I had two great interviews. Invited back to meet the team and informed I would be offered a position. Recruiter contacted me and we appeared to come to an agreement as to compensation. Two days later, I'm told they want to look at other candidates. Some say, they likely couldn't afford your salary but I would expect a counter offer if that was the case. Thoughts?

I mean, it's still all good when oneself may just know though, the true fact that everything may or just will just be alright, you know what I'm saying? But throughout the experience of just wasting time in life though, I mean Wow, I mean when you hear that the worst happens to good people. Yo it's that's serious and the truth. So I would just encourage people to try to stay focused in whatever and everything it is that you have to do. And just be careful with the most obvious known thing happening throughout situations, which is people just doing what they know best( sometimes I guess, which also just means, all the time.) Which is be or serve as nothing but distractions. People just try to stay focused. Thank you and God bless you to. Peace and 1.

I have been in retail for over 15 years and my current company for nearly two years. I work in our ladies departments (10) as a sales associate. Recently the Team Lead was promoted to Ladies Departments Manager. I expressed my interest in being appointed the new Team Lead and both the store manager and ladies departments managers talked to me like I was going to be promoted. I was told I’d have 40 hours each week, a scheduled day off and to delegate projects to others. I was not officially given the job. Yesterday I was informed and met a new hire, the Team Lead. After many previous conversations with the managers, I can’t help but feel cheated by not getting the promotion. I am mature, outgoing, know our store completely and have great repeat customers that I’ve cultivated for the past two years. I am always willing to come in early, stay late and help in other departments. I feel like looking for another job, where I can grow and be promoted within the company. The new hire is very young and was applying for a cashier job. I am certain that my qualifications are superior and I’m frustrated that someone outside the company was chosen over me. Any ideas or suggestions?

My downhill spiral started about 2 years ago. I got a DUI in Joshua tree CA which cost me my job as a delivery driver at pizza hut. I was also put on federal probation. Eventually under the pressure of my situation I started to buckle. After a year on probation my dad and I got in a fight and I was kicked out of my house. I proceeded to live in my car and stopped showing up to my probation stuff. I was violated on probation and sentenced to 2 months in prison. Weeks before this I caught a domestic violence case against my ex because of some my own stupidity. Once I got out of prison I got a job at a Carl's jr and was sleeping in a van in a parking lot. I hated that job and quit after about 4 months, all the while still having to go to domestic violence classes, mountains of debt and court fees that I dont have the money for. No valid license, my Van's registration is now expired as well. I got a great job in rialto working at a warehouse but after 2 weeks they ran my background check and fired me because of the domestic violence. I'd further express how I feel about all this shit but it isn't suitable anyone who still has a soul.

Need some other opinions on what to do.

I was an IT Director for 6 and half years at a law firm making good money. While I was on vacation, I got a call from my boss saying the owner does not want me to come back to the office on Monday and I was no longer needed. I was terminated without any real reason. I then was told I would be given a month severance pay, which I thought was low after being there for such a long time. I counter offered and asked for 3 months thinking I would meet in the middle. To my surprise the severance pay was taken off all together. While I was there the job itself day to day was stressful. On call 24x7 for users and other job duties. The work environment was becoming very toxic with very low moral. There are alot more details to say but not wanting to bore each of you with details.

So, right now I was able to work with someone I have know for a long time helping them with some projects. Making half of what I was making before and not having all of the stress and other issue I once was having. There might be opportunity to make the same money I was making but I could be a year or longer to get there.

The other day I got a call from my old boss begging me to come it to see why the company who was working on the IT system could not fix a issue with one of the servers. I was going to get paid to do this and while, against my better judgement and they way I was treated by the owner I went in to help my old boss (a good friend of mine who also will be let go shortly). Was able to get the system back up and running rather quickly.

Here is where my issue is. Before I left the office, my old boss asked me to come to here office. She informed me that the owner thinks he made a mistake in letting me go and wanted to offer my job back. I told her I would really have to think about this and I would not come back with out getting an increase in my salary. She thought the number was fair and should be able to get done. My dilemma do I go back to this environment which is stressful and toxic making more money. Or do I stay with the person I am doing the projects with making half of what I was making. With out all of the BS and the stress and hope over time I can get back to the amount I once was making?

