Author: Olivia

Apologies in advance for this being a place for me to vent, but here's my situation: I was hired to work as a home assistance specialist, when I was hired the job was WFM (which was a huge draw for me) but as you can expect it quickly became hybrid and then 3 days in office. I came from a previous employer that had me working as a SPOC and had an assigned pipeline. Expectations were that we were hired to handle our clients, treat them well and take care of our assigned cases. This newer (about a year since I started) job treats the department as a SPOC. No one has assigned accounts or pipelines, we just have to take inbound calls and call out on lists we're sent. For me, this has become a much bigger pain point than I expected. For example, at my old job my…

I work as an architectural technician and have recently moved to a new location to be with my partner. I knew there was not a lot of work before I moved but the recession has really slumped. One interview went great, very friendly and looked like great work. At the end of the interview they requested a concept plan as a part of the trial, this is 30+ hours work. I know some firms do this trial as a test to see your quality of work but I have already provided her a number of files of my work and I know that I’m very good at my job so this feels like a slab in the face. I desperately need the job so I have to exploit myself and in the end potentially will not even get the job.

Pretty much no one comes into the office at my job. If anything it is once a week/month. The job was advertised as remote but we’ve been in office 2-3x a week. FWIW I don’t mind coming into the office this frequently if it calls for actual collaboration/ meetings with other teams etc. However a majority of the time in office it is just me and my manager and we do our work individually with no meetings or talking much. Is it worth while to revisit this conversation again? How to approach? Really just want 1x per week.

So I'm job hunting. I just graduated. I found a job listing that I feel I'm perfectly suited for, even though it's not in my educational field. (Educationally, I'm over-qualified.) I put more effort into that cover letter than any cover letter before. I upload my documents, fill out the online questions, and answer 3 required Y/N questions. The last one is “Do you have at least one year experience in X?” No. Cue immediate rejection. Not only is this terribly demoralizing, companies are losing out on great candidates.