Month: August 2024

News: The population of Japanese nationals fell by 861,000 in 2023 from a year earlier to 121,561,801, marking the 15th consecutive year of decline and the largest drop since the survey began in 1968, government data showed Wednesday. The trend underscores the seriousness of the declining birthrate and highlights the urgent need for the government to implement measures to revitalize regional areas. Solution: New Law that all parents of children under 12 and pregnant women can work a maximum of 40 hours a week, get four weeks vacation, can't be paid less, and if fired must be replaced by another parent Chance of Implementation: zero Businesses: will work less workers harder

Been with my job for 7 months, have not taken any PTO. Only time I have taken off for anything is for surgery &follow ups when I broke my leg. I told them back in April I will be traveling international for almost 2 weeks (9 work days). They said it was fine but now I am just finding out we have all these meetings those weeks with the CEO and others, and my job is supposed to set up everything, (I’m a front desk receptionist ) of course with others help. I do feel guilty but in all fairness I did let them know about this for a while. Is there a chance of me being fired once retuning?

Just want to rant. I applied for a job listed as “mid-level” with a pretty high salary for the industry. Quick background of myself, I’ve been working for 3 years as a software implementation consultant for a major semiconductor manufacturing company. I did the whole process… resume with a high ATS score, messaging the hiring coordinator with the subject of something we had in common, etc. This was over a month ago, and by now I just assumed they didn’t select me to move on, no big deal. Until today I got a message back from the hiring director, saying thank you for applying but we already filled the position. Sure, whatever. I look at the company’s LinkedIn, the person they hired is fresh out of college, so much much less qualified than I am. I want to assume they didn’t really care about experience and got them for a…

Hello, My position was terminated at the start of the year and I've spent the last 7 months job searching, which has recently come to an end thankfully. Now, I am not someone who applies for everything willy-nilly as I look to look into the company, the culture, and prepare a targeted resume and mock interviews in advanced. This is the first time I've had to apply for a job in over a decade, so I was a bit rusty, but I was not expecting how different the process was. During my search, I've observed posts on Reddit and heard personal stories from former coworkers where they would put hundreds of applications in and get ghosted, or denied automatically in seconds. It isn't fair to have to wait and not hear back. This happened to me as well and was frustrating to say the least. I was able to get…

Okay so I’m new to the corporate world I just joined this workplace it’s great it’s amazing it just sucks that it’s quite far off It’s difficult to commute because of the timings but okay fine whatever, however it becomes worse during rain cause trains stop and I depend on them to commute there’s no way I can go by car and roads get flooded often so it’s not like I can take a cab My problem is just the fact that there’s no remote work allowed, I really wish my firm allowed it, it would just be so much easier to do stuff instead of wasting an hour and half on travelling to the damn workplace especially when it’s raining rn, it’s raining incredibly heavily today and I gotta take a leave cause there’s literally no way I can travel today to work, tried requesting my HR a few…

So I just came back from a 1 week vacation. I work at a café and all the staff is pretty close. Before I left, I made a load of meringue cookies because I had a bunch of eggs that would rot in my fridge if I left them. After giving tons away, I still had a bunch left and thought I'd do something nice for my coworkers and drop off a bunch in the breakroom. There was a note on top that said they were from me and to be eaten by the employees. I come back from vacation and ask one of my coworkers if anyone liked the meringues and she was like “the ones in the display?” I went to the front of the store, looked at the display cabinet and saw (with few left) the basket of my cookies with a price tag sticker of $2…

3rd job in about 1.25 years(had a few years gap before that) and each one of those jobs have pushed for it. There were talks had the previous two with me refusing(the pushing didn't stop), and I can feel it happening at this job. We lost our team lead for an indefinite amount of time, and the pressure from upper management has been landing on me. Being asked to handle team wide issues, expectations to motivate other team members, discussions with management about the team. I just don't get it. There's obviously a pattern here but I can't figure out the cause. Edit: Leadership positions is probably a more fitting description than middle management.