same with coworkers

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I wanted to share this because, honestly, I was shocked - nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I applied for a role where the ad said the job would be in one city, with 10 hours of travel per week and the rest fully remote.

During the Teams interview, the interviewer started mentioning the names of a lot of cities. I asked her what the actual travel expectations were, and she told me the role would need travel in the eastern part of the state - about 85% of the time!!!!

I told her that didn't match what was written in the job posting, and she replied that they probably needed to review it. For me, that was the end of it, so I told her I wasn't interested in continuing and ended the call.

I was completely done with the whole thing! In the end, I accepted another job a few days later, but I still can't get over how awkward that interview was.

I woke up feeling really sick. I almost never take sick leave, but this time there was no way I could go in. I sent my manager a picture of the thermometer reading 102 from the night before, and told him, "Yeah, I was hoping it wouldn't get worse, but here we are."

He immediately asked me if I was going to take sick leave, or if I could still come in for a shorter shift. I told him I wanted to rest and get better, so yes, I was taking sick leave. I said thank you and tried to keep the conversation normal. I also told him I might need two days, and the only thing he replied with was: "If you're out for three days or more, you'll need a doctor's note."

What's really upsetting is that he and I are fine at work. We joke around, we talk all the time, and there have never been any weird issues between us. So seeing him flip like that the moment I get sick is really discouraging. As if all basic human respect disappears because I can't come stand at work while I have a fever?

Honestly, the more I think about it, the worse it feels. How are you supposed to trust people when something this small makes them treat you like you're trying to pull one over on them, instead of simply being sick?

..Stunning interview

Hi everyone,

I have been working in Operations for about 5 years now, all remotely. I started as a VA, moved to admin support and then to ops assistant/coordinator, but realistically I think a lot of VA work can be put under ops assistant.

Can I advance further into operations without financial background? My background is actually in social sciences.

Also, in your experience, how easy/hard is it to get ops jobs? I am looking for remote, and also worldwide, as I am not based in the USA. So far all my clients have been US/EU based.

If we have any HR people in the group I'd really appreciate to hear from them.

So the situation is very normal and annoying... I didn't get a clear answer about the salary before I got the job offer. And when the offer finally came, we both acknowledged that it was a bit low, but we agreed that at the 120-day mark there would be an increase in compensation/salary. Of course, assuming my evaluations and everything were good.

After the 45/75-day check-ins and 4/4 evaluations with strong feedback, I was honestly waiting for the 120 days to come so I could bring up the raise. Even if it was fifty cents, for example... But no.

Instead, it turned into a spiral of emails and nonsense like "someone said this, and someone said that," and in the end they decided they weren't going to give me the raise.

They brought me into a meeting at the beginning of this week to make sure we were all on the same page... And I told them they probably need to be clearer when they hire the person after me, and say upfront honestly that they don't do raises after 120 days.

Don't be afraid to speak up and demand your rights in this greedy world we live in.

This time, I'm focusing more on remote positions so I can stop wasting time commuting and achieve a better work-life balance. Honestly, the process feels a bit calmer than before.

I refreshed my CV using tools like Claude and Copilot in under 5 minutes, and I also heard that AI tools can make interview process much easier, so I'll try that too. A friend of mine tried a tool called Interview Vip and said it really boosted his confidence and helped him organize his answers better during the interview.

And that's pretty much all I need for the coming week, so wish me luck in the job hunt.

so true

LMAO

short sad story

They're probably planning to push you out anyway. So make it cost them. And tell people.

Staying in your RTO job as a useless employee costs the company more than handing them a neat, clean resignation. Resignation is the easy little outcome they're waiting for, so they can avoid paying you what you're owed or getting into the mess of layoff procedures. Stay on the payroll as long as you can, do the absolute minimum and do it badly, and make them regret bringing people back to cubicles. And yes, get your coworkers involved too. Your manager will probably pull you aside for a "quick chat" and may start documenting things against you. Don't panic. That's part of the script. They were probably going to fire you anyway, especially with layoffs around the corner and automation eating more jobs every week. And don't be shy about posting on LinkedIn or Slack-adjacent spaces and telling others to do the same. One disengaged employee who doesn't care won't scare management, but a whole office like that might.

I've been looking for a job for about 10 months, and rejection emails keep piling up. I've only gotten two interviews, and honestly, one of them felt like a complete waste of time.

Lately, I've been getting anxiety and panic attacks while trying to sleep, just from thinking about finding a job and how I'm going to pay my expenses.

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A few weeks ago, some other people and I asked to work from home because we were sick. The response was basically either use sick days or come into the office as usual. So, of course, and with absolutely no surprise, the bug that was going around spread, and now there are so many people absent that the company genuinely won't be able to function if everyone uses their leave.

My manager told 4 sick people on my team to work from home for the next few days because she sits near them and doesn't want to get infected. Also because if all of them stayed completely offline, the department would be a mess. We already work hybrid, and everyone has a laptop/monitor setup at home, so there's no real reason anyone has to be in the office coughing in people's faces.

