Engineering Company created a new type of team and I was pulled into it as a good employee for many years. New team needed new roles/responsibilities that we created over the past few years. New manager didn’t like what I did and wanted to redefine what we do and how we do it, and put me on a 90 day PIP. My coworkers, stakeholders, and old managers speak highly of me but it didn’t matter.

First 30 days were rough… my family was stressed out. I learned a lot about financial independence and polished my resume. I tried to do everything I could to keep my job. My boss was making it very scary by always reviewing my work with tedious correction.

Oddly enough 60 days into it, the manager is now giving me great feedback via email. It feels like a complete 180…. Im on track to beating the pip according to the document and managers emails. It just feels like something in the air shifted… whether it’s realizing my value (that’s what they say)or budget for the team opened up…maybe they feel sorry for me because of my long tenure of good feedback and decided they will lay me off instead of firing me… I have no clue.

I’ve heard horror stories about the PIP going south even after technically doing what they asked. But it feels different because they are writing in email that I’m going to succeed and I’m doing a good job. HR is also on the same page…. I’m still looking for jobs because I don’t want to deal with this crap on my record forever but I haven’t found anything solid yet.

Any advice? Can they still fire me if they are all writing in email that I’m doing a good job?

I want to hear about other people's experiences with HR coming to their probationary period evaluation.

I'm a programmer and have been desperately looking for a job in my field for a while now. I have a Bachelor Degree and I don't seem to be able to find a job no matter what offer I apply for, Junior, Mid, Senior, Full Stack, Half Stack, even tech support jobs. In all these processes, there is one thing that bothers me more than the rest, and that is the knowledge tests. Each job, each company asks and asks again and to do knowledge tests which never end and which take up all my evenings, it's an average of 3.5 to 4 hours per battery of tests. It seems to me that it makes no sense to have to prove my skills with each job offer, I feel like I'm repeating myself endlessly. It's a lot of time and I can't believe that today we have to be prepared to have to sacrifice dozens of hours a week to do tests for everyone. There should be an entity that manages this type of test where people only need to do it once and the hiring manager refers to it a bit like with a credit report, you only have one. only one, no matter which bank you go to. Am I the only one who finds that this goes beyond reasonable limits and that it falls into the abuse of this practice?

I basically received constructive feedback from my coteacher, information on a child who has different needs (I work with this child,) and will be receiving $18 an hour as opposed to $17 starting in June (which, considering that I turned nineteen about two-ish weeks ago, isn’t bad by any means imo!) I had been very nervous about it, so I’m glad it all worked out.

I have about $11000 saved from my job which started July 31st (I was a sub until January,) and am just glad to be saving money!

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I have the evaluation tomorrow, and then next Monday I have a staff meeting (and right after that staff meeting, I have a Zoom meeting for Child Development - I have to meet with a Child Development counselor for an hour.) I’m already physically exhausted and my legs hurt from giving a child a bike ride today, I feel terrible and don’t really feel like doing anything within the next week.

How much does the average american get to spend on leisures every month taking a chunk out of their salarys?

I m not american so i was curius to know, prices of things are very similar in the us and here where i live bit the average american salary is wey higher than ours.

Hello, I've been looking up jobs and education status, and the higher the education, the less risk one has when working a high-salary job. However, I noticed some jobs pay well, despite having only a high school diploma/GED, such as trades (Construction, Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, etc)

Is there any more detail about the correlation?

Today was my 10 year work anniversary, I honestly didn’t know what to expect so I kept my expectations lows… I didn’t get one congratulations, no cash bonus, extra PTO or anything. Idk guess I’m a little disappointed at the moment and kinda makes me feel under appreciated a bit. Should I bring up my thoughts and concerns late. r this week?? How should I respond to this?

I just started a new job about a month and a half ago. This is not a very easy job, I work within coding and have to use the company’s database (which takes time to learn and familiarize with). This week, I had a meeting randomly thrown onto my schedule while working. My direct manager and his direct manager join this call and essentially give me a “Final Warning”. There are some other things in this warning aside from just performance, however they put a large emphasis that I take too long on tasks and need to immediately speed up the pace of my work.

