So I have a role that has some ambiguity to it. We are positioned in the "middle" of the organization and are supposed to make strategic business decisions, leveraging all the other departments (e.g. accounting, finance, marketing, product, supply chain, engineering, etc.). In the last 3 years, I've had 4 leaders, all of whom didn't really seem to grasp what we were doing nor had a clear vision for the future that actually felt achievable and in line with what our company does.

Despite this constant flux, I actually like my job, my company, and feel like I understand the business and have a vision for the future.

Once again, a Director has recently not worked out and they are looking to backfill. I think, because of the lack of success in the role, management feels like it's a really hard role that needs to have a tenured person in it. Idk that that's true, but understand the thought.

After working at onboarding each and every leader, doing some to most of their work for them while they onboard, etc. I'm just burnt out. I don't want to do it again.

I want to apply for the position, but realistically am not "there" yet in my career. I'd basically be trying to jump two steps ahead.

That said, I know the business and have a clear vision - things they wouldn't get out of a new hire from outside the company.

Any advice on how to handle this? Any experience trying to do something similar? What would you do if you were me? How do I make an argument for myself, while acknowledging the risks or drawbacks?

Wondering what I should do. I've only been working here for just over a fortnight. Is this a red flag?

I'm a teenager looking to find a job besides camp counselor and babysitting and i've applied for multiple locations, i'm a little confused on how fast companies respond. Any idea how long i should wait before forgetting about it?

Not drugs, but products from the store. I just need to get this out here so I can get it off my mind for now and try to have a good holiday weekend. This coworker of mine is constantly doing their own shopping on shift, but they mostly just set stuff aside and let it sit for WEEKS (at least) before buying it. We aren't supposed to set things aside for more than a day or two, but nobody really polices it, and this one person is the only one who doesn't buy things right away.

Today, I was looking around for something, and I opened a seldom used cabinet to find it full of items that this person had said they were going to buy. Many of them are seasonal holiday items that I'm supposed to pack up and send away early next week, and I won't see this coworker again until the day I have to pack up the stuff. I haven't had time to look whether or not they were purchased yet, but what if they're not? I will be given a quantified list of what the store has and what I'm supposed to send, and it will look weird if the items aren't purchased yet, I don't send them, and then they're purchased later.

I work closely with this person, but I'm not in charge of them. I'm thinking of just asking if they're planning on buying the items because I need to pack them up to send away if not, but I don't know how to tell them they need to buy them THAT day. Part of me thinks I should just pretend I didn't see it, but if I'm finding one too few of 10 different items, I don't think I can jus feign ignorance and hope it works out. Our boss will not be in until the day after this. How should I handle the situation? I keep telling myself that they must have bought the stuff already, but then why would it still be at the store?

I need opinions on this, am I too sensitive?

I am back in engineering after a year away. I know I am not perfect and I can make mistakes. But everytime I do any work and get a tiny thing wrong I get told off for it like I did everything wrongp. 90% of the work might be correct, but I get told off like I don't know anything and my boss explain the whole thing, even though I just messed up a tiny section. She doesn't point out early where I went wrong she just explain everything as if I did not understand.

My boss makes remarks like "you've got to come to the office more", when I have been coming in, it's just 5 weeks ago I only came in twice instead of three times due to personal matters. I get treated like I do everything wrong, I get spoken to like a child. But i am also aware that I do make mistakes, so maybe I am just sensitive.

This is stressfull because I am in a small office with barely any personal space. Everyday I go in, scared to be told off and ridiculed. I can sense that I am being talked to differently than to everyone.

I feel like scapegoat.

I also know that my colleagues love having moans like "why did this person do this". And when I am not in, everyone can hear that bad stuff is being said about me

I haven't worked in 20 years, due to mental and physical health issues. But I really would like to start working again. Not tomorrow, obviously, but within maybe the next 4-6 months.

I'm going to see my welfare caseworker in a few days, and see what sort of training is possible. I'm looking for computer work, like data entry or maybe lower level tech support.

But my main concern is how do I get hired when I haven't worked for so long, without a "valid" reason? Should I lie and say I was nannying for friends, or taking care of my grandmother? Will anyone be willing to hire me?

When he applied for a management position, people were concerned that he might steal their business ideas to start his own venture. When he applied for a junior position, they assumed he would be underutilized and wouldn’t stay for long.

How should he approach his job search and interview?

So I had a coworker who seemingly appeared from nowhere.. Everyone came through an agency except for her and no one knew where exactly she came from - even the manager.

