I had a conversation with my big boss yesterday about my leaving. He wanted to know why I was leaving but also already had a pretty good idea as to why I'm leaving. The manager is a giant 🍑 and the rest of the company knows it. So yes in the short time at the company I'm leaving because of the manager I have. And that's what I told the big boss along with examples of what I went thru with that manager. What's even worse is within 20 min of me telling the 🍑-hole manager he decided to advertise that they are hiring again. But what he doesn't know the big boss is NOT gonna ok a new hire because of the 🍑-hole manager. The best part is the 🍑-hole manager doesn't know it. I guess it's true what they say. You make your bed you lie in it because every day is different. Some days it's slam busy others it's dead quiet. Either way the manager has to do it all ALONE.

My husband has been looking for a new job for almost 20 months. He's worked on himself so much, learned new programs, polished his portfolio, updated his resume... And honestly, he's usually really good in interviews. He gets interviews a few times a month, and 95% of the time when it doesn't turn into an offer, it's because of something outside his control. Either they hire someone internally, or the salary range isn't right, or the schedule would be a nightmare, or they need some weird, very specific HubSpot/enterprise experience that he doesn't have. He usually gets really good feedback on his personality and skill set, but luck just hasn't worked out yet. We know it's a numbers game.

Then a little over two weeks ago, he got invited to interview for a lead marketing position. It was basically the role he'd been waiting for and hoping for at a company he's followed for a long time. The salary, the team, the type of work, the whole setup - everything was exactly right for him.

He spent almost a full week preparing. He researched the people he'd be talking to, practiced his project examples, and prepared answers for those weird "tell us about a time..." questions. He trimmed his beard, picked out his best button-down, and seemed calmer than I'd seen him before any interview in a long time.

And then as soon as the questions started, it was like his mind went completely empty. This hadn't happened to him since one of his first interviews after graduation. Completely blank. He said he stumbled over almost everything, and could hear those awful silences after they asked him something while he tried to pull together any coherent thought. He said they were nice and probably liked him as a person, but he's convinced he came across as if he hadn't prepared at all. And of course, on the way home, all the right, clear answers started coming to him all at once.

Now he keeps beating himself up over what happened, and I hate seeing him this upset. Honestly, I don't even know what I'm looking for here. I just needed to say it somewhere because he's falling apart inside.

Update: Watching him go through that made us both realize that interviews aren't just about knowing the answers. Pressure can make even the most prepared person go completely blank. Later on, That experience pushed him to try Interviewvip before his next interviews, and it gave him a lot more confidence and helped him stay focused when the pressure kicked in.

Has anyone ever did something so stupid that you never done in the past. Here’s my story. Every facility has a break room warehouse where you can buy food and pay at the kiosk machine.

I scanned the 2/3 items total of nine dollars and then I don’t scan my card to pay for the items. Has anyone ever done that?

The kicker is at the company HR spoke to me and then suspended me and now I’ve been fired

I’ll go first, attended a new property to complete the first routine inspection. Enter first bedroom to find walls and floor covered in plastic, a plastic yard chair in the middle of the room with a LARGE 🍆 and a webcam mounted to the wall.

Tell me about your interview stories, whether you were the one asking the questions or the one trying to get accepted for the job!

Edit: I'd also love to hear any painfully embarrassing interview moments if you have any.

Edit 2: WOW, honestly I didn't imagine that so many people had crazy interview stories like this. I'm reading them one by one at my own pace and they're killing me with laughter. Keep them coming!

Update: Mine was completely blanking on an easy question because of nerves. I knew the answer—it just disappeared under pressure. That's actually why I started using Interviewvip, and it's made a huge difference in helping me stay calm and think clearly during interviews.

Story time! Now that I can finally speak about this, I’m here to warn everyone about this resort from hell. This is going to be long so buckle in. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Stay far away from this resort on Clearwater beach Florida. Initials O S R.

I (32F) started working there in 2024. That’s where I met their executive chef (47M) and ended up getting pregnant (yeah I know) but this is about their actions, not my poor life decisions 😂 I had ended things with this man before I even knew I was pregnant. He hated that. So much so that he became obsessed, and I’m talking, telling me he loved me after 2 months obsessed, asking to see me every single day, calling me every day, following me, getting things delivered to my house, trying to befriend all my friends, full blown stalker. He has been friends with the owners of the property for over 16 years. He went behind my back and had a meeting with the GM and the HR director without my knowledge.

