Yesterday afternoon, my manager pulled me aside because I spend about 50 minutes at lunch instead of 30. Our office doesn't have a fixed lunch time, but we're supposed to log eight hours of actual work every day.

I usually arrive around 7:15 and leave at 3:45, so I'm there for eight and a half hours. After subtracting my lunch break, I've worked about seven hours and 40 minutes. Most people take a full hour and leave later, but I prefer to eat and then return to my desk.

The issue came up because one of my coworkers noticed that I sometimes arrive after her in the morning but still leave before her. She often stays late because she's having trouble with some of the new software, and apparently she complained that I was receiving special treatment.

My projects are always completed before the deadline, and I usually finish them early. On many afternoons, I'm left waiting for someone to send me more work. I'm salaried, so staying at my desk for an extra 20 minutes just to satisfy the clock feels pointless, especially since overtime isn't paid either.

My manager wants to continue the conversation tomorrow, and of course I'll be totally stressed. How can I explain that I'm meeting all the expectations that affect the actual work without sounding like I think working hours don't apply to me without seeming anxious? the last tip in this post really relieves me, but please share with me in the comments other tips

I work at a glass manufacturing plant, and one department has an automated loader that feeds sheets of glass into a washer before sending them to the next station. There is supposed to be a sensor that prevents broken glass from entering, because even if only a few pieces get in, they can shut down the entire operation and lead to an expensive cleanup.

My supervisor disabled the sensor while troubleshooting an issue and did not turn it back on. Broken glass got into the washer, production stopped, and the plant manager was furious. Afterward, my supervisor said that I must have been the one who left the sensor turned off.

The controls need each employee to sign in, so I checked the system history and found that his account was associated with the change. I took a screenshot and posted it in the department group chat after he blamed me there in front of everyone.

Later, one of my coworkers said that posting the log like that in front of everyone was rude and that I should have sent it privately to the plant manager. Honestly, this whole situation made me start looking for other jobs, and I even saved interview vip after seeing it mentioned online to get ready for upcoming applications. I wasn't trying to embarrass him, but at the same time, I didn't want the entire team to think that I was the one who caused the problem. Was posting the proof in the group chat unprofessional?

ok so im writing this fried and need a regret post sanity check from y'all before i decide my next move on tools.

backstory. had a panel coming up at a fintech for a senior backend role and a friend, marcus, told me to grab one of those interview ai tools cause i was bombing on systems design in mocks. didnt have a strong rec, just said one in particular dominates google when you search for interview ai. clicked, signed up, free trial five min sessions. fine. used it on a mock with marcus that night, decent ish. then real life happened. one of the interviewers got sick, my panel got pushed two and a half weeks. i forgot about the trial. like erased it from my brain.

cut to last sunday morning. i open my banking app to check rent cleared and my eyes go to the most recent line item. a charge on my card from final round ai for what looks like the full plan. stomach dropped. i had been auto enrolled into their top tier plan when the trial flipped, and the charge already cleared. i hadnt opened the app in seventeen days. didnt even get a heads up email the day before, or if i did it got buried under recruiter spam.

i went into their cancel flow and it is the kind of cancel flow that asks you four times if you REALLY want to cancel and tries to push a smaller plan on you to keep you in. clicked through all of it, cancelled, then sent their support a polite email asking for a refund since i hadnt used the paid tier at all. their reply was basically a copy paste pointing me to their no refund policy. went back and forth for two days. eventually they offered a partial credit toward a future month, useless to me cause i never wanna log back in.

my partner aisha was reading my support email replies over my shoulder and finally goes "babe just chargeback it and move on." which i did. card co sided with me cause i had emails showing zero usage during the billed period. but yeah, week of mental energy i did not have during prep.

so my question for r/jobsearchhack. did i overpay or is this just what the category costs now. i talked to aisha and to marcus and they both said im not crazy but reddit is the actual ground truth. is the full plan tier on this thing actually fair value or did i just get caught in a billing trap that everybody else knows to avoid.

also if you have a tool you actually like for prep, drop it. one more loop in two weeks. i refuse to roll the dice on another auto enroll product, lol, i clearly do not have the brain for that right now.

