I still hear this excuse many times whenever there is poor service and long wait times yet I know people who have applied at some of these places and they get told that they're not hiring. Years ago I worked at a place and they preferred working the few employees they had to death rather than hire two or three more which were needed.

I’ve been out of a job for 7 months now. I’ve put in numerous applications, many interviews but can’t land a job. I’ve blown through savings with $1,000 left in the bank. I’m homeless and just got another rejection email. I’m at the point of there is no way out of this hell hole. So this is what you get when you do everything right in life… I have an associates, 2 bachelors and a masters, no criminal record and worked my tail off for this…??? This isn’t a life, I’m done!!!

anyone else think this is weird? i applied for the same position a month ago and this wasn't on there..

I am from California and moved for a new job in NYC. everything went great, I got a sweet offer with a sweet sign up bonus. it's a hybrid role but it would've been a great career move for me.

then I broke my apartment's lease, sold my car and some other stuff, and got an apartment and signed for it and everything in NYC. obviously I went to NYC for a bit to find a place.

got to NYC about a week before my new job start date to furnish my apartment and all that. then BOOM! the Friday right before the Monday I was supposed to start, the company sent me an email saying they are withdrawing the job offer. now I'm jobless, living off of my savings and possibly might have to sell my stocks at a loss just to survive while trying to find a new job

(24male) I’m work for a bridge making company, I do everything from welding, fitting, custom fab, to running a beam line. I really enjoy it and it’s the highest paying job I’ve ever had. I work on 2nd shift which is no problem for me. But I work with only three other people, my foreman (23 male), another worker (25 male. And another worker who is (40 male). I really like working first shift, but I can’t go to first because the company needs me on 2nd. While working on 2nd I have to deal with my foreman and the 25yr old. They are both fine one on one with me but when they are together they think they own the place. Constantly talking shit to me and I guess bullying me. This is really my first time being bullied I guess but I don’t do anything about it because I don’t want to loose my job or cause any more conflict. I just stay quiet while they mess with me. Which I don’t understand how they do that when I give no reaction every time. It’s so bizarre to me. I don’t want to tell management because I feel that would make my situation worse, I’ve only worked here for 9 months. Those two people have worked there for just 2 years. I want to leave for a new job but I don’t want to loose they pay that I’m making. I know my health is the most important for me. But I’m about ready to quit and move on to the next job. But I really don’t want to loose this pay I’m getting.

I got fired from my last position almost a year ago, and ever since then life has gone down hill. We got evicted, had to move states, and now I live in one bedroom on an air mattress with my parents. After 15 interviews in 2 months, I had a 2nd interview yesterday and the manager offered me a position! And my dad has a 2nd interview at another place on Monday. They sent me the welcome email last night. I'm so beyond happy right now it feels like things are finally turning around for my family.

I applied for a job that is the same thing I’ve been doing for the past 3 years, which is an audit quality reviewer. The job I applied for pays 65k. During the interview, I was told “we usually don’t hire reviewers with no audit experience.” They wanted to bring me on as an auditor at 55k, and then “discuss” making me a reviewer after 6 months.

I explained I made 55k at my current job, and was looking more in the 60-70k range.

She said we can get you to the 55-58k range for the auditor role.

So the offer comes in at 55k. I counter and ask for 58k and specifically say the hiring manager told me we could get me to the 55-58k range, and that I’m asking to be on the higher end of that range because I have 3 years as a reviewer already AND they made me take an auditor assessment and got a 100% and the hiring manager said, “I didn’t expect you to do that well on the assessment. We have people who have been doing audits for years who don’t do that well.” I wanted to say no shit, I already told you this has been my job for the past three years. But whatever.

So when I countered for 58k I figured it’s only 3k more, literally like a 5% bump from the original offer, I can’t imagine they’ll be so stingey as to not say sure give it to her, whatever.

I’m honestly so insulted by this counter offer. Am I being dramatic? Is this a red flag? This whole thing makes me not trust that they’re going to “discuss” making me a reviewer at 65k in six months, which is 1. the job I applied to and 2. the job I’m perfectly qualified for.