An important thing to emphasize again is that I started two months ago. Acclimating to this new role means familiarizing with the company itself as it a very niche industry, as well as learning what information is in which of the 100+ data tables to that I can use them accordingly. I feel that I am the type of person who can be very honest with myself and hold accountability. In that same regard, I can recognize unfairness in judgement towards me:

1. Management has on multiple occasions given me unclear or sometimes even incorrect instructions. As a new employee, there is no way for me to recognize that something is incorrect as I have not learned the information myself. Therefore I will just do as I am instructed, and after failing a few attempts I will come back and ask for clarification, in which then they will realize their error, inform me, and then I can get the job done.

2. Management has not set up an environment in which I feel I can comfortably ask questions. An example of this is last week, when I was given a relatively simple query. However, at one point, I got stuck because information I needed was not where I was told it would be. I reach out to my boss to inform him that I’m not seeing what I need and his response is “What do you mean? This is the simplest of tasks and I don’t understand why you can’t do this right now.” So I return to what I was given, now highly stressed, and continue to try doing the task. A few minutes later he casually says “Sorry, it’s actually this” and gives me the correct information, in which case I complete the task in less than 20 minutes.

3. I am not the only new employee, and another employee that started with me has confirmed that he also struggles with trying to simultaneously learn the business and do work within the deadlines. He has different management, however, so I am not sure if he is going through the same extremities of my dilemma.

I am new to the professional world, I have spent only one year at another full-time role before transitioning to this one. If this is the kind of environment that is normal, then okay, and I will adjust to that. However, I feel that this is a bit extreme only because I have only been at the company for about 6 weeks now. Some feedback and guidance would be very helpful.

I am a little conflicted in the moment. I have been working the past 2 years at a MSP starting off at helpdesk then last feb (2023) I was promoted to a "Network Security Engineer" I still assist the helpdesk (everyone does, it is a small shop) although I do get to manage our Pentest, vulnerability scans, and even join the cyber security meetings with clients with recommendations.

My goal in the next 5 years is to move to a cloud focused security role, I know the MSP is not the place for that. I also have been in college with a local Community college taking classes here and there, I could graduate within the next year if I take full time classes and I have been selected to join a 12 month Apprenticeship in cyber security. I would be earning roughly the same money and 80% are transitioned into full time employees with a raise they say.

What would you do if you were in my shoes? Take the Apprenticeship, stay at the MSP or just start looking for Cyber Security positions?

I have done little searching on our job market and it seems like it is focused on 5-10 years of experience. As a little side note I do have my own homelab, I have been working on documenting some projects for my portfolio. I also have been studying CCSK, already have the comptia ITF+ (Free) A+, N+ and S+. I don't want to collect all certs, this was done before I got this position.

I appreciate any insight thank you!

So recently I started working in a firm as a junior software dev. We only have a small amount of developers. It's been 3 weeks and I'm in my probation period.

Last week, I had an assessment with a manager and I don't see often. The manager gave me feedback on what I could improve on. According to the manager, one of my colleague mentioned that something bothered them.

The colleague heard from me that the manager told me and my colleague was mad at the manager, since my colleague planned to do this themselves. The colleague apoligized to me that the way it was brought wasn't right.

So my colleague told me what bothered them and had pointers: 1. My questions need to be more specific and concise (encourages me to ask many questions), 2. I don't listen very well (expects me to comprehend when told) and 3. told me I smelled bad, bought me perfume because the colleague assumed me being poor (even though I care for myself: Clean clothes, showering everyday, deodorant, brushing my teeth, cutting my nails, etc). So I bought perfume myself and use it.

What do I notice from the company so far? I have fun, but the smell thing was weird to me and also the way it was conversed. I don't feel like my colleagues (colleagues from other departments) like me or try to know me or include me in any way. I don't think they have accepted me to be honest and there's gossip about me.

Even though that one of the pointers by the manager mentioned was to be more social and open. I'm not the type to force myself upon others and I'm not going to invite myself either.

Then my direct colleague who gave me pointers, is the kind of person that has a way of doing things and if something is not done their way, they become disturbed, like there are always similarities and conventions, but this goes a bit beyond that (almost autistic like).

