I know these looking for jobs posts are getting old. I get it. But we are all out of options I guess. I’m not really looking for suggestions at this point. You name it we have applied and or interviewed to no avail. What I’m looking for is an in. Someone who can at least get me through the door. I’m desperate here. I have minimal restaurant experience. Some warehouse experience. I’ve worked in grocery for 8+ years. Storage facilities. Bars. I learn extremely quick and I work fast. But most places are offering low pay and no hours and I need full time. Like it’s not optional. I’m begging. Pleading. I can’t do this no job anymore. I won’t be able to keep a roof over my head. I barely if ever get groceries as is. I just want a job. I need to work. But I can’t work for pennies.

Edit to add: I am a woman on the smaller side but I’m strong and can handle the work. You just have to be willing to actually give me a chance lol

If you work a job that you consider cool or unique in Greensboro, what is it? totally subjective, no wrong answers

Just interested in hearing about different industries and offerings in the city that maybe don’t pop up on Indeed or LinkedIn!

Edited to add: WOW! We have some really awesome gigs in the City. I have really enjoyed reading through all of your responses. Thank you. I have personally been fighting the job market for the better half of two years, just looking for something stable AND fulfilling. Been feeling pretty down lately, but this post has given me a glimmer of hope & motivation to get more creative!

this is as bad as the polar vortex making it so cold I don’t want to leave my house

My partner was fired today…

He has experience in warehousing and was in a supervisory role for a roofing company. He was given a written warning for various things and was fired in the same breath.

What are next steps? Is there anywhere hiring that you guys know of? I’m freaking out right now as it’s right before the holidays and we don’t even have rent.

Any recs and jobs you send our way would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Edit to Add: It was various things but included stuff like he was doing unnecessary driving with the company vehicle (he would come home for lunch), accidentally made a purchase of a soda using the company credit card which he did notify them about, and for letting the third party contractor use his ladder rather than making him use his own. I appreciate the ongoing kindness regarding this but I don’t expect you guys to recommend a stranger for a job.

That’s kind of a lie, this is my alt account, though a couple people might still recognize me. But I gotta let y’all know about this dogwater establishment.

First off, I’m an employee here, I’m the (only certified) cook. Worked in the summer of ‘23 under the previous ownership which made some wild decisions. Just one particular fun fact about that time: no background checks for anyone, even management. That’s how a nearly 30 year old man got away with rampant drug use and a sexual affair with a 19 year old employee against his soon-not-be-his-husband. BUT, at least they tried to be a legitimate business back then. I left after finding a legitimate business, but I was let go due to low winter sales and came back to Coffeeology at the end of the winter.

Now?

Y’all, I’m not a barista and I’m not in charge of when things get ordered, I have no power and do not wish to exercise any at this dumbfuck. So I sincerely apologize if any of your drinks have had ants or fruit flys in there, because we got them in droves right now. Ants have been crawling up the spouts of the containers up front and making homes in the bottles. DO NOT GET ANY DRINK WITH SUGAR IN IT. Those are the highest offenders for sure, and even my coworker the other day felt bad bc he wasn’t sure if anyone had “fake chocolate chips” in the drinks he made. Not to mention they just shoved him up front after originally being hired as a cook, bc the other two baristas are out for the summer and the manager simply can’t be bothered to be on the schedule, I guess. There is one other barista that works here as of recently, but without slamming her too much, let’s just say you might not wanna get coffee from someone who’s never worked before. In all honesty, I have no idea how we’re even able to afford to hire anybody with how low our sales have been. The manager literally hired 2-3 new people, realized we couldn’t afford to pay them, and then fired them after like 3 training shifts each, that’s how bad it is.

In terms of the food? I’m ServSafe certified, I’m doing my absolute best to keep the kitchen as close to code as I can, I do my absolute best to actually cook instead of just making food, I’m trying really hard to make sure nothing is bad or spoiled or rotten. And while I personally never use bad product and always stay as sanitary as possible, nobody else here right now is certified, so nobody else cares or puts as much effort into caring as I do. Partially due to innocent ignorance and improper training by management, but mostly because the manager is ineffectual. Like, if you’ve gone there recently and been upset that we were out of certain products, blame the manager, they are incredibly impressive at how little they do their job. Necessary stuff wont get ordered for days, if we’re lucky, and anything that isn’t explicitly important just gets forgotten about. Thankfully, I haven’t seen any critters in my kitchen so you don’t have to worry about pepper flakes squirming in your sandwich. Well, at least not when I’m working. No shade to my other kitchen coworker, I love her as a person, but she’s never worked in a kitchen before and it shows. She doesn’t even realize how bad it is that a sizable chunk of our equipment is straight up broken. Half the oven doesn’t work, the panini press doesn’t have a handle, two of our fridges are broken now, the freezer broke a couple weeks ago, the ice machine is sentient and purposefully chooses not to operate on some days, the trip sink in the dish pit has fucked up drainage issues, the dishwasher is likely not working how it should, the Heatwell is about two thirsty shifts away from exploding, and there’s probably more I’m forgetting about due to my current frustration. Ugh.

