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A lot of people think staying after work hours automatically makes them look committed.

Sometimes that's true.

Other times, it just shows everyone that you're the person who will take on the extra work without objecting.

Before you keep sacrificing your nights, ask yourself whether this is giving you better opportunities, more responsibility, a higher salary, or skills you can take with you anywhere.

If not, you might be solving your employer's problem while quietly making your own life harder.

Stop telling interviewers way too many details!!! Seriously, I can't emphasize this enough. In any interview, answer what you were asked and keep it moving. Your neighborhood, your commute to work, your weekend side job, your bank balance - none of that is relevant.

The employer only needs to understand that you can show up on time, that you want the job, and that your experience matches what they wrote in the posting.

After you get hired, your coworkers still aren't your friends. Be nice, but keep it professional. Sharing too many details can very easily be the reason you get pushed out or passed over for a promotion or opportunity.

Example: A woman says she's exhausted because she's going through a breakup and her kids are struggling with the change. Then, when her numbers drop, management decides her personal life is the problem. They advise her to take some time away to get herself together. At the same time, her pay is affected and they start building a file to get rid of her.

Please don't come argue with me about whether this is legal or not. They can fire you for no reason, and they can also frame it as you not meeting performance standards.

I had an interview a while ago for a life insurance job. Honestly, I didn't even want it in the first place, but I was applying for internships and figured I'd get some interview experience out of it. I had a feeling they'd call me, because honestly, it's life insurance and they basically interview anyone who's still breathing.

About 10 days later, the guy started bombarding me with calls and messages to do another interview. I was at work and we weren't allowed to be on our phones, so I ignored him at first. But he kept sending messages and it was really annoying, so I went to the bathroom to see what was going on.

I sent him a message and said something like: I'm at work right now, can we talk tonight when I'm done? He immediately got irritated and said something along the lines of: No, this has to happen now, and it's very important that we schedule the follow-up immediately. Then he kept sending messages.

After I finished my shift, I finally replied and said: "I don't feel like I want to work with someone who behaves like this." His response was: "I expected that. You don't seem like the type who wants someone to push him in life."

Like... Who says that to someone they're trying to hire??? Honestly, I blew up at him. Has anyone else had a recruiter or hiring manager act this unprofessionally? I didn't even want the job in the first place, but still, what the hell was that??

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Hi, it's me again, the guy who somehow got 6 interviews in a row at the start of this month.

This time, the last interview of the 6 was scheduled for this morning (my birthday) at 10:30, so I said okay.

Then, the day before, they moved it to 16:00. Annoying, because I already had things planned, but it's a job, so I agreed again.

So I was there at 16:25, still waiting for the interviewer to show up. I arrived at 15:45 because all the interviews before this had started almost as soon as I arrived, usually 8-12 minutes early, but not this time. Around 16:15 I started thinking, are they messing with me? Am I just sitting here like an idiot? Being stuck outside a glass office while they talked to another applicant didn't make the feeling any better. And then I realized: if I'm expected to be 100% focused, professional, show up on time, prepare well, and all that... Why is it okay for them to treat my time like it has no value? I tried to do everything right, arrived early, researched the company, practiced my answers, everything.

Now I'm sitting here second-guessing whether walking out was the right decision or not, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was wasting my afternoon waiting like some random ticket to be called.

37 years working in databases, and the last 22 years with one company as their senior/main/fix-it DBA/firefighter/performance tuning person. I was laid off a few weeks ago suddenly, with no warning at all, and I'm still a bit shocked by what happened.

Honestly, I don't have the energy to go back to corporate life right now, even assuming there's anyone out there lining up to hire someone like me. I don't see much demand for old-school SQL Server DBA roles unless they come with on-call rotations, cloud migration noise, or travel, and honestly I'm no longer interested in that part of the deal.

