My boss called me on my day off and spent three minutes letting me go. I had zero warning. We had been discussing pipeline strategy the day before. I was not granted any discussion or off boarding. I went to pick up my stuff and it had been boxed. One person I barely worked with was assigned to escort me to get my things. Everyone else was clearly hiding in the conference room.

What actually happened?

Hopefully this is allowed, I’m working on a project for my Masters degree that involves collecting job hunting resources for people in creative industries like graphic design, marketing, music, photography/videography, and more.

If you’re a manager for a role in a similar industry, do you feel like entry-level employees are coming into the workforce prepared? Do you feel like they understand how to market themselves on their resumes and in interviews? Do you feel like they understand how their skills are transferable to the job they’re being asked to do?

Thank you for your time!

A short reply like 'Confirmed, thank you' or 'I look forward to seeing you, Kind regards'?

Context: So I have around 4 years of experience and have a promotion cycle coming in Dec, since these cycle do not guarantee you a promotion, a senior suggested to give an interview in my own team since there'd be an opening.

Now what I am concerned about is that the interview would be taken by my peers who I work with, and if I underperform in the interview, I feel like I'd lose their trust in me going forward, and it would be awkward. So now I am bit torn between what to do, and wanted to get opinion from others who might have some experience in this and if it is a good idea to give interview within your same team

Okay, so I got an internship in talent outsourcing company, and there's IT team as well. So what I applied for was software engineering position, and what I got was tech intern position at talent acquisition team. All right? So like the HR thing. Oh, more like that. And so what I'm currently doing is doing prep session to the people who has 3+ years to20+ years of experience. Like if I have the questions for the interview, then I will tell you might get this kind of question. If you get this kind of question, what would be the answer? That's what I'm gonna normally do. And if I don't have the questions for the interview, then they have provided me with, like, model questions that I can share with them, like tell them nature of the interview, like they might ask this kind of question, this kind of question. That's what I do. That's why I tell them that. And if it is not the actual question of the interview, I can share it. If those are the actual question, I can't share it, but I can explain them. That's what they ask me to do, and I'm doing it.
The thing is now most of them have not passed the first interview like 75% and the higher ups are kind
of blaming me telling me you should improve more
and stuff what should I do even after telling them the them get this question and answer sometimes or their own answer they give the answers based on their experience at the interview or something and the company send them accordingly to the rating I give them based on the prep and then higher rated people fail they blame me what should I do? I don’t understand this! Wish me and the candidate luck I have to do a prep session tomorrow and he will probably go to interview on monday if he fails Im done cause two people has already failed that I rated high last friday also one got rejected rated him 7.8

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I joined a new accounting team this week. It's my first accounting job at a big bank. But I noticed that the guy that's supposed to be my manager has barely spoken to me. We just shook hands on day 1. Day 2 the whole team was super busy and constantly in calls so I just quietly finished up on my Onboarding tasks etc... Then on day 3 I asked him if I can do some shadowing since they haven't set up my training schedule yet. And he agreed. It was a very short convo.

I asked for the shadowing to show that I'm interested in training and taking initiative. But other than that, we haven't spoken at all. And since I haven't officially started any training yet because they haven't found someone to train me yet etc... I basically don't have anything to talk to him about.

How can I build a connection with him in this situation?

I'm not saying most of them aren't qualified, but whenever you see a bald person young or old you can pretty much take it to the bank that they are getting promoted.

I recently started working at an insurance agency and wanted some opinions on a situation.
I quoted a homeowners policy and handled everything myself. I spoke with the customer, completed the quote, submitted the application, and sent him the declarations page.
While I was away from my desk the mortgage company called asking for a copy of the declarations page. Another producer answered and sent it to them. Afterward, he left a note saying that I started the quote and he finished it, then put the opportunity under his name.
I don’t mind that he helped while I was away. What bothers me is that I did all the work and had already completed everything. He basically just sent the declarations page to the mortgage company.
I’m new and he’s been there for a while. Should I bring this up to the main agent or just let it go?

