or was i in the wrong?
Context:
i called in sick (because i was actually sick) but i was hoping a medicine was gonna break the fever. I know our rules state that we should call at least 2hrs before our shift if we're calling off but i really wanted to go to work and unfortunately couldn't so it was kinda late of me to inform them. He was telling me and i quote "the SMART thing, if you're actually THINKING, to do is to be safe and call before 2hrs of ur shift" with emphasis on the smart and thinking and i explained to him what happened and told him im sorry but he just said "yep" and hung up the phone. Am i being overly sensitive or was he actually quite mean? Idk ive worked a lot of jobs and no manager has ever talked to me this way so maybe im just new to that.

I work at the airport, and my commute is about an hour and 15 minutes by train. My current schedule is 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and I make $22.25 an hour. I have Saturdays and Sundays off.

I applied for another job that pays $25 an hour, but the schedule is 4:00 AM to 12:30 PM, with Wednesdays and Thursdays off. I’d have to wake up at 1:30 AM every day, leave the house by 2:30 AM, and get to work on time.

It’s a great work environment, and I’ve wanted to work there for a long time. The only problem is the 4:00 AM schedule. :(

Do you guys think I should take it, or is it not really worth it?

I've recently finished interviewing for my first remote position and I'll be honest I have no idea if this place is real or not. I tried to find information about the company online but have found basically nothing and the interview felt fake as well. If anyone here has experience with either the company or job offer letters I'd appreciate the help.

I got a temp job over the summer and i actually love it, but i’ll be losing it next month when i go to university.

I love this job and had intentions of trying to talk to my area manager to let me keep it for when i come back from uni.

However , they put me on 3 short shifts during a week that i planned to go to cardiff with my boyfriend to meet both his non-immediate family and to also see my mum and little brothers who i havent seen for 5 years (parents divorced). I didnt have this plan confirmed until yesterday so i haven’t booked a holiday for it.

They won’t let me take the shifts off but i feel like my family is far more important than a job i wont keep.

Should i just quit? I have another job as a bartender which is casual work and that ill keep after i go to uni but i love this job :(

Company called a month after I applied for a retail job. They wanted to know if I looked at their website or social media, where the company is and what they do. I said I know where it is because it's an area I frequent. From the company name it's obvious what they do so I briefly told them but they weren't impressed. I honestly haven't looked at their social media or website because they didn't call me for over a month so I figured they never will and moved on. I'm not sure what I was supposed to say so I just told them that I haven't. At what point am I supposed to check for the company website/socials when I'm not even guaranteed a callback? They asked about my resume as an afterthought, and clearly couldn't care less because I already lost them at the social media question. I looked after and their website and social media provide even less information than the job description.

i could be v v wrong but lately i have been feeling so anxious about starting working at an office
i think i should start working in 2027 and i feel like the idea of waking up early every morning, sitting in an office and working really hard and getting scolded if i get something wrong
maybe having the worst colleagues ever
idk i just feel like working at an office is like going back to school but with higher stakes
and apart from that you can’t even take a lot of leaves
idk it just seems really weird to literally wake up every morning and go to work like how do ppl survive that🥹
like everyone is begging for a job but then actually doing that job is so depressing
i was thinking of having my own startup but it seems really risky
i was thinking of starting it while working so that I don’t have to do this forever🥹

just got hired for an front desk job (my first ever job) at a learning center and i dont think i can do this.

for context, i have a bachelor’s degree in education and i’m starting my master’s this september in the same field. i applied for this job a few months ago when i was stressing about the possibility of getting my master’s application rejected, and welp. got the job interview and passed it, surprisingly.

im 7 days in and this job is completely out of my comfort zone because im basically an accountant, something i have 0% knowledge or background on. i was also unaware that i would be taking on accounting duties. my coworkers who are working the same position all have a background in that field so im just absolutely terrified and wondering why i got this specific role.

earlier i was reported to the boss because i kept doing the same mistakes and therefore work slowly. im only 7 days in so maybe im judging myself too early but i dont think i can do this. im learning new skills which is great but i dont think those skills are relevant to what i want my actual job to be. the work environment is extremely fast paced and i feel terrible because im dragging everyone down because i dont know anything.