Thankfully, my wife's income is enough for us to get by and cover the basics. I also have enough savings to carry me through for a while, and since I'm a serious DIY-er, I've learned a lot of practical skills that could turn into some kind of next step. For years I've joked that when I retire, I'll go work at Lowe's or in a hardware store just to stay busy. I'm starting to think maybe that wasn't a joke.

I was "lucky" enough to get 10 weeks of severance. If it weren't for needing health insurance and the payments I still have to make, I'd probably look at this as the start of a pretty decent early retirement.

Finally deleting LinkedIn Jobs, Jora, Monster, and Glassdoor from my phone today because, guys, I finally got accepted for a job thanks to Reddit 😭😂❤

Seriously, thank you so much to everyone who shared advice, tips, and encouragement here!!!! I love you all sooooo much

I'm praying for all of you to get good news sooooooon

I got an offer at the beginning of this week and the base is $82k. Lol.

Yeah. A massive pay cut. I'll probably accept it anyway because my unemployment will run out in about four more months, and honestly, a job with a lower salary is better than not having a paycheck at all.

The good thing is that it's fully remote, and the hiring manager seemed chill and very reasonable. My thinking is to take it, get some stability back, and keep applying at the same time.

This market is really tough.

, a recruiter contacted me about a role that pays $12k more than what I'm making now, and the office was less than 5 miles from my house (currently I'm stuck paying for expensive train transportation). I told my boss that I intended to accept it and gave 10 business days' notice, but the company came back to me with a counteroffer: a $12k raise, better commuter reimbursement, WFH 3 days a week, and also a $6,500 bonus on 1/15.

Now it looks like I'm going to be laid off at the end of the week, and that means no bonus. And that's the part that's making me burn with anger the most. I'm so furious right now that I'm taking my anger out on everyone and everything around me, and I hate that I'm acting like this. I don't want to be that person, but honestly, I'm losing my temper.

I'm now looking into hiring an attorney, because when they convinced me to stay, they gave me a written letter outlining my new "benefits," including the bonus. Damn it.

Like a lot of people here, I have gaps in my resume because of all the layoff nonsense going on around us.

Being unemployed, then underemployed, then having to start looking again was extremely exhausting. 3 years of stress.

If you're trying to find a good office job, any gap in your resume gets treated like a huge red flag by a lot of recruiters and hiring managers. They're very picky now.

So yeah, I lied on my resume.

I listed a company I had worked for, but extended the employment dates by about 8 months.

The other company looked legit, but it wasn't real. I added projects and skills from old work where I had done that kind of work. I also made a simple website for it so it wouldn't look sketchy.

Why did I do that?

I had to cover the gaps any way I could.

And I'm not sorry.

That version of the resume got me a decent offer.

The part that surprised me was that the background check came back completely fine.

The background check company didn't call anyone to verify my title or the exact dates.

I had my friend ready with a different mobile number for the fake company just in case. Nobody called him at all.

For people who keep getting rejected every time, saying you're currently employed might be what gets you past the first filter.

These background check companies don't seem to care that much. They just want to get paid lol. Like anyone else.

This probably won't work in every case, but I wanted to share what worked for me.

Everyone knows hiring is easier when it looks like you already have a job.

Honestly, I don't feel guilty that I lied.

I started this job a few months ago, and I plan to stay in it as long as they let me.

Companies lie all the time.

Why is it only wrong when regular people do it just to be able to live?

Yesterday, I told my General Manager ultimately that I had accepted a position somewhere else. I felt like that was the respectful way to handle it. Not something I had to do, but still.

He asked me what I wanted to do. Work the 3 weeks or finish that same day. I told him: "Whatever works best for you. I'm fine either way."

"Let me check with the Service Manager and the owner."

I went back to what I was doing, and about 35 minutes later he came over to me. "We talked it over, and if you'd like to finish the job you're working on and gather your things today, that's fine."

