Author: Olivia

Just a random thought. Everything good you gain from life requires some amount of work. Wether you are being paid or not. All animals must work in some way to survive. Is this sub against mistreated employees or all work in general? I'm just not sure how you can exist without working. Unless we are talking Wall-E type times.

I graduated recently in a field that can definitely be done from home (engineering and drafting). I saw people in the few classes ahead of me that had jobs before the pandemic or as the pandemic was starting get transitioned to work from home, and stay that way. But now I see companies, that I know have their current employees on work from home, offering me in office work for all the nearly nonsensical reasons of wanting in office employees (usually just because they don’t like change or don’t want the office space to go to use). Did I basically miss my chance? Was the only chance of landing a work from home job to be employed before or as the company transitioned to work from home? Are work from home positions only grandfathered in, and any new employee will have to deal with being an in office employee like…

I started a new part-time job a couple of months ago. However, it’s not really working out and I feel like the work environment is toxic. It started when I was reprimanded for posts I made and liked on social media (which had no relevance to the role and did not breach any rules stipulated in the contract). I was literally treated like a criminal for liking a Instagram post. Next, I found out that colleagues were talking poorly about me behind my back. When brought to management’s attention they essentially said that it was part of the job and that I just needed to adjust to the work culture. Then, I found out that there are mice in the facility I’m working in. I’ve brought this to management’s attention and they treated me like I was unreasonable for saying I didn’t want to work in these conditions. They were…

This might belong in r/offmychest but oh well. I'm early 40's and have been in my career field for 20 years both on the technical and administrative side. Now, I do admit that moving around quite a bit has both helped my experience but hindered my advancement. Just as I was coming of age in my career the great recession set me back a lot. Moved home to Cali from Phoenix, then back to Texas. Anyways, for the past 3 years I have been part of a team that was tasked with rebuilding the automotive service department of a smaller dealership that belongs to a large corporation. Armed with my many years of experience I began to make a name for myself but also highly stressed the need for certain changes to be made. Mind you, there appeared to be a strong tribal mentality among my superiors but I could…

Is this a nonprofit thing or are four fucking interviews for regular ass jobs the standard now? Every single job I’ve applied for, the process is to do: (1) initial 30 minute phone interview, (2) 1st round 1 hour zoom interview, (3) 2nd round 1 hour zoom interview with different staff (or sometimes other people their org works with), (4) 90 minute in-person interview with more staff + some type of office tour That’s four hours of interviewing in addition to seeing my resume, cover letter, and at times some sort of presentation or written response to questions. The jobs I’m interviewing for are not hard-skill jobs. They’re nonprofit program manager positions where basically you schedule meetings and write agendas for smart people, research (Google) shit, and input data into some spreadsheets. It seems like all of these organizations are just copying each other because they think that’s what they’re…