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32 votes
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On International Women's Day, Northern European countries stand out for women who are looking to develop their careers – Iceland secured the top spot
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What's the matter with men? They’re floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex.
51 votes -
US regulatory agencies take steps to fight non compete clauses in employment contracts
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Return to office policies do not improve company value, but do make employees miserable: Study
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American teachers are missing more school, and there are too few substitutes
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Is anyone here a consultant? I have questions...
Backstory: Seemingly randomly, I was contacted by a company that saw a comment I made online about a previous area of expertise that they want to venture into and have asked if I'd like to be a...
Backstory: Seemingly randomly, I was contacted by a company that saw a comment I made online about a previous area of expertise that they want to venture into and have asked if I'd like to be a consultant to them.
I've never been a consultant, dealt with them directly, or have any idea what would be expected of me as one. Looking up consultants and consultancies and what they do has provided zero insight as they seem to be purposefully vague or overly broad.
Starter questions (I realize they're vague and I'll have follow up questions as I get a handle on this):
- If you are or have been a consultant, were you independent or part of a firm?
- What do you actually do?
- What did/do you charge for your consultancy services?
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How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
22 votes -
Service jobs now require bizarre personality test from AI company - 404 Media investigation of Reddit post trend
43 votes -
I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take this bizarre personality test
40 votes -
DoD updates telework policy for the first time since 2012
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Men benefit more from their looks at work than women do, new research shows
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Career advice (or success stories) thread
I've seen a few posts on Tildes now about careers - sometimes personal posts about burnout and how to manage it, other times links to articles about layoffs. The end result of both of these is...
I've seen a few posts on Tildes now about careers - sometimes personal posts about burnout and how to manage it, other times links to articles about layoffs.
The end result of both of these is often a need to find a new job. For some it may be as simple as applying for the same title at a different company and having success, for others it may be a long process of determining what type of career to go for next and perhaps education or other factors that can help them get there.
I wanted to try starting a thread to see if those of us who are struggling can ask for advice, and perhaps those who are doing well can help or even post their career journey to show how they got where they are today.
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Everyone’s a sellout now
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UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules
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The home-working revolution is harming younger workers: Bosses who insist on a return to the office are demonised — but turning up is better for your career
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My boss is being accused of sexual misconduct and I don't know what to do
Hi all, I don't know where to turn on this. I work in a small company, my boss who is an amazing person and has given me so much and helped me really kick start my career has had some accusations...
Hi all,
I don't know where to turn on this. I work in a small company, my boss who is an amazing person and has given me so much and helped me really kick start my career has had some accusations over the past little while. But now I've heard a few stories that really show that he's done some shady stuff. My boss has been like a brother to me and is a close friend. I have no idea how to digest this and I have no idea who I could talk to, so I'm just posting here.I don't want to lose a friend, he's been nothing but amazing to me.
Edit: thank you everyone. I'll keep reading the comments. I just need to reflect on this and I appreciate your discussions.
Edit 2: There is proof enough to not deny things, inappropriate and agressive advances and groping stuff. Nothing good.
40 votes -
Inside the strange, secretive rise of the 'overemployed'
31 votes -
Layoffs, survivor guilt, and existential dread
The company I work for laid off half of my office this week. I'm one of the survivors, and trying to process what happened. The company has been transparent about revenues. However, we had no idea...
The company I work for laid off half of my office this week. I'm one of the survivors, and trying to process what happened.
The company has been transparent about revenues. However, we had no idea that we would be so badly penalized for management choices that created significant operating cost overruns in the face of a projected short-term demand decline. I've lost half the members of my immediate team, good friends, people whose work and thoughtfulness I deeply respected. The entire department structure is being upended. The harshness of the selection for people who were being laid off included a teammate who's in the hospital, parents of young children, people on the edge of retirement. I'm suspicious and extra hostile towards the company - it's very significant to me that all the people of color and people who've had recent medical leave are among the lost.
