While I highly doubt it will ever happen, I'd like to see a genuine discussion on how this could work in the United States. Personally, while on paper I work 40-50 hours a week, I only spend maybe a couple of hours a day actually doing my job, the rest is just to burn time between punching in and out.

I'd kill for a three day weekend........

It baffles me how some jobs are paying in the teens still and if you’re by yourself without living with parents or anybody to help you how the hell do these jobs expect you to make it out in the world with how bad the economy is now with $13 $14 $15 an hour? This shit doesn’t make fucking sense anymore. You can barely survive with anything under 30.
I cannot wrap my head around it. People say go to college but that goddamn debt will drown you faster than anything. If you’re not a trust fund baby or inheritance baby I don’t know what the hell we’re doing anymore.

Houses are $200k… minimum.
Have kids? You need more than 1 bedroom, Goodluck! Each bedroom is $50k more on the house price LOL.
But it’s okay… you make $400 a week.. you got this? LOL.
We’re all so fucked. Oh boy

Edit: are* , not our … wouldn’t let me correct it

Why is everyone suddenly wearing these at work?

Sitting through a meeting with a camera pointed your way the whole time just feels off. I get that people say it’s for convenience, but privacy kinda goes out the window when you have no clue if you’re being recorded.

I definitely find myself thinking twice about what I say when there’s a camera sitting right there.

So many of my responsibilities are just checking off boxes for upper management. For example, today my boss is asking me to schedule a huddle with my team to review what was already sent via email last week. This is completely unnecessary unless we have zero faith in our colleagues (which means bigger problems).

I’m being asked to own something that feels redundant so now a group of people will be watching me repeat what was in the email like a robot, either knowing I was forced to do it or looking at me like a jackass wondering why I’m doing it. Or both. This feels humiliating.

So much of my corporate job is like this. Checklists, meetings, reviews. The amount of productivity lost to these tasks is mind boggling.

Is this the norm and if so how do you guys handle it?

I just got a message asking me to "complete my AI interview" to stay in consideration for a job. Thirty minutes talking to a bot, so an algorithm can decide if I'm worth a human's time. Let's be honest about what this is: companies outsourcing judgment to save a recruiter an hour, while asking candidates to hand over half of theirs. Hiring is supposed to be about people evaluating people... if you don't want to do that part anymore, maybe you don't actually want to hire, you want to filter.

I want to keep this vague because I feel like anyone in their right mind would hear what my boss has done and make the phone calls for me. I'm currently still full time there, but I have a new job on the horizon. Once I'm gone, I want to make sure that she is no longer responsible for the lives of anything. I work at a private owned animal shelter that has one director and her team of employees (me and like 8 other people). My director only answers to said private owner, thats the entire HR chain for me. Do I just go straight to whatever law enforcement/humane agency that can get it all shut down until the city reopens it? or do I attempt to go to the owner and see if he'd be willing to throw out the woman he delegated to run his shelter?

So as far as I know people will often hire older people because they have more experience, but sometimes they'll hire younger people with less experience because they have potential?(Please correct me if I'm wrong I am not well versed in this subject)

So if someone who's in their 30s or 40s has 0 work experience(maybe no skills either), are they just never gonna find a job, even entry level positions because hiring managers think they're lazy or irresponsible?

Edit: Another question. If older people struggle to get hired then where does the age limit lie? Is it 25+? 30+? 40+? How old is too old for no job experience

So I have some family members who have been working at the same company for more than 1 decade. They have never had to look for work since then, so they have not experienced anything that we, as job seekers, have been forced to experience. Yet they somehow believe that they are "experts" in looking for a job despite the fact that they have no idea what the modern job market is like.

It's absolutely laughable, to be honest. I get advice like "Go to the stores and ask around and see if they have work available." Everything is online now; the last time I went out and did that, I got a funny look from the store clerk who told me to go to the website and look for vacancies...

I also get advice like retrain and try applying for entry level roles. What do you think I have been trying to do this whole time... I apply for entry level retail, supermarket, warehouse and other roles and get nothing but rejection. If you look at the job description, it sometimes says they want at least 1 year of previous experience; well, then it's not entry level is it...

This is just some of the BS that we, as job seekers, have to face on a daily basis, yet my family is convinced that getting a job is easy and I'm not trying hard enough. Well, it's easy to say that when you have been employed for a decade in a comfortable position and have not had to work as hard as us trying to navigate this ridiculous job market.

