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what degree will you have when you graduate?

I don't want to speak for Carsmile, but it's probably cos you'll have a BA in linguistics.

NO WAY!! Or is that the sarcasm?

(oh dear, that question appears to be "are words the same as language?"...)

I've read enough comics to know that everyone who studies this ends up with insect-based superpowers! Go for this! You could be Earwig Girl or something!

So this promotion that I "got" a couple weeks ago has just been waiting on the CFO's signature to be official. I've already taken up the responsibilities of the new position, but now they're suddenly dangling the raise & promotion like it's a carrot and half-threatening to take it away for mundane shit ("people who don't do the call around don't get promotions or raises").

Are you serious? You're going to go to bat for me and talk about this promotion as though it's something I deserve and tell me "nobody deserves this like you do" and then give me extra work without the title or raise and hold the shit over my head? Fuck you.

On the flippety I just printed a list of hotels that are hiring and stuck it in the book I'm carrying as a bookmark. Left it where he would see the names of hotels and a list of phone numbers. He stopped in his tracks and looked at it and looked at me and sighed. Message received.

Seriously, three years without a raise or promotion, you tell me I've got it and give me the work, then you say "uhhh maybe you don't get it lol"? I've given you two months of twiddling my thumbs and falling behind on bills while you said "it's comin, it's comin." I'm sick of waiting. Fuck you. Make it happen or I'm out.

I have seen this too many times. Employers who present employees with promotion without rewarding new remuneration need to be taught a lesson. My last manager 'don't worry they haven't sorted out my package yet'. I've left and I hope (expect) he's in the same predicament! LOSER!

A promotion that nets you all the new responsibilities of a new job before you get the new rate of pay is a chimera. Again, this is the sort of thing where you should be contacting your state's labor relations board and asking to speak to their lawyer. This is some fucked up shit.

When you submit your resume to a job site and you start getting emails from would-be employers, is there a concern that some of the people contacting you are shady, and if so, how can you tell? This is sort of a variation on the "I'm not interested in a job where the employer is interested in the likes of me" mentality, tbh.

Bumping for the weekday crowd.

I'm maybe a little more wary of people who contact me unsolicited, but I think the way recruiting works has changed a lot. It doesn't take much effort/time/money to send those emails, so they may be casting a wide net. I got an unsolicited email from an Amazon recruiter a couple years ago and the job seemed pretty interesting, nothing shady at all. Of course I bombed the interview.

Some job sites have more shady operators than others as some set higher standards over who has access to candidate data. If you're being contacted by agencies or representatives that only have sparse information about the work/employer then you can soon get the impression that something is up. I was called about work a few years ago and they wouldn't give me pay rate or full information on the work. They insisted I was told this at interview. Obviously I wouldn't travel for details they could give me over the phone.

Lining up my references, and I'm trying to decide between someone with whom I was last in contact 8 years ago, and someone else with whom I'm about to end a professional relationship. So, "out of the blue" vs. "thanks for the reference now I'm out of there"?

Also, got one offer though scheduled for another interview -- do I tell the second place about the offer before or during the interview?

Don't you have to get a ref from your last employer?

I had to get 5 refs for my new job. I guess I've had a few jobs recently.

tell about the offer near the end when you're doing the 'what's your timeline?' etc etc part of the interview

Has anyone here ever worked in payroll before? I never have, but I've applied for a couple openings because I think I could do that based on my previous employment experiences. How maddening/confusing is it?

Can anyone think of a job which I could do upon graduating? Like proper employment? I can't think of anything I want to do. I need help. I have a degree in English Language and Linguistics

Move to NYC and work at the UN?

This has been making the rounds

http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/full-employment-mandate-2017-07.pdf

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/17/the-incredible-lost-history-of-how-civil-rights-plus-full-employment-equals-freedom/

How bosses are (literally) like dictators

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/17/15973478/bosses-dictators-workplace-rights-free-markets-unions

Lol

Didn't read it

But lol

You're a government guy, right? So you don't get it. I worked for the NYC government for a while and those union people, they got it pretty sweet. I'm thinking of joining them, because the private sector is becoming more evil by the day.

Those union dudes, though, they were in awe of my corporate-fu skills, called it military style work. Fuck that. I want that union shit.

Work sucks

If it didn't, they'd call it "play."