But once she was fired, I was bored one night and browsed her Facebook & LinkedIn because she mentioned that she was a fellow alum of my college… Turns out - she never went to my school, lied about her professional background and was hired because she knew the VP. The VP was plastered all over her facebook, which I thought was interesting considering the conflict of interest clause.

My old coworker was extremely cocky, a slacker and extremely condescending towards our supervisor which was why she was ultimately let go.

Idc about the nepotism but less than 2 weeks later, we received a new contract that paid $10 less..

Will reporting do anything since my coworkers gone? Can I sue for this pay cut? $10 is such a hit…. And I work harder due to two coworkers being fired

My former boss is asking me for the password to the system used after I’ve been gone for a whole month. I left all my passwords in an excel spreadsheet that I know for a fact she has access to. I’m not sure I even remember it correctly. Not only that, the password wasn’t even chosen by me. It was assigned by the system/case management software she uses. She could easily contact them to find out what it is or reset it.

Not sure how to respond. It was a toxic workplace and I’m not trying to keep any kind of communication with her or have her think it’s ok to keep texting me.

Funny enough, whenever we had any issues she would just yell at us to “figure it out.” I know I shouldn’t but…

My workplace is holding a competition where we can suggest ideas to management, and the top 3 ideas win significant cash prizes. Ideas can be related to anything, culture, product, client services, etc. Last year the winning idea was every employee gets an extra day off for their birthday.

Any suggestions of ideas? Our company is produces and sells HR SaaS. Thanks in advance.

My girlfriend works in an abattoir and a co worker has been taking pictures of the dead animals heads and placing them next to famous people/statues. Her abattoir supply a very prestigious company and shes worried if this behaviour got out they would be under extreme scrutiny. Please advice if she should report as personaly I find this behaviour sickening but I want to know if I or she is over reacting

I work for a company that has us use our own hard earned pto for holidays when we are closed ( Christmas day, Thanksgiving etc) is this a normal thing for only US businesses ? Or is this also done overseas as well ?

So right now I'm working part-time for a non-proft as an independent contractor. So far the hours have been anywhere from 5 to 10 hour per week. That said, I'm currently on my 5th week and am being asked to effectively give an exhaustive log of everything that I do.

Like if I made a work-related call, I'd have to write down what time it finished and ended and what we spoke about. If I sent an email, I'd have to log what time I began sending the email, how long it took, and what the email was about.

If I were to write a report, or attend a meeting, it would all have to be documented meticulously, and then at the end of 2 weeks I'd submit have to take all of these notes and put them into my invoice.

I should also mention that nowhere in the contract does it say that I have to give detailed reports articulating everything that I've done in full. It simply says "Employee will submit his/her invoice reflecting hours worked every 2 weeks"...

I guess my question is whether or not any of you had experienced anything like this..

And to all of you that haven't.. I'm wondering if you'd just role with the punches here and just do it. Or maybe to some of you it's not a big deal it all perhaps?

The real reason I'm leaving is because I can't bear to work with you anymore. You are never satisfied with anything I do. It's reached a point where I don't even try that much, because I know you will tear apart even my best.

Even when I'm doing something the way we've always done it and you've approved that process, you will swoop in and find a way to tell me how to do it in better in the name of continuous improvement. But if I make similar suggestions about things, you tell me I'm over thinking. The joke is, I believed you. Now I realise that telling someone they're overthinking is unhelpful and unspecific feedback that tied me up in knots for years about whether or not to make suggestions for fear of this label you've attached to everything I do.

I can tell you start to tune me out when I am trying to explain a work process to you. Sometimes there are barriers. Everything can't happen super fast. You telling me to get something done in twenty minutes is unrealistic. Some things take time. I need to read the task, format the documents to your very specific requirements that you then get annoyed if I haven't done them. Because I'm trying to be fast and get you the doc quickly.

You get annoyed when I'm slow and make sure there aren't mistakes. You get annoyed if I'm fast and make human errors because I'm trying to do things within your unrealistic timelines. You don't give me all the information and then aren't happy with the text I've drafted. I can't read your mind.

Sometimes you get after me on things where there isn't a solution and don't believe me when I'm telling you that. Till you've made me answer a billion questions and you reach the same conclusion as me.

You message me incessantly while I'm doing a task, rather than waiting for me to finish and pass it on to you for feedback. Even after you asked me if there's a way you can pass on feedback to me in a way that doesn't make me 'too emotional and you're afraid to upset me' and I explained giving me feedback at the end would be helpful rather than in the middle. It's very convenient that you suddenly think I don't take feedback well four years into the role, when I've started pushing back.