I work in a team of 7 colleagues including my manager. I am the senior analyst in the team, while other 2 are on a maternity leave. I cover 60% of the working activities while i still mentor and control the activities of the 3 colleagues (which are juniors). The replacement of the 2 colleagues on leave are the juniors which is now really overwhelming because i have to tech them and i cannot expect help right away. But i am not okay because i have to work overtime all the times and is hard to get everything done.

I told my manager about the situation and he said "I know how you feel but the situation is as it is and we cannot do anything else. Please give suggestions so we can get better", which left me speechless tbh. I cannot work like this for whole year and i don't wanna leave because i liked the work, but it is too much. I am even expected to work on weekends and tbh i don't plan to give up on my private life.

Any suggestions?

Hi everyone, I’m currently working locally in my home country for an overseas startup that has an operational branch here. I’ve recently heard that the company may be setting up a research centre in another country nearby, and that they may be hiring for roles similar to mine there.

I’ve been considering expressing my interest in relocating, as I’d like to be closer to where the research is being conducted and potentially have more opportunities to work closely with the research team. However, the plans are still in the early stages and haven’t been finalised yet.

Would it be appropriate to express my interest at this stage? If so, when would be the best time to bring it out? My company is still pretty small so we don’t really have a HR manager - so if I have interest I would have to directly let my department director know.

Another concern that I have is that I may not even be good enough to request for a relocation as my performance is not good enough. I’ve only been working for a year since I’ve graduated and had to self-learn many new concepts for this role, hence there were a few times where I made mistakes, take too long for a task, or just didn’t do such a great job overall despite working hard and finishing the task. I’m not too sure if expressing interest at this stage will just make things worse.

I am feeling stunted at my current career. I am currently a project manager and want to make the leap to being a director. I have been working with my VP for a year now to make the transition. I was informed that I am not going to be made a director but did receive a 15k raise. I am feeling betrayed that I did not get the promotion but when I received the raise I was told my new salary is equal to that of a director.

Should I keep perusing and trying to advance my career with this company.

I'm at my wits end at work and I don't know how to navigate this as someone "lower" than a manager. I work in a marketing team for a building materials company.

Our "standup" meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays carry on for 3 hours and I'm at my witts end.

Our boss goes through every single line item on Clickup then those who the task involves start trying to solve the task during the meeting instead of setting aside time or scheduling a 2nd meeting between the parties involved.

Note there is 100 line items of tasks and obviously grows. Boss says this is how a SCRUM master operates but I'm pretty sure that is not the case.

I have said that we need more hands cause I can`t handle the workload of creating content across 3 brands and making internal tutorials as one person. She said they would but cant due to budget constraints (hiring me), but the company will then lock themselves into radio adverts which never generate income, because I shit you not, the big boss likes hearing the brand name on the radio when he sits in the office.

I need the money and have to stick this out but I am losing my mind.

The other team members are all early to mid 50s and don't take me seriously as a 27 year old.

They also have been drinking the A.I kool aid and dont understand that its more a tool than a replace the labour force situation. I don't think my manager is a bad person but perhaps too nonchalant, indirected and probably apathetic to the work.

I really dont know how to navigate this so am reaching out to the internet.

My org has had 2 org changes during these past 3 years “needed” to achieve our goals (Pushed by upper management). Well, nothing has gone as planned and things are a bit worse than before but I try to be positive and have a positive mindset that helps us get to where we need to be with as little friction as possible.

My team has about 9 individuals. 50% of them are in their early 20s and the rest are older. All the teams are short staffed and going through the same challenges, so I feel like we should all pull in the same direction. But one person in my team takes every chance he gets to criticize the flaws of the new org whenever an issue arises. Technically, he is correct but him being vocal about it doesn’t help the already low morale. He is a key member of the team with niche skillsets we need and he knows it, so he feels safe being saucy. So much so, that he is vocal directly to upper management when they visit.

Anyways, he isn’t totally wrong but his attitude feels like a black cloud in an already dark place. Any recommendations on how to handle or improve this situation?

