Author: Olivia

I applied for a job through Indeed, salary range was 30-35k GBP (I'm in UK). The external recruiter rang me, all was well, he sent my CV over to the company and got me to type up a small cover letter. This was Friday 8th Sept. Radio silence from the recruiter all last week, I chased him on 13th Sept. Chased again today and got this response: “Apologies I’d not come back sooner. Their MD had been overseas on work. Unfortunately they have re-evaluated the role and dropped the salary bracket significantly to 27k If you would like to be considered at that level then please let me know? I appreciate that wasn’t the level we first discussed” This is for an admin role, and while I appreciate the initial salary range was high, I just feel like it's a bit bait and switch to lower the bracket now. What…

I left my last job because my boss was abusive (yelled at me in front of all of my coworkers for another coworker wanting to swap shifts with me, yelled at me in front of customers for not being able to wear an earpiece due to my disability, blamed me for my coworker's suicide attempt, ect) and expected me to put up with abusive behavior from my other coworkers (sexual harassment, homophobia/transphobia, almost getting slapped, ect). Shortly before I left, I found out a girl I was friends with at this job, the one my boss said I drove to attempt suicide (let's just ignore the fact that she told this minor, who was open about having sexual trauma, to record, on her personal device, what she believed to be a man jerking off at the computers), was reporting everything I said in person and online to my boss. Everything…

I don’t normally consider myself a pessimistic person. I always try my hardest to have a good attitude about work and studies. I take pride in that. This job is just getting absurd though. I have all the responsibilities and expectations of a full time employee (or three, lmao) with the pay and title of an intern. There are no senior employees in my role on my team- just interns. We are trying our hardest to be professional, but we lack the professional experience to know what boundaries to set with our managers and when. Plus the fact that we all desperately need full time positions makes saying “no” to unreasonable requests even harder. I’ve been working crazy overtime hours for the last week or two because my manager “needs” me to do the amount of work in days/weeks that would usually take months for one person. I’m dividing my…

I was recently contacted by a recruiter about a job that looked maybe good. I responded basically “yeah, I'm definitely qualified, please see my attached resume..” He responds, “the resume looks great! Could you please provide a couple paragraph summary of your experience?” Bro. If only you had available to you some document that LITERALLY LISTS ALL MY RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND SUMMARIZES EACH POSITION TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. But what would such a document even be called?

Are you paying me to be there 15 minutes before? No? Then I'll see you at 8.

Context, I work for a collectibles casing company, where customers will send in items to be graded and cases in clear acrylic cases. I'm in (officially) the QA department, however, no one calls it that. Even though “Quality Assurance” is in my job title, my department is known as only “Cleaning and Bagging” and that's when they remember our department exists at all. At the last all-hands meeting, our Customer service rep/HR/office manager was listing off departments for smaller, more focused meetings, and our department was not listed. When we asked about us, she literally said, “Oh I forgot about you guys” and turned to the head grader/founder and asked if he wants to take us in one of his meetings, or should she. Right in front of us. We're a small department, only 2 people, including myself, but we're expected to do the work of at least 5 people.…

I work part time in big-ass corporation with locations all over the world. When I was hired at the begginig of May, I was told that after my intership (originally 6 months) there should be a spot for being hired for full time. This suited me as I'm getting my Master's degree right now. Well, yesterday they told me that they are letting me go. Reason? The woman in another department came back from maternity leave, so an intern there was no longer needed. Another girl I was sharing my job also resigned, so they decided that instead two part time interns, they want somebody for full time. And my supervisor informed me that they offered it to the intern from the other department as she works here longer and was also in this department for a while (like 2 weeks which is not enough to get the basics). What's…

Capitalism is a trap!! We can live together without “money” Let's work together as communities to better ourselves. We work to supply what we need for ourselves to blossom and be able to help the rest of the world, but it starts with us. Let's see what plans and ideas we can come up with to help each other. Sending hugs and love to everyone! ️

I‘m a college student and just got a new job in retail to earn some money on the side. I’ve got a contract. My boss told me that I should call him on a specific date (yesterday) to talk about when I should come to my first shift that’s supposed to start next week. So I called him several times but he won’t answer the phone. I also don’t know if I will get work clothing and a name tag because every employee there wears those but I didn’t get any of that yet. I’m supposed to start next week and I don’t know about anything yet! What should I do?

I need advice for getting added to my company’s retention bonus pool. I’m a 4th year level employee at a financial firm in NY. I joined at the beginning of 2021 and a year later we were bought by another company. At the time, everyone was offered a retention bonus if they stay through the end of 2023 (2 years). Except I was on a full-time contract (company blamed it on headcount restraints), so HR didn’t add me to the bonus pool. I formally joined on as “true” full-time in mid-2022 and my boss and I asked HR about adding me to the bonus pool they said it was a shut deal and they won’t reopen it. We’ve since had a few people leave and successfully negotiate partial bonuses. Granted they are more senior than myself. But now there’s definitely extra money in the pool. How should I approach this?…