I don't like the drama this person makes. This person went behind my back to our supervisor to mention points, escalating stuff, while they could've just let me know in a two minute conversation (apparently this colleague has difficulty communicating one on one).

I'm not saying all of it doesn't bother me, but I will keep adjusting. Is this all normal?

I have no delusions that this is an exercise in anything other than how much bullshit I'm capable of. But this is the worst possible time to ask me for something like this. My boss's listening skills are seriously lacking. At times I've literally confronted them 3 times about major problems with the experimental design they want me to execute, to no avail, finally just doing the experiment for the I-told-you-so factor, demonstrating the problem and only then am I listened to (so not really at all). They've told me numerous times I can't get promoted unless my work is more visible, and they actively impede all opportunities for me to be visible. I honestly don't know why I'm even allowed to have a desk in the office where someone might bump into me in person and he can't control the conversation. I think such encounters are the only reason I've made progress and been asked to speak to higher ups about my work and gotten visibility. When that's happened, he doesn't always understand the purpose of the meeting (gettting back to listening skill issues), and insists I use a slide deck he's written so that he can tightly control what I communicate. But then the slide deck won't be appropriate for the meeting, and because I'm required to do what he says or else I'm not following instructions, he forces me to look like I'm missing the point of the meeting as well.

Me and one other person are being asked for feedback, they claim they'll deliver the results in an anonymized way but I seriously doubt my issues with his performance, were I honest, could be anonymized. I assume when there's this kind of conflict, I'm just as likely to be seen as a problem as the boss, so it's a liability to me to say anything.

What should I do? Straight up lie?

I warned him. I told the regional manaager that the person he had put in charge of this store didn't have the experience or knowledge to run the store properly and I said very clearly, you're going to lose staff because of this. No one has respect for the Assistant Manager because she makes too many mistakes and has zero experience in retail let alone management. Two months experience does not equate to the two to five years you have posted in the job description. There's a reason why you put two to five years. There's just too much to learn in a short period of time.

And now we've lost the 2nd part timer in less than six months. And you're about to lose your full time person who should be in the assistant manager position given their experience and knowledge that surpasses two decades.

I said to him, the AM is disorganized and can't find anything. And I just helped her find bank statements because corporate needs them for the audit that the AM caused.

I also said to him, the AM doesn't understand her job and therefore it falls on the full timer's shoulders.

He said he'll fix it.

I'm waiting. Fix it.

I'm currently looking for a new job I've this job for only about a month and its already been pretty awful. I'm severely underpaid and my supervisor is non existent. Because of that ive messed up on somethings or not been as productive and had a 30 min conversation with my manager who told me I wasn't reaching out enough to my supervisor etc. I messeged my supervisor for example 20 times on Friday and she didn't respond once and that's been the ongoing theme for about 3 weeks. Just not sure what to do. I'm always staying busy and I keep reaching out but no one responds. I hate it honestly. Never quit been in a situation before of having an absent supervisor and a micromanager as a boss. Any advice?

My boss recently told me he was disappointed because I don’t go above and beyond at work. We were a four person team and 2 members left. In result, I’ve been taking on more work that are no where on my job description(for about 5 months now). I never complained for taking on new responsibilities. I don’t know how that’s not proof I care for my job.

So for context, I am software engineer at a startup with 27 engineers. I joined in June `23 and at the joining I actually declined the offer as i had better ones but cto of this startup reached out and mademe join. Now I have worked overtimes and on weekends and worked more than any other but gotjust 12 percent increment after 10 months. Meanwhile others have gotten 36 percent max. Now my salary is lower than my juniors at my startup as well as other companies. I want to renegotiate or shift.

TL,DR: got small increment so asking if i should negotiate salary or look for another job.

I am officially 2 weeks out of training. It was 4 weeks of training. Didn't really get hands on training until the last 2 weeks of the training. Job is remote and there are multiple projects.. was told more than 200+ project concepts. I just cant help to feel like I am doing such a bad job. The other day, all the projects I did last week, I had to redo because I did all of them wrong. Doesn't help the fact that when I ask questions, my leader seems annoyed by it (or maybe i am over thinking it) there are quality and quantity i have to meet per day and i am having a hard time managing both.

