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On mobile I will do my best.
I went from making well below median income for my area, to almost $10K above median. How? I applied for my dream job with a Word doc resume I built using ATS (applicant tracking system software) to make sure my resume got into the hands of a person to get an interview, and didn't die in the hands of a HR robot using ATS. (The site if you don't know about it yet is jobscan.co I used 2 of the 5 free uses and you can get more free scans by referring yourself or friends or their surveys)
Different perspective: I went from about $25 monthly wiggle room after base expenses, to nearly $3,000 saved in the bank in just 6 months. From paycheck-to-3-days-before-paycheck, to forgetting which day was payday because I had 0 money worries.
And I hate it here so much I am going to quit. My old job loved me because how hard I worked, so the door is always open. But I am going to try applying other places because I can't go back to constantly worrying if I can get my bills paid and asking for extensions.
It's crazy to think that if I have been in another department with the company I would have loved it here, but apparently this entire third of the company at this building (3 locations) are very poor morale and hate management because they're pretty terrible. And I'm no exception. My boss talking super loud about me before they even met me saying a lot of bad things about me to their boss,, even making fun of my name. Again, how? We'd not met yet. Boss's boss berating me for skipping a meeting they told me not to attend. The list goes on.
Of the 8 in my training class, 6 completed training. 4 immediately transferred to other locations. The 2 of us are stuck at this site, and apparently my time off work for having COVID means I cannot transfer out because I have "poor attendance issues" and with the stricter, more difficult metrics at this location I now also have "poor performance issues" because I'm still doing the job per regulations which takes longer. The other person stuck here chose to cut corners (only way to meet the metrics at our job site) but their boss is constantly hounding them upwards of 30 times daily over every mistake they make while cutting corners.
TL,DR: The grass is definitely greener on the other side, but my better-paying job is a hellscape so I'm using HR's software against them to get out.
Edit:
This is a vent post. This has been my dream job for TEN years. Originally it was degree only and now you have to prove you have several years of experience which I have. My parents died in high school so like, wtf was I supposed to do? I eventually went and got my GED and no surprise to me, I was 96th to 99th percentile on all the tests because my problem was my damn home life fell apart when I was a kid. Not that I didn't know anything. There's a couple judgy fucks in the comments like oH wOrK hARdEr or saying yOuR aTtItUde iS wHy U hATe iT. Fuck off. I have friends and a relative of long-time employees that are in the union but they work in the other locations. Out of 7 people that were long term all 7 said this location cannot keep staff for long and when they were briefly assigned here they got out as soon as they could. One of the departments in the main site want me but their area is full and they're not allowed to replace union workers and no budget for more workers even though they're understaffed.
I knew very intimately the type of work I would be doing years before I ever applied. I have worked very hard for everything I got, I'm usually a mom-type figure at work who performs in top 10%, example last job out of 60 people I did 4% of the work, so instead of 1.7% it was like 1 out of 25 people instead of 60. Job before that top 20%. Job before that top 15%, just before that unknown percentage but only the top employees got 1 free hour every month and I got it almost every time. But guess what THEY ONLY PAY $13 AN HOUR, RENT FOR 1BDR IS $1000 JUST FOR RENT, NO VACATION OR HOLIDAY PAY, DO THE DAMN MATH. I been homeless 5 times because it takes money to make money and when you have nobody and nothing you can't even pay to get a GED to get a job. Anybody who wants to see the title and the post and still try and say the management is my FAULT when it my PROBLEM but not my FAULT all I can say is stay classy. May all your glasses of water be room temperature and I hope your favorite pair of socks starts bunching up at the toes.
edit2: thanks for the gold stranger
On mobile I will do my best.
I went from making well below median income for my area, to almost $10K above median. How? I applied for my dream job with a Word doc resume I built using ATS (applicant tracking system software) to make sure my resume got into the hands of a person to get an interview, and didn't die in the hands of a HR robot using ATS. (The site if you don't know about it yet is jobscan.co I used 2 of the 5 free uses and you can get more free scans by referring yourself or friends or their surveys)
Different perspective: I went from about $25 monthly wiggle room after base expenses, to nearly $3,000 saved in the bank in just 6 months. From paycheck-to-3-days-before-paycheck, to forgetting which day was payday because I had 0 money worries.
And I hate it here so much I am going to quit. My old job loved me because how hard I worked, so the door is always open. But I am going to try applying other places because I can't go back to constantly worrying if I can get my bills paid and asking for extensions.
It's crazy to think that if I have been in another department with the company I would have loved it here, but apparently this entire third of the company at this building (3 locations) are very poor morale and hate management because they're pretty terrible. And I'm no exception. My boss talking super loud about me before they even met me saying a lot of bad things about me to their boss,, even making fun of my name. Again, how? We'd not met yet. Boss's boss berating me for skipping a meeting they told me not to attend. The list goes on.
Of the 8 in my training class, 6 completed training. 4 immediately transferred to other locations. The 2 of us are stuck at this site, and apparently my time off work for having COVID means I cannot transfer out because I have "poor attendance issues" and with the stricter, more difficult metrics at this location I now also have "poor performance issues" because I'm still doing the job per regulations which takes longer. The other person stuck here chose to cut corners (only way to meet the metrics at our job site) but their boss is constantly hounding them upwards of 30 times daily over every mistake they make while cutting corners.
TL,DR: The grass is definitely greener on the other side, but my better-paying job is a hellscape so I'm using HR's software against them to get out.
Edit:
This is a vent post. This has been my dream job for TEN years. Originally it was degree only and now you have to prove you have several years of experience which I have. My parents died in high school so like, wtf was I supposed to do? I eventually went and got my GED and no surprise to me, I was 96th to 99th percentile on all the tests because my problem was my damn home life fell apart when I was a kid. Not that I didn't know anything. There's a couple judgy fucks in the comments like oH wOrK hARdEr or saying yOuR aTtItUde iS wHy U hATe iT. Fuck off. I have friends and a relative of long-time employees that are in the union but they work in the other locations. Out of 7 people that were long term all 7 said this location cannot keep staff for long and when they were briefly assigned here they got out as soon as they could. One of the departments in the main site want me but their area is full and they're not allowed to replace union workers and no budget for more workers even though they're understaffed.
I knew very intimately the type of work I would be doing years before I ever applied. I have worked very hard for everything I got, I'm usually a mom-type figure at work who performs in top 10%, example last job out of 60 people I did 4% of the work, so instead of 1.7% it was like 1 out of 25 people instead of 60. Job before that top 20%. Job before that top 15%, just before that unknown percentage but only the top employees got 1 free hour every month and I got it almost every time. But guess what THEY ONLY PAY $13 AN HOUR, RENT FOR 1BDR IS $1000 JUST FOR RENT, NO VACATION OR HOLIDAY PAY, DO THE DAMN MATH. I been homeless 5 times because it takes money to make money and when you have nobody and nothing you can't even pay to get a GED to get a job. Anybody who wants to see the title and the post and still try and say the management is my FAULT when it my PROBLEM but not my FAULT all I can say is stay classy. May all your glasses of water be room temperature and I hope your favorite pair of socks starts bunching up at the toes.
edit2: thanks for the gold stranger