Month: September 2023

I (F34) got let go from my last position because there wasn't work for me. I've had 10 years of marketing experience and I've applied to 76 jobs so far and gotten 13 interviews, out of those 13 interviews four of them went to the next round. Am I just really bad at interviewing or something? I don't understand why it's so hard to find a job. I don't think I'm asking for the world. I'm only asking for 60,000 a year and a marketing position in the mid-level range. I have a lot of experience so maybe it's my interpersonal relationship skills? I don't know what to do or where to go. I've been applying on indeed and I'm working with a few recruitment companies. I know that 3M and Target let go of a lot of people, so I'm also assuming that a lot of it has to…

I’ve been told all my life about how I’d get a good education, good job, support my family, and retire if I do everything right. Fast forward a couple decades and realize I’ve always had the thought of “well one day I’ll retire” and now know I probably can’t retire for my health. My family and I are all immunocompromised and disabled. Those of us who still work are only doing so because we need the health insurance for our treatments. There’s no cures for us and the treatments only help so much. I just kind of thought oh I’ll get through this and then life will be better when I retire. I just had that idea shattered as I realized no, I can’t have our health treated and maintain a shelter and other needs without a steady job and insurance. The stories from my family of how they came…

Context: Had a phone call interview and then a full 1 hour interview with two of the managers via Zoom. It went well. I'm over qualified for the role and a very good fit for the company due to my previous experience. This is for a company who rents out short term lets, similar to Airbnb. They then vanished for a week despite me following up twice. No response. Nothing. I assumed I had been ghosted. They finally got back to me today. No apology for disappearing or explanation. Just a full list of completely free, unpaid tasks they want me to do for the third interview. I firmly and categorically DECLINED. They could easily steal these ideas and use them for their social media then vanish again. I've seen it happen numerous times to job seekers. Here is the full list of free, unpaid tasks they want me to…

I tried to train you in what I do so you could do my job on my time off. This was not by my choice. You acted like you could figure it out and left after not even 30 minutes. I come back from my time off to discover that you screwed everything up. I am not fixing your mistakes. Let the boss that you are edging out explain it all to you. I don't get paid enough to deal with this. Fuck you and the company too. [P.S. I am old but not dead yet. I can run circles around you and your slowness at working. I am leaving soon as I can. Then you can give my job to the adult child of one of your friends.] Quiet quitting? He'll yeah.

I'm so fucking done. ​ My particular position can be done literally anywhere in the world, but I'm forced to come into the office every day driving an hour for no reason. They claim it's for “communication” because they want people to be able to walk to someone's office to talk, but most of the time they're not even in the office and my job is almost entirely self-sufficient and I rarely need to collaborate with anyone. ​ I came into this position knowing WFH wasn't on the table, but I had hoped my work ethic and quality would get them to change their minds and I was told MULTIPLE TIMES that they would be open to talking about it. I've absolutely killed every project they've given me, gotten high praise from the CEO saying how amazed he is with my work, yet get nothing in return. I used to…

I am a sub contractor for Amazon and am ending my contract to go work for an ad agency. I turned in my two week notice to be polite but now in meetings my former boss is calling me a traitor. I never received any benefits, they stole my ideas, and cut me out of projects. They have terrible organization and are overall pretty unprofessional. Should I just quit? I don't want to piss of the agency that hooked me up but I was really not happy at this gig. I only have a week left and could use the money. I'm just tired of full time executives treating contractors like dirt and then getting mad when we quit.

I have to work 2 jobs to cover my bills so I usually end up work 7 days a week. I’m behind on my work for my main job and I’m sitting here considering calling off my second job so I can sit and catch up. I used a few days of PTO this month for concerts and my kiddo’s first day of school and it’s coming back to haunt me now that I’m rushing to meet this deadline. I don’t want to work 2 jobs. I don’t want to work. I’m just annoyed and over it all.

So I'm mostly just mad and want to vent but I am curious if there's any legal routes possible. Basically I'm a personal trainer for this box gym and they have a criteria you need to hit in order to receive a raise. The issue is one of the criterias was to receive a specialization certification from this company called nasm (any certification within their specialization category). So I did one and submitted it and it took a month for them to tell me it was rejected (I had to ask them what the status was). Their reasoning was pretty much bullsh*t and that one is an “acception to the category” and because “their still working out the details”. I just found out that today and was originally told about the criteria for the raise back in January so how are they still working on it? Again really just venting…

Yesterday one of my managers asked if she could take my shift for Saturday and I agreed too it. This morning knowing that I wouldn't have to work Saturday, made plans to go out of town with some friends. About an hour later my boss (over the manager who asked for my shift) said I need to be there Saturday because my managers request to take my shift has not been approved. I tell her I've already made plans and she's refusing to work with me on this issue. She just keeps saying I need to come in on Saturday. Am I overreacting and should just go in or should I stand my ground? I don't want to lose my job but I would also feel bad canceling on my friends. What should I do?

Am I the only one? Every time I meet bosses or higher management, it fills me with disdain n it's hard to even fake a smile ‍ Hate looking at how fake my colleagues are in front of these bosses. How we have to lick their asses n bow down to them ‍‍‍ I truly wish I can stop working in corporate during my 30s…How dare they say that “we are in the same boat” when things get tough and nobody is getting over time pay when they're earning big bucks and im being paid peanuts breaking my back for them