Author: Olivia

I worked at a small hospital in a rural area… worked my way up from entry level to upper management over the past 26+ years. I read the posts here, but I thought my situation was different. I thought I was different. I was running multiple projects and supervised several clinical departments effectively (at least that's what I thought). We had a new CEO come in about a year ago and I was the only member of the admin team that he didn't pick himself, yet I still thought my situation was different and I was safe. Today, in a mere 45 seconds, he told me I wasn't working out and he was making a change to the leadership team. After 26 years, my career ended in 45 seconds. So I sit here tonight admitting that I was stupid and naïve. I never thought it would happen to me, but…

I had an interview today with a company for a developer role. I’m a beginner with no professional developer experience and I make that VERY clear on my resume. Even in my overview I directly state that the position I’m applying for would be my first role in this industry. I spoke on the phone to their recruiter or HR person and basically explained my resume and experience. She pushed me to the second round of interviews which included a technical portion. I spent days preparing and felt I was ready. This is for a start up and the interviewer was nice but I could tell he was not well seasoned as an interviewer. That’s fine, I get it, we all have our strengths. But we continued the interview for about an hour. I thought it went well. He asked if I had any more questions and I asked what…

Just as the title says, but with some more juice. I work at a call center for a fairly well known company. Oct-Nov of last year there was some talkings of people getting let go. No details, but we would be informed if it affected us. About a month later there’s an email saying they have cut ties with contractors they were working with, so the only employees would be ones officially on the roaster. Made it seem like that was that. Few months go by, and then there’s an email for a sudden all hands meeting, which turned out to be higher ups telling us we were all being let go end of March. I don’t know how many in total it is, but it’s at least my department of 30ish people. Another week later, come to find out my direct managers are already training the new people to…

I make 40k and got my review today and they generously gave me 43k because me being sick 6 times in 6 months (these days were taken in dec and in feb) was excessive like sorry you don’t offer vacation time for the first year and my body needed a break. I am so absolutely unhappy