Month: October 2022

TLDR – Ridiculous Requirements for a job I work as a recruiter. I spend my day reaching out to people about jobs and submitting them to get interviewed and hopefully hired. Sometimes it’s people who apply, most of the time I’m reaching out to a pool of candidates. I got assigned a job recently and I just could not believe what they were asking. It was for specific technical field, a few months contract with possible ongoing, pay was average, and all submittals had to have gone to or were going to one of two universities for that specific field. You are already limiting yourself by what you need filled but now you want to reduce the possible candidates even further by filtering which colleges that they went to!?! And even further by only taking submittals from one type of degree path??? It’s not a job that I would consider…

I don’t even make that much. Am I wrong for being infuriated by this? I have lost all motivation to even finish the rest of this shift. Please send help.

I work in accounting, I post approximately 200 transactions every single week. To keep it less technical I put information onto our account every week at a rate of 200 per week as a conservative estimate within those 200 they range in difficulty from low to high, less time consuming to very time-consuming in terms of pulling the information together to get that individual “transaction correct.” So I ask for a raise and everything goes quiet, 2 weeks later a meeting is scheduled with my boss and I by my boss' boss and I think ok here we go this is the chat about the raise I asked for, I went in wholly unprepared for what it was. My boss' boss spent what I assume was at least a full week to 10 days, going through every single transaction I had posted in the last 6 months highlighting every single…

While I was growing up my dad was a police officer that would buy properties at auction from the city of Flint. These home were not livable, they needed a lot of work. From age 10+ I would go to these properties and learn the trades helping him fix these houses up, and every time a tenant was evicted I would get to see the damage they caused and help fix it. In some cases they would rip out and scrap the plumbing and electrical wire. My dad would prefer to lower rent instead of raise it, it rarely happened though because of how rare it was that renters would pay on time for more than a couple months. This was the 90s, so a 3-5 bedroom house was 500-700 a month. The only way he could make a profit with the tenants being so terrible was by doing most…

Hello, long time lurker here. I've been working from home since the company sent everyone home in 2020. Our boss went to bat for us, got us a raise and made sure we could continue as WFH employees. My direct supervisor was great to me, I had no complaints. But it's all changing. The big boss was promoted, my supervisor is going to another department, and I've been sent to another supervisor in another state. At least 10-15 of us were sent to supervisors there. From day 1 they've done nothing but make us feel like they don't trust us. My superviser gave me the attendance rules speech first (I've been here 3+ years and i haven't missed a day since April 2021 when I got emergency FMLA). My collegue who has been there 10+ years got 2 very confrontational emails demanding an accounting for the time her computer was…