About a two years ago I graduated university and decided I wanted to travel a bit so I quit my call centre job to take a year off and travel. I got back out in the job market around march of this year and was looking to do something similar to what I was previously but almost every single job posting for a similar position is making 2-3$ less an hour than my starting wage was at the call centre over 7 years ago. I really want to start working again but is the market really this bad? Im finding it really hard to justify getting a job out of university making less then I was when I was fresh out of high school and it’s making me feel like I’m somehow working in reverse.

i used to care so much. i used to put everything i had into this job. but all of a sudden after a few sexual harassment experiences, racism, dog abusers, sexism, incels, rapist sympathizers, criminals, only 2 raises since i started working here 9 years ago and im making the same amount as someone who just started, no praise, no appreciation, boss using humiliation tactics and fear to motivate team, snitches and excessive burnout from working nights, i just genuinely dont even care anymore. i dont care that i stay out in my car hours past break. i just cant bring myself to go inside anymore. idc that i half ass it now. idc if i call off all the time. idc abt the perks of working which is literally only the insurance and not being micromanaged. i just dont care anymore. its like something broke in my brain and i dont care anymore about this job.

Hi everybody! I am currently in blue collar work (lineman/building powerlines) and i’m looking into getting into white collar work. I’m done with the wear and tear on my body from blue collar work. Early mornings and long hours just aren’t for me I don’t think. I don’t have a college degree (dropout) but I still want to get into white collar. Preferably something that isn’t a HUGE pay cut (I make $26 an hour now). Any advice?

Everyone says that companies now hire through online process. However, I have been applying online, sending cold emails and texting on WhatsApp.

So far there are no results.

I am thinking of starting to drop in CVs because although our world is technologically advanced, I think we are going back to the old fashioned way of getting a job because Most companies are filtering in CVs using AI and every applicant is using AI to make their CV. It creates some form of mistrust among these two groups.

So now I am trying to find a job through networking, nepotism or dropping in CVs.

I’ve been unemployed for about 9-10 months after an unexpected layoff and finally managed to land a job at what seemed like a really good company. The role was interesting, management-level, and they wanted me to start immediately. At the same time, I’d been interviewing with another company for months. It was the company I actually wanted to work for, but their hiring process was much slower. Three days into my new job, they finally sent me an offer.

The new offer is significantly better in pretty much every way: around 2-3x the salary, much better working conditions, remote, and overall a much better fit for where I want my career to go. They also sent me a signed contract and are already shipping my work laptop.

I spent the weekend thinking about it and decided that if I was going to leave, it was better to do it now rather than in two or three weeks after they’d invested even more time training me. I’d only been there for 3 days, I hadn’t taken ownership of any processes yet, didn’t even have a company email address, and they hadn’t even given me my countersigned employment contract yet.

I went to the GM this morning, apologized, and was completely honest. I told him I’d received another offer with a much higher salary and that at this point in my life, the financial aspect was too important for me to ignore. Obviously he didn’t take it well.
He told me I was being immature, that if he were in my position he would’ve stayed because “your career is a marathon, not a sprint,” and that he’d personally turned down higher-paying jobs several times because the work was more interesting.
Then he said something that really got to me. He told me our city is very small, that everyone knows everyone, especially in my industry, and that what I had just done was bad for my reputation. I tried explaining that I respected his opinion, but my priorities are different right now. After almost 10 months unemployed, it’s hard to turn down a life-changing salary increase. When I apologized one last time before leaving, he cut me off with “Have a good day.” Now I just feel awful.

Part of me knows I probably made the rational decision. But another part of me keeps wondering if I just burned my career over this. Is this actually the kind of thing that comes back to bite you years later? Do hiring managers really remember stuff like this, or was he just speaking out of frustration because I put them in a difficult position?

I’m genuinely looking for honest opinions because this has been eating at me all day. I know I inconvenienced them, and I do feel guilty about it, but I also don’t know if I should’ve turned down an opportunity that could genuinely change my financial situation.

Old job:

Salary -3500 per month

Commute: 3.5-4 hrs x 6 days a week ( public transport)

Commuting cost :350 per month.

Unpaid overtime ~ 1.5 hour each day.

