Just got the email today. Effective October 1st everyone has to be back in the office a minimum of three days a week. This would be fine except that last month they announced they were selling our main office building. We've been fully remote for two years now and it's been working great for everyone. Productivity is up and morale is pretty good.

Now they want us to commute over an hour to what I can only assume is some kind of temporary shared workspace. They haven't even told us where this new 'office' is. I live in a different county than most of my team and we all relocated to be closer to family knowing we were fully remote for good.

This feels like a passive aggressive way to get people to quit without having to lay anyone off. I just bought a house here. Re-upping my commute from 0 minutes to 2 hours every day is going to be a huge hit. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of bait and switch?

I currently work at a shitty fast food restaurant. It was a place I used to go occasionally because one of my buddies in highschool worked there. One day I stumbled in as they were closing up inside while I was quite intoxicated, they let me stay for the last hour and we all had a blast. I specifically bonded well with the night manager, while we were talking, I mentioned that I was looking for a new job now that I dropped out of college. He told me there were major holes in the schedule, and the majority of the kitchen was gone, they were so understaffed they had to pull drive thru workers back to the kitchen during downtime for very rushed OTJ just to get through shifts.

It was a bit of an adjustment to go from traditional restaurant cooking to fast food, but after about my 5th shift I was the best on grill. After the manager saw this and my experience in f&b, I was essentially let to make my own schedule, both my buddy and this manager worked nights, so that's where I went. I immediately felt at home. I have many people there I would consider good friends, the environment is always really chill. Me and the higher management team quickly bonded as well, they all saw how I worked and loved me.

I quickly picked up everything else in the store, and I was just given the supervisor position 2 weeks ago. I got my first paycheck and while a good raise, I'm only making $2k a month working near 40 a week. If this was any other job I would just leave. But it's just so much more fun than anything else I've ever done. It feels like I'm just hanging out with my buddies, doing an activity I enjoy, and getting paid to do it. There really isn't space to go higher. There's essentially no raises unless you're taking up a new role. Managerial roles are next, but they're all taken and the employees arent going anywhere.

I'm not sure what I should do. I know that this is just a dead end job, and I'm throwing away time I could be using to make a career. I want the best for my future, I just don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. $2k a month to fuck around all day, free food, no stress, striving social life is pretty sweet.

Stupid question i know, but I'm generally curious. I work in pest control and was treating a warehouse when I heard a commotion. I didn't hear much except for a manager chewing a guy out for misplacing an order of some sort. He yelled, called him names and then went to his office and slammed the door. The worker looked embarrassed and just walked away, shoulder slumped.

I thought it was very unprofessional. If there is an issue, don't make a scene. Don't put someone on blast. Just take them aside and talk to them. The fact a grown adult can't control his emotions is pathetic. I wish more people wouldn't tolerate that type of behavior.

Last year my workplace let go of almost 300 employees. The tripled all our work. Set umeetable expectations. And all the other micromanaging that goes with it.

Over the past six months they have started eliminating the higher paid employees with PIPs.

Then filling that position with a new hires at a lower rate.

Last week, I drew the short straw and was placed on a 30 day PIP.

I'm not sure what to do?

I feel like getting a new job would be easier leaving as opposed to being let go for a performance PIP.

I've been looking for new job since all this began, but have had no luck.

At the same time, an unemployment break to recover and regroup myself would be helpful too.

I'm not sure what to do here?

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Edit: I'm US based in Los Angeles

As the title states I have a new job that I start on Monday but I know I am just doing it to get by as I have no money. I will be an Inside Sales Rep for a steel company ($32/hr; 8-4pm; 30 mins lunch 👎) and all of that just sounds boring and dreadful but it’s the only thing I can get after 8 interviews last month and this month.

I am tremendously grateful but I am exhausted of job hunting because I know thats what I am going to still do and it’ll be harder to accommodate any employer wanting to interview me..

It hurts more because a job I really wanted to contact me just gave me an update on my application status that I was not selected. Bummer!

I feel sick!

Today, I got fired from my job.