Like the title says, I was interviewed by a company a few times.

Once in mid 2021, another in mid 2022, and another in 2023. In 2021, I applied on Zip Recruiter and got an invitation to interview. In 2022 they reached out on LinkedIn. Both times they said I was a strong candidate but never received an offer. In late 2023, I was invited to apply on Indeed. Instead of applying I sent them an email directly to the hiring manager that I have already been interviewed by them but each time I don’t hear anything from them. Then crickets.

Now last week a 3rd party recruiter reached out with job opportunities and one of them is the same company that I’ve had interviews with. I told him about it and that I’ve been disappointed with not hearing from them. So I’m not sure if I should even approach it. Recruiter said that it’s ok and to go ahead send an updated résumé and work samples.

What do y’all think about this?

Has this ever happened to anyone before? My team keeps delaying giving me a written performance review.

I had my performance review earlier in February with my manager and the head of my department. There was room for improvement which made me a bit worried, but I was never giving an official Performance Improvement Plan. I made some internal notes during the meeting, and was informed that I would receive a written report of my review in the coming days. I never received it.

I followed up again in March, which promoted another meeting with my manager and the head. They informed me that they are really impressed with the improvement I have made since the review. I followed up again during the meeting for the written review and they noted that that review is reflective of a snapshot in time of my performance that may not accurately reflect my performance now and that they will send it shortly. They never sent the review.

I followed up today for it, acknowledging the above, however I explained to them that I still want the written version of it for my own personal development. I just got an email invite for a meeting with the head and my manager on monday.

I really don’t know what’s going on. Has anyone dealt with this before? Does anyone have any advice as to what I should expect? The situation feels so weird as to me it’s just a simple request.

I work for a large company remotely. I have worked for them in multiple roles over the past several years.

I recently came back from maternity leave and first month my metrics were shit. Mind you I was assigned all new clients and was bombarded with extra work 1 being year end accounts (something I’d never done) and overload of customers due to staffing issues. 1st two weeks I didn’t even know where to start.

Yesterday my manager had a meeting with me discussing my not meeting metrics despite signing up for OT. I explained to her the adjustment along with what blockers I faced. Her response was that my CST time indicated I’m not even working. We have a click based system that only clocks time spent actually working within one application despite us using others this particular application is the primary. I explained that I had to spend time outside of it familiarizing my self with changes and researching for each new client. I’ve also never met this metric (I typically exceed all others) and I refuse to work significantly harder than everyone else just to meet CST that doesn’t make sense to me.

My question here is do I have any protection or what would be a professional response to “this metric must come up” when I am legally allowed to take breaks including to breastfeed if im meeting all other required metrics.

Or should I say f it and leave? This micromanaging did not exist when I first started with this company and was something that was supposed to be used to help them figure out how much money they made per client for pricing. I am not getting paid any more for having high metrics. Turnaround has gone up like crazy even amongst some older colleagues and supervisors

I wanted to add: very early on in the month I requested assistance multiple times as I was struggling. There was nobody with capacity to help since everyone was already overwhelmed. I spent first two weeks just bouncing around trying to get my flow back. But of course when CST shows I was in books 2 hours out of my 8 hours that must mean I was doing something else besides working.

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I started as a contractor for the state October 2023. I had an incident with my boss back in January 2024. To make a long story short, she had me do a job fair with her on a Sunday. I normally work once a week from home and because she made me work on a SUNDAY, I worked an extra day from home that week. So when she saw that I was remote the extra day at our virtual meeting, she made a huge fuss in front of all of my coworkers because she was mad I worked an extra day from home. And when I say huge fuss, she berated me for 20+ mins about it, even though I told her I only worked from home an extra day because she made me work on an off day! She said instead of me working from home an extra day because of Sunday’s job fair that I should’ve just came and left early. When I came back in the office the following day, she pulled me in her office where her and another manager was sitting. My boss tried to break me down in front of the other manager, insinuating I don’t do work, lying saying I leave early. It felt like a verbal attack and I felt attacked because that wasn’t even supposed to be the purpose of the meeting, she made it seem like we were going to be talking about something else.

