Anyone have any fresh ideas for starting a new business that you might have ever had? No wrong answers. Just post them. I want to start a meathead focused food truck and make the rounds at all the local gyms. Selling protein shakes and healthy(ish) meals when people walk out of the house of gains. Perhaps someone will get an idea and escape their 9-5 hell
I teach music, so I worked for music schools in all different places at once— lessons here on Mondays, lessons there on Tuesdays. The life of a new music teacher. I lived in the city, but commuted to suburbs for the schools. The school furthest away from me was a three hour commute each way, but it paid the best hourly rate and initially offered me the most hours, so I gave it a shot. What’s six hours travel time if it means I have groceries covered? I finished the school year and long story short it wasn’t fun, so I didn’t renew my contract in April, had a little goodbye party with all my coworkers and students, and enjoyed my summer. In September I happily started my first day back at a different school, one that gave me full time hours and a half decent salary. I didn’t need…
If I can't just send my resume and click one button, then forget it. I'm tired of the assessments. I had a recruiter call me and say, Hey! We would love to interview after you finish the assessment. (Which turned out to he 200 questions.) I ghosted that employer. I'm not going to take an SAT test.. I accepted another offer. Good day.
A month ago I submitted a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to an employer. About a week or 2 later they send over a work assignment with no deadline, but who knows maybe they want it done quickly. Send it over EOD that day, no response. I follow up, they said they got it and its gonna take a week or 2. Wait, wait. Then an email about scheduling an interview, then they said it had to be either Wed afternoon or Friday afternoon of the following week. Communicate back that I'm booked (language lesson and doc appointment, respectively) on those days, they say they'll get back. No response. Wait, wait. Ask if they can get something back by the end of the week, re: scheduling. No response. Then tonight they send a generic one liner saying “Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I'm sorry, but…
Obvious throwaway, but I work in manufacturing and work with a lot of guys older than me. One guy has been working here for five years, yet doesn’t make as much as other coworkers who haven’t been here as long, and technically we both have the same title, despite him having four years of experience over me. We’ll call him G. G finally decided he wanted to talk to our manager, B. He went and talked to B and asked him if he could get a promotion in title alone, not asking for more money right now as we just got a raise. B told G that it wasn’t on the table as he didn’t want another supervisor, and that if he did promote someone from our side, he’d pick one of the guys who has been here for a few years, but is also the son of another manager.…
The Great Filter will be based on a simple question. Is a company run by entitled, out-of-touch, maladaptive executives? Or is a company run by strategic executives, who see which way the wind blows and adapt accordingly? The loser companies will be run by execs who have only known a surplus of humans, always another available in an instant to take the place of some serf who doesn't run fast enough or jump high enough. They refuse to pay employees more because that's not how it works. They have always had all the power in the employer/employee dynamic. They will lose their best talent, the people who make the company work, who make it profitable. Eventually there won't be enough people to do the work, standards will slip, clients will be disappointed and leave. The company will be a sinking ship and the rats will jump off right to the…
Long time lurker first time poster. Please excuse the length, just need to develop the situation. **************** for the main point. I work at a retail travel agency that deals primarily with high-net-worth people. Prior to COVID, the office had 6 people in sales full time, now there are two. While they reduced the number of sales people, the number of “managers” was not and now there are three managers over two salespeople. Needless to say, there is little work for either of them, but they have been too complacent for too long to actually pitch in when needed. Anyway, now that travel is coming back quicker than ever, work has been picking up fast, and has Since coming back from a very brief trip at the end of January, I have finalized over 200 sales totaling over half a million dollars. While I do get paid on commissions, margins…
I hate the job market. I've been unemployed a little over a year now and I just had a series of interviews for a medical manufacturing company (one of the largest in the world) for a Quality Assurance position. The position wasn't entry-level, but it was still below my previous middle management levels of work. But I've been unemployed for a year and change, so I'll take what I can get now. I breezed through the screening and went into the office for a skills assessment, then had a zoom conference with the three hiring managers. During that call, they continually told me I was overqualified for the position and asked me why I wanted this job. The first thing I asked them was if they were hiring for a higher level that would fit me, they said no. Then I confirmed with them that after six months I could…