It hurt me deeply that you couldn't make time to meet with me when I asked for a meeting to discuss my future at the company. Yet you had a lot of time to continue to tear into work on calls. You strung me along for three months till I finally snapped on a call and demanded we meet.

Yes you explained you had a lot going on, and you do, but so do I. I don't take it out on you.

This used to be the role that kept me off the ledge, but these days it's what's putting me on the ledge. I've been constantly ill and stressed for months. And this was all after I went above and beyond to cover for a project that was falling to pieces. I worked so many 12 hour shifts. I worked through holidays to keep things going and you've only trusted me less in that time.

I am so hurt. I feel so unappreciated and it's only when I started getting really positive feedback in my other part time role that I realised how much self doubt you've sown into me. I'm not as stupid as you've made me feel this whole year.

That's why I'm leaving. I can't be your doormat anymore.

I recently had a wake up call and realized that I wasn't doing enough of the busy work that I should be doing, and for quite a while. I fessed up to my boss that I hadn't been doing what I should, who forgave me, but the guilt is still with me, and making me very anxious, and I just can't shake it. I know I'm a valuable part of my workplace's team, but often things are so slow that all we have to do is our busy work, and it makes me want to pound my head into a wall. I listen to music, podcasts, and audiobooks to help make the time pass more quickly, but I'm not sure how much longer I can stand it. My boss knows he can give me more work whenever, and I jump at it, but there's only so many things that I'm qualified to do. I'm wondering if it might be time for me to start looking for a new job, given I'm not being kept occupied by my work, and feel the need for more responsibilities and challenges, which is something I know I won't be getting in this job, given its nature.

As the title suggest, I want to quit my job. I am very unhappy with my current position due to the fact I've realized that I hate the food industry. I am a 17 Female and have already posted about my job on another account, but for right now, I need some advice before I go into work today. This is my first job and I don't want my work reputation to permanently become dubbed as "unprofessional" after tonight. I plan to tell my manager that I am quitting by giving them a resignation but I don't feel like working for 2 more weeks or even another shift after tonight. My job causes me a lot of emotional distress, but I want the money to afford my own things instead of living on a budget with my mom. I can't take it anymore though, and I feel like there is a better opportunity out there for me. I would really like some advice.

I had a change of manager a couple of years ago and I'm due to have my end of year review in January. One of the forms we are asked to fill in ahead of the review asks me what I need more of from my manager.

The thing is I really just want to state to her it's a copy and paste exactly what I said last year as she's made no effort to address previous feedback that she ignores any emails I send. I don't dislike her but I tend not to find her helpful or supportive in her actions or rather inactions.

I request authorisation for things that needs her stamp of approval by process and she doesn't acknowledge. I wouldn't mind as much but she literally fills my inbox daily with information requests and team wide rants about compliance that are not applicable to me more often than not.

It just feels she's only interested in communicating up to her superiors and we her direct reports are unimportant. She often gets accused of being a micromanager and wants to be in the loop for everything but rarely gets involved when asked.

How should I address this with her, or should I just adjust my expectations accordingly?

Hey all, hope you are well wherever you are!

I was part of a group project starting about a month ago with 3 other managers. We were tasked with designing and ordering a branded gift for our client. There were a couple meetings where we came together and made decisions on the gift to make sure were all on the same page. We had a month until it was due in-hand. I put together our request and send it to a supplier to see how the design would look.

1st proof I get back is deemed totally wrong, because two of our four group members say that we decided on a different color/layout. I explain to my boss that I wrote down what we decided on, but I let it slide and put a request in to change it to what they want.

2nd proof, they want it totally changed with a new version of our logo. So I change the logo myself and submit it in. They decide the current option is too expensive and want to choose an alternative company to make the gift.

So skip 3 more proofs down the road, and another company later, we finally have a gift ready to order. It's a week and a half before our deadline, and I submit it. The supplier emails me back and says "sorry but we're out of stock and any alternatives will be outside of your deadline". I relay it to the group.

I get some big long email from one of the managers saying they are "disappointed in not having this done, especially with how much time we had."

I felt like this was personally directed at me because, despite being a group project, I facilitated all the contact to the supplier, made all the design changes to our materials, and circled back with the team the second the proofs were ready. I don't blame them for changing their minds, but it isn't like we could wait any faster for the proof to come back.

Am I reading too far into this or was this a way of saying "it's your fault, shame on you"?

I am sure that this has been asked before but I want a fresh take. Performance improvement plans what do they really do? If you're an employer put yourself in the shoes of someone getting one, do you really want to have issues that a simple conversation could solve documented and following you your entire time at that place? Really think about it. And for employees who've had 1 or 18 think back to your first one and what it actually did for you if anything. All opinions are welcome, no need to attack each other.

