Month: August 2022

This happened about 15 years ago. A little bit of background… I worked for an AE firm based out another state. Traditional AE firms tend to have an abusive relationship with employees, a lot of hiring and firing for specific projects, long hours, etc. A lot of that is phasing out but our office hired a horrible old-school office manager that viewed everyone as pawns and clearly had it out for certain people from early on. Our particular office was in the suburbs and had about 20 people and everyone lived within a 10 min drive, then this manager pushed to relocate the office downtown, which resulted in a 1.5 hr commute each way for just about everyone. Using the relocation as an excuse this office manager also pushed really hard to fire everyone then force everyone to re-apply for their jobs because he thought there would be better talent…

I work at a smaller business, they have only a couple stores. There are a few sketchy things they've done before but they're not really relevant to this story. My co worker, let's call her E, was a friend that recently started working at the same job. This job has been mostly lax about all dress code since I've worked there. When I first started working, there weren't even uniforms. However, as soon as she was hired, the general manager told E she would need to remove her nail polish for food handling. I do the same work that she does. We wear gloves for everything, so I honestly don't know why this would matter. I've worn nail polish for most of my shifts there, not even subtle colors, and nothing was said to me. Other women at work also wear nail polish, and no one has said anything to…

Without saying too much just yet, a company I have been interviewing with for months offered to host me for a few days for an interview. They offered lodging and to pay for my air fair. I triple checked with them that things were approved before buying my flight ticket, but I still should have requested they make the purchase on my behalf just to be safe. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess. In the past few weeks they have gone completely silent. I’ve sent follow ups, made phone calls, nothing. The last email I received said I’d get my lodging info early last week. Mind you, I’ve interviewed with two managers and a VP at this company, so this isn’t the result of just one person not communicating. I’m supposed to travel there this week and have no details on flight reimbursement, no details on where I’m staying, nothing. If…

I am a type 1 diabetic who is on the most expensive insulin on the market. Just saw new job’s explanation of benefits and the least expensive plan is $250 a month. I wanted the best plan possible for the least amount of complication and stress with fighting for coverage but I may have to bite the bullet here. Any insights? Or rants about America? Let me know

About to graduate so I'm looking for work online rn. Most companies send super generic auto-response emails after applying that don't give any info about the role/company/interview process. Some places I've applied to include surveys about the hiring process, and I wanna give them some feedback about how they can make their auto-responses suck less. Would you want company info?? Interview overview?? I'm trying to participate in surveys more ig. LMK your thoughts TLDR; what should companies tell you after you apply, other than if you got the job or not

I worked at this particular company for 10 years. One of my colleagues had been there for 25 years and had a perfect record, literally, Never took a sick day or was late, once in all that time. We had to work weekends, as part of our contracts. He asked for a Saturday off to attend a wedding and offered to take it as unpaid leave. He was told no by his section manger, a weasel of a man. He wrote a strongly worded letter to the big boss, who to be fair, rained down fire and fury on the section manager for his refusal. But the damage was done and my colleague handed in his resignation. 25 years of perfect service and turned down for an unpaid day off.

To preface this, I am a warehouse lead for a multi-billion dollar corporation that sells 100% recycled corrugated boxes. I am required to wear around 5 hats for one job and only compensated for 18/hour. The requirements are: inventory control, ordering, cutting bills, and I have a cdl so I can be a backup driver and am forklift certified. I have 1 forklift driver, 1 driver and 4 warehouse workers. Most of my days work can be accumulated to two to three hours. I must spend the other six to eight basically making up work to do. I don't have anyone breathing down my neck the whole shift as its just two people in the office and we are in different departments so there's no correlation between our jobs. But I do constantly get phone calls from our main office about nonsense 9 times out of ten. My warehouse is…