Author: Olivia

Using an alt account because my company stalks Reddit. Part of my companies termination agreement states I cannot name the company or even admit I was laid off. It’s a tech company that is well known. I’ve recruited in staffing agencies, big companies, small startups, all over and for a lot of different kinds of jobs. Now that I have a lot of time on my hands, I’d like to make a big post about how hiring practices really work, how companies prioritize and protect themselves. But first I’m curious – what do y’all wanna know?

Yesterday I (25f) was hanging out outside with my mom, my boyfriend and my friends as it has began to get nicer outside (I’m located in SE Georgia for context) when I received a text from a coworker which was a little unusual as we don’t talk outside of work much. They ask me if I’ve ever spoken with my manager (calling her A for short) about drugs or had any similar conversations and I tell them I haven’t. They respond to let me know that A has accused me of offering her drugs and having conversations with her about them. While I do smoke weed myself, I’m not exactly the biggest fan of A as a person in the first place so that’s not even something I’d think to do, much less with any current manager/higher ups. Immediately I start to brainstorm with everyone I was outside with and…

My spouse has some very unusual shift timing from 3pm to 11:30 pm. It's hourly job and there are no benefits she is availing from this job and she gets paid on the hourly basis. Is it okay to ask to reduce the hours as it's impacting her sleep pattern and life otherwise? What if the employer doesn't agree for that? She is working via an agency.

They literally do everything to work around having to use the word sales, marketing, upselling. You really have to read in between the lines to figure out if it sales or not. This is so frustrating. I (and clearly alot of other people) don't want a sales job and don't want to be tricked into interviewing for one.

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.…