It's not the first time I've watched and survived a company's poor management and bad choices, but this is by far the worst. I've worked very hard at staying professional with the customers this week. I'm still inwardly seething with rage. I'm trying to figure out how to be supportive to the people who are leaving. I'm trying to figure out how to help a team lead who's in his first management job, and is totally devastated and nearly frozen with helplessness. I'm decent at my job, but don't know why I was kept and others with equal or greater skills were let go. I don't feel good about what qualities I might have had that corporate desired to keep - dutifulness, compliance, amiability, reticence?
At the same time, I'm looking at months of double workload even though corporate management claims they'll outsource part of the duties (so that's another symptom that I'm replaceable) and manage the task pipeline. There's a frankly insulting retention bonus if I stay for another year. We've gotten the usual anodyne HR garbage about the employee assistance program and coping skills. The corporate management's left us with the ominous "stay tuned for further announcements over the coming weeks".
I don't have a lot of choices here. I'm trying hard to stay focused on the present, without looking over the cliff of dread at the future. At the moment, I'm the sole support for our household and source of health insurance. My spouse is badly burnt out, and I don't want him to look for work a minute before he's healthy and enthusiastic about a job. I'm a late-50's end-career professional who wouldn't normally have much interest in restarting yet again elsewhere. I very deliberately chose this company, job and location, liked the work I was doing, the people I was doing it with, and I was looking forward to building on it. There's still the possibility that our half-vacant remote office will be closed and consolidated with the corporate headquarters. I have less than zero interest in relocating, and plan to keep separated coworkers who live here as personal friends.
I'll be grateful to hear any advice on coping with this situation, and hope the replies will be helpful to others in future.
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Goodbye to the era of the professional spouse – There are not many jobs left in which people are expected to appear, smiling and waving, by their partner’s side
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Germany ends ban on dual citizenship and reduces the number of years of residency required for naturalisation
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‘Don’t mess with us’: WebMD parent company demands return to office in bizarre video
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You don’t need more resilience. You need friends. And money.
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OECD urges Denmark to address gender stereotypes in education and suggested introducing quotas to get more women in top management
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In your opinion, what is the appropriate number of outfits to rotate through at work?
Background: I don't like choosing outfits in the morning for work. Due to whatever combination of mental issues/oddities I have, in the past I've gotten stuck at point for a very long time. After...
Background: I don't like choosing outfits in the morning for work. Due to whatever combination of mental issues/oddities I have, in the past I've gotten stuck at point for a very long time. After reading about how someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg wears the same thing every day, I decided to try a version of that to reduce the number of decisions I had to make each morning. I didn't actually want to wear the same thing every day, because then I'd become "the guy who wears the same thing every day" at work. So I decided to have a number of predetermined outfits that I rotate through. I have some number of dress shirts of various colors/patterns and a matching number of pants of various colors to go with them. I have a few pairs of shoes in the typical colors that I just match with the pants. I've been doing this for years now, and it's great for simplifying my daily routine, but I occasionally wonder if people notice.
So my question is: How many outfits do you personally think is the right number such that no one would notice? Alternatively, what number do you think would be the best for whatever reason?
To be clear, this is just a fun discussion question. I'm not really looking for help or advice. I won't say how many outfits I have on rotation right now to avoid anchoring.
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Pizza Hut is lying: They’re not firing their drivers because of a minimum wage hike
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Salary negotiation: Make more money, be more valued (2012)
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Toxic posts on economist job website traced to users from elite universities
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Opinions on stand up meetings
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Any advice on handling being an engineer at a shrinking team?
I work at a Series A startup. I joined on the promise that it would be 16 backend engineers a year from when I joined. It never grew and maxed out at 8 (non-eng headcount experienced the most...
I work at a Series A startup. I joined on the promise that it would be 16 backend engineers a year from when I joined. It never grew and maxed out at 8 (non-eng headcount experienced the most growth). Fast forward to 18 months and it's looking like between parental leave, illness, responsibility differences, and general departures, in a few weeks I'll be one of 2 backend engineers actually writing code, and one of 3 backend engineers overall.
There's 1-2 resume-building projects I'd like to stay for, but it's likely that one of them will get deprioritized. I've never been happy in this role for a slew of reasons, reasons for which others have left. This could very well leave us at 1-2 backend engineers in Q1-Q2. We are hiring, but I suspect we'll only backfill 1 role as 1-2 engineers are on "temporary leaves" (but one leave is 3 months, the other is basically indefinite).
