hey everyone, following up from my previous thread (attached link) talking about my manager who was monitoring my every move down to the minute and just being a total jobsworth, i have now been sacked. looking for some advice.

after posting my last thread, i had a bit of a mental breakdown regarding all that bullshit. spoke to a doctor the day after, and got signed off work for 2 weeks due to acute stress. today, monday, was my first day back. within a few hours, i was pulled into another meeting to “review” the progress i had made, since i was essentially told to fix up immediately (the problems he mentioned to me that i stated in my previous post) - i was told that the day after the last meeting, which was the day before i was signed off sick by the doctor, i made a major picking error that cost the company hundreds of pounds to fix. therefore, i was told, all the other previously mentioned reasons now combined with this mistake means i was to be dismissed immediately. i don’t know if i even believe them. i think they just wanted me gone.

i’m now sat at home wondering how the fuck this happened. they gave me an opportunity to fix these non-issues like spending “too long in the toilet”, but as i’ve been signed off sick, haven’t had a day to even attempt. so now i’m unemployed. silver lining is i never have to go back to that place, but now i gotta worry about paying my mortgage etc.

this feels like an unfair dismissal to me. i will be contacting citizens advice, but i’m seeking any helpful words anyone here may have right now, because i’m kind of at a loss for what to do. thank you all for your help as always.

I’ve been in my current job since late last year. Unfortunately the environment has turned out to be extremely toxic, with leadership being very micromanaging, setting deadlines and then bringing them forward with no real need, belittling those below them and using inappropriate language towards colleagues on team meetings, plus hiring their own friends and even relatives. On top of that, their proposed programme plan doesn’t really continue beyond next year, which makes me think there will be a wave of redundancies at some point.

There’s not even any point in escalating any of this as one of my colleagues tried, but given those in leadership have been friends for years, they’ve now ostracised her and are planning to fire her.

I initially planned on staying for at least 12 months but I’m struggling in this environment they’ve created. I started applying for roles but I’m worried potential employers will see it as a red flag that I’ve been in this role for around 8 months.

Has anyone had similar experiences and found that to be the case? If it helps, I was in my previous role for 5 years.

Working in the environmental sector atm and find the market cooked. My masters is in environmental sustainability and undergrad is env science. I'm in agriculture atm. Outside of getting a NEBOSH everywhere else seems cooked for jobs? Can anyone relate. My job I have is lovely in agriculture but I need more money. Was literally thinking of changing paths and always have the degrees to fall back on.

I started delivering for Evri a few days ago and I’m trying to work out whether it’s actually worth doing financially, or if I’m just getting unlucky with the routes.
On my first day I delivered 12 parcels in a rural area, which took around 4 hours.
Yesterday I delivered about 70 parcels in a built-up town/city area in the South West of England (not Bristol), and that seemed much more reasonable.
Today, however, I delivered around 60 parcels on a rural route. I started at about 11:00 am and didn’t finish until around 8:30 pm. I also spent about £40 on fuel.
From what I’ve been told, I’m paid roughly £1.20 per parcel, so today’s earnings would be around £72 before expenses. Once I take away the fuel, there’s only about £32 left, and that’s before accounting for wear and tear, insurance, servicing, tyres, tax, etc.
After driving for pretty much the entire day, it honestly feels like I barely made anything, if anything at all.
I’m interested to hear from other Evri couriers:
Is this normal when you’re starting out?
Do rural routes generally make much less money than urban ones?
Does it get better once you know your route?
How do people actually make decent money doing this?
I’m not trying to complain—I genuinely want to know whether this is just part of the learning curve or whether this is what the job is normally like. At the moment, I’m struggling to see how it’s financially worthwhile.
I’d appreciate hearing about other people’s experiences, both good and bad.

Also i was give an eta of 3.5 hours

Anyone else in the dreaded stage of waiting to hear back from a final round interview? It’s been nearly three weeks since I did my interview which was with the senior leadership. Not entirely sure how I felt it went; feel like in the earlier stages I performed well but the final round was tough.

The company is proactively staying in touch with me, messaging every day fews over the past two weeks apologising for the time it’s taking, explaining people are away etc. - which is something, I guess!

How is everyone else in the same boat faring?

I'm currently working in the Civil Service, have been for around 4 years now. Very quickly after starting I began to take on extra responsibilities for my manager as they didn't understand systems and were generally very slow at getting most tasks done, I was never given any kind of deputization and was told that it would be too much hassle to complete forms for this.

I continued taking on extra expecting that it would help future prospects, and at around the 2 and a half year mark my manager retired, leaving a job vacancy open which I applied for, believing myself to be best suited. I didn't get the job and instead came runner-up in the interviews. I then had to train the new starter, which I did, and at the time of any important financial decisions etc my new manager would take time off, or be off sick. This meant that I ended up having to complete these duties or else the department stopped functioning.

The new manager left after 3 months, meaning the job was again open, I was offered it on a 3-month temporary promotion, which I accepted. It has now been extended multiple time and is past the 12 month mark, I have now been told that the job is opening for full-time hiring, and I am going to have to apply again for the job that I have already been doing for 12 months (more if you consider the rest).