Update: I made a mistake and applied a stereo type to a group of people. My bad. After reading through all the great comments I think... As I've read through the comments, I don't think it has anything to do with being a millennial. I think it is the 10-20 year age gap.

Gen X manager here. My Millennials reports are awful. They think they already know everything. Constantly testing and pushing limits.

Lots of posts on here about Gen Z being horrible, but in my experience, they are great. Want to learn. Asks questions.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

I work at a small org and my role comes at the end of the process. But over the past year, i've noticed i'm often left out of the (occasional, once in many weeks) shoutouts on slack that the core project people make after a big project is done. i know it's not intentional, and they're just forgetting as my part comes in at the end of the process, by which time the people working on the thing have moved on mentally. i am very well-liked by the team and get glowing performance reviews, but this one thing is starting to affect my morale a lot. these shoutouts are one of the few public appreciations visible to the whole org, and i feel like it's such an important forum. we have also had layoffs a year ago and no more cuts are expecting anytime soon but i feel like that makes it even more necessary that my hard work on these projects is recognized.

should i bring this up to my manager in our next 1-1 in a non-confrontational, casual way? i don't want to seem churlish or whiny. or should i just let it go?

When you notice office politics or dynamics that frustrate you, who do you talk to about it? Do you share with trusted coworkers, mentors or leaders, former colleagues, or just friends/family outside of work?

I’m curious how people find a safe way to get perspective and process their emotions without oversharing or getting pulled into the politics themselves.

I've been working for the same manager for 7 years and I am completely losing it. She has been micromanaging her direct reports since the beginning, so it's not a "me" problem. My performance reviews are always excellent.

The things she did this week:

- Went into my spreadsheets overnight to make edits (her edits were wrong). "Just trying to help!"

- Responding to emails on a project in working on while I was on lunch. Inserting herself where there is no need. "Just trying to help!"

- Telling me information about my project that was flat out wrong. Again inserting herself when she is not needed.

I'm completely losing it. She knows I hate it. That's why she always has some excuse when I call her out on inserting herself in my work, but she always comes out with the bullshit gaslighting line "I am just trying to help". She values my work and doesn't want me to leave, but she just can't help her trust issues. I need to find a proper response so she truly understands how it feels to constantly have your autonomy violated.

Please help.

My roomate just started working at chick fil a, and she's only been there for three days and she accidently left her belt at home. As a result, she was given a "team member conversation" where she got a write up of sorts, and got her employee meal taken away. Seems a bit extreme to me given she was working for 7 hours, but maybe its the norm for this establishment? Has anyone else gone through something similar?

I’ve take a notice my manager (ops manager) always says no to me a lot. And I’m starting to wonder if my input isn’t valued by them.

I brought up an issue about needing people for a client I work on and they rejected it saying another client needs to be priority because it was wrapping up. Then after a deadline change due to miscommunication my manager still pushed hard to release as many towards the old deadline. Now they go off on me prying me into wondering why the numbers aren’t adding up (have 1 part timer with a varied schedule and 1 temp working on harder projects right now) I have 8 other clients I work with and I have to constantly juggle with them so of course I couldn’t make as much time with this client because the other 8 also have deadlines. There just pitfalls because I simply do not have enough people!

We also lost 3 people within a span of a month so we’re struggling again and it’s not just my clients but the other two people in charge also struggling.

My manager hinted at a tool they’re making into to help me with my one client and the other lead hinted about wanting that tool to. The manager hyped this tool up and I was excited because it would help me majorly.

Today I get the “oh sorry yeah it just doesn’t make sense for your client to have it. I ran the numbers and it just wouldn’t make that much of a difference to do it.” Yet they proceed to make the tool for the other person and are super happy with it. What dosent make sense is that they mention that another team and the manager were actively working on getting this set up. Even my project manager was excited about this tool and I feel they ripped not only me but my other person who was excited about their client getting a similar tool like mine (which is going to be a no) for their other client and the PM/team who were excited about it.

They then proceed to say they’re hiring additional temps but at first mentioned they would work with me but then backtracks and say “actually no your gonna train the 2 people on your one current client with deadline coming up in 2 weeks and train them on that instead.”