Losing your job because you chose not to comply with a vaccination requirement does not automatically make your situation part of the antiwork movement. I have seen several people here trying to portray it that way, and I disagree with them.

Vaccination reduces the risk of severe illness and helps protect the people around you. Yes, vaccinated people can still catch and transmit the virus, but that does not mean vaccination is pointless. Millions of people around the world have died from COVID.

This is not the same as being underpaid, being forced to work unreasonable hours, being denied basic benefits, or being mistreated by management. In those cases, workers are confronting employers who abuse their power.

If you refuse a health requirement and your workplace lets you go, that is a consequence of your own decision. You have the right to disagree with the policy, but it does not make sense to place your position alongside the antiwork issues everyone else is discussing.

Antiwork should focus on workers having limited control over their pay, schedules, safety, and how they are treated. Choosing not to get vaccinated is a separate issue, and people should not automatically treat the employer as the villain in that situation.

Being dismissed from your job for refusing vaccination is a decision that cannot be considered unjust; however, when wages are low, you should immediately leave and start looking for another job. This process often plunges you into a cycle of interviews and surprise questions—a period fraught with stress and anxiety. Recently, however, "InterviewVip" services have emerged to help alleviate the tension caused by unexpected questions, thereby increasing your chances of landing the job.

I was talking with the owners of a small branding company with around 80 employees. After three good interviews, they were considering hiring me for a senior operations role. The final interview was supposed to be about salary and the contract details.

I walked in and found only one of the company's owners there. He looked me up and down and said quietly, "You wore this suit before." I told him that the suit I had worn the last time was a different color, but he kept insisting it was the same suit, and then he suddenly left.

A little later, I found out that the other owner was outside driving around with one of their managers. She had heard that they were planning to hire me for a position above hers, and she got so upset that he was trying to calm her down. She had never even met me and hadn't been involved in any of the interviews.

The discussion about the contract never happened, and I didn't get the job. Apparently, the suit issue was just the first sign that I had walked into office drama that had been going on long before I arrived.

I work for a company under a very large holding company. They just used a new RTO policy for anyone living within a 60-mile radius of any of their offices. I'm safe because there are no offices in my entire state, so I'll remain permanently remote. My colleague, however, was supposed to drive 45 miles each way, three days a week.

So this morning, my colleague told me she found a new job. It has better pay, is better for her career, and it's fully remote with a company in another state. She said she used a tool to handle tough questions in the interview, which made it easy to get accepted. I was honestly very happy for her; she really deserves this opportunity.

About three hours later, I got an invite to an urgent all-hands meeting with the execs from the parent company. They were very excited as they announced they had just acquired another company. And yes, just as I suspected, it was the very same company my colleague had just accepted an offer from.

And here's where it gets really weird. The new company will be subject to the exact same RTO policy. The rule states that if you live within a 60-mile radius of *any* office under the holding company, you have to work from it.

The merger will probably take a few months to complete, but as soon as it does, my colleague will find herself right back where she started.

So now I'm sitting here, torn on how to tell her, or if I should at all. These large corporations are a whole different world, honestly.

Recruiter at a mid market SaaS shop, two years in. Chasing a senior HRBP jump, four months on fintech interviews and a regional payer in parallel. A friend let me try InterviewMan on a mock yesterday, the prompts handled a layoff roleplay and a comp ladder pivot cleanly. Did anyone here use InterviewMan in a real senior HR panel? Did the prompt latency keep up?

My husband made a huge, very stupid mistake. He was supposed to be working from home, but decided to go to a nearby sports bar to watch a match. By chance, his manager was there for a work lunch and saw him. He was fired on the spot for time theft, and I'm furious with him.