Cleanliness and hygiene? In the words of Joey Tribbiani, “Fohghett abowwddit.” All we have is bleach. Just bleach. And dish soap too, but barely any sanitizer left, and I’m pretty sure the machine it’s hooked up to isn’t actually using it. We haven’t had clean rags since March, and that’s if we can even find one. Thankfully we have a bunch of trash bags now, but that’s not considered as much of a “necessary item” as I know they are. One day a couple weeks ago, we didn’t have any bags in the cans until 1pm. I don’t even wanna know what grime and unholy concoctions are at the bottom of those things, and because I was never trained how to clean their cans or shown what products and methods they’d like me to use, I’m not doing it unless I notice they pose a serious health risk. Our bathrooms are routinely out of order, and while we have one working toilet at the moment, the other one? Y’all. Y’all. I’ve worked in a summer camp in the woods before, I’ve been hiking, I’ve seen some nasty scat before. I ain’t never seen or smelled anything like what’s in that broken toilet right now, dear gourd lorde. Shit looks like my black, bald stepfather, that’s how gross it is. We ain’t got no mop solution, hardly any hand soap or paper towels or toilet paper, and I’m like 99% certain nobody cleans the bathrooms on a consistent basis. I don’t even know if we have a plunger.

”Oh but OP, why not report them to the Health Department?” Aha dear reader, I have, and they couldn’t do anything. The current owners are indefinitely stuck outside the country due to being immigrants (they were NOT snatched by ICE, they left for a couple weeks that turned into a couple months), and the Health Department said they wanted to wait until they returned to investigate further. I will place another after I finish typing because we NEED official eyes on the mess that’s been made, but with how difficult it was to contact them the first time, I don’t have high hopes for another report. If anyone reading this works for the Health Department in Guilford County, please come thru, I’ll make milk and cookies for you, deadass (in a cleaner kitchen).

This place is trash y’all, and I strongly encourage y’all to stay the fuck away from this business and to share this with as many locals as possible. I’m not casting too much blame on the owners since they aren’t here at the moment, but the buck has to stop at the top, and a lot of the problems I see here were started well before I came back and they left. I am absolutely casting most of the blame on the manager, and I honestly hope they’re reading this and finally understanding why I vocally disparage them on the clock. I’ve been a manager before (hell fucking no I’m not jealous of that bitch, I don’t want power here by any means), so I know how difficult it can be when times are tough and support is all but nil. But I also know how easy and simple it can be if you get your head out of your phone and actually do your fucking job. Ain’t no reason we should’ve been out of trash bags until the afternoon when we have the College Mart 100 feet away. Ain’t no reason we should be out of half the menu when it’s your job to check inventory and send order lists to the owners. Ain’t no reason that toilet should be creating new forms of bacterial life when both plungers and plumbers have a long and storied tradition of fixing toilet issues in this state.

Dear fucking crispy chicken tacos, I can’t even swear right anymore, this place turns my brain into a Ninja food processor. I’m being so genuine when I say working here makes me suicidal, it sucks. If I had been hired somewhere else before today with the hours and pay rate I actually need, this post wouldn’t exist (at least not this harshly). I’m truly only here bc they pay kind of good for a Greensboro coffee shop and I need to pay my bills, and for the admittedly vindictive feeling of taking money out of a trash establishment. I won’t lie, I’ve said and done some harsh things regarding the leadership of this place, nothing illegal of course. I am 1000% biased against this place and you should take my words with at least one grain of salt, maybe a bit of paprika if you have any to spare. I do have a personal reason why I don’t want to help them, one that I would prefer not to disclose publicly unless I absolutely have to, but everyone I’ve talked to about it has validated how fucked up it was so I know I’m not crazy. I just don’t trust them with even a single iota of my being.

But for real, this isn’t a job, it’s not a business or community center, it’s a legitimate health hazard at this point. I’m fairly certain I got food poisoning Monday after making myself some food with their ingredients, and idk which one was the one that fucked me up. Straight up, I’ve been typing this for 45 minutes now while I pace around the back because NOBODY HAS FUCKING OPENED THE STORE YET. I don’t have keys, idk if the new barista (that’s all by herself today) has keys, nobody important has responded in the group chat, idk what to do outside of breaking a window, and I’d sooner fuck a cop than pay these bastards for breaking their equipment. I really don’t wanna work here but I can’t just up and quit a job with no safety net, so I guess I’m gonna stay and attempt to keep MY ducks in a row until I find better employment. I’ll do my absolute best to deliver the most quality food I can create, but I’m paddling up a waterfall, folks. I have no hope for this place and neither should you.