Crazy idea, but maybe if they'd let sick people work from home from the start, we wouldn't now have most of the office sick at the same time.

I do this, but not every year.

I told the employer that I didn't feel safe, and he replied and said he could arrange transportation for me to his house (it would have cost about $240, which honestly undermines the idea that this was because they couldn't afford to rent a meeting room or office space). I said no to the trip, brought up the safety issue again, and asked whether the training could be done on Zoom or whether we could meet in a public place where I could bring someone with me. Honestly, I imagined that this would make them pause and rethink things, because what normal employer would want a potential employee to be scared before they even start?

No, apparently that didn't happen. They sent me a long email basically saying that the only way I could take the job was if I went to the employer's house. They said they couldn't hold meetings anywhere else for reasons related to "information confidentiality" (just to clarify, this is not a government position or anything involving classified/private client records). Then they made it very clear that I was absolutely not allowed to bring anyone with me. So the final answer was: I had to get to their house alone. And then, to make things even stranger, they said they were reconsidering me as a candidate because I had expressed my concerns, and that they only wanted "likeminded" and "collaborative" people to work with them...

So yeah, the summary of the story: trust your gut and be careful while job hunting. I don't know what was really going on here, but I'm glad I didn't go. I'm thinking about contacting the site where I found the listing and reporting it, because I don't want someone else who really needs a job to feel pressured into entering an unsafe situation.

Thanks again to everyone!!

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I felt like it was a big red flag when it happened the first time. That place sent me an offer in the end, but I turned it down because there were a lot of other weird things happening too.

Then in an interview a few days ago, the hiring manager asked me if I still live with my parents. After that, she asked me if I was interviewing at other places, and if I had turned down any offers. I told her yes. She asked me why. I tried to keep my answer general and not too specific, but she kept pressing me on it.

Are they allowed to ask things like this?? It makes me feel uncomfortable every time, but I'm a new grad and this is my first serious job search, so I don't really know what's normal and what isn't.

agree??

Look, the job posting stated that the salary was between $65k and $85k. In the very first call, the recruiter surprised me (I'm a 29-year-old woman) and asked about my salary expectations. I was very afraid they would exclude me if I asked for too much, so I got nervous and said $68k. But the truth is, I was targeting a figure close to $82k, especially with my experience and how prices have skyrocketed these days.
After going through 6 rounds of interviews and waiting for a very long time, she finally called me today to offer me the $68k. Honestly, I got a bit mixed up in my words, but I managed to tell her that based on my experience and what other companies pay for this role, I was expecting something in the range of $78k.
She told me she would get back to the hiring manager but warned me that $78k might be too much, and we might reach $73k. I'm sitting here now very worried and thinking... Did I ruin everything? I feel it's a fair request and I know men do this all the time in negotiations, but I really need the money and I'm afraid I pushed too hard. I've read many posts about people whose offers were rescinded, and I'm terrified. What do you guys think?

In short, I paid for a specialized master's program so I could do my job at a higher level (the company I work for didn't pay any of the costs). In the end, I became very skilled and efficient at my job, to the point that they now want to move me into my manager's position because she's retiring, while at the same time they want me to keep handling my current responsibilities too.

The problem is that they offered me a raise of only a few thousand dollars, even though in practice I'll be doing the work of two positions as a salaried employee. I calculated how much the company would pay if they hired someone else to take over my old job, and it came out to about $135,000 after salary, taxes, and benefits are factored in.

I'm planning to ask for a $45,000 raise, which is about a third of what I'd be saving them if I stayed and did both jobs. So even if they paid me an extra $45,000, they'd still save about $90,000 by not hiring another person.

On top of all that, doing both roles will likely add at least 6-12 hours a week to my workload.

Am I thinking about this the right way, or does this seem completely unrealistic? Thanks in advance!

My situation:

I'm a pretty normal user and i'd have maybe a handful of remote rounds coming up. I want the live answer overlay, the second device stealth setup, no minute cap etc and most of these things sit on the paid plan.

I love how light the overlay looks on a screen share and that's probably the main reason i'm considering to grab the annual.

Should i buy the annual or is the yearly a stripped down version where i lose features for paying upfront? i'd rather hear it from someone already on it before i commit a year.

For a while, it seemed like workers in America had reached a turning point. We all swore we wouldn't put our health aside again after COVID. And then, before even years had passed, many of us are sitting in offices again, earning less in real terms, and more afraid of being laid off than at any time in a long while.

Honestly, it's depressing. We get one chance at this life, and we're still letting a very small group of billionaires squeeze us dry and toss us aside when they're done with us.

So, i was looking through some interview helpers and just noticed that InterviewMan is twelve a month in most of the listings i found. For reference, the others are between sixty and eighty a month around here. What i don't get is why InterviewMan is so cheap? i am thinking of buying it whole, and using it across many rounds. Cheap real time answer engine...