Author: Olivia

As the title says, what benefit(s) does HR get for bringing in talent cheaply? Or rephrased, why does HR nickel and dime employees? For example, a job in Boston initially offered me 115k base. I knew they were lowballing because a post for a similar job at same company accidentally posted salary range (up to 130k). Negotiations broke down cause a multibillion dollar company didn’t want to pay a few thousand more? Um, HR must do this for a reason. Anyone wanna spill the beans?

I received a job offer over the phone. I asked what the PTO accrual rate would be and they said 5 weeks a year. Then I received a signed job offer and it had 4.6 weeks per year. I emailed back and asked if it could be increased to the 5 weeks. The HR person email me back and said they both messed up and the PTO is actually 4 weeks a year. I said is there anyway we can compromise and keep the offer as it stands..4.6? She said no. Its been so frustrating.

There are lots of stories on here of people who hate their jobs and want to quit. But are there any inspirational ones on people who actually got off the hamster wheel and how they did it?

Nepotism? I work for a small marketing startup company and this situation has been stressing everyone out for the longest time…. Everyone in the team thinks the younger brother is incompetent, lazy, and untrustworthy. All he does is be late to or skip meetings constantly, complain to his brother (ie team manager) about people he doesn’t like (which has had some people transferred to another team), take other people’s credits, mess up things that we set up, exhaust out budget on stupid stuff etc etc… but the big brother is always protective of him and justify his actions to a baffling degree. He even gave him a raise recently for ‘his hard work’ wtf Some of us have thought about raising this to our HR but since this small company is founded by a handful of people who came from the same company including the big brother, our CEO and…

it doesn't seem like it is still working

Genuine question. Most of the people I know are salaried and don't get paid any overtime. They are contracted to say 37.5 hours a week. However I know a lot of people on such an arrangement who regularly work well in excess of that. Take my previous line manager for example – professional office environment, paid a decent wage, but zero for any overtime. In work every day at least 45 mins before due to start, and the same in the evening – so about 7.5 hours additional a week “free”. Almost seemed to brag about it and look down on people who did leave on time. And I see it in a good number of my friends – “oh yeah, I never work just 37 hours a week, always do far more”. Usually the reasoning is that they “have too much work” or “not enough time in the day”,…

During this time I meditated on what I actually wanted from life. Turns out I agree with you guys and work sucks ass. I enjoy driving so I'll be returning to work as a Driver to continue existing. But only for a couple days a week. The economy seems to be getting more flexible (UK) when it comes to work and hours.

I’m a librarian in an elementary school. My day starts at 7:30 am every day so that students can come by and swap out books. My school has tons of readers, so as soon as I open those doors, I have at least 5-10 walk ins in those first 10 minutes alone. I have been doing this for 16 years. Several years back my district added 15 minutes to the school day, but gave us no raise. So, now the teacher workday begins at 7:50 and ends at 3:50. Admin said if you are on duty at 7:30 in the morning, you can leave at 3:30 in the afternoon as long as you’re finished with all of your responsibilities (aka afternoon duty). Well, since I got there every day at 7:30, I would leave right after my duty (love that word) which is around 3:40. I’ve been doing this for…