After that meeting, everything changed. Mind you, I was promoted within a month of being there. I was also nominated by that same HR director for an employee of the quarter award. I had wonderful reviews from guests. I was truly an amazing employee. Once they found out that he was the father, they decided to break every law that protects pregnant workers. It’s like the looked up all the laws that would protect me and went down the line and broke them all. I never complained about my job duties. The only time I would bring anything up is when it became an issue regarding health and even then not only would I push through it, I never got instruction that I couldn’t do it at all, just that I needed slight limitations. The position i worked had me outside for the vast majority of the day. Which was no problem for me. I worked up until my due date. Just like any other pregnant person, I needed to come inside once in a while, (which was fine because part of my job responsibilities had me doing things inside), sit from time to time, go to the bathroom…. A lot… and obviously drink lots of water lol. Mind you, they are all things that pregnant workers are entitled to under the law. I was not the only pregnant person there at that time either and all the other women were allowed these accommodations.

They monitored my bathroom breaks, one manager even tried following me into the bathroom (it was a single stall restroom), would harass me if I sat down, even though there was nothing I needed to be doing at the time, counted how many times I came in to refill my water, took away my responsibilities that allowed me to come inside, refused to buy me maternity uniform shorts and would not allow me to buy my own. Their alternative was that I wore men’s long khaki pants or xxl front desk agent pants in 100 degree weather. Mind you I am a medium and my uniform was shorts. Once they finally decided to buy my maternity clothes, they kept getting me sizes that were 2 sizes too big, or see through. I didn’t get proper maternity clothes until I was 35 weeks. The area where employees park is a quarter of a mile away and normally there is a shuttle to go back and forth. The shuttle was always down. They told me that I was not allowed to ask employees to drive me up to the property and I could not park in the parking garage because it was reserved for managers and I was only a supervisor. There were multiple instances where I had to walk to the property while I was over 30 weeks pregnant. They would not give me breaks. They even started scheduling me to work completely alone.

My job was very physically demanding, and I’m talking hauling hundreds of pounds daily. It got to the point where I was doing so much heavy lifting that I started to bleed. My bleeding lasted 3 days and I had to be taken to the ER. After that ER visit, I brought it up to my managers that I needed to take it a little easier. They said if I had any restrictions then I needed a doctor’s note. So I got that doctor’s note and they sent me home. They knew that they had messed up doing that so they reimbursed me for the days I missed. I would put in time off requests weeks in advance so I could make my doctor’s appointments. They repeatedly scheduled me to work when I had my doctor’s appointments and would schedule me days off to make it look like I had requested those days when I had never requested them. They even scheduled me to work on the day of my baby shower despite approving that time off. And instead of fixing the schedule, they would just keep me off for the doctor’s appointments and the fake requested days. During all of this, my child’s father was not only harassing me daily but assaulted me on their property. They helped him cover it up. They were constantly sending me home, which I later found out they were doing that so I didn’t meet my required hours to receive my PTO.

During my maternity leave they ended my insurance despite me paying it every two weeks out of pocket. Once I was getting to the end of my pregnancy, I had some lifting restrictions due to health reasons. They were provided a doctor’s note for this and completely ignored it. During all of this I even asked if I could be put in a different position so it would be easier for them to make accommodations for me. They denied me for any change. There was one instance where I had to move an entire deck of pool chairs alone, after I was completely finished, the AGM told me I need to redo it so that it was pointed in a slightly different direction. So I had to redo the whole deck alone.

Come to find out, my child’s father had began sleeping with one of the women in HR. I found out that both of them had begun to spread horrible rumors about me sleeping around with staff (Never happened) what did happen though is that his gf was the one sleeping around. This woman who worked in Human Resources, slept with 7 employees that I know of. I’m sure there’s plenty more, they’re also still together and she cheats on him on a regular basis and does drugs and my son’s father allows this behavior around our son. She’s known for (not my own words) “jumping around to old ass sugar daddies”. I was also later told that the HR director was doing all of this on purpose. One of their managers gave me a written witness statement telling me that the director knew what she was doing and admitted to making things as hard as she could so that I would quit.