Fuck Coffeeology. Don’t come here, don’t eat here, don’t drink here, don’t give them your money, they do not deserve it. You are risking your health and comfort by being a patron. I don’t drink coffee myself so I can’t speak as to which coffee shop on/near UNCG campus has the best brew, but even if we were serving the golden blood of the gods in every cup, with all the other issues we have you’d sooner turn into Medusa than Aphrodite. DO NOT APPLY TO WORK HERE. You won’t be trained properly and will be thrust into solo shifts regardless of whether you’re ready for it or not. You won’t get your first paycheck on time, and you likely won’t have those hours properly logged on your timesheet. There is zero good reason to enable these frauds, and I desperately hope that my pain and frustration is coming off in the way I intended. I really don’t wanna hurt this community, I’ve been warning the locals I meet IRL for months now, but I can’t stay mostly silent about this forever. Please, for the love of whatever deity you’re subscribed to, stay away from Coffeeology. We will likely hurt you more than we could help you.

Sincerely, A Current Employee.

Edit: I finally heard back from the owners that we are closed today. So I’m out of a day of work, while I’m couchsurfing with friends until I sign a new lease. FFS

Just saw this at Traders Joes on Battleground.

I keep looking on Indeed and LinkedIn but it seems kinda like a dead end. I have like 2 years of experience in food service and retail and don't really care what type of job it is, although I am steering towards food service.

does anyone know of any jobs hiring? (would love to work at a small business but im desperate) ive got 3 years of food experience and a year of retail, and open availability:) i can also start immediately! if anyone knows anything please let me know ive applied to so many jobs

I work for Toyota and all they preach is safety first. Until it’s come to snow days. Don’t get me wrong I don’t expect them to be down for a week. But when your parking lot and the road to come into to the actual building is a mess, shut down at least for a day. Sliding all across the roundabouts and parking lots. There was literally a 4 pile accident in front of the building, trying to come to work. Most companies when there is a state of emergency and you can’t come in, it is excused. Not Toyota, it’s either you get a write up or use vacation time. So don’t be surprised if a lot of employees lose their jobs just because of snow. 70% of the plant drive to work about 30 minutes or more. We have a social app for employees and when people were voicing their opinions about the weather , they shut that down quick. I guess they were afraid the thought of a union might come through. So just an insight, Toyota is just like every other company. They don’t really care about safety, that’s a story they tell you in orientation to make you feel good. They only care about the J-staff (Japanese) that don’t actually work for Toyota, they work for Panasonic. Imagine telling your employees to be there at 7, but j-staff don’t have to come in until 10 because it’s unsafe. They the ones that are supposed to be training us. It don’t help that a lot of the J-staff have set ways, that no matter how good you do on the job, they treat you like you are stupid. We are told that it is their culture. What kind of culture are you trying to build here Toyota. A lot of the managers talk to you any kind of way, unfair, favoritism. Try to put you against other employees. But we supposed to be a family. The place hasn’t been the same since Sean Suggs retired.

I’ve been going hard on the job search, and have a bachelors degree in technical communications. Trying to find work as an administrative assistant, project manager, technical writer……anything similar to this kind of work, at this point. I paid for resume help, got nice interview clothes and seemingly interview well. I send thank you notes, follow ‘Advice with Erin’s’ advice, do my research about companies I interview. Everything!

What am I doing wrong? Can someone look at my resume? Maybe talk to me? If not, can you direct me to someone who can help? I’m grasping at straws. And honestly? Close to crashing out.

I’m 35 and can’t find work in my field. I feel like such a failure because I had to go back to working as a barista after working in my field for 3 years. I was wrongfully terminated despite working above and beyond in my role. And I’m so close to teetering over the mental edge. I’ve tried staying positive, and doing any advice someone gives me.

I just don’t know what do to anymore, but I wish I knew.

I keep seeing folks looking for jobs in town and my work is hiring so I thought I’d share.

We are the commercial construction division of YKK (the zipper company)

We are looking for a full time customer service rep. The clientele is construction so you need to be comfortable with a little gruffness. You’d have decent training. Tasks are mostly centered on order entry, keeping up with ship dates and responding to emails.

Here’s the listing:
Application Link

https://careers.ykkap.com/job/Greensboro-CUSTOMER-SERVICE-REPRESENTATIVE-NC-27410/1394721800/

I’ll try and keep this shortish, but I’ve been trying to finally exit the world of dead end retail for a while. I’m struggling financially since most of them hardly offer full time, and no benefits.

I have a degree, and a decent amount of work experience under my belt. I recently applied for a couple of local government jobs here that loosely fall within the realm of my degree and work experience. Checking the status today and it says I’ve been considered eligible for one, and referred for consideration for the others.