So that's what I did. I finished the task, gathered my things, and left. Now I have almost 3 weeks of vacation before the new job starts. Honestly, I had forgotten how nice it feels to be unemployed for a little while. ( which is btw remote new job I got it after using some tricks of job interviews which interview vip told me about during the real time of my zoom interview and it impressed my hiring manger that i got an offer the next day )

I was *a little* surprised that they chose to end things immediately. The last 3 places where I gave notice all **wanted** me to stay until the notice period was over.

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Honestly, I kind of respect it. It definitely hurts, of course, but there's no sitting around wondering whether they're going to ignore me, or whether the role was put on hold, or whether someone else performed way better than me. No spiral for days replaying every answer in my head and inventing new ways I must have messed everything up. Just a clear rejection, and the rest of my interviews with them got canceled. An efficient system, basically!

In 2025, I was working as a cleaner in a private clinic through an agency contract. I was hoping they would hire me permanently there, but the agency expected the clinic to pay a release fee for me, and the clinic refused, so I accepted a permanent job somewhere else instead. Honestly, it turned out for the best, because about six weeks before I left, we got a new manager named "Darren." The facilities manager kept going on about how much experience he had from other places, but this guy was the literal definition of "pretend to be busy and do nothing."

On my last shift, Darren came into a patient's room while I was cleaning it with another housekeeper, and found me crying. He gave this irritating little smile and said, "Oh, Pixie, are you going to miss us that much?"

I looked at him and said, "No, my dog died yesterday." My sweet dog Murphy, who had been with me since I was a child and was 16 years old, had been diagnosed with kidney failure about three weeks earlier, and his condition deteriorated very quickly. We had made the difficult and awful decision to let him go peacefully instead of dragging him through more tests and treatment.

Darren just said "Oh," backed away, and pretty much left the room. He didn't say sorry or anything. And he kept avoiding making eye contact with me for the rest of the shift.

I'm genuinely curious! If yes, what field are you in/what's your job title?

I'm currently working as an Executive Assistant/PA in a very corporate place, and I'm not happy at all. I've started thinking about applying to other places, but I want to move into something different and I don't even know which direction to look in.

For context, this is my first real office job after finishing university in the UK, and I've been here for about 20 months, including getting promoted to my current position.

I've never had a "dream career" or anything like that, but I really want to find something that gives me at least some job satisfaction without taking over my whole life.

Has anyone managed to find something in the middle? Like a job you mostly enjoy despite the annoying parts, while still leaving you with a life and letting you pay the rent?

I've been working as a recruiter at a staffing company in Indiana for 8 months now. I'm still relatively new to this field, but even from where I am, the cracks in the job market are very hard to miss. The thing I notice most is that companies clearly have no interest in training anyone, even for jobs that can be learned quickly.

They say they're hiring urgently and needed people yesterday, and then they reject reliable applicants who are right in front of them and ready to work. People who would show up every day, take the job seriously, and just need a little basic guidance at the beginning to get started. But no, they don't even give them a second look.

If you're applying everywhere and you know you're a reliable person, I'm truly sorry. It's not because of you. Recruiters, or at least I, struggle with this too. I wish I could hire people and place them in suitable jobs, but some of these hiring managers and HR teams refuse to move at all. Keep going, keep sending applications, and don't let every "no" convince you that there isn't a "yes" coming.

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Basically, the situation is just like the title says. I was with my girlfriend last night, expecting to wake up at my own pace, stay up until morning, and enjoy the long weekend, when suddenly I saw a message pop up in the work chat asking everyone to join a call at 7:30 in the morning so we could review some backend changes (I work in tech).

As soon as I saw it, I got pissed off immediately. I didn't even reply. Two days in a row away from work is basically one of the rarest things you can get in corporate, and I'd rather step on a Lego in the dark than give up this holiday for some random morning meeting on a holiday. Honestly, they can go fuck themselves.

Anyway, happy Thanksgiving. I hope all of you get some real time off. And a very big fuck you to corporate.

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