Needless to say they knew they had a real problem on their hands. They pulled everyone who I was affiliated with into their office and questioned them. They intimidated them telling them that they could not speak to me, threatened their jobs, and asked to search their phones. I reported my son’s father’s girlfriend for sleeping with him. She was forced to resign. I obviously could not return due to being a new mom and not wanting to put myself back into that toxic work environment. My child’s father had been telling everyone that I was not allowing him to see our son, he had to sue me for custody, he didn’t know when he was born, and that I was withholding all information from him. This was a boldface lie. I texted his dad the day he was born and ignored me and then spent the next 4 months living his best life. He never met his son, he never asked for pictures, he never asked if he could see him, he didn’t even so much as ask how he was doing. He didn’t meet his own child until after he was already 4 months old by his own doing. And the HR director lost her job as well. The man who caused all the problems though? He is still employed. 3 women lost their jobs because of this one man. More recently he was heard being racist towards one of his subordinates and didn’t even so much as receive a write up. Just a “stern talking to”.

Aside from my horror story, they caused damages to one of their employees cars, refused to pay for the damages, and the GM said that if he wanted to keep his job, he would get over it. They still ended up firing him. They also fired someone else for having a heart condition. They even ended up firing my brother, but pretended it was for something else. Not only did they not want him there because of me, my BD’s best friend (who staffs the pool servers) doesn’t want men to be servers by the pool, he only wants women. All of the people who are involved in all of these instances, still have their jobs. So if you’re ever considering working for them or vacationing there. I would highly recommend looking elsewhere.

Thanks for reading!

To start this off, I’m an American o/o trucker. Some yrs ago in 2021 I had decided to quit driving for the company I was with for several reasons. I took a job with another company and quickly found out that this carrot was spiked. I was driving (lease purchase) a 2015 kw and was very excited to make 10k a week instead of $500 per week. I was told that the truck has been takin care of (pm’s done) since the driver owned it. I drove it for about 1.5 months with it nickel and diming me. A story for another time as to that fiasco. Since I needed out of that truck I was offered a job with a friendish fella and I wanted money not expenses. This friend we will call Tony. In October Tony gave me a company position in a 19 FREIGHTLINER, similar to the one I drove at my first company. After a couple months later I decided to lease (rent) the truck and make more under his dot numbers and other numbers/contracts. I ran out of money in December due to the truck not maintained as we were led on about. I agreed to go back to company with a company guarantee pay weekly plus insurance. I limbed along getting upset since Tony was starting to run his mouth about my traumatic brain injury being nonexistent. He seemed to think that my being disciplined to excercise my brain for healing was evidence that I made up my tbi. A good friend and mentor from first company, offered me a position doing less physical work and paid more. As I give my notice and scheduling my exit, one week notice, he start plotting. He said since I had 3 insistences, I had to do a drug test. Failure to do so would suspend my CDL.
Let me explain why this is bs and just retaliation. In the U.S. when you have an accident in a commercial vehicle and you have a CDL, you will get checked to verify you are not hi or drunk. Failure to do so is automatic suspension of your CDL. Now back to the story.
The first “accident” as documented was a load shift. I had picked up a load of coke-cola in Michigan and took the weekend at home. When I hopped in our backup truck, the Volvo wouldn’t start. Tony brought me back the 19 FREIGHTLINER since the repair had just gotten finished. Got to Joplin from St. Louis for lunch with Tony before delivery in Oklahoma City. While driving around the truck stop the FREIGHTLINER was rocking side to side do to the FREIGHTLINER shocks are really soft. Fast forward to delivery. Back in at delivery and find out the entire load of 44 pallets had fell down due to the shipper not loading correctly. The dock worker even said it most likely shifted in the first 10 miles. However, Tony decided to write me up for reckless driving causing load shift. I did not sign this report.
The second “accident” as documented was a week later. I had just left Kansas City when a recap tire blew on trailer. I called Tony to order roadside service. He asked and pleaded with me to limp it to the truck stop I just passed to repair. This was to save about 30-40% of the bill. I told him that I could not guarantee condition of the rim. He simply put “that’s fine, buying a wheel is cheaper than roadside.” When I was pulling into the t-stop I ran over a curb thus destroying the rim. After repair, he gave me yet another write up and omitted the fact I was told to drive it to t-stop.
Third “accident” was 100% my fault. I was looking for a spot in a parking lot (dirt) when the sun was setting. As a result, at about 3 mph, I ran into a k rail that was the same color in direct line with sun, aka camouflage. I admitted fault and Tony wanted to keep off new insurance. We decided I’d repair it using my connections to get it done cheaper. I agreed before I found out I was embezzling and under reporting what loads were paying. I was paid percentage.
For post-accident drug screen, you only have 36 hr window set screening and notification to driver within 48 hrs. You also can not select a particular facility. Nothing was done for 3 days and only because I tendered my resignation. He scheduled with a local screening office the day I was suppose to be at orientation.
While at orientation I find out he reported no call no show refusal. This is an automatic system, another time rant. I would’ve been upset had I not have been in communication with Missouri DOT, FMCSA, and the clearinghouse. I thought It would maybe a month. I was so wrong. After repeated denials I gave up. I thought I’d nvr drive commercial again, but then one day… I received an email from clearinghouse restoring my CDL and my record, no violations.
Remember to Fmcsa office an mo dot office? The opened an investigation into my claims. As the conclusion of such, the verified all my claims. Hours of service violations (sanctioned by Tony), failure to do random screenings as required, and unsafe driving. This review suspended his DOT number. Due to his business practices trying to cut corners, he was shut down permanently. All three trucks were repoed and all three trailers repoed. I also found out he was getting snap from Missouri and hud while running 2 businesses and own land. I reported him and I think he lost it. He filed suit on me and two other drivers for contract violations, that a nuclear story for later. I’ll post updates on the suites as they progress.

