Month: August 2023

I work in marketing. I have nearly 7 years of experience. I've worked as a freelancer, for agencies, as a consultant. I have a robust, valuable set of skills. Or at least I think they're valuable. In January, I was laid off as the company I was working for was losing a massive contract and couldn't afford most of their staff anymore. I spent SEVEN months looking for a new position, freelancing so I could pay my bills while I searched. I put in over 1,000 applications in that time. Yes, you read that right. ONE THOUSAND APPLICATIONS. Consistently turned down, ghosted, lead on, etc. You know the drill. I must've optimized my resume 25 times. Even ran it through those ATS scanners to make sure it was optimized that way, since I was getting a lot of auto rejections. The whole process was painful. Aside from low-ball, bullshit positions…

This might be the wrong subreddit if so, l apologize. I'm just curious but I'm pretty sure my workplace has decided to shut off the air conditioning in the bathrooms to keep people from “hanging out” in there. I work in an environment that isn't climate controlled already so it feels even worse in the bathrooms with zero airflow. Kinda B.S. in my opinion. If It matters I live in Kansas. I'm just very curious

So I’ve been at this company for 18 years now. I’m a high performing senior member of my team. My boss just took another job and my new boss is a hard ass when it comes to knowing where we are at all times. I’m almost 40 years old and I’m not about to walk over to his cubicle, slide my dot to the left to signal I’m going to the bathroom. maaaaybe I could see that for taking lunch. But we have a set 30 minute lunch everyday so it’s not really a thing in my opinion. Since I refuse to sign out when I go to the bathroom, my boss has told me she would write me up for “insubordination” or in better terms, “failing to follow instructions”. I’m contemplating quitting, but I make way more than most in my engineering design field and my benefits are good,…

My dream has always been to be a professor of lab sciences at a university. I’m working toward achieving my bachelors now and then doctorate next. My question is, to people who work in academia as a professor or anything like that, what is your experience like? Is it a recommended career?

Is it common at a fortune 500 company for your start date to be pushed back a week but have no one tell you until well into your first day? Now I'm out a weeks pay and childcare costs and am starting to regret leaving my last job which offered me a raise to stay on with them (they paid better to begin with just not in my field of interest and not full time).

It is dawning on me more and more than I am 25 and still can't move out of my dad's house because I couldn't even come close to affording rent and a child at the same time. Obviously it's my fault and wasn't on purpose to have one but cmon, 40000 I could pay for rent and childcare and then that taps out all my money. How do I even escape this Shoulda kept in my pants bruh

Btw this job is just seasonal and ends September 6th. I was here last years season as well. Ever since I was told I was now getting a pay raise($14 an hr from $12) they've been lowering my hours. I like to do 30 hours bc that still gives me enough time during the week to study for the career I want, but 20 hours a week is too little. I don't study every day so now I feel like I'm losing my mind just sitting here(no license yet so I don't really go to the mall or places bc Uber can be pricey) so now I'm just bored out of my mind sitting at home. Is it really cheaper or something for jobs to pay $2 an hr more, cut your hours but hire new people at your old hourly wage($12) and give them more hours? So maybe this…

I was unemployed for a while a few months ago due to another job terminating my employment. (They honestly did me a favor with those conditions.) Most of the places I applied to wanted nothing to do with me, given my unemployed status… Now that I have a new job paying me pretty well, I'm suddenly getting call backs from all of the other places that rejected me before… like… Too late guys. What even is your deal? I've gotten call backs from 3 different places now, wanting full on in person interviews instead of just over the phone nonsense.