u/KittyDomoNacionales

I was volunteering at this organization. Now I’m experienced enough that they trusted me with some responsibility. Then the organization posted a job and I originally didn’t bother with it however my team leads were pushing me towards it so I applied. Had the interview and all. Worked my ass off for over a month and half of our output was due to my efforts. I got the longest rejection email I ever got yesterday. It shook me enough that I stopped my YouTube background noise and just went on autopilot for an hour.

What hurt is that I see the hiring manager 2-3 times per week in person, I am in 2 group chats with him, we have each other’s personal phone numbers. He could’ve given me the courtesy of a heads up before sending me that long ass email. I could’ve not stopped my job search since I was already doing the actual thing. I decided to not do it anymore even though we still have a week of work left.

The following day there was a message asking if the system was broken since there were no new clients. The system is me and the system just decided that it was done.

What pisses me off more is that his reasons were my “lack of experience”. Motherfucker I worked in one of the top finance firms in the world, there’s actual real time examples of how I treat clients since the phone calls are fucking recorded on our end. Our clients are also not “ideal”, they’re low income, have mental health issues, and don’t always understand English even at a basic level. To get them to trust you is also a big thing

It just soured me to that organization. I liked them enough that I was there for 2 years now. Apparently I’m good enough to do the job but I’m crossing the line if I even think about getting hired for the work I already do for free

Edit: The kicker for me is that they gave me a work email a few days before telling me this. So I have a work email for a place I’m not considered good enough to work for. Also, the hosting for that is partially paid for by taxpayer money so thanks Toronto taxpayers for semi-funding this

There’s a community centre that became a hotbed for drug use. They’re not geared towards this and are actually for marginalized communities. This wouldn’t be so much of an issue if this same community centre didn’t have a childcare centre at the first floor. It’s gotten so bad that some of the washrooms had to be closed off. They regularly find drug paraphernalia like needles and pipes in the washroom that is open to the public.

Kids and the community deserve better than that. I’m compassionate as hell but it’s kinda hard when you realize that small children are exposed to this shit on the daily.

I did some volunteer work. Was told there was an opening for what I was essentially doing already. Job interview went well. Worked my ass off more than I would have. Was told that I didn’t “deliver what they expected” when they never told me what they expected. This was a new manager who is also doing some stuff that the other managers don’t and not in a good way. I’ve been at that place for a while, enough to know how things worked. Dude is the kind of person who wants to “shake things up” without asking why things are done that way and then gets surprised when people don’t like it.

I fucking suspended my job search for a month because of them. Fuck man. It’s also the sort of place where clients are very untrusting so new folks are deemed suspicious until proven otherwise. Clients are vulnerable and don’t want to see someone who obviously doesn’t know how to function in those spaces. It’s one thing to see it from a client’s perspective but a whole other from a jobseekers point of view.

I’m just so fucking tired of job hunting and going through multiple rounds of interviews with folks who don’t even know what they’re doing