Antiwork

My partner has been applying and interviewing to jobs in conservation for about a month now. He has a good offer, but was waiting to see if another district would give him an offer too, before accepting. So he sends his resume and cover letter. They then ask him to fill out a questionnaire. Okay, it takes him ~30 minutes, done. He gets an interview, on Friday. It's an hour long, with a panel of three interviewers. It went well, he's feeling hopeful. Now they send out “homework” to be completed by noon on Monday. They want a full restoration and maintenance overview for a hypothetical job site. He really wants this job, and he spends maybe 4 hours or more hours on this “homework” over the weekend. Sends it in on time on Monday. They send out an email to all the applicants today. A new executive director was…

What’s the point of an interview then? Why bother checking twice? Don’t claim it’s a difficult choice, yet choose the candidate the company doesn’t need to onboard. 🤷‍️ Why bother telling people they are the right candidate and keep their hopes up for nothing? (Not my story, just of someone I know. I’ll probably will face the same issues soon) How do you as a worker overcome this sort of time wasting? Do companies just like to have interviews for fun?

Pretty messed up situation has recently gone down at my current job of 6 years. As of two weeks ago, I handled all marketing and associate product management for my group. We were blindsided by upper management, who indicated that a major re-org was to take place and that certain members would be realigned elsewhere. I ended up being one of those members. In the last two weeks I’ve continued to handle not only my current projects and responsibilities, but have been contacted multiple times by management in the “new team” to discuss my new role, etc. and go over major marketing strategies, resources, brand positioning and other fun stuff. Getting a funny feeling that things were about to ramp up, I reached out to the person who would be my new manager and indicated I wanted to have my current title reviewed. With little to no hesitation they agreed…

I work as a project coordinator. The pay is good, but not comparable to the work I do. I am also being paid lower than the salary range for the role. My manager suggested I ask to change my role to say project coordinator 2 and add additional responsibilities outside of my role. I am already doing this and have grown to take on some responsibilities my manager used to do. Not to mention, the projects I coordinate bring about 4 million a year. I wanted to see if anyone here had suggestions on how to approach asking for a raise? I have been told the boss is big on numbers and wants to keep profits up. How do I show that giving me a raise will benefit the company? From my perspective, I work hard and I deserve a raise. I I just don't know how to advocate for…

Have been burned in the past.. I work in a male dominated industry and most of my coworkers are older males. I am in my 20s. In my last job, I was kind of exploited by one of the senior executives of the company.. He was trying to groom me then when I pushed back, I got very bad repercussions so now I am super careful towards my relstionship with males, especially older males at work. I started this job not too long ago. At first I didn’t get any weird vibes from my boss. Thought he kept a great professional distance while still very supportive and approachable. Lately I just start noticing some strange behaviors.. We have been doing hybrid schedule for a while, he never really call me on my phone for the first few months. Now he calls me twice a day when I am not in…

I hear the word thrown out there and while overall I think they are generally good, what do you get out of a union that you don’t get otherwise? How are they so effective? Maybe this should be in /tooafaidtoask, but I don’t actually know what they do.

She sent an email to all us student workers reading (with some edits to style for anonymity): “Because Monday is a holiday, your timesheet are due today. If you don't submit it, you won't get next month's check.” This is illegal in my state. Regardless if timesheets have been submitted, employers can't withhold paychecks. Obviously, because we are students, we are assumed to be ignorant of the law and thus getting taken advantage of.

Using ‘sabbatical’ in the title but any considerate amount of time off (3 months +) at a job or in between jobs. Would love to hear how you planned it and how you felt after the time off, for inspiration!

This happened 15 years ago and my boss was an over achiever who did extra events for the company. So they had a screwed vision of what a good review looked like. At this big box store your boss did a review of you. And the employee in return would do a review of themselves before hand. Then we would have a sit down meeting and compare the reviews. The first time I did it I thought I was doing a good job and gave myself 4s, some 5's and some 3's as well. When she saw this she told me it was completely wrong and that the only way you could get a 4 or a 5 was if you went above and beyond your own job and do other things within the company. So she stopped the review and told me to redo it. With an appropriate score.…