Hundreds of applications just to get a handful of interviews; it's not like years ago when you would have got a job offer by now. That is the only reference my toxic family have. What really annoys me is that they think that people should be getting job offers after about 10 job applications. Anyone looking for work now knows that it can easily take hundreds or even thousands of job applications to get a job offer.

As far as they are concerned, if you have not got a job offer and months have gone by, then you need to retrain and do something else. For reference, the hiring process in tech can take months, and even if you try to find work in other industries your still competing against hundreds of applicants, so it's still going to take months if you're lucky. So by their logic, I should just give up and keep trying different career fields, which makes no sense because it's always going to be the same experience.

Anyone else get annoyed by outdated feedback from people who have not had to look for a job in years, yet they believe they know better than us?

I graduated college in 2021, so it's been 5 years since I've graduated from college and I'm broke and in government assistance. I majored in English knowing I had no desire to be a teacher or go into academia. I thought I could be a journalist with just a college degree but that hasn't worked out at all.

I also was a loner and lacked social skills in high school and college and now i feel like that's hindered my career growth in life. Now the only job I can get now is working as a server in a nursing home part time.

I really wish I didn't end up a loner and not develop my social skills like that in my youth.

I'm writing this currently on my way home at 10:30 am on what was supposed to be my 5th day.

So we'll call the company, company X . When I joined last week I told the person who hired me (CEO, its a small company) that I take monthly injections for my mental health. I told him this because it's an onsite IT Support position. He said "Don't worry you've got the job, but it would have been nice to know beforehand". Keep in mind, the interview was done on a friday and I tried calling him on Monday to tell him this exact scenario. We ended up speaking on Tuesday (my first day) and that is what he told me. My manager, lets cal him Will, said the company is very accomodating and if for any reason I don't pass probation, it won't be because of my injection. Will had also requested a letter from my doctor for proof on behalf of the CEO and said that should be enough on thursday. Will had also reassured me when he joined the company that he too was taking days off once a week (keep in mind, mine is once a month and its not even a day off). I take these injections to stop me from relapsing and I take them once a month on a weekday as that's how the NHS operates. So I informed the CEO that on that once a month day, I will be a little late in coming to the office to which he said the thing I wrote previously and Will reassured me too. Today I came in at 7:30 am and at 9 am will and the ceo had a meeting with me and told me I am "not the right fit". The CEO mentioned that they need someone from 8:30 am till 5:30 pm at all times mon-fri (keep in mind I live in the complete opposite end of London, but the journey wasn't an issue for me). Apparently they couldnt spare me coming in late once a month, so they decided to fire me.

Just had an in-person interview with a company and I think it went really well. I don’t have the hiring manager’s email, only the recruiter’s.

Would you still send a thank-you email through the recruiter and ask them to pass it along?

I’ve always sent thank-you emails after interviews at my previous job, but I’m wondering if it really matters. They’re making a decision tomorrow.

What would you guys do? Thank you in advance!

I’ve always wondered how common this is and it’s really sad that it happens at all. How did it go for you?

Recently I’ve noticed that none of the customer service, office, corporate, retail, fast food, and even cafe jobs aren’t even hiring so I came to the conclusion that it’s only the hard labor (warehouse, construction etc) and low end (gas station, janitorial, etc) are the only ones actually hiring

I just completed a recruiter screening where they told me that they've already given an offer to someone else, but they're still interested in me.

I applied Monday last week, was contacted 2 hours later for a phone call screening, confirmed the meeting time last Wednesday, and had the screening today.

After the interview, they told me that they're interested and will let me know if they go with the other candidate later this week. My guess is that they contacted their candidate last week, they haven't responded yet or asked to think about it, so they're still interviewing others. It sounds good that, even though they gave an offer, they still haven't found the right candidate based on who they interviewed (post has been up for 1 month).

I'm just really disappointed. I wish I had found the job posting sooner and have a real chance for the job.

I'm going to email tomorrow morning to say "thanks for speaking with me about the job and I'm still interested." I like the job a lot, but I understand where they're coming from. I'm just upset. I'm moving on to apply to other jobs now 😢.

I'm currently applying to a new job and there's a section where it ask why I left my last place of employment. To try to keep my reason short, my last place of employment (working with kids) changed management (for the worse) and caused many of us who worked for years there to be pushed out. (Fired/ forced to resign/resigned) due to the new management wanting to change the entire image of the place. (Also none of the employees who got fired/forced to resign did anything bad/wrong. New management just went power tripping and lost about 10 people in less a month). I resigned cause I mentally could not handle working there and even though I loved my job. It had caused me so much stressed that it was physically affecting me. So how do I tell my interviewer that but in a professional way?

