Author: Olivia

Job Role: Junior Project Manager with Banking and Asset Management Location: Boston, MA Contract Role                  Job Description •          8+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects •          Must have experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall •          Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations •          Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence •          Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives •          Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills •          Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands •          Tools: MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint •          Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary •          Experience in successfully leading projects and…

Just heard word my company was acquired by PetMeds. Anyone here work there that can provide any insights on how bad (if it is at all) there? TIA!

Title pretty much says it all. I wanted to work from home for the next couple of days to take care of my mom in the hospital (she’s okay right now just needs someone to be with her before and after surgery) but my manager says I should take my sick days off, basically using up all of my balance to do this. On top of that, my manager says “wfh days still have the same expectations as in office days, so if you’re taking care of her, that might interfere” like obviously I know that wfh days have the same productivity expectations as in office days, I think she’s just talking down to me at this point. But I said ok, I’ll take off sick days because I’m going along with it. I feel like this is an unreasonable demand though. Should I have just lied and made something…

I started this job within the last few months and, at first, the scheduling app I had did not even show what time we were supposed to be off. I asked the manager about it but he said he didn’t know. I asked the coworker training me and she said you have to go to another website to view our out times. Cut to a couple months in the job, I ask why I’m always scheduled at the VERY LEAST a couple hours less than what they’re expecting me to say. My manager straight up said, “yeah they actually use that main scheduling website because they don’t want y’all to know the out times”. Furthermore, he explained that, “out times are arbitrary”. I like the job alright but there is so much shit talking if you cannot stay every single day and I am tired of it. I am in…

Been in my current job for 7 months and a new company has just taken over the contract where I’m at. I was promised that all the current conditions of my contract would be carried over and that essentially nothing would change for me aside from the name of the company paying my wages. Just found out today that due to some sort of loop-hole within the contract they don’t have to honour it, resulting in a wonderful conversation with the new company’s HR where I was told my working hours would be increasing, the amount of work I’m expected to do will be massively increasing and to top it all off I’m going to be taking a £3,000 pay cut in addition to 5 less holidays each year. Oh and my pre-arranged 5% pay rise which was due to happen in a few months won’t be going ahead either.…