Can I get others’ opinions on this please? Should I take this job in the hopes of making 65k 6 months from now or is this a sign of times to come?

Edit: did the math wrong on the % bump originally

Okay so little context. Graduated in December 24 with an IT degree. Spent 5 months NONSTOP job hunting. In the first month I probably applied to around 80-100 jobs and finally had a somewhat serious opportunity with a company.

I interviewed 2 rounds. 1 screen and 1 technical for a remote IT role tier 1. (Never actually saw anyone). Was offered the job and was actually excited, but it turned out to be a scam. Only thing they got was a photo of the front side of my license. Already reported them and got a new license

Fast forward 4 months and I landed an actual fact checked/ certified company remote tier 1 analyst role. The offer came in at just the right time. Started Home Depot in next week.

Little TMI, I have separation anxiety being away from my dog for too long so I feel eternally grateful for a remote role. I’m sorry for those that are struggling. Stay positive, people/ your future coworkers want to be around others that are optimistic.

Sorry if this isn’t the right subreddit, Im just excited

Hi ! I’ve been on a job hunt for the past two months & haven’t heard back from anywhere. I’m getting really discouraged. How can I get a call back ? It feels like every where it says that they are hiring but they never do 🥲

After college, I had two job interviews and passed both. One company offered me a position right away. The pay wasn't great, the hours were limited, and it came with a contract, but it was a guaranteed job.

The second company had a better offer on the table-higher pay and full-time work—but it came with a catch: I had to complete a two-week onboarding process before they'd officially hire me. The onboarding was paid, and it felt like a chance worth taking. So, I took the risk and turned down the first job.

Unfortunately, due to bad weather and delays, that two-week process stretched into a month. When it was finally over, I didn't pass. And by that point, the first company had stopped hiring.

Now, four months later, I'm still searching for a job. My savings are running low, loan payments are starting to hit, and I'm preparing to move back in with my parents just to stay afloat. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that in this job market, you simply cannot afford to take risks. It's brutal out here.

I'm 25, unemployed, and can't even afford to take my girlfriend out for a decent night. It's hard not to feel like a failure. I took a chance trying to aim higher, and now I feel like I'm starting over-worse off than before.

I don't know if this is the right subreddit to go to but, I'm feeling lost rn because im 21 I feel like I have no real skills, or motivation. I work at 6-11 part time which leaves me tired the rest of the day because my sleeping habits are dookie. Then I'm currently in training to be a sales advisor for bst by ( idk if company names are allowed) but I'm feeling like i don't know much about tech to even be good at it, but I'm just trying to learn basics about the stuff they sell. And now im just feeling like I wanna quit both jobs and move somewhere different, but I have no money or car rn to do so. Some advise please

Keep in mind, my time frame of learning was just under two months and the expectation was for me to be ready to run the small family owned business for a week while the owners went out of town for a trade show later this month. In all that time, I was studying company engine parts, how they did day to day business, phone calls, emails, pricing, packaging, invoicing products, bookkeeping, online store, personal vendors, all on and off the clock. No one else to help me other than the business owner's wife who taught me at first, but started reverting to phrases like "I've taught you this once already" and "google it" if I didn't give her the right answer or asked any bigger questions to try understanding better. Then she called me in yesterday saying she appreciated my efforts, as they liked the dedication I had shown and had originally hired on someone for who (in their description,) was inexperienced but teachable. However, backhandedly said I didn't learn fast enough nor have the passion to keep me on and the termination was to be immediate. So, this small company is back down a person now and I'm currently out of a job. The only win I have out of this is their own trademark product comes from manufacturers overseas; so for the first and only time, I'm happy someone is getting hit hard with tariffs.

