It's bizarre for a company to say "Congratulations" to you when they offer you a job. You're giving up a portion of your life (not renewable) for the employer's money (renewable). Society is weird!

https://lemmy.world/post/22758738

It's bizarre for a company to say "Congratulations" to you when they offer you a job. You're giving up a portion of your life (not renewable) for the employer's money (renewable). Society is weird! - Lemmy.World

If you needed help moving and the help would require the entire weekend and you asked a friend for help and then you made them go through a lengthy process to be deemed worthy enough to help you and then you decided to let them help you and you told them “congratulations, you get to help me” that would not go over so well with the friend. Then extrapolate that scenario over years where you are constantly being told that they are helping you out and not the reverse. That you are the lucky one to have the job. Getting a job and helping someone to profit off your labor is not winning the lottery for you. What a farce we have created and accepted in our society.

I don’t think that this is unpopular, even if I agree with you. Not even in real life; often those in power try to associate work with positive things, and yet the actual workers see it as a mockery.

Cue to the Latin word tripalium (a torture device) ending as the word for “work” in plenty Romance languages; or to the Nazi “Arbeit macht Frei” (work makes freedom) on concentration camps.

I mean, I hear you, but in theory, you were also being interviewed alongside other candidates.

The congratulations also serve as acknowledgement that you did the best out of those that were also in the runnings.

It is congratulations because when you applied for the job the presumably you wanted it. If you don’t want a corporate job don’t apply for one.