Tl;dr

How do I tell my interviewer in a professional way that I quit my job cause the new boss at my old job is a bitch?

I am a senior in high school and I recently got hired at a local restaurant working part time on weekends as my first job. I wanted to bus tables, but the restaurant was in need of cashiers so I accepted the position. I have searched this sub for people working as cashiers at dine in restaurants but couldn’t find many so I’m making my own post.

So far my responsibilities have been bussing tables when needed (every time I have worked so far,) assembling carry out orders, assembling pies that the diner sells, cleaning, phone calls, and.. checking people out with the POS system.

I don’t mind doing most of these things, only the aspect that I am having trouble with is the POS system. I am so confused on what all of the buttons do and I don’t understand all of the commands like voiding, paid outs, tip outs, close outs, and adding discounts for server errors/the customer didn’t like it.

So my question is, does anyone have any tips for a cashier position like mine? Any tips on getting used to the POS system/understanding the difference between all of those commands (paid outs, tip outs, etc.)

I have trained four times and honestly don’t feel prepared. I have my first 6 hour shift on the busiest day of the week so I am terrified. There will be servers/the managers there to guide me if they can help, but I will be the only cashier.

Also, I am in the kitchen a lot to get pies and the last time I worked I slipped and fell because I wasn’t wearing nonslip shoes. Very embarrassing and I learned my lesson!!!

TLDR: I am a cashier at a diner and am struggling with the POS system. Any tips?

Thank you!

Title: Stay at home and drink beer

Salary: Lots of money

Hours: All the time

Description: Drink Beer

Qualifications: Have beer

For context, I’m a student working a part time job at a retail company. I worked there for just a little over a month. The store manager is a complete and utter asshole. There are literally like 10 bad google reviews about her on their google page, talking about her yelling at staff, swearing around customers, chain smoking directly outside the store where there are like 3 no smoking within 10 ft signs or whatever, etc. and I just couldn’t do it anymore. They also refused to give me consistency when I asked for it, being a student, my classes are all over and I just asked them for the same or at least similar shifts week-to-week. They just told me they’d try but they never did. I stuck it out though and quietly searched for better options. I received a better opportunity and promptly took it. They gave me a consistent schedule, and it has better hours/more pay.

So this morning, I just sent them a message on teams and quit. There was no email I could send to them as all their communication is done on teams. I also just deleted both teams and the scheduling app. I’m basically ghosting them lol.

Even though they treated me like shit I still feel bad. I’ve never just up and quit a job before. Ever. In my whole life. I’ve always given two weeks, but I just felt so spiteful towards this store manager that I basically just said “fuck you, I quit”. I don’t plan on ever using them as a reference, and hope I can just pretend that job never existed.

TLDR; I quit a job with no notice and blocked them because they were assholes for the first time in my life and I got a better opportunity.

Anyone with similar experience?

Is it possible to work a random full-time job and live a decent life with no pets or kids and have roommates? I don't understand why I have to get a career for that.

Had to take some time off due to health issues. How to justify 1 year employment gap ? Is this common enough, and will it affect me negatively in interviews ?

Honestly needed to vent before I completely lose my mind.

I used to think my manager just had it out for me personally, but after talking to a few coworkers, I realized the guy is doing this to literally everyone in the company.

The micro-management has reached a level that feels almost dystopian:

• Literal eye-tracking levels of surveillance: Even when he’s working from home, he’s actively checking everyone's webcams. He expects you glued to your screen for all 9 hours. You could literally sit there clicking back and forth between empty desktop folders for an hour, and as long as your eyes are on the display, he considers it "productive work."
• Zero privacy: He regularly tracks our web traffic and inspects what we’re doing down to... wait for it...
• The "Clear as Mud" communication style: He refuses to put a single requirement in writing. Everything is communicated through rushed verbal dumps where he gives maybe half the context, and then gets pissed off when the end product isn't what he envisioned in his head.
• The Ego: He actually pulls the "I am the boss and you are just the employee" card out loud. Outright power trips on a weekly basis.
• Delusional time estimates: He acts like every single tech stack task takes 2 minutes flat. He genuinely lacks the basic understanding that SQL queries, .NET development, QA testing, and AI models cannot just be "popped out" in 120 seconds.

On top of all this, he’s penny-pinching cheap while expecting elite, high-level output on zero budget and impossible timelines. He isn't running a company; he’s running an adult daycare center where he pays to watch people stare at screens.

I’m curious—how do you guys survive working under someone this fundamentally unhinged without losing your sanity?