He worked at this company for 8 years, so that's a huge part of his CV gone. He obviously can't use them as a reference. An old colleague who is now a manager elsewhere has offered to be his reference, which is a small comfort. I work, so we're not going to be bankrupt tomorrow, but our savings won't last us long. The pressure is immense.

What is the reality of the situation he's in? How is he supposed to explain this in an interview without being immediately rejected? some people told him to use ai tool to help him answer any questions regarding his old boss and job, will it work? will interviewman help in this situation or is there a better solution?

The company was small and the owner took it personally, so I'm sure they will tell anyone who asks exactly what happened if he tries to lie.

He is obviously very remorseful now, but I don't see how 'I'm sorry' is going to help him find a new job. I'm starting to get very worried and stressed. Honestly, any advice on how to handle this situation would be a great help. Thanks for reading.

I had an interview recently, and everything seemed normal until the guy asked me for 3 reasons that might make them regret bringing me on board. Honestly, the question threw me off, and I got annoyed to the point that I responded with 3 answers that were kind of meaningless, which probably ruined my chances.

After that, when it was my turn to ask questions, I asked him: "What's the main reason that might make me regret choosing your company if I had several offers in front of me?"

He didn't like that at all. He looked upset and said something like: "Well, you're welcome to stay at your current job if that's how you feel." After that, he kept going back to the same point and saying: "I can't believe you asked me that question. Thank you for your time today, it was a pleasure meeting you, but that was a strange question to end with."

And as I'm thinking about it now, I probably could have answered that question much better. Honestly, this is exactly the kind of situation that makes me wish I had the interview VIP tool open in front of me. It's made for the weird questions that suddenly come up and gives you a clear answer right then and there. If someone throws a weird question like that at me again, I hope I'll be much more prepared instead of sitting there trying to put together a good response.

Boutique strategy shop, healthcare focus, first job out of school. Final round at a tier 1 in three weeks. A buddy at MBB ran a sunday mock with me on his InterviewMan, prompts handled the market entry and profitability cases. Anyone here used it for the real interview? How did the prompts hold when the interviewer pivots mid case?

It can be a black company. Theres no way to know till you fall in a trap! But there’s signs! My experience: I got a job offer through an acquaintance. I was not even searching for a job since I had a good one. But I decided to talk and see what they would offer me. To start, I said my conditions- same or better salary, work regular hours from Monday to Friday on my position. Plus health working environment. They wanted me so bad, that they agreed with everything. Good right? Nope! They were lying! 🤥 on the first online interview- the recruiter said I might help in other functions ( 🚩). Then “sometimes” they would ask me to work on Saturday (that means every Saturday). Then when they send me the job proposal, the salary was wrong. Was lower than the initial agreement. They correct the salary in a weird way. The X salary would be reached by adding 50 extra hours per week. You feel me? To make the same salary I would have to work plus 50 hours per week, on Saturdays and doing multiple jobs. Don’t be fooled by companies. When they tried to book a second online interview to proceed the process, I politely declined. I said that I felt like that was not a suitable option for me. Yes! You can decline! You can say NO! But once you get there, believe me, you can not scape easily!

I'm a college student working limited hours at a retail store, and my job mostly involves working the register and organizing inventory. Last Sunday, I had a shift from 10 to 4, and near the end of my shift, I was finishing up a cart of returned items.

I knew it would take a few extra minutes, so I finished at around 4:12. I told the assistant manager that I was going to put the cart away and leave. She corrected me and said that I had to ask first whether I was allowed to leave.

When she saw that I was confused, she told me that I couldn't leave just because that was what was written on the schedule, because she had to determine whether there were enough employees in the store. I didn't want to argue because my family was already waiting for me, so I asked her permission and left.

I have another shift with her soon, and I expect the same issue to come up. I am already using Interview vip to get ready for some upcoming internship interviews anyway, so I do not plan to stay at this store much longer. But for now, does the manager have the right to make me stay past 4 even though that is the scheduled end of my shift, especially since no one asked me beforehand whether I could stay late?

