Month: April 2022

I migrated from India to Netherlands five months ago and been working for a “big” company. The interview and everything went well and after not hearing any feedback from the manager for five months he puts up an appointment to see me at office with HR and says my performance is really bad and I need to quit. I left a good paying job to migrate from Asia to Europe. I had to ask my wife to quit her job to come with me and my two kids are still trying to adapt to the schools here. This is such a shock to me and I don't know what to do.

It seems like it is much easier to get fired nowadays than it used to be. Do you guys agree? I remember when if you breathed into a mirror and it fogged up, you got the job. You had to do some really seriously negligent stuff in order to get fired. Now you need 8 years of experience just to get a minimum wage job, and you can get fired if you breathe the wrong way into that mirror. I think these companies have been living high on the hog for too many years now. They are used to having 600 applicants per job, and have begun to operating accordingly. Costs are astronomical now, and so much more is expected of workers as a result. Do you agree? Is it easier to get fired now than it used to be?

Hello, I am an unemployed expat in a country where it’s unrealistic for me to have a stable job , however I am looking at online courses or degrees to get a steady and well paying job in the next few years. What would a good option (if there are options?) I was looking into a teaching degree or a nursing but I can’t do the placements where I live. I am mainly interested in community housing advocacy work but I have no idea how to get into that field. I am terrible at maths and techy stuff but I wonder if there are any jobs in tech that are good for a more artistic soul? Thanks in advance. I am feeling really down about everything right now.

I wish it had been a badly done joke. But it wasn't. Some backstory first. I've been working as a “temp” for an agency of a “pop-up COVID-19 clinic” for an absurdly well-off and big name university for about 8 months now. It's been around since July of 2020. It paid well, but everything else has been… crappy. (Crappy set-up, crappy equipment, little-to-no-support, etc.) But I liked it. It was as if I found my niche and I had been excelling to the point where my manager could trust me to take equipment home and finish some work if need be! We always knew it was temporary. Or at least, hoped it would be. The pandemic, the lack of understanding of how COVID has been evolving (or rather, predictability of it), has been making it last longer and longer. A few months turned into a year, then a second year.…

I quit over two weeks ago. I only worked there about a month, because it was an overall bad working environment, they never wanted to schedule me inside my availability and the manager would not stop crossing lines between managing and harassment. I sent an email when I quit asking to be contacted via personal email or phone as to when my check will be available for pick up. I have gotten zero word, but a coworker I had there said my check had been sitting at their second location (a place I never once worked and is almost 2 hours out of the way) and if I didn’t sign a paper they would mail it to an unverified address. Unverified because they never once verified with me what address and my mailing is not the same and my physical. They told all their to a coworker, not me. I…