I am really not sure what I the best thing to do. Be worried that I go back to the old employer and have the same issues as before not to mention be stress out I could be let go at anytime, but make good money or stay the way I am and see if this job pans out.

Thank you for reading this and helping me out.

For those of you who have written about being scammed by fake Cardinal Health and others for a remote job:

I worked remotely about 15 years ago for a company called CORT business services. The division I worked for was called Relocation Central. I worked at this job for 4 years while my kids were babies. At that time (15 years ago) they paid $15. They provided full benefits, and paid a stipend to help you set up a home office. If you didn’t have a computer, they would buy you one and you could pay it off in installments taken out of your check.

I just looked on the CORT website and that job is posted. It’s a sales job, so you must have a sales background and/or real estate experience. Good luck!

I will keep this short, but I have been on here since being laid off since March of this year. I assumed the job search would not be as difficult as I have experience in Telecom/IT. I was wrong. I admit I did get some offers to contract, but they were out of state and I could not work those positions as I am a single father and my youngest son just entered high school. I finally got a position with Delta Global Services (DGS). It is subsidiary of Delta Airlines. I walked in, had an interview on the spot next thing I am going through the background/ Drug Test process. Low and Behold I just picked up my airport badge yesterday and training will start next week. I know here in the Atlanta area they are taking walk ins like crazy!! So contact me and I will give you the location information. I wont be making with I was before but, that is ok I just needed to get in the door...I can make my own way after that. Keep your heads up and God Bless!!

Just recently did some Acting for the Mortal Kombat movie thats being made in Australia. Is there any actors or extras out here?

So, I worked for a big named shipping company, can't say who they are but it's not FedEx or Amazon or USPS. Ive worked for them for over 12 years and have been in management for the past 3. I transfered to the airport in February 2019, everything was good then all of a sudden we just started getting dumped on with extra amounts of volume, and the airport facility wasn't built to process as much volume as they were giving us, and we reached out to the higher ups to renovate or upgraded or something that would ease the unnecessary stress that all the volume was putting on everyone, but nothing, they just kept shitting on us, and we made miracles happen everyday and when we didn't make a miracle or the plane ran out of room for all that volume, and the left over packages were now considered service failures, guess who got blamed by the higher ups for the service failures, us supervisors were and we felt that was wrong and uncalled for. And another thing with that, when we made miracles happen, we never got rewarded or recognized for it, no raises, NOTHING except for "here's more volume" but when we had those service failures they acted like it was the end of the world. So it started killing my spirit and happiness, I hated having to go into work, like really would go from being happy to just being sad cause I had to go to that place. So let me remind u, being in management, u can't have facial hair, until about a year ago when an email went out to all management that said we can have facial hair as long as it was taken care of, so I started growing my goatee back (I've had a goatee since 5th grade, it's my trademark) and a week later another email came out saying the facial hair rule only applied to certain facilities and customer counter management, and we didn't interact with customers so why couldn't we have facial hair, so fast forward to me feeling sad and dreading going to the facility at the airport, until I decided "they r going to keep shitting on us, they aren't listening to our requests, they blame us for their doings and they are getting bonuses from our miracles and yet us supervisors are not getting a piece of the pie, screw it, I'm growing my goatee back, it won't make me fully not depressed but it'll make it easier to go to work" so I grew it back out, it looks great, so a week and a half pass and my bosses boss comes in one night and at the end of the night, all of us supervisors are doing are paper work, computer work etc and my boss starts letting us go home, and I'm starting to do my time card and she says "Sean, can u stay after, I need to have a word with u" and she let everyone else leave, so I stayed and when everyone left she brought me in her office with her boss in there and sat me down and said your facial hair is against policy, do u wanna keep it through religious reasons or a Dr's note? And I thought for a minute and replied "neither." They asked y, I explained it to her and her boss and u know what her boss said, her boss pretty much said "quit you're whining, were going to continue to shit on y'all, and there's nothing else that matters" not giving a crap about my happiness or depression and they said once more, "are u going to shave?" And I said "nope" and her boss said "give me your badge" and I said "r u firing me" she replied "no u r quitting" and I said "no u r firing me" and she said give me your badge and made me sign a resignation letter so their wouldn't be any bad blood from them for future employers seeking info from them. And that was that, 12+ years, fired unceremoniously, it hurt, but on my drive home, I felt all the depression and sadness just melt away, and since I've been so much more happier and people have noticed. I still go and see my fellow supervisors and they tell me it's getting worse. I feel bad for them but it's their choice to live unhappy. And the company is UPS or Under Paid Slaves. So screw them, they're going down hill anyways and by the way, if there is any investors reading this that invested in Abneys vision for the future of the company, know this, u won't be getting your money back, cause he conned yall

