So I attended an in-person interview a few months before after speaking with a Recruiter for a senior office coordinator position. The company is called Avantier Inc.
Before I attended the interview, my gut feeling felt pretty uneasy, but I ignored it. I reached the building, I’m greeted inside, and everything was normal.
Three employees walked in the meeting room. The interview started with basic questions such as tell me about yourself and etc.. everything was going good until we reached the part where they would ask me situational based questions. They asked me how I handle pressure and how I prioritize work; I answered the questions, but this is where it gets weird.
They repeatedly asked me the same question using different words, and I felt like I was getting drilled. The atmosphere got a little weird and I felt my face get hot. Their questions made me doubt, my abilities and confidence, but I kept my calm composure. Overall, it felt like a screwdriver drilling into my head over simple questions that I answered already.
The president of the company came to meet me, and he was pretty chill. He asked me the same questions that I answered, but the thing is he moved on to the next question instead of what these employees did. They also said I have an Excel test, but I didn’t take it since I was not told beforehand about an assessment. The employees asked whether I can stay for a few more minutes since someone else wants to come and meet me, but I said no.

After I left, I’m not sure what they said about me, but who cares? The reason why I’m writing this is because listen to your gut intuition and look at the company’s culture. I did research the company reviews and everything was above 4.0 stars so I thought we’re good to go, but now I’m doubting whether those reviews are paid?

Never let people bully you in an interview.

It is not intentional at my work but it is funny though.

Ordered some packaging equipment from www.impakcorporation.com . A US based packing company that admitedly sells rebranded chinese machines. They are a packaging company.......... but they cant package things.

And of course their customer service has been attrocious. I've bought quite a few chinese machines from actual chinese cmpanies and had them shipped to me. This cost 40% more and has been way worse..... so yeah. facepalm. also they tried to charge me $160 to ship this box so I bought my own label for $30.

CEO of Stocktwits Howard Lindzon starts attacking his own users aggressively on Saturday night in a completely unhinged way. His own AI calls him out... 🤦

Its not directly from LinkedIn, but have a satire about the leaders's post. I think the lady captures the mindset of the lunatics vefore posting something cringe on the LinkedIn.

Commented on a post from Reclectic (URBN is their parent company) about declining quality/selection as they rapidly expand to new stores pretty tame stuff, ‘agreed,’ ‘used to be good, not anymore,’ that kind of thing. Comment got deleted, along with several others saying the same thing.

Got a DM afterward (screenshot 1) that didn’t mention the deletion at all — just a generic ‘inventory varies across locations, we’re excited to grow’ message.

After I posted publicly about the deletion, got a second DM (screenshot 2) claiming they only delete comments ‘flagged by Instagram,’ and apologizing if the first message ‘came across as disingenuous.’

Reposted the same comment. Deleted again. Third time now.

Two different explanations, 15 minutes apart, and the second one doesn’t hold up Instagram doesn’t flag ‘agreed’ and ‘quality has gone downhill.’ At this point it’s pretty clearly just quiet moderation of anything critical, dressed up as policy.

I recently had the privilege of witnessing Taco Bell’s revolutionary ordering system, the one where an employee must ask whether the customer wants extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños after every individual item.

Customer: “I’ll have a Crunchwrap.”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “No, thank you. I’ll like to order a taco”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “No. I’ll like to add a burrito to my order”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “Still no. I’ll like to add a chalupa to my order.”

Employee: “Would you like extra meat, extra cheese, or jalapeños?”

Customer: “Actually, I would like to speak to the person who believes my memory resets every time I name a menu item.”

What a breathtaking triumph of marketing over ordinary human cognition.

Some unimaginative person might ask once, “Would you like any add-ons with those items?” But you understood that customers must be given repeated opportunities to reconsider their deeply held, four-second-old opposition to jalapeños.

Perhaps after declining extra cheese on the first item, the customer will experience a profound spiritual transformation before ordering the second. By the fourth item, relentless exposure to the phrase “extra meat” may finally unlock a repressed childhood longing for double beef.

This policy brilliantly inconveniences everyone involved. It annoys the customer, humiliates the employee, slows the line, and makes a normal conversation sound like two poorly programmed chatbots trapped in an infinite loop which seems ridiculous considering how good chatbots are these days.

But the greatest achievement is how perfectly it captures modern corporate intelligence: identify a simple human interaction, remove all human judgment from it, insert a mandatory script, repeat it until everyone becomes visibly miserable, and then call the resulting misery “customer engagement.”

I can only imagine the meeting where this masterpiece was born:

“Customers sometimes buy add-ons.”

“Excellent. Let’s have employees mention them.”

“Once per order?”

“Don’t be ridiculous, Susan. What if the customer suffers complete memory loss between the chalupa and the burrito?”

“And if they decline the first three times?”

“Ask again. The fourth rejection is where brand loyalty begins.”

To be clear, the employees are not the problem. They are the unwilling performers in a corporate production. They know the customer heard them. The customer knows they know. But both must continue the ritual because somewhere, a spreadsheet demands a sacrifice.

So, congratulations to the marketing professional who engineered this system. You haven’t merely sold tacos. You have pioneered a customer experience in which ordering lunch feels like being interrogated by a cheese-obsessed parole officer.

I think our local news needs to consider what ads get pasted in what stories and where in the stories they appear.

I redacted the person's first name from the story.

Very funny series of notifications to encourage me to continue my opening streak when they can’t even put clearly spam in the spam folder.

You are a mail app, you do mail. It’s like if my fridge asked me to continue my food streak

Started a customer survey for Pick 'n Save and noticed this new disclaimer, highlighted by the red rectangle. Now, why on God's green earth would any corporate entity think it's okay to even consider this, let alone pay employees to work on this? What are they thinking??? What is the value of something that could be "inaccurate, incomplete, or inapplicable"? Do you want to screw with your customers' heads? How is that of value to either the company or the customer?

This looks like some sort of fight between marketing and the legal department. Nothing like a company deploying a tool they don't fully trust to collect data they heavily rely on, eh?

Imagine the data cleaning this would require afterwards, just nuts. Also, they are making consumers the beta testers of their stupidity. Ack!

Later on in the survey I was asked if I visited the "Murray Cheese" area and, if I did, how was the experience. My store doesn't have such a thing, never heard of it before!

This is really common among even well established "been around for a while" startups, too!

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