Author: Olivia

I'm debating a friend of mine on job searching. We both believe getting past the resume filter is #1. But he says cover letters are super important while I think they are a waste of time ( most of the time). I'm searching for electrical engineering jobs specifically, but I wanna know what the general consensus is on cover letters.

Bear with me, this is a long post. I really need to get all of this off my chest, even of nobody reads it or if it gets deleted. Idc. This sub talks every day about corporate greed but govermental greed is barely covered here. There are comments ans posts here and there about politicians only caring about their own wallets and that's about it (or at least that is what I see). Before I get to the point of my post, I want to make myself clear: I do not speak for other people or countries. This is solely my own perspective. Also, I do not live in the US. I want to make sure we're on the same page here. By governmental greed I mean jacking up taxes while simultaneously worsening (or not changing anything for the better for) the lives of citizens and, of course, corruption which…

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See this post: https://reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/ssjfvi/i_was_told_taking_a_remote_week_out_of_state_is/ So many people talking about “Well how you're taxed is affected by what state you're working in, that's all they're concerned about!!!” There's a difference between a change in residence and traveling somewhere and doing remote work. Your residence is still where you live, that's what your taxes are based on. How many people travel for work? How many people respond to emails on vacations? How many execs work from their fucking yacht? Stop defending toxic employers trying to stop people from living their life.

So I’m in Canada and I work as a Senior Software Developer. I’ve been working on Company A for more than two years. Last year I worked on an internal project for them, and by November they outsourced me for Company C through another company called Company B. Last December my visa status changed, so that I could finally visit my family in my home country. Then I asked for vacation and was told that it would sound unprofessional asking that right after starting on a new assignment. It wasn’t really my problem, but we talked it out and decided to formalize the vacation request after three months of outsourcing. The three months expired, so I asked for vacation again, and happens that Company B is not replying emails anymore, neither answering phone calls. At this point I’m already extremely pissed off and considering buying the tickets to visit my…

Maybe this doesnt belong here. Fired from my last job for no reason. Ive worked as a manager in the grocery industry, I can drive ANYTHING, I know Apple/Adobe/Wordpress in and out. I am smart, healthy, teachable and easy going. But I am on misdemeanor assault probation. The system isn’t helping me. I want to work but don’t want to be abused or work for peanuts. I can’t even get an interview in grocery. Any thoughts?

Starbucks announced during the initial push for unionization in Buffalo last October that pay raises for tenured partners (one of the major goals for the movement) would come at the end of January. I, a long-time shift supervisor, couldn’t wait for my $1.50/hr. It doesn’t seem like much, but that $160/month was gonna go into actual savings, into car repairs, quality of life improvements. And it didn’t come. Today, I found out through an email left on our store printer, and not through my store manager (as one might expect) that because I make slightly more than “market value” (meaning $1.50 above the minimum starting wage of a shift supervisor in my area) that I was already earning what my experience and years of dedication through some pretty rough times was worth to them. I’ve reached out to other spurned tenured partners in my area, and tonight I start learning…