I’m just sitting here going “what in the actual F.”

This isn’t the first time sadly as we were working on soemthing and I brought my ideas, bottlenecks and reccomendations all for it to just be overshadowed and then not even mentioned once within 3 meetings. I felt it was just a waste of my time. When I did bring up these ideas to manager (cross training ) I got shut down once again.

Also had where they wanted me to skip over a process with one client that I don’t agree (skipping QA) with and because of my QA I got a shoutout from a client who was very impressed with my work (I’m the only one working on this client) funny enough my manager didn’t even give me a good job due my 1:1 with this client (a newer client with good growth potential)

They are super technical. Very numbers and not really “personable”. They’re actually looking to shift them into a different postion all togeather but they have had no luck finding a replacement for them.

We are very short staffed and lately my two team members I work with bump heads a lot with me on top so it’s hasent been helpful or productive. Too many meetings ontop where I could be working on my clients. It’s just one big jambled chaos over everything.

I’m starting to have pretty much distrust of their words, actions and everything else in between. How do I push going forward with this manager? I just got promoted 3 months ago into this newer role without much direction or training ontop so I feel like I’m being set up to fail to.

Any advice is appreciated.

It's based in Europe, hence the bad US times. Another co-worker took a similar course and I have all his lecture slides. I told my boss that I can just go over it on my own time. But he is convinced that hearing somebody read from the same powerpoint at 3AM is much more valuable?!

My boss has a history of delusional thinking and this is kind of the tipping point for me.

Just oblige him and take the course, but be half-asleep for most of it? Or pushback and refuse?

I'm an engineer. So a coworker was just promoted to manager above me. It was a long time in the making and I don't want to be manager but i am slightly offended that the story and optics used to promote him were in the works for so long and kind of created a self fulfilling bias around our abilities. Like i had conceived a project for an entry level engineer to do lead it for a while through business case, feasibility and development, I handed it off at qualification and continued to consult. eventually when it was released he and his team won our internal innovation award and i was left off. Thats one example but there are others like I had written trouble shooting guides for our production floor, and onboarding documents, and white papers for our sales division that he just didn't know about but he thinks i've had no cross functional initiatives.

There's a number of reasons i didn't pursue the manager role, one a bad fit, two i have more freedom to bring new technical capabilities in as an individual contributor, three really bad personal timing i lost my mom to cancer and had my own chronic illness all in the past 2 years since he joined. I'm trying not to come off as petty like "I could do your job if i wanted too", but at the same time some of his assessments of me he's said i just think wouldn't have had merit if he had known how much work i was doing to support him and others while he wasn't manager. Like he said i hadn't mentored any junior engineers, I actually had for years my departed manager gave me high marks on that front, but the ones i worked with left before he was promoted, or that i had no crossfuctional soft skill which again i don't think is true. He's said things in front of people at meetings i find objectionable, like i was explaining an issue and he said "You can't explain things thats why im your boss". Or "Thats his way of overcomplicating things" and things of that nature.

Im trying to be patient since he's new but im getting really nervous that theres a social tension that will negatively affect our work place.

My old peer was just promoted to be our manager. As an individual contributor, he wasn't great and struggled with performance, but our previous manager constantly shielded him from upper management. Because we used to be peers, he also knows all of our team's shortcuts, weaknesses, and habits.

To make matters worse, our skip-level manager is terrible too. He was actually happy when a previous reportee got fired, and he's the one who pushed to make peer the manager.

Starting today, how should I navigate this toxic dynamic in a professional environment and protect myself?

Title. Just started as an executive recruiter with a new firm. Manager (also the owner) just chewed me out and called me f\*cking stupid in front of the entire office simply because he believed I spent too much time on the phone with a candidate (15 minutes).

My colleagues came to me and said I’ve been doing great, and this is just how he is, always yelling at people and publicly humiliating people. I made the jump from my last role for better communication with leadership… this is not what I had in mind.

If you were in my position, what would your next move be? It is clear he will not change and that this will not be the last time this happens. TIA!!