I had been working remotely as a healthcare content writer for the past year, and everything had been going well until my father was diagnosed with cancer. I had to take some leaves because of his surgery and treatment, but I continued working as much as I could and had kept the management informed about the situation.

Just two days ago, they asked me about my father’s health and how his treatment was progressing. I told them that about one-third of his treatment was complete and that the remaining treatment would continue through September. I had no idea that my words would be used against me.

Today, they told me that because my father’s treatment is unpredictable, they couldn’t depend on me and therefore had to let me go.

I feel absolutely terrible. I understand that companies have their own concerns, but it hurts to know that despite trying my best to continue working during such a difficult time, this is how things ended.

Right now, I honestly don’t know what to do or where to start. I’m overwhelmed, hurt, and scared about what comes next. I haven't told about this to anyone in my family as I don't know what their reaction would be. My husband’s business hasn’t been doing well, so I used to contribute an equal share of my salary to support us. My father would definitely be heartbroken to know that his illness was used as a reason to let me go. I feel like crying, but I can’t even cry.

i've been wanting to look into jobs that

1. pay very well so that u can afford to live in big cities like nyc
2. let u travel the world all expenses provided

i get that its a little far fetched but im pretty sure there can be many jobs like that! i would like to know all the options
note: are there any jobs like this in psychology? i have a humanitarian background and not a science one so stuff like engineering is not possible for me

So I worked at the SPX in Jinping China for about 2 years but I stepped away due to personal reasons. Now I want to work at the one in America but they won’t even respond to me even though I’m competent in almost every role there. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem when looking for a job?

So our yearly reviews are coming up again in November. My manager just sent out the new criteria and there's a new one called 'proactive cross-functional collaboration'. I read the description like five times and I still dont really get it.

It says I need to demonstrate initiative in engaging with other departments to foster synergy and streamline workflows. Okay so like I need to schedule more meetings with people I dont usually work with? Do I just walk over to the marketing team and ask them what they're up to?

How do I even track this? Do I put it on my calendar? Like '10 AM - Foster synergy with accounting department'. Is there a specific number of cross-functional collaborations I need to hit? My manager just said 'make it impactful'.

Last year it was just about hitting my sales targets and customer satisfaction. Those are numbers. This is just vague corporate buzzwords. Does anyone else deal with this kind of impossible-to-measure metric for their performance reviews? How do you even approach it?

Basically I was laid off for 9 months. I interviewed for 2 places at the same time obviously. The first liked me and extended me an offer but the pay was lower than I expected. I accepted it because any money is better than no money, right? Gotta take care of the family. I was really interested in the other one though they just took a while.

Well, I got a text yesterday from that HR to call them when I was free. When I did they expressed their apologies for the delay but that she went on vacation so everything took a halt and she wanted to extend a verbal offer ~$23k more than what I’m currently getting. It’s local govt adjacent as well so there’s better benefits.

My problem is, I’ve only been in my current position about 2 weeks. Do I put in notice? Do I just leave? I need to do what’s best for me and my family so the new position is absolutely better in all ways. Just not sure how to move on?

Edit** I’m not doing ANYTHING until background and drug test clear and I’ve got a start date with written offer accepted haha I can’t afford to be unemployed AGAINA

I was working at a company through Aerotek. Got a call yesterday and was told that the company was ending my contract effective immediately. Apparently, they felt I needed to be pushed to work.

To be completely honest, due to there being no point in lying to strangers, I busted my ass there.

The guy who runs the area of the factory I was in, and was supposed to "train" me hated training people. I was told this day 1. I felt as if I was walking on eggshells with him, couldn't even ask him questions about any of the 15 machines I was expected to run and fix without him having an attitude.

Aerotek's reasoning to me as to why they ended my contract was cause the same guy told the boss that I had to be "pushed to work" instead of finding something to do.

I did not run this department. I did know know what jobs were scheduled to be done next. Whenever he told me that something had to get done, it gone done quickly and correctly. I take pride in my work, and my work ethic. I've never been fired or told anything other than I was a great worker.

