Month: August 2023

I just left a job interview. I applied for this job on Indeed. Indeed has a new “questions from the employer” feature where you don't just submit your resume in one page but fill out work history and I did this. Indeed sent my resume. The HR rep called and asked me to please bring a copy of my resume to the interview. This makes three times I have submitted it online and in person. When I walked in to the office, I was handed a blank job application. This is a serious position, not fast food. The employer now has my Indeed copy, the Indeed questionnaire, my hard copy from home, and their special application. Why do they do this? Are they trying to see who will tolerate their stupidity? I couldn't help but wonder because she flipped through my hand written application and compared it to my resume…

I've noticed that I've been very tired lately. I used to leave work with energy after, but as of recently I've been struggling recently to keep up. I've started getting addicted to caffeine. Thoughts?

I’ve worked through an agency for about 2.8 years and I’ve recently been laid off. NJ unemployment office is requesting copies of my paystubs from 2021-2022. I was once able to access my paystubs digitally through an online portal, but my agency was acquired by another agency in the summer of 2022, and I’m no longer able to. I’ve reached out to the payroll departments of both companies and neither have been able to provide me copies of my pay stubs from said time and have sent me on a wild goose chase. I mean it’s literally 6 different email threads with 6+ people CC’ed all from payroll and operations and no one knows where this information is. Isn’t this wildly illegal? I need some advice because if I don’t get this information to unemployment they will deny my claim and I won’t be able to pay my bills.

Putting this here because my home life sucks so I have nobody to complain to there and because my work life sucks so I have nobody to complain to here. I just got a chew out at work because I'm allegedly not attaching invoices to the back of payments. No examples. No proof. Just what the college intern told the controller. Nevermind that I have 2 degrees and have been with the company for almost 4 years without a single official reprimand of any sort. It may actually be true though. Not because I'm being lazy but because the company…is going paperless. So the chew out is because I am supposedly not attaching papers…that we no longer use. I mentioned this and the controller just says, “No, this is from before.” Again, no fucking examples. No fucking proof. Yet somehow there are no invoices hanging out from when we were…

I was talking to a coworker recently who disclosed to me what she makes, and it’s more than me. She actually started at what I’m making now. I’ve been at this company for 3 years, her just 1. Our prior experience & education is similar and there is no reason she should be being paid more than me. Well this piece of info lead me to learn that the starting salary for my position is now more than I make after two raises. Apparently the company goes by “market rate” for starting pay and I guess it’s higher now… While I get that with cost of living and all, I’m struggling to see how this is fair for me and others in my position. I am competent at my job, I actually train newcomers. They’ve bounced me around to different teams within my company because I’m good at my job……

My employer pulled me aside (informally) to explain that I am too negative in my job. (I am reliable, consistent, and a hard worker- I just have a dry sense of humor- which is frowned on?) I assume my dry sense of humor 🤪 messes with the company manipulation tactics to develop a culture of compliance? Anyone else? Maybe I'm not drinking enough corporate kool-aid?

The idea is simple. When approached by a recruiter, business or otherwise they will be required to sign the following agreement with the stipulations that… there will be a MAX of two interviews, the interviewer will be expected to attened with a time deviation of 25 minutes. the pay WILL be defined in the first interview if it hasn't been already with a maximum standard deviation of 5K. the employer or recruiting agency MUST give written communication within 3 weeks on their decision to either offer/decline a job. any personal information may not be sold off or given to others for any commercial purpose other than employment opportunities. And in this use case will accept the the terms of this document should they reach out to offer a interview. consequences: failure to follow any of the following agreements will result in breach of contract. Breaking said contract will award the…

So I work overnight & have been applying to places that are clearly awful jobs (Low pay, required overtime, urine collections ect…) to set up interviews, answering all the questions with the magical responses they want, set up the on boarding & then ghost them. I'll waste employers time for wasting ours.

i have been struggling so heavily to find jobs where i live now, and its slowly eating away at my sanity. i had one job lined up, but they wouldn't accommodate the travel distance (i don't have a license to drive at all), so that ended up failing. i had another job tell me i was basically guaranteed, but the second they saw me and realized i was trans, it suddenly dissapeared. now ive been applying to multiple places every day for the past month and a half and nobody is biting. this is absolutely terrible, is anyone else experiencing this?