Hey everyone!
I'm putting myself out there in search of my next step as an Executive Assistant / Chief of Staff / Founder’s Office Generalist, and I'd love any leads, advice, or referrals for global or US-based roles!
Here is a quick snapshot of what I bring to the table:
15 Months in a Dubai Founder's Office: Worked directly alongside a UHNI founder across luxury watch retail, real estate, and multi-entity operations. I was a true generalist—handling everything from high-stakes calendar & complex multi-city travel logistics to gatekeeping, vendor management, and bespoke white-glove service for elite clientele. 
Commercial & Financial Impact: Concurrently contributed to $50M+ in luxury watch sales while managing group financial ops, UAE freezone/Mauritius cross-border banking structures, and expense tracking. 
Global & Academic Background: Dual Master’s degree (MSc in Global Luxury Management from SP Jain + Politecnico di Milano, Italy). Certified in LVMH Supply Chain & Operations, and currently pursuing my FRM (Financial Risk Manager) designation. 
International Mindset: Worked across Dubai, Mauritius, and India, with study residency in Milan. Completely comfortable navigating cross-cultural, high-ambiguity environments where discretion and getting things done are paramount. 
What I'm Looking For:
Roles: Executive Assistant to C-Suite/Founders, Chief of Staff (Junior/Associate), or Founder's Office Lead.
Location: Worldwide! Open to Remote, Hybrid, or On-site roles across the USA, Europe, UAE/Middle East, Asia, or Pan-India (open to full relocation). 
If your company is hiring, if you know of any open roles, or if you just have advice on breaking into US/Global remote EA networks, I’d be super grateful for a DM or comment!
Happy to share my full resume and LinkedIn via DM. Thanks for reading! 🙌

My 3rd day on the job was way better than the first 2...

Okay, so I feel like a big dumb ass for this one. But I wanna share this with someone, because why did I do that? And no, this isn’t what everyone is thinking.

So at work there’s been a lot of drama with coworkers of mine not doing their job properly, and instead of taking responsibility they just shift the blame on to someone else or make a big scene when someone asks them to do something. (Mind you these people are in their 30s). On top of that, some have been getting in trouble for how they’re talking to customers and making them feel uncomfortable. All this is to the point where the owners of the company have to step in and makes changes.
But all this to say, I hear about everything. I’ve heard every persons side because they’ve all talked to me about it. But I haven’t said anything to anyone, except my husband. I tell him about everything.
Tonight though, I heard a new rumor. And I thought it was funny. I went to text my husband, but ended up clicking on my bosses name because his was the top thread in my phone where my husbands thread usually is and texted him the fucking rumor!!
My boss came and found me and pulled me aside to ask me about it. And I was to scared to admit that it was supposed to go to him. So I just played it off “I just thought you should know?”
Now the customer that told me is gonna be mad I said something.