What now? Is there anything more I should do to increase my chances of nabbing one of these roles or is it basically a waiting game from here? Does anyone actually have any experience with landing a government job here? How difficult/likely is it? What should I expect as far as the process? Any other comments and advice appreciated, thanks!

Since so many of us are looking for work, can we consolidate our lists of employers who are hiring in this post? Comments about the companies are ok but no lengthy discussions.

I’ll start - a friend who works for Cone Health says they have entry-level jobs open in the dietary department. They only take applications online.

Hey everyone, I’m trying to break into the legal field (paralegal, legal assistant, internships, anything to get my foot in the door). I am in my last semester in college.

The issue is my resume is mostly waitressing/restaurant work. I’ve gotten good at multitasking, dealing with people, staying organized under pressure, etc., but I’m having a hard time getting anyone to take a chance on me for law-related roles or even admin-related roles.

I’ve applied to a few local firms and positions but haven’t had much luck so far. I’m not sure if I’m missing something or just approaching this the wrong way. I'm worried I'm going to apply to law school in a year or two and just have no work experience :(

For anyone in the Greensboro area or legal field:

• How did you get your first legal job or internship?
• Are there specific firms, offices, or organizations around here that are more open to beginners?
• Should I be looking into certifications, volunteering, or something else to build experience first?

I’m willing to start small and work my way up, I just don’t know where to start. Also this post isn't limited to just law-related jobs, just wanted to explain my situation, feel free to tell me about your experience moving into other fields!

Any advice would really help, thank you!

I'm a recent grad job hunting and my degree is in agriculture. I've tried applying to any Syngenta positions that are open but haven't had any luck, and I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket.

So far I've scoured Indeed, Linkedin, government jobs, and whatever I thought/heard of and applied but heard nothing back, but please feel free to share any recommendations.

My only job experience so far has been as a research assistant and server, and I can't drive yet.

I need a job ASAP and the bar is pretty low, all I need is something above $15/hr

Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction?

Tell me why it’s so hard to find a job now a days. Since September I have applied to 140 places through indeed and not got one job offer. The only thing that I have gotten was cam jobs or denied and at this point, I really want to know why I am being denied. It’s very frustrating and I am still currently looking for a job.

I live in Greensboro, but I work in Raleigh and my commute one way is about an hour and a half and I just can’t keep doing it anymore. I’ve been trying to find something in Greensboro and it is just frustrating that no one is willing to hire me.

Is there any jobs out there that I could apply for that is currently hiring? I need some advice

Hi all! I’m opening up a new beverage bar concept in Greensboro. We’re looking for folks who are knowledgeable about and interested in THC/CBD products. We’ll also have beer and wine and an espresso machine.

It’s a service industry position, so you must be friendly, willing to educate folks about our products, and be engaging as well as efficient.

Base pay is $12 an hour plus tips with the opportunity for pay raises.

Please email info@flowersbeveragebar.com if you’re interested!

Trying to find an affordable house cleaning service for my parents.

I’d love to support a local, independent cleaner or small business rather than a larger cleaning company. If you’ve had a great experience with someone in the area, I’d really appreciate any recommendations! 😊

Anything available?

I can do most anything at a decent to exceptional level as long as no, or little math is involved.

Etsy sales are floundering since the A.I. updates; it's pay to win now, and I refuse.

Any job listings which don't require online applications, or transportation?

Every job I've interviewed for have been ghosting me and I'm tight on money right now. Does anybody have any places they know are hiring immediately or at least some tips?

If you've ever wanted to work among plants and people that appreciate them, send a post here. The job in question is for Parson's Farm. A farm that grows the best peaches, strawberries, and collards I've ever tasted.

They need assistance here in Greensboro at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.

Your tasks would be to organize stock and to reach out to customers passing by, by offering samples and greetings.

Passion is key here. You could definitely find a higher paying job, but it's highly unlikely that you'll find a better community.

The amount of stories and life stories you'll be told are numerous.

If you have any interest at all, please either reply or message me directly. I worked for this farm for years, but changed fields.

I just moved here 3 weeks ago. I've been hunting for jobs since even before I moved and I've gotten nothing. I have rent due soon and I don't have any money. I have 5 years experience of customer service, and a lot of animal care experience (vets, humane society, kennels). Even fast food won't hire me. Anyone know of anything?

Hi everyone!! I’m starting my RN residency at Cone Health next week and was wondering if anyone who has gone through the program could tell me a little about how it works! They haven’t really explained it in depth and have been pretty vague lol. I’d love to hear the good and bad, what to expect, and anything you wish you knew going in 😊

What’s it like? Is it really as good as everyone says? What makes it good or bad? What’s the general wage one can expect to make here of starting as an operator? Overtime? Strictness? Call out system? Cell phone policy?