u/Perfect-Cup-718

I worked my ass off for this guy, and I was literally managing almost his entire book of business while he sat there cashing the checks. For the holidays, he gave me a $30 Regal gift card. The nearest Regal was about two hours away and in another state. That was what finally made me start applying elsewhere.

I honestly cared about the work and the account, so I didn't just bail as soon as I got an offer. I waited until I had trained someone enough to take over what I was doing. When the time came, I walked into his office and told him I'd accepted another job and was giving notice, but that the handoff was already planned out.

When I told him the new role was with another company in the same industry, but that I wasn't doing the same work and wasn't violating the non-compete, he immediately called the chief legal officer and put him on speaker while I was sitting there. The CLO told me I "couldn't even clean bathrooms at a company in our field for 18 months." Then they brought HR onto the call, and HR told me that since I supposedly couldn't take the new job, they'd allow me to work three more weeks for the transition and then fire me for looking for work somewhere else.

They kept pressuring me to give details about what I'd be doing at the new place, and I told them I wasn't going to discuss it. After I left, the CLO from that company - a company doing about $7 BILLION/year in revenue - kept randomly calling me for a month trying to intimidate me. They also started contacting my new employer.

Thankfully, I'm not working for a garbage company now. The CEO at the new place stepped in and told them they were ready to fight it in court if that's what they wanted. Funny enough, the calls stopped very quickly after that. It was obvious they never intended to take me to court. They just wanted to scare me into giving up the new job.

Fuck companies like that. We don't have to keep putting up with this shit.

The company is Total Quality Logistics.

Hey Reddit!

A while ago I was looking for a new role, and honestly I got tired of the usual job sites. LinkedIn listings kept showing up as "new" even when it was obvious they had been around for a long time, the filters were missing half the things I cared about, and applications felt like they were disappearing into a black hole. So in the end I decided to build my own job board with the things I wished existed:

Job listings pulled directly from company career pages and updated constantly - with lots of new roles appearing every 7 minutes.

Real posting dates, so you can know when the job was added instead of guessing.

A curated list of companies: more than 1,200 strong companies, with quality as the main focus. That means big tech and solid tech-adjacent names like Apple, NVIDIA, Meta, Stripe, Amazon, and Databricks.

Free-text search: you can type something like "Stripe London" and instantly get Stripe jobs in London.

No account or login needed.

Fast search and filtering, along with options that are useful for tech roles.

Right now I've gathered more than 48,000 job postings, and I'm still adding more. The site is mostly geared toward tech jobs, but because it follows the career pages of big tech and HFT companies, there are also plenty of other office/desk roles mixed in.

Send me a private message so I can send you the link.

Good luck with the search!

I sent out 7 offers for open roles this week. Every single person accepted right away. No questions, no pushback, not even a small counter for a little extra money.

Guys. I'm not going to sit there and argue with you over a few thousand dollars. Hiring managers usually have a pay band, and if you give me any halfway reasonable reason for you to start at a higher number than the first number, there's a very good chance I can get you something extra.

The easiest raise you can get is the one before you even start the job. Ask for it. Seriously, that's the whole idea.

The only reason I don't start with the highest number every time is that HR will start asking why every offer is getting close to the top of the range. But if you ask? That's different. Say the reason is your experience, certifications, commute costs, interest from another company, anything. It doesn't have to be a perfect legal argument. It just needs to sound reasonable.

I've been working at this company for several years, and about 3 months ago they moved me to a new pay system and told me it meant almost unlimited income... But the work simply isn't there in a way that would make that happen. I tried to be fair and genuinely give it a chance. I was barely making enough to live on. And when I got my first pathetic paycheck, the owner basically said to me: "Hmm, you're handling this better than I expected." I do hard, physical, technical work all day, and somehow I was going home every week with about a third less than before. So I interviewed with another company, and the interview went great, and I got an offer.

I remember reading a post that helped me a lot in preparing for the interview and alerted me to many of the mistakes I was making. I thought of this post in the hope that it might help someone and prevent them from making these mistakes.

Thankfully,The pay is good, the benefits are good, and they have real training opportunities. The work is still hard, but I'll actually be able to live.

I told my boss I'd be leaving about 10 days after the interview, and the owners acted like I'd announced I was moving to Mars. I explained to them plainly that I wasn't making enough money, and that part was almost completely ignored. The conversation immediately turned into guilt-tripping: how hard this is for them, how much they've put into the business, how stressful it's going to be, and all that. No offer to fix the situation. No raise. Nothing. Just a whole lot of "But what about us?" I asked, "Can someone with experience and skill in my position make a decent income here?" The owner said, "Yes!" So I said, "Then I think my decision to leave is the right one, because I can't do that." After that, most of the conversation was the owner and the supervisor talking in a state of panic while I sat there listening.

