Month: September 2023

Found a new job that’s offered me ~£8k more a year, and I’m feeling guilty about leaving my current job.. I get along well with everyone there and since they’re busy and others have left recently, they’re going to be even more stretched I’ve noticed this is a feeling I’ve had before, any advice on how to stop it? lol

I'm applying for a temporary position. It's like a slightly upgraded internship- paid, full-time, no benefits. Just for a CHANCE at an interview, I was required to fill out a “candidate assessment,” which not only included a bullshit “personality test” with questions such as: How much do you agree with the following statements: “I want the highest possible starting salary for my position” (Not an exaggeration! They actually fucking asked that!) or “I am good at making do with little resources” (I guess they're asking directly now how exploitable I am!) or, the most aggravating, in my opinion, anything along the lines of “My leadership abilities are about average.” How am I supposed to answer that? If I say I disagree, I could be saying my abilities are below or above average! How is that informative?! Followed by an “aptitude test” that, instead of measuring my actual technical skills and…

Not a super fantastic story, but I find it amusing nonetheless. Upper management at my workplace recently decided to start having monthly meetings to “grow and develop the team”. It's things like TED talks and lectures about owning your life and embracing complex situations to grow. At one point, I had to write my own eulogy, but that's neither here nor there. Well, after just one meeting, upper management apparently accidentally inspired one of their best, by-the-book, hardworking managers that he isn't challenged enough by this job and needs to resign and go somewhere else. Upper management is not happy about it, but they did this to themselves.

I threw up an he can’t make me work. Not sure if the term “legally” is right, but it’s definitely company policy that I cannot come in. I think it’s just food poisoning so I’ll be fine, just want to rest today. Texted in the morning, no response Called 3 times within 2 hours, no response. His voicemail is full so I don’t leave a message One last text letting him know I’m not coming in He’s literally only making this harder for himself. I’m not saying he’s ignoring me on purpose but at the same time it’s part of his responsibility to be available. Now he won’t find out he’s working alone until right when the shift starts. Would’ve loved to get a response for my own piece of mind too

We were supposed to get our bonuses/raises in April. Time kept ticking by and they kept making excuses like, “the board have had scheduling conflicts” or “we hoped to get things finalized this week but we have no news right now”, blah blah. The silence has been deafening and people were getting really, really angry about it. This morning we had a townhall and it was announced that half our product portfolio has been sold to a brand new start up company. About 25% of our employees are being “divested” to go work for them, 25% let go, and 50% staying as normal. The start up company is in Florida and we're in New York. I'm one of the “lucky” ones that is staying but there are divested people who JUST bought homes here. One long standing marriage has the spouse staying with the original company but the other got…