Hello,

I been unemployed for over a year with no luck applying for any jobs. I have 5+ years dispatch / customer service experience but I burned out and ended up with a resume full of jobs that didn't last 2-3 months after my main job of 4 years. I was having existential crisis at age 30, I'm 31 now and 1.5 months ago started dating a beautiful girl who has 2 beautiful babies. We want me to be in the step father role but I'm too broke. I have like 1600 dollars left and I'm pretty much gonna run out of money any day here. I'm not even gonna have gas money to go pick her up anymore, let alone go on any dates. I'm depressed as you can possibly get. I am a failure, and no job will take me seriously. I don't remember it ever being this hard to get a job, it use to be as simple as getting a call center job and that was no problem. I have no idea what to do, I ran out of time. I failed her, and I hadn't had any intimacy in years prior to meeting her. She's gonna stick with me no matter what, but I can't even be myself knowing how badly I failed everyone. I don't want to be here, but I won't leave and abandon her. I need a way to make income, but it seems the competition is too fierce and I've fallen far behind with my perceived job hopper resume. I'm screwed

Update: 95 percent of you guys have been so helpful and so appreciated dearly in terms of ideas and encouragement. The other 5 percent who want to fixate on my relationship decisions and such are an odd bunch and are clearly not happy with their own dating lives. But I'm glad I made the post to get so many recommendations from the vast majority, thanks from the bottom of my heart :)

I’m on a time crunch to land a job and when one of my seniors told me to use this ats tool, jobscan.I even spent like $89 bucks to get premium access. I uploaded my most refined resume. I’ve 10 years of experience so it went over 2 pages. And when I scanned the resume, it gave me suggestions like ‘you don’t have education section” and I clearly did. I checked the format of heading and normal text too. And it had some ai functionality to rewrite the resume and it literally took only first 3 experiences and ignored the rest and it took one of my education degrees. Like what the hell. Another thing I thought might have been an issue is that I worked internationally in different countries and have a degree. So I assumed it doesn’t consider other countries except from USA. But it missed some of my US experiences too.

So to check it’s validity or whatever, I downloaded the resume the tool generated and uploaded it and it gave a score of 48. And my face was like 😑 I don’t usually spend this much so after the failure of an attempt I just cancelled the subscription.

So, please tell me how to move forward. Are there other tools that might me helpful. So I just consult a resume specialist. I hope there are free tools. I don’t really want to spend this much money when I’m not even earning anything.

Okay so I got an interview today and I’m not quite sure how to prepared for this one. I have no experience in being a cashier this will be at Buffalo Wild Wings. I have 3 years of experience working in fast food and 6 months of being a cleaning associate. So like how should I prepare for this? Like I know how to answer some questions but not sure how I’ll do this one. Also my availability would be 11am-close, every day of the week, week ends, holidays.

Good managers are rare these days.

Title. I live in a rural small town that has a naval base in Nevada and it’s a bit rough to get a job right now.

1. The towns small so all the good jobs get taken fast.
2. My current circumstances (at home with parents) haven’t, I felt, allowed me to find a job again. Though I do want to work. I really do. i.e. my parents are getting older, my physical health isn’t the greatest (diabetic, depression, lack of muscle mass because of heath problems and not working, I’ve had back surgery so not really helpful in manual labor jobs.)
3. The employers are picky. Like real picky about new hires.
4. The jobs here in town are very specific to were I don’t have the qualifications for it. Either at the naval base, or at the hospital, or just my current circumstances of needing certain days off, always the car situation, our cars always need some work on them.

Every time I try to find a job is either an inopportune time, or just doesn’t work out.

Any advice or help with anything guys?

Hey Jobs subreddit!

I'm 25, I have an MBA and 3 years of work experience in luxury goods and international sales I live in a big city and all my friends and everyone around me are making $75k and think that's low.

I've never even SEEN a job listing that I would qualify for that pays at least half of that. My annual salary right now is barely $30k with all the bonuses and all, and I thought that was good. I can afford rent and groceries and I dine out like once a week. Can't go on vacation though or save any money.

I'm so confused, any idea what the problem could be?

