AI is required for WORK?? I hate AI and millennial grey.

The other day, I applied for a job, and the website scheduled me an interview.

But it wasn’t a real person interviewing me.

IT WAS AN AI INTERVIEW.

I had to talk to an AI voice for the interview. And no it wasn’t one of those automated voice command phone calls. It was literally ChatGPT!! And I didn’t even have an option to text the bot like with regular ChatGPT, I was forced to respond to it with my voice, pretending like I was speaking to a real human. And of course there was no option to skip this. It was required to take the AI interview before being scheduled for a real interview. 

I was so flabbergasted. I felt like a poor old woman watching her world become unrecognizable as it adapts for the connivence of younger generations, all the while she’s being entirely forgotten and left behind. Am I getting… old? When I was 15, I used to call people “unc” for being old and not getting with the times. Now I’m 18, and 15 year olds today call me unc.

Am I really now… unc?

Is 2007 really old now?

Ok back to the interview. 

So I probably wasted like 20 gallons of water by completing that interview. If I had an option not to speak to that AI, I would not speak to it because I am against generative AI. But I really need a job, I’ve been applying everywhere and no one is accepting my applications. And people say “Gen Z is lazy and doesn’t want to work” yeah maybe because YOU DON’T HIRE US!!! 

Anyway so the AI schedules me an interview with a real person (finally) So I take a bus all the way to the next town over for this interview and guess what?

I talk to the nice lady at the front, and I’m like, hi I have an interview today! She gave me a very confused look and said the boss isn’t in today, and this was the second time someone had an interview today and she had to tell them the same thing. 

So this DUMB ASS AI wasted 20 gallons of water, tons of energy, and probably polluted a local neighborhood… just for it to schedule my interview on a day when the boss wasn’t even in????

I dunno. Maybe it’s not even worth applying to a job with a faulty scheduling system that only relies on AI.

So they want Gen Z to work more… but then they require AI in the workplace, the one thing that a lot of Gen Z is against??

Why are boomers and !!!—> *SOME* <—!!! millennials like this?

You know, speaking of MILLENNIALS.

(!!—> *SOME OF THEM NOT ALL OF THEM* <—!!)

When I arrived at the business, it was VERY millennial grey. The walls were depressingly grey, the tables and chairs were depressingly grey, and the lights were a very unwelcoming fluorescent hospital ER unit white. The type of white that you usually see on those trucks with the blinding ass LEDs. And the floor wasn’t even painted. It’s just concrete.

And get this, it was an ICE CREAM SHOP. Who in Gods name thought it would be a great financial decision to make the one place that kids love… grey? 

No wonder why that place is always empty, too. They’re even selling their employee uniforms as ”merch” which just screams financial instability. “My business isn’t doing well so please buy my employee uniforms!” They even made it so that the first thing you see when you enter is the huge merch wall. And of course, not a single shelf is empty. No one even buys the merch!

And it’s not like their ice cream sucks. The ice cream is actually pretty good. It’s literally just the marketing that’s killing it. They don’t make it very obvious that it’s an ice cream shop. Their brand logo is in huge bold letters on the sign, with a very very tiny, easy to miss, “ice cream” printed on the bottom. That’s literally the only indication that it’s an ice cream shop. There’s no pictures of ice cream on the windows, no fun colors, no fold-up menu outside, no fun gimmick, no personality, no nothing. At first glance, you would think it’s some sort of millennial start-up coffee shop that sells lions mane mushroom coffee for $25. “Just two guys and a crazy dream!” Type of coffee shop. You know what, not even “two guys and a dream.” That shop doesn’t even have enough personality for that! The place is so bland and grey that it looks like there was never even a dream to begin with!

  If they painted everything to more bright, friendly colors, it would look less like a boring coffee shop and more like a fun, welcoming ice cream shop, and they’d probably get more customers. This is evident just by looking at the candy shop next door. The candy shop is painted with bright neon colors, and the lights are a much warmer, welcoming tone. They always have a fold-up poster outside advertising a new candy. They even have a friendly employee standing outside to greet you with samples. And even the employee uniforms are colorful. And they don’t even really sell their own candy, it’s all imported stuff. Yet that place is ALWAYS busy. Kids scream and cry when they have to leave. Buisness is BOOMING. 

Then, you look at the sad, boring ice cream place next door. It looks like if the name “50 shades of grey” was literal. The lights are a very harsh and unwelcoming white, and the boring shades of grey scream “get your ice cream and get out. Or whatever. We don’t get paid enough to care.” The only customer inside is an older woman who thought it was a coffee shop. No kids in sight screaming for ice cream. The only thing that’s screaming is the tip jar. It is screaming for help. Screaming for at least a single dime. The kind of scream you would hear if you tied up Mr. Krabs and forced him to watch SpongeBob pour all his money into a paper shredder.

I HATE millennial grey. It is so depressing. WHO thought millennial grey would be a good financial decision! “Ah yes, the most BORING and UNINVITING color is the perfect color to paint an ice cream shop! Surely this will draw in the kids, because we ALL know kids LOVE grey and HATE bright colors, am I right, fellow millennial marketing team?” 

Sarcasm aside, on the bright side, it’s probably a good thing for people who get overstimulated easily. Maybe? I don’t know, millennial grey still overstimulates me quite a bit. It makes me feel unwelcome and uncomfortable... especially as someone who has very bright neon hair and dresses very colorfully, I feel out of place in the one place you’d think I’d fit in. (An ice cream shop because my hair is ice cream colored haha get it? Whatever…) I feel like the employees are going to call me a slur lmaoo. Idk. If you don’t want it to be overstimulating, maybe use warm pastels? That way, it’ll still be inviting while also not stepping over the line of overstimulating. Idk I’m not the stimulator expert.

Damn why I’m yapping so much. Btw don’t take this too seriously because I am not being completely serious either lol

Anyway idk why this turned into a rant about millennial grey. I should probably make a separate blog about that. Oh well.

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TLDR: I try to get a job but the place makes me take an AI interview powered ChatGPT and it forces me to respond to it with my voice and pretend it’s a real person. The faulty AI schedules me an irl interview just for the boss to not even be in that day. I am very pissed off. Also I hate millennial grey.

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