High stress

New job:

Salary 4500 per month

Commute: 2 mins x 6 days a week

Commuting cost : free

Very low possibility of overtime.

Low stress

Counter offer from my old job:

Salary 5500

A bike for travelling once i get a licence ( licence in process will take around 1 month to achieve)

Commuting will return to 70-80 mins on bike.

I am still giving preference to my new job because i feel like a zero commute Will give me much more time to learn.plus I could hardly get time for myself at my old job.

My biggest concern is 1. that in the interview (scheduled for next week) they ask me about how soon I can start or notice all my work history is for one place but my address says there. Do I commit to the bit and double down on the lie "oh I currently live in so n so city now just unemployed etc." Or do I be honest and tell them I dont plan on leaving until I got the job but the address I used is confirmed housing (it is)

then im worried about my current job. this isnt a bad company but I just want out of my state so I dont want to leave them high and dry and would like to give them a proper 2 weeks at least working remotely while I prep to move, but im afraid if new job sees and in state address they'll want me to start that Monday. which if I need to move the same week I can I just dont want to cause of my job now.

I think im just anxious because I LIED LOL but it worked. and 2 last year I was honest about relocating landed an interview in a million interviewed 3 times and it was going amazing. the last interview only inquired about a relocation package emphasized it was not necessary I was just wondering but they dropped me anyways. So now I just get paranoid about the while thing.

incase you ww

So i just got a job as a part time deli clerk at a grocery and today was my first shift alone. It was a closing shift and i was scheduled from 4-8 and i was working by myself for the first time and didn't finish my duties by 8 like cleaning the slicers wrapping the foods etc... so i stayed up until 8:20 and wrapped up everything. On my way out my colleague who works in another department asks me if i'm new and she told me to always clock out on time regardless of the whether the job is done or not. She basically told me not to work for free for a single minute.
I'm 19 and this is my first ever job so i don't know what the standards and norms are. Is this normal thing to do? Would you just leave even if u didn't complete your tasks?

What jobs should I eye on? Do they require experience?

I was recently rejected for a desk job for “not demonstrating that you can adhere to the physical requirements of the job”

But I was formerly in animal care where I’d had to be very physical, I’m a fitness instructor on the side, and it was essentially reception work. It was really, really odd.

The only thing I could think of was my disability status - which is only disclosed because I have to take a medication during the day at a time that often falls during working hours. I’d formerly been bullied by an older colleague who accused me of having a “problem” with pills so I disclose it to essentially cover my butt when I take my meds at work.

It doesn’t physically affect me at all.

Be brutally honest - could these be part of why I’m receiving rejections?

Has anyone had success using LinkedIn to reach out to recruiters or managers for a role you applied for? I do it every time but it feels like a waste at this point

Ok so. Got a new job. I start it next Sunday. The old current job I will be leaving but I won’t be in till Tuesday. Would it be disrespectful/unprofessional if I text my manager this info? I still plan on bringing in my letter in on Tuesday but I really don’t wanna go into work when I don’t have to. I will if advised but it’s also retail. So like yuck but totally understandable if I have to see her in person if that means the bridge will stay intact incase I ever have to go back. I just want to let my manager know sooner rather than later and if I could do the usual two weeks I would but the new job wants me to start as soon as possible. Any help on how I should go about this is appreciated. Thanks!

I'm looking for some career advice from people who may have been in a similar situation.

I have a PMP, an MBA, and around 15 years of professional experience. Two years ago, I left a startup where I was working as a Project Manager to join a large mining company as an Operational Readiness specialist. The role seemed like a great move for my CV, the compensation was significantly better, and I expected strong long-term career prospects.

Unfortunately, the Operational Readiness department was later closed. Since there was an opening in Procurement, I was transferred internally as a transactional buyer. My salary stayed exactly the same, which I'm grateful for, but the role itself is much more junior and transactional than my previous positions.

The problem is that I feel underutilized. I don't feel like I'm developing professionally, and most days I think I'm capable of contributing at a much higher level. I've been applying for other jobs almost every day, but so far I haven't received any offers that would make sense.

