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Ghosted before interview

I’m wondering if anyone had a similar experience as this is the second time someone reaches out for an interview and ghosts me completely at the time of the online interview that they’ve set up. Is this normal? What are your theories on why this keeps happening? My fear is that they read the CV right before the interview time and decide I’m not worth their time after all. Clearly I’m bummed out but is this normal?

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Job purpose and hours changed after 1 week.

This is a long one, there will be a tldr! A bit of background: During an unpaid internship in Korea I begrudgingly took (we'll call the company I Interned at Q-Brute), I helped Q-Brute expand into Germany (I speak German and English) I set up a major business deal with a company in Germany we'll call Bodenlos. I had to set up the meetings and do all the emails as Bodenlos doesn't have any English speakers and I'm the only German speaker at Q-Brute. My job offer: My internship ended before the deal closed, as the two companies were still in talks. Because of this, Q-Brute offered me a part-time job 10hrs per week, online and flexible. My supervisor told me I'd be involving myself closely within the Germany expansion continuing to translate, interpret and research. I offered Q-Brute €16 per hour and they didn't try to lower my price…

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I’m currently sick and need help wording a response just in case

So I'm currently in that weird break where you feel good after throwing up and my boss has yet to see my “I'm sick sorry” message and I'm a bit worried. Recently he told us to call the building instead of texting and I tried but turns out the number is disconnected or something until the place actually opens. It just lists me numbers and then tells me nobody is available so leave a message. No phone ringing or anything. So now I'm like “Great. He's going to be in a bad mood because 'I told you to call not text! How hard is it to follow directions?!'” My brain is too tired and icky right now to think of a proper response. Any ideas on ways to word it if I'm confronted?

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Local McDonalds. Not even laughable

To be basically on call and 3rd shift but absolutely no incentive

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Overtime at work is taking over my life. I’m quitting right after my two week paid time off

I just took a double shift because some idiot at another store got stung in the mouth by a bee And now my other coworker is crying that I'm not working from 6am to 6.30 pm but taking a few hours if a break in-between my shift from 6am to 6.30. Waa waa girl stfu I'm already doing 10 hours And then when I'm boutta go home she takes her break right as I'm boutta leave so I have to stay another half hour And then another girl calls in and asks if I can cover the rest of her shift because her baby is sick. Even though her baby is sick every goddamn week and every time her baby is “sick” she comes in an hour later to drink a coffee and hang out at the store because “oh I have someone to watch her now”. So I tell…

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Working just doesn’t seem worth it like it use to decades ago

My grandfather worked for most of his life and by the time my grandfather passed away in his 80's he had been living in poverty for quite some time. It had gotten so bad that he actually had to use money from his life insurance to be able to pay the bills and when he finally died there was barely enough life insurance left just to pay for a simple cremation. As for my dad, he also worked for most of his life, mainly doing physical labor jobs like cabinet making and being an auto mechanic. Eventually he had to file for disability because all those years of lifting those heavy car engines by himself took a toll on his back and now he has permanent back pain from his back injuries that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. He got the disability and now…

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Working just doesn’t seem worth it like it use to decades ago

My grandfather worked for most of his life and by the time my grandfather passed away in his 80's he had been living in poverty for quite some time. It had gotten so bad that he actually had to use money from his life insurance to be able to pay the bills and when he finally died there was barely enough life insurance left just to pay for a simple cremation. As for my dad, he also worked for most of his life, mainly doing physical labor jobs like cabinet making and being an auto mechanic. Eventually he had to file for disability because all those years of lifting those heavy car engines by himself took a toll on his back and now he has permanent back pain from his back injuries that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. He got the disability and now…

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Working just doesn’t seem worth it like it use to decades ago

My grandfather worked for most of his life and by the time my grandfather passed away in his 80's he had been living in poverty for quite some time. It had gotten so bad that he actually had to use money from his life insurance to be able to pay the bills and when he finally died there was barely enough life insurance left just to pay for a simple cremation. As for my dad, he also worked for most of his life, mainly doing physical labor jobs like cabinet making and being an auto mechanic. Eventually he had to file for disability because all those years of lifting those heavy car engines by himself took a toll on his back and now he has permanent back pain from his back injuries that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. He got the disability and now…

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Boss threatened to have me coached if I don’t stay over my scheduled time to do returns.

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Is there any benefit at all for giving a 2 week notice?

My boss has been treating me and my former coworker like trash for over a year with it getting worse and worse as of late. He fired my coworker (my then manager) with absolutely no warning and refused to cash out his PTO. I had to spend over an hour on my day off convincing him to promote me to be the manager since I had worked there for over a year already would be a better choice than what he wanted to do which was hire someone completely new and have me train them. I couldn't quit then because I didn't have a job lined up. I'm the only person that works this location and the other locations the company has are in another state. They haven't hired anyone else or even posted the job even though they kept saying they would for the last 3 months. He's also…