Month: July 2022

I keep getting hired at toxic companies and I'm not sure what to do. I (27/f) just put in my two week notice with my current organization. I am currently a Content Marketing Manager at a small marketing agency. I don't have another job lined up yet, but I do have savings and wealthy parents who offered to support me while I'm in my job search. I wouldn't have been able to take this step without the privilege of financial stability. My current organization has a toxic work culture. I started to notice it in Feb of this year, but I ignored it until around May. It started to impact my mental health, to the point that I almost (probably should have) been hospitalized. I was suicidal and had a psychotic episode where I thought everyone except my husband (34/m) and I were replaced by robots. Below are a few…

lol title is pretty much self explanatory but I 24(f) moved from phoenix to the Bay area because I got a pretty great package to work at a Biotech company. I got laid off today because they were acquired by some new company and don’t have the money to pay for any fucking thing due to the recession. (why would you hire me in the first place then?) Anyway I have no idea what to do or where to start. I guess I’m in the right place if i’m looking for jobs in my industry but I am genuinely so scared to be applying when things are so unstable. I do have 2 months paid and then severance on top of that which helps a great deal but fuck. If anyone has any tips ideas suggestions anything for me that could help i’d appreciate it. I’m so distraught

I’ve been at my job three months and found a document from the ‘21 talent management cycle. They don’t promote when the business needs a larger scope of the role. They specifically don’t promote when you work hard or do a good job. And companies wonder why employees look else where. Companies who are on here: Be more people-centric and reward your employees the right way. Hard work and a good performance should be grounds a promotion. Not just because your business demands it. Otherwise people leave to where someone is willing to promote and pay more.

I am part of a group in my organization that has been asked to give a presentation to our C-Suite with recommendations on employee retention. Our company, like many others, and maybe even more so lately, is seeing huge amounts of turnover and it's primarily driven by higher salary offers elsewhere. I made the point in one of our brainstorming meetings with one of our Presidents that any salary raises that don't match inflation is a pay cut. She replied by saying that “Company X isn't responsible for subsidizing inflation. And even if they did raise everyone's salaries by 10%, what are they going to do in three years or when the recession is over? Take the raises back?” Ma'am, if you don't want to hear the truth then why even bother asking? If Company X doesn't want to subsidize inflation, then guess what? Company Y will. And Company Y…

We are a company of 100+, today was our general office wide morning presentation. After a 45 minute update on the new office structure another director comes in front, he shows a slide of a colleague looking happy. Immediately my thoughts go to, oh nice, is he getting promoted? In one sentence, we learned he has tragically died of cancer, and the funeral was yesterday. There is a website we can write our commiserations if we want to. The director apologises for ending the presentation on such a sad note. The HR director chuckles (!?) as apparently that was a funny thing said. I am beyond words, honestly. This person has been 'out of office' for a while, and I thought they probably went on sabbatical. He was a great guy, my age, and he is gone now forever, and I am being quietly ushered back to work. No time…