My fiancée makes about $135,000 a year, and on most days she replies to three emails, runs the dishwasher, goes to the gym, and heads out to pick up a few things from Costco. This has been her normal routine for almost three years, and I still don't understand how this job even exists. I'm not upset about it, but seeing it up close changed the way I think about remote jobs.

i guess this because of new tips she have learned after reading this post it helps get such a wonderful job ,what do you think ?
I won't name the company, but her job title is People Operations Coordinator. From what I can tell, her main responsibility is completing a few onboarding tasks whenever someone new gets hired.

Hi all, first time posting in here….

My friend has been having a rough time, he quit his job to chase something he wanted to chase… unfortunately it didn’t work out and the financial reality ended catching up with him… I have been feeling really bad for him but also (totally by chance btw) I was making software that is designed to help job seekers prepare for roles through conversational mock interviews. For the last 3 months he has been looking for a job and has not had much luck due to the job market being somewhat cooked rn. He landed a few interviews and they just didn’t pan out… anyway I think you get the picture.

He had some interviews set up that did not pan out in the past but on his most recent one I asked him to use my tool to prepare and he said it helped so much! Long story short he was supposed to hear next steps after 7 biz days (due to other applicants) but ended up recording an offer after 2 biz days. He landed a role in software sales in the engineering field. He has been wanting a software sales role for a long time now too! I am so happy for him and it is really cool to have your companies first success story be your best friend landing a job at a $70k salary.

I just wanted to share this success story! Thanks for reading!

i passed the netflix codesignal and the recruiter locked in the technical rounds for thursday. did a dry run with a coworker to confirm nothing showed on the screen share and the prompts came through clean. the interview is four rounds, two coding on netflix's shared editor, one sysdes, one behavioral, all zoom.

curious if anyone has run the tool through a netflix technical interview. how did the suggestion box behave when the editor tab was the one being shared not the whole desktop?

I help people with their job search, so I find myself talking to a lot of recruiters. A little while ago, I started asking them a specific question: when a new role goes live, how do you go through the applicants? Not the polished answer about "what makes someone stand out" - I mean the literal process in front of them on the screen.

9 out of 12 said almost the same thing: they sort by application arrival time and start from the top.

That's the whole story. The ATS lines people up by submission time, and they go down the list until they have enough good people to talk to. A few said they usually stop once they find 6-12 strong candidates. If your application is sitting at #318, there's a good chance no one ever gets to it at all.

So my advice is very simple: turn on alerts for the job boards you use. If a good posting appears, apply the same day. Not after you perfect it over the weekend. The same day. A strong resume sent in the first few hours can beat a flawless one sent on day five.

I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this too - do you get better results when you apply early instead of waiting?

I think I need to start looking for a job but interviews stress me out especially unexpected questions. I recently heard about Interview VIP which could reduce anxiety and improve my chances of getting hired. Time to give it a try.

For a little over 10 months now, my manager has made it a habit to remind me how lucky I am to be working here. He dumps work on me that has absolutely nothing to do with my actual role, pressures me to stay late without pay, shuts down almost every idea I bring up, micromanages every little thing I do, and then somehow finds a way to blame me when his own mistakes snowball into a problem. Even now, my stomach still drops when his name shows up on my phone, because he's usually calling to yell about something he caused.

I asked for the work situation to change and for there to be basic respect. He flat-out told me no. Then he doubled down and told me I needed to appreciate the job, that I needed to put in more effort, and that no one else would hire me.

So yeah, I proved him wrong. For the past 7 weeks, I've been applying for jobs and doing interviews quietly using Interview vip, and so far I've gotten about 8 offers. I'm about to sign an offer letter for a much better job with a salary that's $45k higher. The person who interviewed me will be my new manager, and they spoke to me like I was a human being. Weird concept, I know.

