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My (soon to be former) boss always acts like he’s the smartest in the room yet…

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Why Is HR work undesirable?

I have recently seen a lot of HR jobs available – good pay, benefits, remote options and minimal training/ certification required. I have herd that “HR is a prison” and that is why no one wants to be in these roles. I have no experience with these roles but I’m just curious why HR is so bad? If you work a minimum wage job and could transfer to a HR position for substantially more pay without getting any more certification is it worth it?

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Annual Review Story time: my manager boss says they are going to hand out review ratings to our direct reports instead of letting us do it because we’ve given too many positive reviews in the past.

then they said we should be ready for it because giving a lower rating decreases their earning potential.

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Have a year of experience, a degree, and manage the live newsroom in one of the highest CoL areas in the country, all for $17/hr and no benefits.

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Not every job should have a living wage

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Found this gem at my DR’s office.

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The Manager’s side of things.

Hey folks, I’ve never posted here before, but after reading comments for a few months, I’d like to chime in on what a restaurant manager’s life is like. My qualifications: I started working restaurants in 1993, at the age of 15. I stuck with them. After time in the army, I went back to them as an assistant manager. In due course, I became a GM. All in all, I spent 24 years in restaurants, with 20 of those being in management. In 2020, I changed careers, and have never looked back. A restaurant manager’s role is actually pretty difficult, especially if you care about your employees. You are set a salary, and that salary, at least in my case, broke down hourly to about $11.00 per over the course of my career. You work a minimum of 50 hours per week and, depending on the company, those hours can…

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Are design tests a scam?

First interview with this startup in NYC went well, spoke to Head of Ops, had a good experience. She told me the founder would connect with me soon and he might give me a design test – I said okay, that's fine. I have 2-3 years of experience in design, so I didn't think of it too much because my current employer also made me do a design test before he hired me; this test was barely a 15-20 min deal and he told me it was optional, so I assumed that the company I was interviewing with would do something similar. The interview with the founder goes a bit weird; I'm very nervous because he isn't asking me questions about my design process or ANYTHING, I'm trying to explain a few work projects to him but he seems disinterested. He keeps repeating that the designers they want to hire…

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“Ideal candidate” must make life easier in every way

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Team member became so aggressive, personally attacking that I ended a meeting for everyone’s safety.

This person resigned the day before (Thursday) and suddenly flipped personalities (Fridays) . We’ve only been a new team for a month. I raised with my mgr, that she refused to do her work, her behaviour deteriorated so bad none of us felt safe and one of my other team members had to step in and protect me, I did her work for her that was due, told the team to take a breather for the afternoon and we’ll revisit Monday. and then checked in she was ok on Monday and she was aggressive saying she needs to leave and we should pay her out early but I’m not tell anyone about this. I have to she wants to be paid out early. So set up a chat with 1-up then she’s early perfect employee again. How do deal you with people who flip, make the whole team feel unsafe…