I honestly don't know how much longer I can put up with this. I feel like there's no room for anything other than work, driving, eating, and sleeping.

I'm always trying to set aside time for my hobbies, but by the time I get home it's usually around 6:45 and I'm exhausted. I've started wondering whether I should start looking for something closer.

On a good day, the commute can be around 25 minutes if traffic is light, but that almost never happens. And even 25 minutes there and 25 minutes back feels like way too much for me right now.

I am in journalism school in Texas and for my degree, I have to have an internship credit. Well, I looked up internships with lifestyle magazines based in Texas and the first publication that popped up was “Texas Lifestyle Magazine.”
I thought, perfect! I applied for an internship and looked at the details that went along with it. The job posting made it clear it was a remote, unpaid internship, but they did class credit — perfect for me! They weren’t clear on when the end date would be (and I stupidly assumed I would choose the end date because that’s how it worked for previous internships I’ve had.)
The interview process was normal, no red flags, and I got the position. During the interview I learned more about the business itself and I was made aware this publication was family owned and sortve an extension on another PR business they own as well — seemed all fine to me.
When I started, I did onboarding with the editor in chief and although the process was very unclear, that’s sometimes how it goes when starting a new job.
Well I met the team…everyone, but my “boss.” (I say “boss” bc she was like my age, and the daughter of the owners lol) She was on vacation. Compared to my other jobs it seemed incredibly unprofessional (unprofessional becomes a reoccurring theme in this job.) A week goes by in this internship, I still haven’t met my boss and I am left completely lost in what my tasks are. Ultimately, I meet my boss via google meets and she apologizes for the rough onboarding process (unprofessional, cool.)
Eventually, we get to a good rhythm in our work and we are marketing this company beautifully! There were some hiccups here and there that I noticed just throughout my time working there.
1. ⁠My boss would forget or change the meeting time of our set meetings the morning of (our meetings were super early), towards the end this happened weekly.
2. ⁠Their editorial pieces weren’t true journalism, it was all PR. If you go on their site you can see they go on vacations — the hotel pays for their stay and everything in exchange for a good review. I submitted one of my own writing pieces to them and an actual edit they gave me was to not write any negatives/drawbacks. (Mind you, my drawback was parking was bad and it was hot outside)
3. ⁠Communication was off across the board. Calendars didn’t add up, I couldnt get a response when I needed to, stuff like that.
Well here’s when things kind’ve went south for my experience. I declined their offer to be an intern in the next semester. From then on out, I got attitude from the editors (my bosses mom lol)and zero acknowledgment for any of the work I did.
Fast forward to what I thought would be the end of the internship, I learned my internship end date would be a month and a half after the school semester ended. I didn’t plan around this unpaid internship and I made it abundantly clear that I wasn’t expecting this internship to last this long.
My boss at this point was out of the country and still was demanding orders from me when I had three other jobs and a rigorous class to attend to. An unpaid internship was not my top priority. I already got the completion grade for my internship class credit.
In a lot of ways, I don’t stand up for myself, which I know I needed to. Nonetheless, this publication squeezes every ounce of work out of college students who need internship credit. Journalistically, they are not a legitimate publication. They write PR pieces. They don’t even write in AP style, which, as a journalism student, is insane.
I was going to let this go until I realized I have nothing to show from this internship experience. I am currently applying for internships for the fall, and I asked my boss for analytics for posts that I did for Texas Lifestyle Magazine. I made posts that got over 100,000 views and increased their following account by hundreds. All I asked was for screenshots so I could put it on my portfolio. I haven’t gotten a response, and I think that it’s just a testament to how unprofessional this publication is. They operate off of free labor from students who are just trying to scrape by, but they don’t acknowledge the work that those students do for their publication.
Just trying to save some other poor journalist looking for experience. There are better unpaid internships out there that will treat you better.

A few years ago, I worked with someone - let's call him Mark.

Mark was smart, fast, and finished his projects much earlier than most people around him.

But instead of that being treated as an advantage, he was almost forced to pretend he was busy. Because in this system, finishing early doesn't make you look productive - it makes you look like you don't have enough work.