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Hello everyone I’m really hoping I can get some advice about my workplace situation. I have been working for a very large company now for five years. When I started at this company, I had a manager who then after eight months left on a secondment to work with another team. Since then I have taken over her role and fulfilled my duties and gone above and beyond for the company unfortunately I still hadn’t seen any pay rise and I have been on the same grade that I have been on since joining in 2019

At the start of the year I was told that there was an opportunity to join my old manager in this new role that she has to help her out with her bee campaigns that were up and coming. I was told that this new role is much more creative than the role I was currently doing. I thought long and hard about it because I was my own manager in my current role and I had a team which I really loved. Work was never ever stressful unless I got unexpected deadlines.

I started working in my new department with a new group of people sat in a completely different building. They haven’t been very warm towards me and often exclude me from inside jokes, conversations or going for lunch. When I was talking the other day, someone pretended that they were sleeping and the rest of the team laughed.

As for my new manager (who was actually my previous manager) she is extremely controlling. Nothing is ever good enough for her and she’s extremely passive aggressive. Work can be very last minute with no process and even when I’m able to do mock ups, she still criticises them. I even did a job so well that she asked if it was an efficient use of my time, even after she told me to do that job.

She talks down to me all the time. The rest of the team are allowed to come in two days a week (including her) as they all report to another person and they can choose whether they come in or not depending on what they’ve got going on in their personal life. However I have been by her that it’s company policy to have to come in three days a week even if I’m sat in an office when no one else is in.

I also was asking her about my progression in the role at the start of the year. She included me in really exciting creative projects and meetings with her manager, however recently since August she has put me on template work which is effectively an art worker job instead of something more creative that I was told would be on a regular basis.

I sat down with her and asked her if we could talk to the head of creative together to roadmap projects that I could get involved in the next year and what I could expect in January if the job isn’t a secondment. She then said that I have “control over my career” in the company and it’s up to me to “roadmap that myself” and talk to people to get involved with their projects. She hasn’t tried to open this conversation or given me introductions to these people she knows.

When I told her that I wanted to get more involved in the previous types of projects that we had been working on together earlier in the year, she told me that that is not what I’ve been brought on her team to do. She also told me that the type of work I’m currently doing is “way below her pay grade” and she needs to focus on the bigger campaigns. When I told her that I was confused because she told me that I can request to work on as many different projects as I want, she told me that she respect that but I was “sold to her” as a potential employee by the head of creative to help her out.

Unfortunately this means that she is keeping my work level to the grade that I’m currently on, even though for the past five years I have done work of a grade above me. Everybody in the company thought I was a certain grade and when they realise I wasn’t it wasn’t rectified. Even the person who replaced my old role is a grade about me.

She is making me feel worse about working there every single day and I’m not quite sure what to do. Everything in writing is nice, but in person she’s not. I’m not sure whether to talk to the head of creative about it because I’m worried that will get back to her, and if I can’t change back to my old team that she will make my life even worse.

I did a really good job on a project earlier this year that got noticed by the head of creative and since then I’ve been pulled off those projects so I know this woman doesn’t want what is best for me and doesn’t care about my progression.

I love the people that I work with and I really do not want to leave because it’s located in an area where there’s not many jobs, so it’s not as easy as just packing up and getting a similar paid job within the area. Even if I moved, I’d have to pay much more for travel costs to another city and be worse off.

I just wish that I never said yes to this transfer and I wish that I could go back because I would rather have no progression and a happy life than no progression and stress. I’ve even started speaking to a mental health first aider because almost every day I’ve been depressed.

I have a habit of, if i like them, to get closer to them. Upper management i will not approach.

I’ve been at my current job for almost a year. Often times a week my (F) manager (F) and i message on Whatsapp, or when she calls me on Teams work stuff is maybe 15 minutes and then we end up yapping for like 2 hours.

Our small company lets the employees pick the day, event, and dinner, but I'm busy every Saturday in December.

So they picked a Sunday.

I have a week vacation out of the country this December and that particular Sunday is my last off day to rest and/or stress pack and get my affairs in order 😅 I just got 2 new cats and now have 4, so I'd love to spend time with the animals I love and go over things with my house sitter/cat sitter. I have a million real reasons to me, but I know any reason I give will be met with "We thought you couldn't do Saturdays not Sundays." Our parties heavily rely on alcohol, too, so it seems a bit outrageous to have to work the next day.

(I also really don't want to go because the company culture is so toxic and they overwork us. The last thing I wanna do is spend my free time around them unpaid.)