Any advice on what to do in this strange situation? I'd like to say that I'm considering quitting and want to train another backfill, but it could hurt me more than anything else. I'd be interested in more options (no backend engineer's comp has increased in the 18 months I've been here except 1 underpaid / underleveled person) or a small sabbatical of 5 weeks. I wouldn't mind a senior title but lots of qualified engineers have been rejected for it so I stopped putting weight on the title. But all of those are a little rude to accept if I quit less than 6 months after.
edit: removed some typos, clarified some timelines e.g. months -> weeks
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Technology is making people busier during their so called free time
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The myth of the unemployed US college grad
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New job quandary
So for the past two years, I've been a residential Cable Technician working for a subcontractor for Cox (Comcast). After many applications, I finally landed a position. I'd been trying to get a...
So for the past two years, I've been a residential Cable Technician working for a subcontractor for Cox (Comcast). After many applications, I finally landed a position. I'd been trying to get a foothold into IT for a while now; my A+ is nearly expired at this point. I was pretty stoked to actually get the position. The position is a "Level 1 IT Specialist" at a private school. Utilizing company software to respond to tickets, fix issues for admin staff and teachers/students. The only hitch at first was that I had to shave clean (Silly, I know). Begrudgingly, I relented. That's fine, it's not particularly impressive anyway.
Today, I got a call from the HR rep who did my onboarding saying that I would also unfortunately need to cut my hair to follow their guidelines of hairline above the collar. This is a huge deal for me, as my hairline is currently at the middle of my back. I just wear it up for work. This would truly devastate me. The people interviewing me (3 of them) said it would be fine, then the employee handbook stated otherwise. When asked, the HR rep said she'd contact a supervisor, supe said no, and now she's referring me to another department (Benefits? Dunno how that's relevant) to try to make an exception or something to that effect.
Beyond just wanting to lament the likely loss of 4 years of work, I did want to ask those who are more experienced in the IT field than myself: Is this job (the IT one) one that will absolutely help me progress in my IT career? I know I didn't give the most detailed explanation of it; I hardly know everything myself. It was hard enough to finally have a job get back to me. And I was accepted rather quickly. But the loss of my hair gives me pause, and makes me wonder if I'm better off at my current job and waiting for another opportunity that might never come. Should I just grit my teeth and accept this blow to my identity for the sake of furthering my career? Any advice at all is welcome.
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The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
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WWOOFING/workaway stories?
I've been looking into this sort of thing for a while. Looks like a nice way to get a change of scenery (if you don't know WOOFING is basically volunteer farm work for room/board). Anyone have...
I've been looking into this sort of thing for a while. Looks like a nice way to get a change of scenery (if you don't know WOOFING is basically volunteer farm work for room/board). Anyone have experience doing this in the USA/anywhere else? Would love to hear from you if so!
14 votes -
Is a degree worth it?
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When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice
19 votes -
European Court of Human Rights rules that sex workers can seek compensation for lost profits, reversing Bulgarian decision about human trafficking victims
17 votes -
Are workplace romances a savvy investment?
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Bosses imposed rigid policies requiring return to the office. Now they’re facing a wave of legal battles.
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Amazon is warning employees they risk undermining their own promotion prospects unless they return to the office (RTO) for three days a week, as was mandated by CEO Andy Jassy months ago
60 votes -
Employees can be banned from wearing headscarves, top EU court rules
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International Labor Organization report - almost 7% of annual deaths are linked to employment. Overwork kills 750,000 per year.
18 votes -
How meltdowns brought professional advocacy groups to a standstill at a critical moment (2022)
19 votes -
Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream
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I skipped to the ending
53 votes -
70% of US workers lie on resumes, new study shows
54 votes -
Ontario to ban Canadian work experience requirement in job postings
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Fika, four-week-holidays and zero overtime – Sweden's stunningly healthy work culture
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Union workers score big pay gains as labour action sweeps US
30 votes