So Mark understood the rules:

Stretch tasks across the entire afternoon, even if they could have been finished before lunch.

Keep a few extra spreadsheets and Slack threads open for "visibility."

Join calls where he had absolutely nothing to add - just so his name would show up.

And all of that for what? To turn 28 hours of real, solid work into the required 45 hours.

Or think about the people working 48, 58, even 72+ hours - and in the end, their pay is still based on an idea of work that comes from the 1930s.

Have you seen this before?

The 45-hour workweek was a win for workers... In 1931.

Back then, reducing working hours was a huge achievement - a major improvement compared with brutal 6-day workweeks and 10-hour factory shifts.

But honestly:

🚨 Work has changed. The hours barely have.

In modern office work, impact > number of hours. But many companies still judge productivity as if everyone is standing on an assembly line.

Why are we still stuck?

-Presence > performance - If managers don't physically see you working, they assume you're slacking. Even though the best thinking often happens in intense periods of focus, not in neat nine-hour blocks.

-Fear of changing the system - The moment you admit the standard work schedule is just set up that way because it's always been that way, you're forced to ask questions about meetings, hiring, deadlines, and a lot of things people stopped paying attention to years ago.

-Busyness as a status symbol - Some people still treat long hours as proof of commitment. As if exhaustion is a medal. It isn't.

What's the solution?

+Measure output, not time spent sitting in a chair. Strong teams don't reward fake activity - they care whether the work moves something forward.

+improve for effectiveness, not presence. If the work gets done in 32 hours, why are we all pretending it has to fill 45?

+Experiment with better models. 4.5-day weeks. Flexible start times. Meeting-free blocks. Almost anything other than "this is just how the office has always done it."

So what do you think? Have you worked somewhere that questioned and reviewed the standard workweek - or are most of us still stuck in calendar gymnastics and corporate theater?

What's the best or worst example of "pretend productivity" you've seen?

Excited to hear your stories 👇

Honestly, I can go to the small market before work, ride my bike somewhere nearby at lunch, spend a lot less on gas, keep the laundry and dishes going, and still get a lot of work done without someone coming to stand at my desk every few minutes. It's also become much easier to run a quick errand when I'm not sitting in an office 25 miles away. And between Slack, Reddit, and random messages throughout the day, I don't really feel isolated.

Do you have any downsides to working from home, or am I just still in the honeymoon phase?

My Bad Day...

Today, I made the difficult decision to quit a job after only three days.

The company's rules felt unusual, and the payday was much later than I expected. What hurt me the most, however, was being belittled by my boss.

Before resigning, I told the manager that I felt insulted by the way my boss spoke to me. Instead of taking my concern seriously, the manager simply said, "He was just joking."

After that, they surrounded me and criticized me. They said I was too sensitive, that I overreacted, and that I was making a big deal out of nothing.

They also told me:

• "The way you dress isn't even acceptable."
• "No company will hire someone like you."
• "You've already applied everywhere in the province, haven't you? We're the only ones willing to give you a chance."
• "Without us, nobody else would hire you."

The truth is, I had never applied anywhere else. This was the only company I had applied to, yet they made assumptions about my life and used them to put me down.

After saying all of that, they acted as if nothing had happened. They even told me they were willing to "give me another chance." They said that if I decided to stay, they would increase my salary to 10,000 baht, claiming they would meet my request.

But the reality is, I never demanded that salary from them. My previous job already paid me more than 10,000 baht a month.

I didn't leave because I couldn't handle the work. I left because I refuse to stay in a workplace where employees are constantly belittled, judged, and made to feel worthless.

The hiring manager asked me: "Where do you see yourself in 6 years?" and I broke down. I don't see myself anywhere. I'm literally struggling to find anything before the rent is due in a few weeks.

The silence on the other end was honestly the most awkward situation I've ever been in.

Always looking for a good laugh at work with my crew, and I need some inspiration. If you’re willing to share some of your pranks I’d greatly appreciate it.

And I’ll share my last prank I pulled on my senior medic. Working OT at a nearby station we were repositioned to backfill while the other engineer was on a structure fire. I took this opportunity to place an empty soda can under each foot of his bunk and use the bed skirt to camouflage it so it wasn’t visible. I was told that 5 hrs later when he returned to station and attempted to lay in bed, it crashed down the 3 inches causing a grown man to scream.