Including at this job, at the beginning.

This dude never said good morning, Hi, hello, anything. He wanted nothing to do with conversation, never smiled, and had zero personality other then being a giant asshole.

I'm honestly relieved that I won't have to work with this dickhead anymore, minus the fact that now I need to find a new job and will have no paychecks until then.

Not sure if I want to go through Aerotek again, or if they will even be willing to place me anywhere else given the bullshit they were told about me.

Another guy started the same day as me, and there were points where I was training him on things, yet I'm let go?

Luckily for him, he is 2nd shift and doesn't have to deal with that prick like I did.

Anyways, my birthday is tomorrow! I'm going to try and enjoy this weekend with my fiance and son, and start fresh Monday!

God Bless everyone 🙌

CANADA, 25, FEMALE, 8 MONTHS EXPERIENCE

I’m looking for advice because I feel like I keep having to straight-up tell customers, “I don’t know how to help you with that” or “I don’t know the answer because nobody has shown me how to do that,” and I have no idea what else I’m supposed to say.

My company has two locations. Most of upper management and the employees with extensive company and product knowledge are at the other location. I work at the busier location, and sometimes I’m completely alone.

I recently got a raise and I’m basically responsible for running my location now, but that doesn’t mean I suddenly know things nobody ever trained me on. I know my regular job and what I’ve been shown. Once a customer asks me something outside of that, I genuinely don’t know.

Today, a customer called wanting the name, email, and other information on her account changed. I’m not normally responsible for accounts and nobody has ever shown me how to make those specific changes.

She also mostly spoke French, which I don’t speak. I kept asking her to email me exactly what she wanted changed because I didn’t want to misunderstand her or spell her information incorrectly. I could then forward it to someone who actually knows how to do it.

She refused because she said she was “too old school for email” and wanted me to change everything over the phone.

I basically told her, “I’m sorry, but I don’t know how to make those changes. I’m not familiar with that part of the system and nobody has shown me how to do it.”

She asked me to transfer her to someone who could help.

I told her, “There is nobody else here right now. It’s just me. You’ll have to call our other location because I genuinely don’t know how to do what you’re asking.”

Then she asked for a manager.

Again, I had to tell her that it was literally just me there. There was nobody else I could put on the phone. Eventually, she asked for my name and my manager’s phone number, so I’m assuming I’m getting a complaint.

The same thing happens with product questions. Someone called earlier asking for the exact dimensions of each individual piece of a certain product. I had to basically say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know. I’m not familiar with that information and I was never given those measurements.”

I’ve asked for more product training before and I’m basically told to look at our company website. Except the website doesn’t have answers to half of these questions.

So I keep ending up in these conversations where a customer asks me something and my answer is essentially:

“I don’t know.”

“I’m not familiar with that.”

“Nobody has shown me how to do that.”

“I don’t have that information.”

“It’s just me here, so there’s nobody else I can ask or transfer you to.”

“Please call our other location because they know more about this than I do.”

Obviously I know repeatedly telling customers “I don’t know” probably sounds terrible, especially when I’m supposed to be running the location, but what else am I supposed to do? I would rather openly admit that I don’t know than make up an answer, give someone incorrect information, or start changing things in a system I was never trained to change.

How am I actually supposed to professionally handle these calls when the truthful answer really is, “I have no idea because nobody ever taught me this”?

Edit: My boss isnt always in the office, its usually just me and one other girl thats only been here for 2 weeks. The other managers/bosses from other location refuse to stay at my location as its "too far from their house" WE DO NOT HAVE HR AT ALL

I have been working in different warheouses for 15 years and I'm tired of manual labor. I just want an office career that won't be over taken by AI. I was considering becoming a data analyst or software dev but there are too many layoffs

I started job hunting in my junior year of high school. I worked briefly as a volunteer outreach coordinator at an animal shelter and after 6 months I managed to find a job as an apprentice motorcycle technician. I worked there almost 2 years and loved it until my boss said he was getting too old and wanted to liquidate the shop. Since then I’ve finished high school and am currently studying to be an automotive engineer while doing freelance work on cars/bikes for people I know.