Edit: I should probably add that we all bus together into the local city. The travel is about 45 minutes, the event is about 2 hours, and the dinner is probably another 2 hours. I can't really make an appearance and leave. I'll be locked in for the whole night.

I work for a nonprofit, and like the title says I love what I do. The issue is the owner and manager are some of the most toxic people I’ve ever encountered. They are extremely passive aggressive, they talk poorly about everyone, to everyone. If you go to them with a personal issue, they will then gossip and tell everyone else your business. There’s just no boundaries. There are so many other issues, like working overtime and not getting paid for it. I’ve just reached my breaking point. The stress and anxiety has gotten to be too much for me. But then I think, am I overreacting?

MI - Are there any HR pros who can answer this question for me. If a salaried employee can't use their PTO, because their department has been severely short-staffed for half the year and he's working 6 days a week, is there an expectation that said employee should just lose his acrued PTO at the end of the year because he literally can't take it, and his hours remaining go way beyond the amount he's allowed to rollover according to the official policy? A friend of mine is in this position. I told him he should talk to his supervisor and ask that they figure something out to address this because it's not fair to him that he's essentially being punished because he's busting his back to help the company keep doing business while they're down about 33% of their staff in his department. He thinks he shouldn't even ask because there's an expectation that salaried employees will just lose PTO during a situation like this, that's just part of being a salaried employee. Thanks in advance for any help.

I just started a new job in government. As I became more integrated into the role, I was given a lot more responsibility over the course of three months. However, because I’m new to the workforce, what’s a normal amount of an increase in responsibility and how can you know if it’s more than that, and your team lead is just dumping work on you.

My supervisor took off today along with the senior guys above me. So I’m the senior guy. I look on my supervisor’s desk to see for any notes on what he wants done today and there is nothing there. This guy walks in and asks me didn’t the supervisor tell you yesterday what we are doing? I said no. This guy tells me the supervisor told him what he wanted done and this guy is at the bottom of the seniority list. I love it that my boss likes to leave me in the dark with things. Has this happened to anyone else. I work in a public works.

I just started a new job about a month ago and the girl that I work with and is suppose to train me started being passive aggressive in the way she speaking and tossing stuff across the table at me like she's mad. Like yesterday I was working on something new and asked her how to do it and she told me it figure it out and I said but your suppose to train me and then she said everything is the same concept and you need to figure it out yourself but got upset at me Monday for doing something in a way she didn't approve but she didn't show me. Yesterday she was throwing a tool I needed to work with on the floor instead of sitting it on the table. I didn't pick it up cause it was break time anyway but she did it twice. When she needs me to do something she'll say "you need to do ... " in a very aggressive tone like she demanding and not asking . I'm a very quiet person and mostly keep to myself in the work place which offends a lot of ppl and I have social anxiety which makes it worse. I haven't really confronted her about any of this trying to stay calm but I can't keep allowing her to be disrespectful so next week I plan on confronting her if she starts again how should I go about it?

Hey all, im a fresh high school graduate in Australia with almost a year and a half fast food/hospitality experience with a couple years of volunteer work before that. I have a first aid and providing CPR certificate and an RSA, on my P1 drivers license. 

How can i further my career/job prospects or just get a job, i am trying to escape the retail/fast food industry and would love to try something different (or get paid above minimum wage). I dont see any way i can get a job outside those industries and am looking for some guidance on what i can possibly do and how to get a solid job (unemployed for last month). I also just need to start saving up some $$. 

Also I'm trying to go to university next year for nursing/paramedicine if that provides any use. 

Any and all advice/guidance is appreciated!

I spent a weekend doing a 6hr take home test to deploy an application, get it running and also add monitoring and alerting. The interviewers were disinterested and didn't even ask me about the metrics implementation.

I will be invoicing for this - any tips on how to?

I lost my previous job due to a misogynistic manager and I was told for 2.5years that I'd go senior which never happened. All the interviews I've had (except initial HR ones) have been with men and I do believe the reason I'm not getting hired is due to gender bias. I work in SRE. I'm so sick of this and it's no wonder women leave tech. The men are so aggressive with their questions. I did a fucking 6hr test and deployed an application with monitoring system of course I know how kubernetes works.

Then they make up some bullshit excuse like not enough AI or startup experience when I've worked for a startup for over two years. I got told once in an interview I didn't have enough coding experience. I began coding with C around ten years ago.

I'ts sad that I worked so hard on something that I've basically been pushed out of because I don't act like a man and use the latest buzzwords. I'm so sick of this.

Rant over.

Posting this in the hopes decision makers will read it and somehow be aware of these issues a bit more.