Month: January 2023

I’m pissed off and needed to vent my frustrations, it feels like every job I apply to wants 2 hours of my time with no guarantees of anything. My first trial shift was for a kitchen hand in a restaurant, I peeled veg for 2 hours while basically being left alone. Never heard back from the manager. Interviewed today for a café. Right at the end after 30 minutes they tell me they’ll get back to me for an ‘interview trial’ as if applying for jobs needs to be any more bureaucratic. Then I had a trial shift today at a bar, left after 15 minutes. The manager didn’t show up or let the other staff know I was coming. The staff who ended up trialing me did her best to show me everything, but I just told her it’s obvious I’m not getting the job and left. It’s really…

This is the second interview for a management position that I get rejected for because “I’m too monotone” and “I’m too serious”, there’s literally no other feedback I’ve received. I’m not too sure if it’s because I’m a woman in a male dominated field but it’s been so disheartening.

I work in a nursing facility doing direct patient care. My job duties entail exactly that: Caring For Patients. Our organization has recently changed CEO's, with this one in particular now demanding that EVERY employee in the organization must record two 3-minute videos. One “teaching” something, and the other defining accountability. How these videos will be used has not been disclosed. She stated that this is mandatory and understandably caused a big stir with the staff. Many of us already take on a number of “extra” responsibilities without additional pay, and we're also typically understaffed. The last thing we need is more /stuff/ to do. Beyond being a generally stupid idea, this is not anywhere in our job description and we did not consent to being filmed for any reason. When this backlash made it to our direct manager, we were essentially told that we could make the videos, or…

I’ve been interested in an “off the grid” life for a while now, I’m curious if anyone has been successful with this and how did you go about it?

For those in leadership roles: I’m curious, what do you do and how long did it take you to get to where you are?