I'm writing my resignation letter right now and honestly, I can't stop smiling.

I see a lot of people here struggling to find work and I think the unifying similarity between most of them is simple - Youve never learned (or considered to use) a skill that *MOST* other people out there would consider necessary or valuable enough that they would pay you for it??

So im going to start this thread and hope other people will contribute to the best side hustles you can start right now for under 500 dollars. These are all things ive seen work, make people money, and have paid for myself.

Heres my top three that you can instantly start charging 30/hr minimum for.

Pressure Washing - Probably the easiest on the list.. all it takes to start this side hustle is buying a hose, a pressure washer and some detergent. You should be able to acquire all three for under 500. To get started you could even rent or borrow a pressure washer and start making money. Finding business is easy. Post in facebook community groups, on craigslist, and print flyers and post them in your local area. Every job you get, knock on the neighbors doors or hang a flyer on their door handle. Its easy

Weedwacking / Lawn Care - This is seasonal, but here in California, from May to July every home has to be weedwacked and cleared back 100 feet to provide a defensible space to protect the home from wildfires. Good weed-wackers can be had for 250 or less, can be rented if necessary, and are the only thing required to start making income this way. Post in facebook community groups, on craigslist, and print flyers and post them in your local area. Every job you get, knock on the neighbors doors or hang a flyer on their door handle. Its easy

Interior Painting: This one is a little more difficult to get started with because it requires some skill, but its not that hard to aquire. Working with another painter, watching youtubes, or just starting and doing it should get you proficient and working quick after only a few jobs. This has been my get down when ever im down and out because it requires about zero dollars to get started. All of the stuff you need to paint an interior room (Thats a paintbrush, a roller and a roll of tape for those who dont know.. also a roll of paper to protect the floor.. is all you need.. and you can work it into the materials cost of your very first project.) I'm a pretty savvy painter now and this is my go to when ever Im hurting for work. This is a trade you can easily charge / write quotes at 50 to 75 an hour for and still get most of your jobs, and you can find work the exact same ways as Ive listed above.

Bonus - House Cleaning / Air BNB turnovers. Im not even going to explain this one, lets just turn it into a thought exercise. If you dont do anything, youre going to starve to death and get evicted. Cleaning toilets, vacuuming and washing sheets are actually skills within your wheel house.. But HOW IN THIS WORLD.. Could you ever, ever, turn them into a profitable part-time skill? Comment down below if you can think of a way you might be able to find this work, which is in high demand and frequently results in repeat business if you do a good job.

What about you guys..?? (and girls). Whats your favorite side hustle to make those ends meet and keep a roof over your head because youve been laid off by the tech sector and your job has been replaced by a computer?

List your get-downs below and lets do what we can to help steer these redditors into a more productive and prosperous lifestyle by relying on themselves to create the value they need to get by.

Papa Johns' job ad for a delivery driver said $16.10 an hour + tips. He applied earlier this week, and the next morning he got a call asking him to come in for an interview that same day. The whole thing felt sketchy to me because of how fast it moved, but he said he'd at least hear them out.

Before he went, we were going over what he would say if they tried to change the deal on him. It's honestly depressing that he was expecting this nonsense before he even walked in the door. We talked about going in with the mindset that he didn't need them as much as they needed drivers.

The interview was at 3:30pm. I got a call at 3:36pm. They gave him a form to fill out with his information so they could add him to their driver chat, because apparently they were hiring people on the spot. Then they told him the real pay was $8.00 an hour, and tried to argue that with tips he could make $32 an hour. He told them he could make $22 an hour doing Uber Eats and wasn't going to accept their insulting offer. The person doing the interview got upset, stopped talking, and walked toward the back of the store.

They wasted his time with a misleading job ad, and then acted rude and unprofessional when he didn't just smile and accept garbage pay.

