Month: February 2023

I feel like working makes my stress more intolerable, let alone working in the retail or food industry (especially the food industry). I have been dealing with personal issues relating to tolerating terrible customers, uncaring management, and having a run-in with bigots sapping my will even more. The worst part of all is that I need money to survive, to feel like I am real, and actually tolerate my situation. I mean, I do receive income, and I feel like it's not enough and I am confined to part-time jobs, making no more than given and working no more than 40 hours every pay period. I could try school again (because IT or independent work is great despite the stereotype), and then again, I am 31, barely passing on my best days and feel in most others. IDK what to do other than biting my tongue, taking the punches, the…

I had an interview today for a job that, according to all the listed requirements, I met every criteria for. I get into the interview, and low and behold, no. I guess I don’t meet those criteria. The requirements wanted someone proficient in “software 1”, the interview was looking for someone proficient in “software 2”. IDK, it’s just really bumming me out since he made it pretty clear that I most likely wouldn’t get an offer because I wasn’t familiar with “software 2”. Like, I know there’s always another job somewhere else, but how am I supposed to get anywhere if I’m being falsely advertised to?

I’m a barista and just snagged a new job. In the interview, I mentioned that I was looking to leave my current job and when the interviewer asked why, I told them I was unhappy with the way things were being ran due to the managers. Later in the day I was telling my friend about the interview and she told me I was “bold” for what I told the interviewer about my current job’s management. Should I not have said something like that? I was just trying to be honest but I don’t want to seem like I’m bad-mouthing the employer?

I applied to a software maintenance position in the first week of December last year, had two Zoom interviews that seemed to go very well, and then didn't hear from them over the holidays. I figured, sure, they're in Utah, they probably take Christmas very seriously. But they didn't get back to me in January, either – I thought they'd just hired somebody else and kind of shrugged. January 31, about midnight, I hear back from them, that they've filled the position, thanks for my time. I asked what I could have done differently; I haven't actually looked for work for a very long time and figured I could probably write a resume better, maybe something that sounded like it wasn't written by a Cro-Magnon, you know? Turns out they'd trial-ghosted me. Said they didn't hire me because I hadn't followed up. That I didn't show hustle. My brothers in…

Our team was a support team for all applications being created and bought for the company. We trained, installed, tested, documented, built the sw packages, and other support roles. No one wants to pay for testing, documentation, training, etc and our services were not cheap. When tasks became project based, we kind of lost all of our funding and had a much more limited role in new projects. Upper management looked at our team and cost, and brought in a manager who specialized in breaking up teams. She was a really nice person and really tried to find a way to get rid of our roles, but the bottom line was; support was needed for the applications being rolled out to the plant. Anytime we actually were removed from all aspects of a team, the team realized quickly they had no one who could do what we did and what…

I was told “per {Boss Name} lunch breaks are not to be scheduled during the day. As part of a benefit to working from home we can be flexible when taking a break” Is this legal? I am very happy to work from home but not being able to step away to eat and take a mental breather is crucial.