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A very large part of my office staff is handing in their resignations this morning
At the beginning of this month, my office, which is a dental clinic in a very wealthy area in WA, held a staff meeting, and we were told that we would only be allowed two days of unpaid leave every six months. So basically, two days in half a year. Not a single person in our office gets benefits. No PTO, no health insurance, no paid holidays, nothing. Then they added that since we, the hygienists, are booked out far in advance, if we use one of those two unpaid days, we'll need to come in early or stay late to "make up" the patients we missed.
The other hygienists and I all handed in our resignation letters this morning. We wrote them, printed them, and left the whole stack on his desk. He came back from lunch and had to sit there reading them one by one. One of my coworkers said she saw him throw the stack toward the office manager and say, "Do you see this?"
Luckily, hygienists are in insane demand around us right now, and every one of us has already gotten interest or offers from other offices.
Tl;dr - The manager tried to control our unpaid time off, and badly misjudged how easy we are to replace. Now he is literally losing almost his entire clinical team.
The only problem I might face when applying for a job is anxiety about interviews, but I read a post about Interview Tips, and I think that will help reduce my anxiety a little.
u/Ornery-Pattern-2436 — 3 days ago
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The worst is now having to answer random phone calls because that might be them!
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u/Ornery-Pattern-2436 — 9 days ago
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Please stop reading ChatGPT answers in the middle of interviews
I've interviewed a few candidates recently, and it was very clear that they were using some kind of AI tool to listen to the question and generate a response for them to read. We ask very normal behavioral questions (tell me about a time you solved a messy problem at work, how you pushed a recommendation forward and got people aligned, etc.).
What gives it away is the pause that happens while they're waiting for the answer to appear, and then suddenly they go into reading mode. The responses often sound polished for about 10 seconds, but in reality they don't answer what I asked, or the example falls apart halfway through. And then when I ask a follow-up to understand the situation better, they usually can't connect it to what they just said.
At that point, if I can tell the person is reading from another screen, I don't move them on to the next step. Honestly, it's frustrating and wastes everyone's time.
Use AI to prepare, outline your stories, practice STAR answers, anything that helps you. But don't rely on it live during the interview. Take the time beforehand to prepare, and be able to talk about your own experience yourself.
Are other hiring managers running into the same thing? I'm curious how you're dealing with it.
u/Ornery-Pattern-2436 — 9 days ago