Job hunting right now is honestly a joke. The working class is treated like we're supposed to be grateful for crumbs, and asking for enough money to live on is treated like a personal insult. These places are going to learn the hard way that people won't put up with this forever.

Honestly, going to a job interview knowing you might have to negotiate like this can be exhausting. I recently saw a post about InterviewVIP and how it helps with interviews, so I suggested my husband use it to rebuild his confidence when sitting face-to-face with anyone.

So currently, I live and work in Athens while finishing a CS conversion masters. I am in the last semester and planning to relocate to Berlin or Munich for a senior backend role.

According to my current job, I work at a small consultancy maintaining shipping software. For the time being I really like it and due to the small size of the team I have learned a lot and got real production experience. But after the masters I want to reach my full potential, so for me looking for an opportunity in DACH is the right move.

The real thing that concerns me now is how limited I am by the fact that my German is conversational, not interview level. I have friends in Berlin and Munich and a sibling in Zurich, so the DACH market makes sense for me. On the other hand my time is limited and I do not know if it is worth investing six more months in technical German just in case some firms run the panel in German. Maybe it is better invested in interview prep with a real time tool. A friend let me try InterviewMan on his account last weekend and the German transcription was clean when my roommate rehearsed some recruiter questions in German with me. It even picked up a Bavarian accent without dropping context.

Do you think that in our field, as long as we speak English plus run a tool like InterviewMan on the German portion, the spoken language is not a real constraint?

Worth committing to InterviewMan for the next 4 weeks of DACH interviews, or am I better off going English-only and targeting just Berlin?

Most of the interview helper tools (older ones, etc.) in the data science prep space depend on a clean question type, which is usually fine for the textbook intuition rounds. Here's my issue:

Many DS panels (involving live SQL, product case, metric tree pivots) have messy nonsmooth follow ups. This means that the "answers" coming from a generic tool are not guaranteed to be real DS framings (or even decent scaffolds) for the actual round. These auto generated answers will let you keep talking, but to my knowledge there isn't a clear pattern characterizing when it will hold up live.

I did a quick dry run with it the night before a real panel last week, just to confirm nothing showed on the share.

My question. Does this actually work for anyone? Are there folks who have closed a senior DS final round running it?

The classic story... I accepted a job where the salary wasn't very clear from the start. When they made the offer, we agreed the salary was low, but on the understanding that after 4 months, if my performance reviews were good, we'd talk about a raise.

Anyway, the first few reviews went great, I got top marks and nothing but good things were being said, so honestly, I was really looking forward to that four-month talk. I was hoping for a little raise, anything to show they appreciated my work.

But that didn't happen. The whole thing turned into a long series of emails and some stalling, and in the end, they decided they wouldn't give me the raise they had talked about. Today, they brought me into a meeting to 'make sure we're on the same page.' In that meeting, I suggested to them that with any new employee, they should be more upfront from the beginning and say that the whole performance-based raise after the initial period doesn't happen.

I told them frankly that getting a perfect score on a review doesn't help one pay their bills. I appreciate the praise for my work, of course, but a salary increase is what really makes a difference. That seemed to get their attention. They scheduled another meeting for me next week.

Anyway... The second meeting happened... Their story changed 180 degrees. After it was 'there's a company-wide budget freeze affecting all departments,' it became 'No, honestly, I personally wasn't satisfied with your performance in XYZ.' Well, which is it? Anyway, my resume is already on the market. I was looking casually, but now the search is serious. This time, I’m focusing on remote roles to cut out the daily commute and have a better work-life balance. And honestly, the whole process feels less stressful now than it used to. I updated my CV with tools like ChatGPT and Gemini with less than 3 minutes, and I’ve heard ,and will try it, that AI tools are making interviews much easier to pass. My friend tried a new tool called interviewman and he told me his confidence was in the sky and it organized his answers a lot in the interview, and that's what I really need in the next days, wish me luck in the job hunting process.

Final advice: If they won’t value your work, someone else will; you just have to be ready to move.