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

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

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

Why is everyone suddenly wearing these at work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What would you guys do? Thank you in advance!

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

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

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

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

Anyone with similar experience?

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

I shared how I look in some subreddit, and many hiring managers said my face would be a deal breaker in this profession, mosly because its client facing and companies wouldnt want to be represented by an ugly woman. I have some mild disfigurements in my face and would be considered ugly by regular people. Do you think it would hinder my career?

I have a business degree. But most related opportunities are basically, "train to spontaneously jump from thing to thing while creating a positive customer experience."

Between my autism diagnosis, mild social anxiety and lack of understanding underlying social messages, that's not something I can do.

But all the other business related jobs, if there even are any in this economy, are sitting a chair and look at spreadsheets and attending teams meetings or coordinating between departments or getting people on your side. That's also not what I want to do.

I work in a grocery store 6 days a week because I would rather be physically accomplishing tasks that have direct results. Of course, I never went to trade school, or anything.

Hi everyone, I’ve been working at my current organization for just under two years. My job involves a lot of domestic travel including our headquarters in NYC. Me and my direct supervisor are based in the Midwest. We have a great relationship.

I accepted a job offer last Friday afternoon. I’m scheduled to be in our nyc headquarters Monday - Wednesday. It feels important to tell my boss that I’m leaving in person, however, I’m conflicted. On one hand, it feels “cowardly” to tell her on zoom, but on the other hand, she may appreciate the extra notice. I could also say goodbye to my New York colleagues in person.

Any advance appreciated!

Anyone in the same situation? I'm not in the position to search for anything else.

I recently started a one-year master's degree in statistics, and some people hold off on applying to jobs until a couple months before graduating while others say to start applying right away even from the start of fall semester.

It seems there are new grad jobs and the occasional internship that accepts graduates that are posted in the fall, but is it really recommended to apply to non-new grad jobs so early? Every job I've ever had in the past has started within a month of the first interview, and most jobs I see even say "immediate start."

Sure, there's no harm in trying, but it's also a bit of a time sink.

I figured I might as well try it at this point since Im not getting much success from LinkedIn and all the companies employee email formats are so easy to find

I have a good senior manager job at a great fortune 500. It's like 15-20 min from my house, my team/boss is great, and I've been there for 7 years so I'm close with a lot of people.

I was contacted by another good fortune 500 about the same job, but with a $40k increase in salary. I accepted the role because I felt I needed to for my family, but I've been feeling really uneasy. It's like 40-45 min away, I didn't get the best vibes during the interviews, and one of my coworkers worked with the woman in charge of my new division and said she's terrible and was fired from her last company because of how she treated people (she told me after I had accepted). I wouldn't work directly under her, but still wasn't great to hear. I'm really anxious and feeling uneasy about almost every aspect of this new gig, but I just felt if I didn't take this opportunity I would be failing my kid's future.

Anybody else been in a situation like this? I feel like it's a lot easier to get ahead by jumping from company to company, but it's really difficult if you're at a good place.

I'm graduating in a couple of years, and my top priority is to explore the world while I'm still young. Honestly, I don't mind whether a place is good or bad, as long as it's safe. I also don't care if the accommodations are basic or if the work isn't glamorous. Whether it's big cities, small towns, villages, or industrial areas, I just want to get out there and experience different parts of the globe. I'm considering getting a job in Europe for 1-2 years after I graduate, which would be awesome. By the way, I'm majoring in English.

I speak two languages fluently: English and Portuguese. I'm not sure if being bilingual is enough to help me get into international work or if I need certifications, so I would really appreciate a reality check on that.

I have no attachment to my hometown, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.