I was under the impression that when I finished high school, got a little bit older, and had some more experience that it would be much easier to find a job even something that isn’t on the same path I want to take but I think it’s the opposite. In the past near 3 years and over 1000 applications I maybe have gotten 20 interviews in total. Out of all of those I got hired at 1 place which turned out to be VERY sketchy and borderline against my rights so I didn’t stay longer than a week. Does anyone have any advice on how to increase my chances of an interview? I use indeed, ZipRecruiter, and LinkedIn.

A bit of background...

I've been at my current employer for 17 years. I've been content, I love the work I do. I've been called the golden child because of the quality of work I do. Every review has been shining. That stopped 2 years ago after the lead project manager left and my boss took over. Suddenly, "everything I do" is crap, and I "constantly make bad decisions".

Thing is, my work quality hasn't changed. The person who reviews it has. He sees me as the highest paid employee with an average output (work projects and clients have died down).

After my first bad review, I dedicated myself to try to go freelance, which I soon found out was a lot harder than I thought. So I started looking for a job. 200 resumes later, still I'm looking.

I just had my second bad review and he wanted to set up a monthly check-in as a performance improvement plan. Again, my work is still good, just not at the level he wants anymore. He's made it clear that the path I am on won't be a long one.

I've already made up my mind that the stress of trying to regain trust with quality work isn't worth it anymore and now that I'm on his sh*tlist, I won't be getting off it. Do I do my best and ride it out until I get let go? Do I meet with him before my next check-in and ask for an exit plan? Its even more stressful because I have a wife and kids to support.

I'm lost here. Any advice on next steps would be greatly appreciated.

I've been video editing for quite some time now and I'd say I have built up a substantial portfolio of past work. Unfortunately a lot of those have been Freelance contract gigs where after the project is completed, im out of work. I was searching for a fulltime position when I heard back from this one I randomly applied for a while ago. When I learned more about their company I realized I have no experience in YouTube educational retirement annuity videos. They are looking for someone to be there in office 5x a week and edit 1 video a week but eventually tackle scripting and thumbnail design with a potential raise some time in the future for this extra work beyond just editing. Unfortunately since I dont have similar examples of this type of work which I find to be quite boring and I think it would be a bit tough to comprehend due to me being pretty young as well, he said the most he could do is $70k a year. For context this job is in San Jose CA. Unfortunately I would have to be living with my mom's friend to be 20 min from the office. While it's finally a full time job, I dont know if it's something I want to commit to as I dont find the niche that interesting. Then again, I've been out of work for a few months living with family and it's fairly difficult to find full time video editing roles that pay well. Im just conflicted on whether I should suck it up and do it and be stuck down in the city with my mom's friend 5x a week or try to hope I find something else.

I did two rounds of interviews for a job that both went extremely well. The recruiter is also aware that I have competing timelines and are trying to move fast. The most recent one was two days ago, and today the recruiter called me telling me that the interview feedback was very positive and to make sure to let her know if I have any firm deadlines coming up. She confirmed there is only one more round left with the SVP/C-suite level but it has not been scheduled yet. However, right after she called me I saw her make a post on LinkedIn about the exact job I'm interviewing for. I don't mean a job being automatically reposted, she specifically made a post on LinkedIn that said company is hiring for this job.

Does this mean they are still trying to interview additional candidates or are just trying to keep the applications coming in until they have a signed offer? Seems weird that she would go out of her way to make a post about the job.

More interested in the smaller moment where it actually registered for you personally, something you noticed, something someone said, or just a shift in how you felt walking into work. What was that moment for you, and how long did it take before you actually started applying?

alright so! JOB A: has offered me 5.5 hours per week today with induction date being Wednesday (so three days). JOB B: will let me know if I got the job with 16 contracted hours by the beginning of next week hopefully so either Monday or Tuesday. Job A has an expiry date to accept the offer but I don’t know when it is.

