u/DottyGreenBootz

Okay, I listened to some advice given on a previous post and asked screening questions when interviewing college grads.

This particular grad has an A+ in computer science, looks great on paper, has been able to contribute vast amounts of time to college societies.

When I delved a bit deeper, they have never worked a part-time job or experienced having a manager/supervisor.

They don't have any professional workplace experience, or have had to work period.

Thoughts?

Edit: I'm am NOT expecting this grad to have 5 years of experience in the role they are applying for. That's nuts.

I AM looking for a basic level of work experience and professional conduct that is acquired through part-time work experience. Eg Saturday jobs, lunch cover, catering, hospitality, bar work, customer service, office admin etc. This teaches us how to work alongside others, not just our peers. Shaping skills such as time management, professionalism, conflict resolution, meeting expectations, respect, costing up, closing shop, responsibility, consequences, experience of being managed in a company structure, humility, the value of money, and working for a wage.

Hey, genuinely looking for advice.

I'm a millennial founder of a tech company. What's your experience with graduates?

My experience: back chat, entitlement, interruptions when I'm talking/giving safety instructions, and being challenged in decision-making in front of juniors and rest of team. Our CTO also gets the same behaviour.

It is exhausting. I'm trying to scale the business to bring on senior support for them, and so I can focus on sales, which we need to pay people, and keep the business going.

This is my genuine experience. Yes, am still learning how to manage, and yes I will make mistakes too.

Edit: sometimes it feels very much like I'm running a school, where they expect to learn constantly and that this is a right they expect, where their job is secondary.

EDIT: We engage more freelancers in our industry than we have staff. Everyone we engage have said we are one of the best places to work for, that we go above and beyond for our staff AND freelance crew.

We provide private health care, paid OT, flexible working hours, everyone leaves on time, and we work in high stakes live events. What we provide is NOT normal in our industry.

Having spoken to many other companies, some far bigger in size than ours, the general consensus is, this is an industry wide issue. Grads are not being prepared for industry or the professional workplace.

Hey peeps, I have my first injection tomorrow, and from Google images, the needles look big! Is it painful? Or is it more like when we were kids getting our MMR vaccines (UK)?

I've been started on them asap and doing EOD for two weeks.

Hi, I've just come off the phone from my GP, and I have low B12, very low vit D, low Folate Acid. They are putting me on B12 injections immediately.

I have had the following symptoms for THREE years, and after researching am now extremely worried about long term damage.

Symptoms that have got progressively worse:

• Constant pins and needles in my lower legs and feet
• Fasciculations started in legs, now spread throughout body
• Slurred speech, mixing up words, talking "gibberish"
• Fatigue even after a full night's sleep
• Very low mood, hopelessness, and sadness - on highest dose of sertraline
• Low energy
• Co-ordination issues - dropping things, knocking things over, throwing things, missing things, losing my balance
• Cognitive issues - head tics, constant fizzing or bubbling over of panic energy, my legs have started to physically "jump"
• Losing train of thought, mind goes completely blank mid sentence - awful when this happens on client calls (I run my own business) I come across as not in control
• Memory loss, lose track of what day it is, seem to lose time
• Extreme stress, decision fatigue
• In fight or flight, very defensive with people, sometimes paranoid, sometimes feel like I have two "sides" of me
• Brain fog, try to shake it away, or snap out of it
• Completely lost my spark
• Cannot focus, concentrate or finish a task
• Overwhelm and acute procrastination

Three years ago, I saw a neurologist who diagnosed my nervous system is in overdrive and extreme stress. Nerves were fine in my legs back then, but symptoms have progressed.

Now, I'm really worried about permanent damage! Anyone dealing with this, it would be amazing and relieving to hear your experiences. Thanks x