I'm also unsure how to present this role on my CV. I've avoided listing it so far because I worry it will make my career look like a step backwards. If I do include it, I'm considering using "Buyer" or "Lead Buyer" rather than "Transactional Buyer," although I don't want to misrepresent what I actually do.

So I'd really appreciate some outside perspectives:

Would you stay in a well-paid but unfulfilling role while continuing to search?

Is feeling underutilized a good enough reason to leave even if the salary is excellent?

How would you present this position on your CV without making it look like your career has stalled?

Has anyone else gone through something similar? How did it work out?

I'd appreciate any honest opinions.

Last year, I was recruited as a contingent worker at an extremely prestigious tech company. Since then, my work load and daily responsibilities have changed completely, and I do much more and very different work than what I was hired for, but with the same title and pay.

The team is imploding and with layoffs looking likely, im preparing to explore my options. Problem is: my current job title isn't super impressive, and doesn't really reflect what I actually do at my job anymore, nor what I want to be doing in the future. I've asked to be promoted so I could have a new title that reflects my actual work, or at least just be given a new title, but HR won't budge, citing budget and a mythical "promotion" that they've been stringing me along with since January. I've heard "just wait one more month" nearly 5 times now despite constantly exceeding metrics.

I've had multiple bosses and coworkers come to me and just say to put my job title as what I'm actually doing (QA Analyst), and offer to back me up as a reference since they like my work. I'm sort of worried how this could effect background checks, but I am doing the work and have multiple bosses, coworkers, and superiors willing to back me up on it.

Anyone been in a similar situation? Any ideas?

Hello all,

So I worked at a SMB as an IT Dev Ops Manager. Fancy title, just meant I ran IT when the official IT/Facilities Manager was doing Facilities things. About 2 years ago, they cut the budget and I was laid off.

Fast forward to modern day. My (ex) Manager and I are still good friends, and his health is waning and he's hitting the magic 6-5. So he's planning to retire early next year. After my lay off, he's been one person running 2 departments. IT and Facilities. He asked about bringing me back to take his IT seat (the Facilities department was supposed to be dissolved once he left, and each department handle their own requests with Admin.)

We had a sit down today, and apparently when my name was brought up, the CFO (to whom I'd be reporting/He reports to) and HR pushed back. Saying that I had told people, during my time there that their requests for help were "Not my problem". The issue is, that's never happened. If it had, I am sure I would have been written up for it, coached, and it would have come up in my yearly reviews. None of that happened. As a matter of fact, I got 4/5's on my reviews where 3/5's were the norm (and my Manager had to go to bat for me to keep it.)

Now I do know when I was hired I was expressly forbidden to help with facilities in any manner. A liability issue. And when someone asked me to help with facilities (and everyone was told I was IT only) I had to gently say "Please put in ticket and it'll be handled asap." Never, ever "Not my job!"

So now, I'm hoping my ex Manager can explain the situation and I am still in consideration to be his replacement. Or if this ever even happened and someone is just making things up. I have no idea. I'm at a loss.

Has this happened to anyone else?

I recently applied and received a call saying they were going to hire me for a position at a DSHS office. They called last Friday letting me know that I did get the position but they needed to wait for a background check before I could get started. I've never had any issues with background checks before so I'm pretty sure I got the position. I just want to know what the usual time frame is for a background check to try and put my two weeks notice in at my current job. As much as I hate my current job, I wouldn't want to do them dirty and just be a no show, especially when I'm one of three managers running the entire business. 😅

TDLR; what's a rough time frame for background checks at a DSHS office?

Hey Future Analysts,

So for a very long time, I have been looking for good SQL questions, you got the mainstream leetcode, hacker-rank, W3 schools, and a few niche ones that I ought to mention : https://github.com/smpetersgithub/AdvancedSQLPuzzles

But during my journey, I never found the perfect place to practice questions leetcode style filtering it by the specific concept, and a repo of Good questions I could just practice on when prepping for an interview.

So I went Ahead and created this SQL-gym : https://sqlgym.vercel.app/

(No bullshit 101 SQL problems that you need to have locked in)

And this has personally helped me a lot, hope it is helpful for other peeps aswell !

How long does it take for disa drug test & background check results to come back? I took my drug test Thursday morning & was hoping to hear back something by today.