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over 6 months ago

I wonder?

Wat would the world be like if jobs actually treated the employees like they matter

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Haroun Bangura
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over 6 months ago

What I loved working at #Eatoncorporation

I love working.for Eaton corporation the people i work with are very nice and helpful. The teach and.train you well on job performance with high tech marchingry e.g. akuma" makino" G&L with most CNCmerchines they make sure you get proper training.

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Beth johnson
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over 6 months ago

What I loved working at #BarrettLawnCare

Barrett Lawn Care truly cares about their employees. The training and empowerment lead by the owners challenged me to become a better employee and a better person. Every aspect of customer service is number one and is obvious when it comes to customer relations and service.

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Steve Gregory
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over 6 months ago

Lollicup USA

Hi All, I have just joined a terrific company that is growing at a very rapid rate. Great culture with great people. Lollicup USA is a food services company that offers a broad range of support products. We have a production facility in Chino CA and another new facility just opening near Dallas TX. If you're looking for work, I highly recommend Lollicup. Go online and navigate. Please don't ask me to get you a job. Good luck!

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Daniel Fuller
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over 6 months ago

PSA: If your job seems like a ticking time bomb, it probably is

Story time!

A while back, I had a job with a small business in the exciting(not really) world of real estate title clearing. Went somewhat well for close to three years, despite the toxic environment, both literally and figuratively. The place was a dump, and management was mostly incompetent friends of the owner's kids.

When he put his wife in charge, she put everybody under the microscope, and hated what she saw at every turn. She fired half the staff, and about half of who was left quit. I was among those, despite having a pretty cushy gig as a team lead at the time. I was so desperate to get out, I took a minimum wage call center job.

When the HR for my old gig called me up and offered to bring me back at near double pay and give my team full departmental autonomy, I should have known it was too good to be true. Three months later, the owner's wife calls me up for a meeting. Without the owner or any managers present, she unceremoniously cans me, saying that my performance wasn't up to par anymore and I seemed jaded. Jaded, maybe, but I was pumping out about 90% of my old volume of work while handling client relations(entire team fired except one person), helping with abstracting(half of department fired), and helping with online tax orders(75% of department fired, roughly, including some of the best we had). So, I make her look me in the eyes and promise that my team will be well taken care of, then walked off the property without another word.

She lied, of course. The company has since lost the building I worked out of, as well as a rental office nearby, and satellite offices in three states, according to one ex-coworker who stuck around until about a month ago. Thank God I found Android Headlines and was writing after work at the time. The webmaster invited me to go full time for the site, and I haven't looked back. Others in my situation may not be so lucky.

Moral of the story, if your job seems like a ticking time bomb or too toxic to stay in, it probably is, and you should get out (and/or stay out). Even if jobs are scarce in your area, even if you have to get something just to survive on in the mean time. Don't be afraid of pulling the trigger like I was - I pretty much had to be forced to make the jump to freelance writing as a primary job after years of dreaming and scheming and researching, and I'm glad it happened.

P.S. Probably common knowledge, but for those who don't know, if you have a job and easily explainable reasons for wanting out of it, you look better to interviewers than somebody who's jobless and penniless. I got that call center gig after a 10 minute competency test and 5 minute interview, for example, and the interviewer said she was impressed with my current role and expected to see me ascend to a similar position with her company in short order. I almost regret going back to old company's name redacted because trash-talking old bosses isn't the point of this post. Almost.

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Hannah Leonard
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over 6 months ago

My overall experience

I worked as a full time volunteer through a school program for aspiring vets, and it was a really great experience overall, I got to be hands on with animals and I learned a lot, and it was exciting to be that much closer to my dream job as an avian vet. However, when I worked there, several of the staff and other techs (I never did find out who) made up lies about me and reported me to my supervisor, and I almost got fired and blacklisted from every other clinic in the area. None of the techs talked to me about my alleged misdemeanors, choosing instead to report me without me ever knowing that I did something wrong. Luckily my supervisor has known me for years and believed me, but it just really irked me that they would tell blantant lies about me and almost crushed my chances at becoming a tech or a vet anywhere in the county. It was fun and exciting and I loved it, and when my dog got lost they helped me find him, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the betrayal of my coworkers. I’ve quit since then for health issues, but that was what it was like for the three months I worked there.

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Yvonne Requenez
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over 6 months ago

Strength

I loved my last job. I gained experience as well as self growth. What I didn't like about my last job is that I never expected it to turn into a high school type of atmosphere. If you weren't part of a group you were a part of anything. I even heard my director make comments about clients that maybe he shouldn't have. I learned to ignore and always did what I had to do but it got more difficult when I was called fat or porker or even pig. Walking away was the hardest thing I ever did.

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Jack Campbell
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over 6 months ago

My advice to people interested in working at #GeneralElectric as a #MaterialHandler ...

Be quick and learn to use both hands frequently. Attendance is a big deal. Have fun and make friends because at the end of the day everyone is in it together.

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Robert Richmond
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over 6 months ago

Be Yourself

I was released during probation at my last job at a prison. I taught Anger Management, and Parenting Skills to male inmates. I was released because my supervisor told me I was not strict enough on the inmates. However, I taught inmates who volunteered for the training, who were generally behaved and attentive. To act like a prison security officer was not necessary or supportive of my goals for training. I was in rehabilitation, not punishment. My supervisor was in her 70's and set in her ways. I hated leaving that job but it was untenable for me to be caustic and threatening.

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Alan Ragbir
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over 6 months ago

My advice to people interested in working at #Southernglazerswinespirit as a #Cdlclassbdriver ...

it is a great company with lots of benefits and room to move up the chain and they sure take care of there employes

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