Author: Olivia

It happened a couple of months ago: I had my yearly performance review at my office job, and my manager point blank asked me: “I don't think you like me?” I fully blanked out at that moment, because what are you supposed to reply to that? What if I had replied “yes indeed I dislike you ;)”? This felt like such a weird thing to ask to your subordinate. Why do you care if I like you or not? As long as we work together well and I get my job done, why do you care? I babbled a reply around the lines of “oh no not at all, I just think it's important to keep some sort of professional distance with my management” because it is true, but he didn't seem convinced. He's now been even more distant at work, and it's harder to work with him. Other people…

I'll start with the one I hate most “Above and beyond” – exploitable

I really hate fast food work but that's all the experience I have, can someone help me make a resume that can help me get different types of jobs?

So I had an interview scheduled for a local store at 1:00pm confirmed on indeed and over email. The place was about a20 minute walk from home. I get there a little early as you do and say that I'm here for an interview.. I'm met with confused looks and the two women in speaking to kind of glance at each other. “Are you sure it wasn't at 2:00?” “I'm fairly confident it was one, I can pull up the emails and check if you like” “It's just that I'm about to go on my lunch is all, could you possibly come back at 2?” Now it's freezing cold outside at this point so I'm not about to sit outside for an hour, and walking home and back would be a waste of time, so naturally I said “sure yeah no problem” and promptly went home and stayed home. I…