Month: March 2022

I'm a Medical Assistant. I've been working as one for over 15 years now. I'm currently unemployed, long story, and actively interviewing. Been reading this sub for a few months and this has really built my confidence. I just left 2 job interviews. 1 in person and 1 phone. In person left me waiting 26 minutes in the lobby. Once we went to the back they, the Supervisors (?), asked a few basic questions then proceeded to say how they noticed on my application I was asking for $20 but they were only offering $16. (Mind you I live in Southern California) I asked if this was negotiable since their ad on Indeed stated a range of $16-20 and they said “No”. I then replied I couldn't work for that little and I was asking for $20 like it said and that I have a mortgage and kids. I also…

This has been on my mind for a while, even if the event happened in late December. I'm still feeling the effects to this day (the effects in question being unemployment, lol) But let's start with context: I worked at a 3rd party installer for Best Buy called American Audio Video and everything was really great for a while. Loved my coworkers and the boss honestly fine for a while. Smoothly was doing what I was asked for months, learned a lot along the way. But a little bit into the time there 2 of my coworkers (the only 2 people I worked with actually) up and left. So they need a new guy who can help me out. I wait weeks for my boss to find a new guy, the whole time I can't even find a way to make money. Boss tried to be cool by occasionally sprinkling…

So I’m an occupational therapist looking for a new job. I do one interview with the recruiter who reached out to me via Indeed and then had a 2nd phone interview with the Regional VP all within like 2 hours of each other. I asked a lot of hard hitting questions, one was do they offer annual raises. Answer is no! So I’m like how do you keep employee morale up or recognize your employees for a job well done? She says, “Oh you know leadership spotlights and I just sent some gifts to my buildings” -_- COME ON! She gives me the typical runaround answers of “well we do regularly look at our wage grids and I guess we should now that inflation went up.” Im gonna do an in person interview but don’t think I’ll accept the position if they don’t give AT LEAST a COL raise. I…