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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

AI BOTS ARE NOW HIRING AI BOTS TO REPLACE YOU WITH AI BOTS: A Modern Employment Horror Story

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mr. Harris applied to 200 jobs and got rejected by exactly zero humans, which is somehow worse than getting rejected by 200 humans.

READ or LISTEN to this #MindOfMarlar article: https://weirddarkness.com/mm-aijobinterviews

MindOfMarlar™, WeirdDarkness®, Copyright ©2025
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
#JobMarketHorrorStory #AIHiringFails #UnemploymentHumor #JobSearchNightmare #RobotInterviews

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0:00.0

Hey, weirdos. Just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at that time, usually the podcast episode for the day, and then during the premiere, we all hang out in the YouTube live chat. Even if you've already heard that day's episode here in the podcast, you're

0:21.2

still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central

0:26.0

time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends, too, because I have no social life whatsoever.

0:31.6

You can find my channel at weirddarkness.com slash YouTube. That's weirddarkness.com

0:36.3

slash YouTube. Hey, weirdos, as we get closer to Halloween

0:40.1

and our 10-year anniversary of this podcast, I'd love to get your opinions on how I'm doing,

0:45.2

what you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see more of, what you'd change if you were

0:50.3

in charge. Well, you get the idea. I have a new Weird Darkness survey on the website

0:54.7

so you can send me your opinions. And it's completely anonymous, so you can be completely

0:59.4

honest. This is a new survey, so even if you did give your opinion before, you can do so

1:04.4

again, and I'd appreciate you doing so. Visit Weirddarkness.com slash survey. That's Weirddarkness.com slash survey.

1:12.7

Harris, a recent UC Davis graduate with the kind of resume that would make helicopter

1:17.4

parents weep with joy, decided to enter the job market.

1:21.4

This was his first mistake.

1:23.6

His second mistake was believing that having actual qualifications would matter in an economy

1:29.3

where chat GPT writes the applications and other chat GPs read them, like two ventriloquist

1:35.7

dummies having a conversation while the humans sit in the audience wondering why they

1:39.8

bought tickets.

1:41.7

The young man had everything, a paid internship, not one of those will pay you

1:45.9

with exposure opportunities. He had volunteer work, saving baby otters or whatever environmental

1:51.8

defenders do, farm experience that proved he could handle both spreadsheets and shovels, and

1:57.6

a GPA so high it probably needed an oxygen tank. He was willing to live in his

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