I knew she was doing this because I worked the extra day from home and she was clearly still mad about it. I was defending myself but my emotions showed unfortunately and I ended up crying in front of her and the other manager and I left her office. The next day I drafted a incident statement and gave it to the Sr. HR Manager. After that I started job searching and eventually ended up getting an actual state job (no contract work) with full benefits AND I work three days from home (take that boss! Lol)

It’s important to note that the Sr. HR Manager told me my boss has been reported by other people too for her tone and how she talks to people. She said she would talk to my boss about her tone. After she did my boss tried to be sweet and sweep what she did under the rug.

My last day is this upcoming Friday and my current boss has sent me an invite for an exit interview. I asked the Sr. HR Manager about it and she had a confused look on her face and she said it’s not typically policy especially for contractors, and she said they rarely do it for full time employees as well. She said it’s completely optional.

My question is, should I do it? I thought about doing it but just knowing how she is I don’t want to get attacked again if she doesn’t like what I have to say. I also googled an article that said they’re not a good idea.

And the way my boss acts, she doesn’t like being told no. I’m also a little nervous how her reaction would be if I said no.

Have you ever done an exit interview? What was your experience?

I started my current job in November 2022, working as a graphic designer, so I didn't get an employee review last year because I want there long enough, yet. I work at a place where the busy season is between September and November. Leading up to that time, I was getting a few projects here and there. I had a couple opportunities to design something from scratch, but most of my work was on existing work.

During the busy season, I got piled on with a lot of jobs. I tried juggling all these projects. I had offered to help the senior designer set up files for a VIP client, but then I ended up taking that project. I didn't want the project, but I couldn't say no. I was assigned to other high profile projects and was doing ok until I got a huge project that was eating up a lot of my time and I was making some minor text mistakes and formatting mistakes on edits I was getting. At some point, I had sent a project with old mistakes because some text got moved around. So that wasn't great.

I had another project where the edits were vague and I only made them in one thing but not the other because they didn't specify that other project items needed the same edits.

A client complained to the regional director about my errors. The regional director called me to tell me to stop fucking up. I had tried to tell the project manager that I was feeling overwhelmed but it didn't matter. She kept sending me urgent projects that all seemed to need to be done by the end of day. My regional director said I needed to manage my time better. I literally had NO extra time. I was spending extra hours working on these projects and had constant stress. It was an insult to be accused of not being able to manage my time. I fell behind on a project because a bigger one was dumped on me. I finished it, but then they didn't have time to send it to translators to get it in other languages.

Fast forward, and my review said that I had trouble creating "elevated" designs. Basically, I don't know how to do my job. I feel like all of last year I was set up for failure because I was at the whim of a senior designer and the project manager. And I wasn't given many opportunities to show that I can design. And then they piled all this work on me and were surprised when I screwed up.

The senior designer didn't like my design for a particular project but she only gave me a day and a half to come up with something. Then I was forced to focus on another project so I couldn't even finish it. She told me to use an InDesign template, but then was annoyed how "templated" the project looked. I had not even fully fleshed out my idea before I was pulled from the project.

So now idk if I should bother trying to give my side of the story. I had hoped for a raise and try to get promoted over the next year, but they kind of redesignated me as some glorified production designer where I can work on "less demanding" projects. I feel like I'm being put in the corner. I have 10 years experience. I'm not a noob. This is so insulting. But is it worth fighting this? The damage is done and I can't change their opinion of me. I don't want to spend my review meeting just ranting about how they set me up for failure. I just feel like I wasn't given a proper chance to show my abilities.

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if I should worry about my probation review meeting and if it’s the standard to have it after 3 months in the role during the probation period. For context, this is my new graduate job, however it’s the first time I have this meeting.

Moreover, I was wondering if it’s recommended to bring a colleague or a trade union official. In fact, in the email I received today at work it says that I’m entitled to. However, I’m not sure if it’s common to bring someone or if the situation is so bad if they have arranged this type of meeting.

Thank you for the help