Month: August 2024

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.

for me it was day 1 and im still annoyed about it so many years later Had 3 interviews with one of the bosses, including several phone calls, i think even a coffee was in there to give contract and starting date, thought he was going to be a good boss, even said to one of my referees he really thought i had a future with the company First day i show up all keen to get started, i ask the receptionist to call through to him, i can hear him on the phone with no response when she says who i am, he comes out and asks “can i help you” i seriously thought he was joking so i just awkward laugh and say im here to start my first day, followed by a blank look… he then asks “what was your name?” ok i then realized he wasnt…

I mostly understand asking about previous jobs, it's good to know what type of experience a candidate has, but why the hell do they need to know WHY you weren't working at a certain point in time? I have a few gaps myself, I didn't start work until I finished uni so I have to explain to a complete stranger and justify why I decided not to work until I needed to. Then I had to quit my last job on the spot because my ex started abusing me and I had to move back to my home town where I couldn't commute to work (and wouldn't, not worth an hour and a half on the bus for minimum wage retail) and I've had no job for a while because it's dead here. Why's that anyone's business? What do I even say?? I know 90% of the stuff they ask…

That's it. I'm broke because they don't pay enough, but every once in a while we get to compete for $15 gift cards to fast food restaurants I hate this life