Month: September 2023

I've been job hunting now for 3 months. I'm a social media manager and digital marketer with extensive experience globally. I've never had issues finding work until recently. I've had multiple interviews only to either be ghosted or asked to do numerous amounts of free, unpaid work to be granted a follow up interview (in which I always categorically refuse – especially when they ask me to produce free work for their actual current clients). It happened again. I went for a role at a company. We had a phone call which went well. Then a follow up interview over Zoom for over an hour with 2 staff members the following week. They asked me extensive lines of questioning and I provided my experience and expertise with examples. They wrote down all my ideas. It seemed to go really well. They said they would email me with feedback and let…

So I am young, turning 19, I have no redeeming skills; socially awkward, can’t stand up for myself, no hobbies other than video games and cooking. I absolutely despise the idea of having to work 90% of my life away without any time or enough money to afford experiencing the things I want to experience, seeing the rest of the world instead of being stuck in one place my entire life and then being too old, and my body being destroyed through the years from work that I can’t even do any of that when I finally have the time and money to do so. How can I do anything as simple as eat or have a place to sleep and provide comfort and happiness and fulfillment with my boyfriend and I’s lives if I don’t work for money? I’m 19 and I’m already exhausted and I already feel discouraged…

If a company is crap to work for, I feel like I wanna know. Not sure if this is against the rules (didnt see anything) but im sure Shmamazon and Halmart would be leading the pack.

So I'm with this start-up company and a lot of people have been resigning from left and right even when I first started. I still haven't found another job bad I badly want a pay raise since they low balled me during the interview. Now that we are understaffed, the workload is just too heavy for me and my other colleague.

Where I am (UK), so many well-known retail establishments and high street chains have closed down for good recently. It got me thinking, is it because they're struggling to find workers as they don't want to work for minimum wage? Is it because the jobs themselves have had to increase the per hour salary in comparison to pre-pandemic levels? And they would much rather the salary go back down to, say, £7 per hr, because they can't handle it? Thoughts?

Title says it all if TLDR I currently work as a janitor for public school buildings. One for central office and the other is a computer tech building. As I was cleaning the halls at central office, I overheard the director say “nobody wants to fucking work anymore” so I kind of rolled my eyes and continued doing my job. Then I hear “we can’t keep custodians at all!” First of all, of course you guys can’t fucking keep custodians. You know what the pay for custodial work at the public schools was before the pandemic? $11 an hour You wanna know what it is as of today? $12 an hour Who the fuck wants to clean toilets for $12 an hour? Who wants to deal with getting chewed out because one specific office worker “didn’t want her trash taken out” or “nobody cleaned the building this day!” Yeah because…