Month: August 2023

I faced a job gap of a few months, which initially didn't seem to be a problem as I received calls for interviews. However, disappointingly, none of those opportunities materialized into job offers. I came particularly close to securing a position once, but unfortunately, they decided that the 45-minute commuting distance was too far, which I find quite unfair. Now, it's been four months since then and I'm finding it increasingly challenging to even receive a single call for an interview. Strangely, most of my applications are being rejected, even though I'm using the same resume that initially garnered a good response rate. It's frustrating to experience this shift, especially when I believe that my skills and qualifications should matter more than a brief gap in my employment history. It's almost as if they're saying, “No job, no chance.” I am considering lying on my resume about employment.

Literally what the text said. I was interested in the job but after 15 minute wait time I wrote the recruiter that I'm not interested anymore. Got an apology reply, the call lasted longer than expected etc etc. My first instinct was to reply that it's no problem and we can start now but then I thought about it. What would happen if I was late? Isn't that very unprofessional? Especially in a field where punctuality and reliability is key? How do I feel about that really? So I came to the conclusion to accept the apology but terminate the application entirely.

Every financial independence advice is I've seen so far includes throwing money at stocks, crypto or real estate so you can have “passive income” (read: unearned income that has been deducted from workers paycheck). Now, I'm not saying that all people who follow FIRE or other movement are bad people, I think it's totally understandable to not want to work two jobs just to pay your bills. But I personally want to earn my living by doing something that contributes something to society or at least isn't harming anyone. I want to live pretty ascetic life, but I want to work something like 4 hours a day, 4 days a week, plus paid holiday for maybe like two months. I don't want children. Do you think it's possible? Have any of you actually achieved it? I don't care much what field it is, “do what you love” is bullshit advice.…

” I need you to finish these tasks by tomorrow”. “I am on vacation for 1.5 weeks from tomorrow onwards. My first vaccation since 8 months” Look of disgust and disbelief…. They than wanted me to take my laptop an check the emails daily. I rebelled and told them I will take my laptop but only check them once every 4-5 days – lol. Despite this being an extremely generous offer on my part I was met with a look of anger, disgust and disbelief and the recommendation to check them daily. And then theres people telling us how much work office work was 40 years ago before those damn emails… ​ ​

tl;dr: my company prides itself on safety above all else, yet fails repeatedly to address osha violations and implies i will face retribution if i continue looking at issues that would take a lot of time and/or money to resolve. if i report to OSHA, either the fines would be low enough that the issues would get swept under the rug and ignored, or they would be high enough that my lab could get shut down and I'd be putting all of my coworkers out of a job. i want to leave but won't be able to for at least a few months. what am i supposed to do here? ​ Sorry for any mistakes in how this is posted, or if this is the wrong place to post it to. I don't ever use Reddit, but I'm at my wit's end and I just don't know what to do.…

Or is my TikTok algorithm trippin again?

I don't have a great job. I work for my spouse and their grandma as an in home aid. And don't get many hours. We have been living pay check to pay check forever. Over the past year I've heard the general strike speal on tiktok several times. And I've liked the idea of that every time. But then that's it. Nothing happens. No organization, no safety nets for those that could lose everything, nothing. And I just feel helpless. I want to fight back so bad. I want to help other people in this country so bad because I feel for every single one of my fellow Americans. But I have no idea how. I'm a recluse basically. I have never really known how to make friends, it just happened. And now that I'm an adult that wants to organize, I don't know how. I don't know how to…

I accepted a job offer for a temp role (3 months temp to hire career appointment). I have a vacation coming up (2.5 week trip out of the country). Brought this up during initial interview, hiring manager said no problem at all. Fast forward a week, I sign a job offer and begin the onboarding process, have a set start date on the books, 1 week before my 2.5 week vacation. I realize if I start 1 week before I leave for vacation, I will lose 3.5 days of PTO I was planning on using for the vacation. (My company offers 3.5 days of personal holiday each year that is not paid out if you resign as it is not accrued). I reach out to hiring manager and explain this, ask if it’s possible to push out the start date to after I return from planned vacation. He says that’s…

I used to work as an organic chemist, but it turns out I hated it. 11 years of my life wasted, getting exposed to things working in labs that did not have their shit together in terms of safety. I left that field during the pandemic. Now I work in healthcare getting patients' information into the system, verifying insurance and the like. It is a shit-show, incompetent management, policies that put us in danger, crazy PTO expectations… like even putting in for it 6 months ahead of time doesn't mean you will get it. And the icing on the cake, co-workers getting fired over what should be legitimate FLMA claims. I hate it. I hate working for other people. I have no savings, right now I am wondering if I buy nothing for 2 weeks when my next paycheck comes will I have enough for rent? I look at job…

So my employer uses prohance to monitor “productivity”. It is really frustrating when I’m working from home or on the days when work is less. And the company wants every employee to maintain 8 productive hours but prohance doesn't count time away from system as productive. To counter this I created a python script which moves the cursor every few seconds and also simulates a key press. I have been using this successfully for the past couple of weeks. But recently I got to know that prohance keeps a log of every application you open, every person you talk to on MS teams, even chatgpt urls which shows the question you have asked. And also it shows that I open CMD prompt frequently and also the command I run in it (python script.py). I'm afraid if someone sees the prohance log I will be in a lot of trouble not…