Month: July 2023

I wanted to get some opinions regarding something my wife recently went through. As the title reads, my wife was invited to a “working Interview” with a large animal veterinarian clinic. After a 9 hour day, she had administered 5 vaccines to 5 different animals, held down 3 Full-size Rams, and was in 90 degree weather for almost the entirety of the day. After her day of working, she was told they liked her and they would be in touch the following Monday. She was completely ghosted and was not compensated at all for the day. They have failed to respond to our inquiries even 2 weeks after this event. Thankfully my wife is now employed. It made me wonder if a company could legally get away with “working interviews” in large amounts to effectively get free labor.

So been offered a job that will pay $30k a year more, cuts my commute in half, and will be less stress. So should I give the nice fuzzy that blah more money, blah blah better commute, or tell the truth, that this place is beyond toxic and that not doing anything about it shows how incompetent management is? Little insight, I started here 4 years ago as a manager. I got the position over a guy who had been here for 8 years and also applied for the position. Within two weeks, I started hearing how his friends were bad mouthing me, spreading lies, withholding information I needed, and pretty much made working here a living hell. Senior management knows, c level knows, their excuse was this was going on with my predecessor and that if I think this is bad, you should see the other locations. I've gone…

I've been reading a lot of horrible firings and quitting conditions here. Remember to post them on glassdoor, indeed, google review, hit up their socials, hashtag the ever living fuck out of these companies, even make local news aware if it's that bad. Make burner emails in needed. I turned an interview down, the other day, after reading a glass door and indeed review. They help other even though the company might not change, the heads up to other victims is appreciated.

Sorry for the long story. Worked for a state government agency. The agency setup a smaller satellite location and asked existing employees for volunteers to move and work at the location 3 hours drive away. No pay increase, no moving expenses paid, no incentive, nothing. And of course noone volunteered. After months of no volunteers while this place was being built, they finally decided that they would offer the possibility of a supervisor position if an experienced person agreed to move and work there. OP and another person both agreed to move with this stipulation. They further decided to hire new people—at the central location—to fill the ranks and just tell them that moving to the satellite location was a requirement of the job. Somehow they manage to hire some new people who get short term leases at the central location to undergo training for 6 months, then move without…

I worked for a small consulting firm. I started with them in January of this year, and got placed with my client in February. At first, it was going fine. The client had nothing but great things to say about me, and my consulting side manager was a pretty great guy who gave me lots of support and had familiarity with the client I was working with, and how unfortunately, the client company is very dysfunctional and tends to be managed by people with toxic personalities. Then, a couple of months ago, that changed when I got new managers both on my client side and my consulting firm side. The new client report immediately started complaining about me to my consulting firm. His complaints originally were “well, her code just isn't optimized enough, it doesn't run fast enough”. I create reports using SQL (in addition to other stuff) and the…

While most of the posts I see are warranted, and deserving of sympathy/support, some people who post here are woefully naive and/or incompetent. This sub refuses to be an echo chamber. Sometimes a reality check is necessary and yall don’t hesitate.

I have zero passion for my field but it didn't require a degree just certifications; I'm in IT. I've learned a lot but holy fuck is there a lifetime of shit to learn and I feel like crying because this is only a job to me. I don't have a passion for compters but everyone i talk to eats, breathes and sleeps tech in order to get a higher paying job. What happenee to level 1, tier 1 positions being paid a decent wage? Like why do i have to be become an expert?.

Y'all I'm in a weird position. I was a stay at home mom for a year and half, but decided to get a part time job at a specialty market that's exclusive to my part of the state (US). I want to add at orientation they said they strive to be like Whole Foods. $14 a hour, whatever, it's something. Well, I chose produce to work in to cut down on my customer interactions. I prep, package, and restock. My first day, they bring me a couple of trays of MOLDY TOMATOES TO MAKE SALSA! Like white/ black spots growing on the tops. They said to just cut off as much mold as possible and use as much of it as possible. I was disgusted, just debated on walking out right then and there. Now I don't know what to do, if I report it they will know it's me…

My manager has been away for 3 weeks. The output of the work and the morale of team has been night and day since they’ve been gone. If you have a competent team, it begs the question: What exactly is the point of a manager? If anything they make things more stressful than they need to be and are often a bottleneck to the work getting done with unhelpful feedback or delayed reviews. Anyone else feel similar?