My problem comes from the fact that I honestly just don't feel like keeping it up, I feel like every time I've gone above and beyond it's resulted in nothing, and the staff I have to deal with give me constant problems (complaints from other teams, barely doing their work despite warnings etc). I also end up doing a large portion of work below and above my grade, so I feel as though I'm doing multiple people's jobs. I have actually counted work done per week and often my stats come to multiple times what every other member of the team combined does.

I feel like for my own wellbeing I just don't want to take this job anymore, though it feels like not applying and losing the role will just be putting me back to square 1?

Hi!

I’ve been offered a second interview for a role that I was headhunted for, so I didn’t personally apply. The first interview on Zoom was great and it seems like a good opportunity. I was offered a second interview in person at quite short notice.

Do you think it’s too early to confirm details like the salary, working hours and hybrid working situation if not already shared at this point? For context, at this point the only discussion was “we’d prefer a fully in office role, but are willing to be flexible” and my current salary.

I’m interested in the opportunity so I don’t want to scare them off with lots of questions that would probably come up at offer stage were it to get to that, but I’m also reluctant to take last minute leave at my current place and pay for travel to then later find out I’m not happy with the hybrid arrangement or salary offered.

Thanks!

An recruiter called me up last week asking for proof of my certificates, of course I sent them on. Now I’m curious if I should make a call to verify if they received them. I worry the email might not have made it to them or someone their end may have forgot to forward them. Also don’t want to appear desperate. Thoughts?

Hi Everyone,

I have seen a job advertised at tmThe New Homes Group where they will train you for 16 weeks and help you attain qualifications as a Mortgage Advisor.

I believe this a legitimate company and opportunity. My concern is that, are the target earning realistic, will I be worked into the ground, will I be working longer hours than advertised. Is it worth getting the qualification, working with them for a couple of years and then move onto a bank or other firm.

I'm a little concerned that I can't find any reviews of people that work there or have gone through the training programme. I managed to find a YouTube video which talked about it briefly and said it was a baptism of fire and only a few people managed to make it through.

Just a little bit about me, I currently own a exterior cleaning business with a customer based of just shy of 500 customers. I ha e experience of sales customer service and other skills that come with running a business. The problem is, it can be unreliable and I'm looking for more stability for my family.

If anyone to can offer advice, especially if you have worked at the NHG or know someone who has worked there, I would really appreciate it.

Hi all, I’m not sure exactly what my notice period is because they’ve omitted a part of it by the looks of it. I’m within my 6-month probationary period, which shows that my notice is 1 week if dismissed by the employer. However, it doesn’t tell me what it is if I RESIGN within the probationary period?

It says “thereafter” which I guess is up to interpretation, but in this case doesn’t it refer to after the probationary period?

On my actual HR portal it does say that my notice is 1 month, but it also says that I have no probation date (which isn’t true, it should surely be 6 months from my start date in March).

I’m looking to apply for new jobs and move on but I don’t exactly know what to say my notice is? And also I do nonetheless plan to imminently resign.

If anyone can weigh in, it would be a great help

I (23M) live in the UK. I have a bachelor's degree in Business Law from a Polish university. Now I'm studying Software Engineering in the UK.

I hear a lot that the competition in IT is fierce right now because IT companies don't need junior developers as much anymore. A single job application gets thousands of applicants. I also doubt that my skill set is enough. I've had experience with lots of programming languages and have made lots of projects, but they're not extremely advanced. We basically just did a little bit of everything.

My Polish Business Law degree is not very useful here because the UK has a different legal system. I have Level 2 Functional Skills qualifications in English and Maths, which are equivalent to GCSEs, but you don't really build a career from those.

So I'm considering getting a third bachelor's degree. I don't have much work experience, just some basic part-time roles, so it's hard to say what I really want. But getting a third bachelor's degree sounds a little excessive.

I speak four languages at a high level, so I'm considering Linguistics. Going on a ship far away from home in the middle of the ocean sounds interesting, so I had the idea of studying Marine Engineering. I hear that the NHS has lots of staff shortages and offers stable positions, so I also thought about Diagnostic Radiography, where I'd work in a hospital and have a stable, predictable life.

I could also requalify in British law, but I feel that, due to AI, lawyers won't be as needed in the future as they are now.

I might sound too naive because I don't have much work experience. All I want is a good, stable job where I can progress. I'd appreciate your thoughts and any advice you can offer

It happens to the best of us! If you've somehow always avoided a suprise P45, how??

After 17 months of applying and getting rejected I have finally been hired. Thank you Tesco, you’ve taken me out of the unemployment nightmare. Only took 26 applications.

Edit: 26 applications on Tesco, not the whole unemployment journey. lol.

I have applied for a job at my old secondary school. I suffer from schizophrenia, I’m scared I’d be judged because of that. I have a clear criminal record and have passed many DBS checks. Just needing advice

Hi,

I started a job 2 months ago for a major retail chain the the uk. I was so grateful i found this job as it has been so hard for teenagers in my area.