And now, unsurprisingly, the company is falling apart in front of me in real time. The confusion happening is very strange to watch. It's clear that my leaving has made almost all the other employees start planning to leave too. There will be so few people left that I genuinely don't see how the business will keep running normally. I spent so long undervaluing myself that I didn't understand how much I was holding together there, so yeah, it feels good to finally see that my presence made a difference. I'm writing this for anyone in the same position: don't convince yourself that you're less than you really are. Don't stay somewhere that doesn't value you just because you've convinced yourself you won't find better.

I'm a tax professional, and I'd been interviewing ever since I left my last job right after Christmas. I left a CPA firm because I was working more than 55 hours even when we weren't in tax season, and I felt like I was getting close to burnout. I was also being paid far less than I deserved, and since I'm a single mom, I didn't have much of a safety net to withstand a long job search, so honestly, I was relieved when this company moved really quickly and made an offer. Looking back now, that was probably the first warning sign.

Since I'm a tax manager, I wanted to stay in the same role. I interviewed with the current tax manager and the owner of a company, let's call it XYZ Tax Services. My virtual interview was on a Wednesday, and on Thursday I heard from their HR that they wanted to move forward with hiring me. I sent them my references, the background check cleared, and I signed the offer letter. I was supposed to start the following Wednesday, and by Friday the onboarding was complete. I was added to their payroll system, IT helped me set up the VPN, and I had all the login information. I was genuinely excited and getting myself ready for a good first day until...

Tuesday morning, I was sitting in the dining room getting a few things for my start date on Wednesday when I saw HR calling. I missed the first call, and then they called three more times in a row. I called them back, thinking maybe they needed another form or something. Instead, they told me that "unfortunately, they don't need me to start on Wednesday." I was so confused that I asked if they meant I should start Thursday instead of Wednesday. No. They didn't want me to start at all, and said they were going in a "different direction."

I was shocked. What kind of company rescinds an offer from someone after they've already onboarded them into payroll and IT systems? If my references had been bad or something strange had come up on the background check, fine, I would have understood. But none of that happened. I asked for more information and didn't get anything useful. So I hung up, sat there for a minute, then opened my laptop and started applying again.

About 10 days later, I got another call from their HR. Was I still available?!?! Apparently, they had given my position to someone already working at the company, and that person changed their mind. It took every bit of self-control I had not to laugh out loud, but I stayed professional while they suddenly treated me like their dream candidate again. They increased the offer, apologized in the usual corporate non-apology way, and after they begged enough for my liking, I accepted.

This story has a happy ending. By then, I already had several other offers, and two of them paid more than this one. Since then, I've accepted the best offer from that group. I'm scheduled to start work at XYZ Tax Services on February 12. My plan is to wait until the Monday before and call HR to withdraw my acceptance.

Yep... My name is Petty Patty.

I finally found a job after 5 months of applying. I was reaching late stages in the interviews, and sometimes even the final conversation, but I still wasn't getting the offer in this tough market. I changed my approach to interviews, and these were the 4 things that made a difference for me:

I stopped being overly honest about why I was leaving my current job. The honest answer was that our company was gradually shutting down, and for a while I thought that was a strong explanation because it clearly wasn't my fault. But interviewers often seemed to feel sorry for me. And I didn't need sympathy, I needed an offer. I also started to understand that it made the conversation feel negative, as if I were implying criticism of the company's ability to manage the business. So I changed the answer to: I was no longer learning at the same pace as before because I had already completed project A, B, and C - and that was still true. That answer was received much better.

I stopped trying to appear perfectly polished. At first, I think my answers were technically good, but a little too rehearsed. I started speaking more simply about what I had done, the mistakes I had made, and how I fixed them. Strangely enough, being a bit more natural built more trust than trying to give the "best" interview answer every time.

I turned off ChatGPT. My work is very technical, and while ChatGPT can be useful for prep, it couldn't replace what I know from years of real work. During the final assessment, I answered their technical questions without any AI help. They later told me I crushed it and that they shared my answers with the founder. Apparently, they hadn't seen a response like that before.

I didn't negotiate the salary. This was the only time I accepted the first offer right away. Given that I really needed a job, the market was extremely tough, and the offer was already strong because of my background, I felt it was fair and didn't want to risk creating friction without a real reason.

I hope this helps someone else who's stuck in the search right now. Good luck out there!