Author: Olivia

For context, I am a transport planner for a medium sized logistics company in the UK. I have been with the company a year and a half. Hired initially as admin staff (I have previous planning experience for a role I was made redundant in at the start of the pandemic), then moved into planning. I was working up to getting the national average salary for a transport planner, aiming for around this time to ask for that increase. About a month and a half ago I was told I would need to do the container planning going forward. No big deal, the guy who runs that side of the business is sound. The 1st day I turn up for the new role within the business, I find out that the guy who runs it is leaving for a new job (better money, far better working conditions etc) so I…

Around 3 days back, there was a Annual dinner that took place in Edinburgh international conference centre, it was for “Scottish Energy forums” Now when I tell you this is one of the poshest dinners, I mean it. It was MASSIVE, the place was filled with millionaires, I even heard from a friend that there was a billionaire who was attending the dinner there. The dinner was for 750 PEOPLE, I really want to emphasise on the number of people attending the dinner because for 750 people you’d assume there would be maybe 30-40 people helping with the set up of the place and dinner, But No. literally they had 4 workers setting up the entire place. There were 74 tables, and around 750 chairs, for each person there had to be a napkin, 3 forks, 3 knives, 2 spoons, plates, snacks, loads of wine, and Prosecco bottles on each…

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fucking ridiculous. told her if I have to cancel my appointment then I’m gonna need to be reimbursed for the cancellation fee so she’s gonna let me leave, but damn I will be remembering this next time she calls me on a saturday night in need of coverage

4 years I Worked for a popular discount store that post jobs for a 16 hour contract but you go in at 5-6am till 10am to get delivery out but because were so understaffed we are forced to stay till its done with threats of disciplinary actions they say “its for the needs of the business”. when i argue this and bring up how they are blackmailing us i get hushed and sent to the office for a talk. They hire people and when they realise this is how it is they quit, I cant even tell you how many people they have gone through. And this is all 20p above minimum wage they are so proud of that.

This has been my journey so far with a particular would-be employer: Submit resume and cover letter. Asked to complete a technical scenario. (So I assume they liked what they saw?) Scenario successful? Go through first interview. Interview was successful; asked to complete another technical scenario. Technical scenario successful; now asked to do yet another interview. I feel as though this much vetting isn't necessary for a 25-30k salary position. Normally I wouldn't mind a second interview, but the technical scenarios they've asked should already show I'm capable of performing the necessary tasks. Just feels redundant by this point.