Antiwork

I'd been working for this lab for about 8 or 9 months when I was fired. Initially I was hired to work in two particular departments, had a signed contract, everything. During the interview process they mentioned that they were hoping to do cross training as some of their other departments were growing and needed a little back up sometimes. That would come at my discretion however. I was free to choose what I would and wouldn't take on. Inherently I asked about raises involving increased work responsibility. They told me that they usually only did yearly raises but that under extenuating circumstances, they'd considered it at any time. Before I was hired, there was no room for growth. Which was the main reason they only did raises once a year. Fast forward four months or so. At this point I'm fully trained, basically to the teeth in the two…

Got the denial email, luckily it wasn’t from a “do not reply” email. I emailed back and asked for feedback, no response. I had previously connected on LinkedIn to the individual that would be training me as they were promoted out of this position, sent a message asking for feedback, no response. How are we supposed to ever know what to work on or do in the future if we are just sent bullshit emails thanking us for our time? I had to take time off of work to be a part of this ridiculous interview process. Luckily I had PTO, but if I didn’t, that would have been unpaid time off. How can people afford to be a part of this type of process? It’s just disheartening and sad this is the norm.

Thank you guys. You are inspiration and support! HR went full Jack Nicholson's Shining after I asked about compensation range. I'll just post email I send to leadership team of the company. And it feels RIGHT! I received offer from JA to discuss opportunity … yesterday. I just finished phone interview. J was telling me how good I'll fit position and asked me all questions he was looking for to ask. I started with my questions. And J became aggressive and disrespectful. I asked multiple times about compensation range and he refused to respond. I told him that I'm looking for…k+. He told it is too much. I told him that I need to ask my questions about job, benefit package etc. to understand what compensation I'll be looking for depending on workload and responsibilities. He was firm that he will not respond to any of my questions. I told…

I applied to a job and then had a look on glassdoor to check employee reviews and my fuck is it bad. Apparently they lure people in to what is apparently a Pyramid scheme by offering a wage but then actually turn around and saying you’re on commission only when you start. It’s meant to be marketing, but their definition of marketing is going out into the street and being a salesperson. From the reviews it seems like a totally toxic workplace and the dodginess only ramped up when I went from the application process to 2nd interview stage in under 24 hours. All of this was in the reviews saying that this is what would happen. I’m planning on doing the interview, hopefully watching them squirm as I question them. And then when it comes to the “do you have any questions” phase of it, just unleash all that…

And that there are enough “livable” wage jobs for every American that must support themselves. They say this. But do they believe it?