ASML's yearly whining (they form cartels with other tech businesses in the region to keep max compensation down and are then acting surprised that they can't find local engineers who deliberately avoid the company).

Nice, I can't understand their growth potential could be like infinite they operate in the right space and have the right tech and fill in a nice niche. But C-suite and shareholders dividends need to be maximalized and engineeres enslaved I guess. Man I love latestage capitalism /s.

> engineers who deliberately avoid the company .. engineeres enslaved

Not sure how you equated the two.

I bought capitalism.boo last night. wanna do something with it?

Who/what is ASML?

I believe they are talking about ASML fab for semiconductors[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding

But on the other hand many really well skilled would avoid the application

"Thank god, they would have left anyway."

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