I guess this isn't really a question but more of a rant.
Lunch meetings should be rare, only if completely necessary and at most once a month. I now have several per WEEK, sometimes every day. They think they are being nice by bringing in sandwiches or pizza. Sometimes it's just cookies...
Wednesday I start my Citizen's Emergency Response Training, mostly because I qualified and have the free time. It's 2 months of fairly intensive training, about 80 hrs.
Is this something I should add to a resume along with other certifications like OSHA safety training and licensure? It's not...
I just got rejected from a job prospect as an outside home improvement sales consultant. It's pretty far from my experience, but I have a a friend who works there and thinks I'd be good at the job. I can't even begin to imagine what I answered on the test that was so wrong. There was nothing...
I knew my last job was not a good place for me, even before they terminated my employment at the end of the year. I started talking to a recruiter who specializes in my field months before I was let go. I feel like I am being put through the ringer. So far I have,
1. Been interviewed over...
I haven't seen a Christmas bonus since maybe 2007, until this year. My boss left this on my desk.
Just curious if anyone is seeing Christmas bonuses. Don't say how much, especially if it was a good one. Just an informal survey…
"Gorgeous hair is the best revenge." Ivana Trump
I have a Client (Developer) who used whiteout and pencil to significantly alter a printout of a detail design that I had issued. It was then scanned and issued to the Contractor in electronic format with my firm's letterhead and my initials still intact, as if it had come from us. I was not...
I want to. I just don't know if I should do it as a surprise, or let them know ahead of time. I can't count on the boss. The bad manager is still sore about being proven wrong and the HR weenie just goes with the side with the power. I've got no allies on the inside and want to bring in my...
I have a bad, bad manager. I have decided that I will most likely leave the company as soon as I can, but need to survive until that is possible. This senior manager is almost 70 years old. I've worked with people older who were quite competent, but this one is not. The only reason I even...
I tanked the budget for an assigned project, a leak investigation on 5-building complex. I finished up the bulk of the report on Friday. I'm not 100% done and already over-budget by about 50%. It’s not completely my fault. The budget was set and partially used up before I was hired. I came...
I did some destructive testing on a building and found some non-conforming construction. There were no weep holes or base flashing at the bottom of a brick veneer exterior wall. The California Building Code (based on UBC) clearly states that weep holes and base flashing are to be installed at...
My current resume is ordered starting from most recent experience back to about 12 years ago. I’ve been unemployed for 10 months and according to the government, I am considered ‘long-term’ unemployed. I’d like to include my most recent work to diffuse any misconception by potential employers...
I am currently working as an unpaid intern for a local industrial arts school so that I can take some welding classes and have the fee waived. Part of my duties were recently expanded to include charging credit cards, approving checks and taking cash for studio rents and tuition and fees from...
While unemployed, I have been looking for ways to fill my time with projects. I now have an opportunity to work as a volunteer for The Crucible, a non-profit creative arts and education facility that has classes in stone cutting, metal working, foundry, electronics, kinetics, sculpture, fire...
Billed primarily as fashion help for women lawyers, consultants and corporate types, this website has some good information for dressing the part and answering difficult interview questions. There is a new topic every day. Today's topic is the follow up thank you after your interview, do you...
The reason I ask is that I recently testified as an expert in court. I had been talking with the attorney outside of the courtroom just prior to my testimony about what I had been doing since being laid off and going into private consulting. I mentioned that I did a photo shoot as one of the...
I finally got a chance to file for my unemployment today. One of the questions was whether my employer gave me a packet on unemployment. My employer didn’t give me squat. No severance, no COBRA packet, no EDD packet, no termination letter, no recommendation letter and no information for what...
Why is it when someone has been laid off, it instantly renders them invisible?
I got the word this morning, I’m out of a job. But I have to stay on for a week or two until my testimony as an expert in an on-going trial is completed. I told my office partner and one co-worker who has been...
I don’t really want to get into a great deal of detail, but I am fairly certain, say 91%, that a coworker let the air out of one of my tires yesterday. Tire was fine, not even low when I left home and drove to work. Went to my car in the afternoon to run an errand to find the front passenger...
There are numerous industry events over the holidays and they are usually pretty tame affairs. But there was one where a very drunk client of my SO’s (significant other) was ALL OVER him. She jumped into every photo we tried to have taken of the two of us, and then insisted on a ‘private...
I was recently asked to be a regular house dancer at a Middle Eastern restaurant in San Francisco, a somewhat high profile gig in front of large windows facing a very busy intersection.
My dance gigs in the past have been fairly obscure festival or private events, thus little chance for an...