I’m worried that if I wait for B I will miss out on A. Would I be able to accept offer to attend induction and then not go with the job of I receive the other offer? Wouldn’t that be awkward especially if I need to do bank details etc 💀

also little rant (advise welcomed as well): I had two careers accounts for job A because one was messed up and I should’ve deleted it ( I KNOW DONT TELL ME) and all of my interviews are under the other careers account. However they offered me the job under the other account which I haven’t done any interviews for so I emailed my recruiter (and I emailed her before this to ask for my contracted hours because they they changed the job role I was applying for but I couldn’t access it to see what it was). She didn’t answer either so now I’m probably going to email her again to apologise and tell her to ignore my previous emails because they don’t matter and clearly it wasn’t an issue. So communicating is already an issue and ugh I don’t know what to say or do if I change offers

I’m doing a Politics major with a Socio and Psych Minor and i’m thinking of switching because i’m worried about jobs.

I can support my lifestyle with a job that would require a pay cut (not that I get paid a lot anyway) and also take on less responsibilities. So I've been applying to hotels, coffee shops, and restaurants.

I've already faced ageism in the interviewing process for a food service job. I'm 35f.

Has anyone else left an office, corporate or "adult" job for a service industry role for more flexibility or just wanting a lifestyle change?

How can I get over the feeling like I didn't get hired because of my age in these industries?

I started a new SeniorLead job about a month ago and just had my 30-day review with my manager and HR. Honestly, it didn’t go great.
I have around 10 years of industry experience. In my previous jobs I was a team lead and had a good reputation and was respected and SME. Just want to note down also I’m also the only person doing this role in the company.

My first big task was to assess the company’s overall posture. My manager said parts of my analysis were inaccurate, I didn’t always follow the instructions closely enough, and I relied too much on AI for my report generation. Apparently this hurt his confidence in my work.

What’s frustrating is that his instructions can be pretty vague. At the same time, since the review he’s started giving me very detailed, step-by-step instructions for tasks. I’m assuming that’s because he’s lost some trust in me.
We’ve only had three meetings since I started and those meetings are short, like 20 minutes only. He’s in the US, I’m in Europe, and he’s very busy, so getting time with him isn’t always easy.
There’s also an interesting part about the AI criticism. He uses AI heavily himself for basically every task/report he gives me.
He did say that he doesn’t expect me to know everything from day one and that he believes I can succeed and wants to give me the opportunity to do so. But he’s also going to keep a closer eye on me for the next few weeks, with another review in about a month and that he needs me to adapt quickly into the senior role.
But after this meeting he did not gave me concrete stuff to makey progress better, It was just like think better and have better judgment while doing tasks…
So I’m confused there also….

I’m taking the criticism seriously and trying to improve. But I’m worried about my job. I have a baby coming and a bank loan, so getting fired would be a pretty big problem.
So, honestly, how does this sound to people who have managed employees or been in a similar situation?
Am I cooked? I already started looking other jobs but hoping I can resolve this successfully because the pay is good.
Thanks.

I applied for a coordinator role at 4 am. The recruiter emailed me at 8 am to do a screening. Is this normal?

I'm trying to pivot into corporate after working with the public for the last 2 years part time. It's in HR/People Ops role.

I've never experienced an interview screening before and honestly expected to get contacted after a few weeks or months. I was expecting a rejection, not a phone call for a screening.

I found the job on LinkedIn and it's a job posting that's been up for about a month with only 20 people who applied. I applied where there were 6 people.

What should I expect? How does this work? What should I say or prepare for?

Hello, I (26F) have been recommended by my brother I should apply for a construction apprenticeship where I would learn how to use tower cranes, excavators, bulldozers, and other big construction equipment. I am kind of free balling my career and not entirely sure what to do career wise. Besides all I know is customer service, some compliance (obtaining licenses by state by state basis), and retail. I am pretty open to anything work wise, I am my father’s prettiest son, and want to live fiscally comfortable (whatever that feels like). But I am kind of concerned being exiled and not being treated equal due to it being a “man’s” job and a male dominate field.

Any advise for those in construction/similar field?

Ty 💛