Hi, My name is Jose, I'm actually living in NY, USA.

I wanted to share my story with you guys, and look for words of support and advice. I came to USA in January, I've working in my country as a Software Engineer for the past 3 years in my old country. I learned English there also ( or that's what I thought), when I came here, I was like "I don't need to study English, I know everything I know already". I couldn't have been so wrong.

February came, I started looking for a job in the IT area (I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from my country). I went to 2 job interviews for two Software dev positions (I had to went trough a phone screen first), the first one was OK, and it taught me what I needed to do better for the next one; in the second one, I nailed it. I feel so proud of myself tbh. One week later I got a job offer. I couldn't be so happy. It was like a dream come true coming here and find a really high pay job so quickly, and as a first job.

I could only stay there for 2 weeks, I couldn't handle it anymore, people talking in English every day, sometimes I couldn't follow some conversations, then the technical language that's still complicated to me. There were some many things, and I was coward. I became sick, with anxiety, I couldn't sleep at night, I loss weight, I couldn't stop having negative thoughts about myself. I was the worst 2 weeks of my life. I had to quit, it was killing me.

To make the story short, after that, I started looking for Customer Service jobs (Bilingual mostly) as a way to practice my English, and also went back to ESL classes, I've realized that there were so many things that I was doing/saying wrong, and so many others new to learn.

After 8 months, I became more confident, so I started looking for a new opportunity again, one day, I got a message in LinkedIn for the company I worked for 2 weeks. Asking me if I wanted to come back there (Idk why I always do good on interviews, I create a connection between the interviewer and me, this has happened me in all the job interviews I've been in, USA mostly, I was able to get 4 job offers from 5 job interviews here).

After thinking for about a week, I said 'yes'. I know the problem in those 2 weeks weren't them, it was me and only me, people there were so nice actually.

Here I'm again, trying for a second time to make it (2 weeks already). I'm not as fluent as I wish I was, but this time is not overwhelming hearing all this people and been in an environment when only English spoken. I only work with native English speakers, and even though I want to be part of certain conversations, my words just doesn't come trough. I can be speaking in ESL class with another ESL student for hours, about anything, but in my workplace I just don't find it that easily. Also the technical language, so many new words every day (some of them I know, some of them not), and my lack of experience since working as a developer here is so different from the way we do in my country.

But this time I won't quit, I'll try to do my best every day, I wanna be able to say in one year or maybe less, or maybe more, I made it. This time I have God with me also, and He let me know words of wisdom everyday to keep my day going. I know that if things doesn't work out this time, it won't be me, or my employer, it will be God's will.\

Everyone that read this, thank you. And I would like to people have been trough something similar to share with me words of advice of how can I become more confident about my English in my workplace, in my past 2 jobs as Customer Service I didn't have too much trouble, but in a office environment and with intelligent people in your same field, things changes.

I still make mistakes, I still mispronounce new words, but this time, I see my mistakes as a way to learn, and to not make it again (it feels embarrassing though). I also don't feel that I'm able to express myself correctly and some situations, and that I haven't created a relationship with my group of devs (not being part of conversations affects a little).

I'm open to any advice, God bless