I finally FINALLY found a job, after months of zero work since December. I was one out of 200 candidates. Maybe it was my knowledge of basic fashion and the adhd meds, I don't know. The pay is 12 dollars an hour and part time stocking, but damnit I got a job. It's going to bore me to death but I'll do what I can with it. Hopefully next I can get work in RBT and pay my own rent.

I hope the rest of find a job and get through this too.

...it is literally killing me. My "official" hours are 11am to 7pm, but there's just so much work to do I end up starting earlier in the day (9am, 8am, 7am even) and then I end at around 2 or 3am. This is getting to be a daily thing, and what cracks me up is my manager saying "I notice you've been doing OT (overtime) a lot now". Why IS that, do you think? My office bestie says don't be a hero, when it hits 7 just leave. I said, I'm NOT being a hero, you know I have stuff outside of work, what I'm doing is the BARE MINIMUM just to keep my head above water, plus, I know I'm the first link in a chain: if I'm late with my deliverables, everybody waits for me to finish, everybody gets delayed. "So?" she says. "Make `em wait! They should adjust to you." I don't know, I just can't do that.

I don't know what golden touch or lucky charm my boss has but he is literally bringing in more clients than ever before -- and EVERYBODY is doing the work of at least 2 people each (office bestie is doing the work of 3 people). My own work (I manage a team of 5) also crosses into other departments not primarily my own so I guess you could say I'm also "multitasking on steroids". We don't get healthcare because employee benefits are not a thing in the country my company is based in, meanwhile, I'm literally paying through the nose for healthcare cos my long hours are starting to make me sick (like my blood pressure is going up that kind of thing). My doctors tell me I need to get more sleep and eat right ~ sounds pretty basic but obviously they have no idea what it's like to work in marketing x advertising lol.

I am GRATEFUL for my job. I had to pray so much for it, because at my age (let's face it, the workplace is ageist) there was no way I was going to get hired really unless by some miracle. It's just... well you see how it is. And what really kills me is the long hours kind of don't leave me time outside of work to do other things... (And here we have some tech exec in the news saying anybody who looks for work-life balance isn't committed to their job or success or something like that) In spite of me really needing the money (landlady's raising the rent + maintenance meds), I've tried to resign (twice), but my boss says don't resign, we can TALK about it instead -- yeah well, while we're talking, my body is THIS close to giving way. Monday again tomorrow, and I think I'm starting to dread it -- I spend Saturdays reeling / trying to recover from the week (especially Thursday night and all of Friday because those are the busiest days) -- and in physical therapy LOL (because I ache all over from the long hours at my desk) -- then I spend Sunday thinking "tomorrow, I have to do it (the weeklong gauntlet) all over again" </3

And even if I do quit (OR get fired because I am barely keeping up / slowing down already because they keep dumping more and MORE work on me (I tried to get some work off my plate, but manager says "oh no, I prefer you still do it because you're just so much better at (blah blah bullsht)" -- where will I go? Who is gonna hire this broken old granny in an industry where the work is done by AI and the 20-somethings? I'm trying to keep my chin up and just smile, you know? And stay grateful? Which I am? But... ...yeah

Outside of Electrical Engineering, Automation and Software Engineering positions, what are the job titles that I can apply to have a better shot as a junior please? Thanks

I started a job in retail management a couple days ago 2 months after being laid off from my last job. This job being a mess is an understatement. The workers all were new because of high turnover, and the perks offered to me (40 hours, health insurance, every other weekend off, sick time) were all incorrect, I was maxed out at 34 hours, health insurance was a joke, and the every other weekend off and sick time were a lie. The managers also weren’t training me, and were expecting me to know how to do everything within a week to run a shift. The final straw came when the manager asked if I was (r-word) in front of me when I asked where something went. I thankfully had another job offer that was M-F 8-4 this past Friday, and signed my acceptance letter to start there and did onboarding. I wish I would’ve just waited for that offer and not worked at this store, but being unemployed scared me.

Is my resume good ? What should I add or take out ? I should say that the only jobs I’m looking for is like retail or the food industry because I’m still in school & need a flexible schedule. Any tips will be appreciated! ☺️