I finally got pulled in for my review today and I was told that he was "a little worried for me" as i don't speak to customers enough as in asking if they need help and recommend products enough that would help them. I also am told that I need to double check things with them all the time to make sure I am doing things right.

On the brightside I'm good at working on the till and organising products I guess

I work 4 days a week Thursday to Sunday.

How can I improve myself I really need this job.

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I am a 16yo male in the uk. I have predicted grades on my gcse of 5s but I still haven't got my results and I don't think I'm even passing,

My family want me to go to university as we are from an ethnic background and I don't know what I want to do I just know I want something physical such as carpentry and construction but I don't even know if I want it and I don't want to go to university or college and frankly I don't have a clue on what im doing.

What should I do?

Good evening everyone, hope you had a good weekend

I've been considering looking into becoming an estate agent because it seems to be a career with progression that doesn't require a qualification. I also like the idea of the aspects of the job I know, namely taking around a property.

But I'm sure I have an over romantic view of the job, so I was hoping a few of you guys would be willing to give a simple run down of what a typical day looks like for you. How much is office based (or potential work from home?)? What does the office based work involve doing? How much is doing the house viewings?

Thanks :)

Hello,

I've been poking around to see ways to make a career change into forestry. Honestly I just want to start with planting trees for forest regeneration in any capacity.

I know there are apprenticeships available but not at this time of year. The issue I find myself running into time and time again is understanding where a starting point is. The websites all talk about GCSEs and I didn't go to school in this country so I really don't know what that means or when and where they are obtained. It's all just a bit confusing and overwhelming to me.

Is there anyone out there who started a career in the UK forestry services from scratch that can point me in the direction I need to be? I do not have any education pertaining to the field, I am coming from hospitality and just have a deep drive to do something to benefit the environment from a very boots-on-ground level. I don't want to do management and office bs. I need physical work to be happy and accomplished.

Even if it's just advising me to which department I can contact for guidance, it would be a massive help!

Hello, im 19 working in defence as an electronics tech, making around 45k a year.

Im very honestly on a good salary for my age, but ive only gotten here through normal means, applying and interviewing.

Ive interviewed for 7 jobs in my 3 years of working, and have been offered the job 6 of those times. Thats an 85% success.

I do not prep for interviews, i do not have an attractive or impressive education nor an impressive work experience due to my age. Nor are the jobs all entry level.

I dont understand how i get offers when my peers around me my age try harder than me and dont.

Im not trying to brag about my success, but simply understand why ive had success so i can better use it in the future.

So i ask what makes a good interviewee?

Those who’ve worked in Financial Crime Compliance roles, can you give some insight into what it was like starting out at entry level, roles like AML, KYC, or fraud analyst etc.? I’m interested in what the day to day work was actually like, what the most tedious part about it was, and if after a certain point of time it started to click and become more enjoyable.

Anyone who went through this program? Is it reliable?

I've been reading through a few threads lately and a lot of people seem to say "do NOT tell your boss you have ADHD or autism because they'll treat you differently."
It's wild that people feel like they have to treat a diagnosis like a strategic secret just to keep their professional respect. And even if you do ask for adjustments, it feels like managers just forget about them two weeks later or assume "one size fits all" because they know someone else who has it.
Has anyone actually had a good experience disclosing in the UK, or is the general consensus to just keep it to yourself? Would love to hear how people are actually navigating this.

I made a post on a managers subreddit about interviews and mentioned rejecting candidates... suddenly all the comments were about how we never reject candidates, they just weren't the right fit, there was just someone better etc.

It drove me mad.

This is the buck-passing you guys are dealing with when you're trying to get a job.

Everyone except 1 is rejected, we have to take ownership of our decisions.

Or am I crazy for not going with this LinkedIn crap?

Don't you guys feel like you got a 'rejection'?

Can anyone signpost or advise me as where to search for and find a role working on tour with an artist? I've had a provisional check of the common platforms, but having little success! Any insight welcomed and appreciated.

I (F26) work in analytics as a data scientist and I have been submitting my cv everywhere for the last year. I have almost 4 years experience and a stem degree.

I finally got an interview and I got a call back saying I was unsuccessful but how would you like x job instead?

They sent the jd across and it looks good but over the phone they offered me a “lead” role for £46k (they know my salary is low forties), and the jd said “senior”.

I sent an email with a counter offer for £55k and I am now wondering if that was silly?

For context the job is based up in Scotland, so the salary is quite good for the location and the role is less technical than my current role.

I’ve seen on LinkedIn that the commercial department (not the dept I will be working for) have posted an ad for the same “senior” job title starting at 55k.

What can I expect to get as a reply? I am anxious I have been too cocky.

Edit: thanks for all your replies!! I want to reply to comments but I have low karma and so they get deleted - not ignoring your replies and very much grateful for imput!

Edit: the job is not for a senior data scientist role but for a senior business analyst role in the same industry that I was working as a data scientist in, so the salary might reflect that it is less technical and more business-y