u/SweetyFresh

Is this a scam or what? I applied to a property and planned to transfer to a different part of town. I make 6x the weekly rent. Not only am I employed, I have two jobs! I produced pay stubs for this week, yet I was denied. Is this some kind of scam to get our financial info?

I wanted to see the room and was planning to request that. Now I'm wondering if the room actually exists.

It's bad enough that Padsplit owners rent to any-damn-body who will hand them a dollar. But worse, the absentee owners of my Padsplit have let a room out to an older woman who looks like she's been living the heroin lifestyle for years. I tried to avoid judgement since she's renting on a different floor and we don't really have to interact, and only occasionally passing each other. Until Day 3. I work at home and I hear this faint but insistent knocking at my bedroom door. I knew it was this chick because usually, I'm the only one on my floor. I can get work done because no one is here. There is another woman on another floor but she's asleep during the day and works nights.

On day 3 of CN's time in the padsplit, she came to my door and told me "she forgot her code" and asked me to contact the owners to let her back in the room. She said she left her phone in her room. I didn't like this chick being at my GD bedroom door, able to look into my room, specifically at my work equipment. I don't invite anyone in. I am legally liable if anything happens to this stuff so the last thing I want is for transient residents to target me. I agrred to help and contacted them once to get her out of my space. They used the remote to let her dumb ss in.

Today, I heard her go downstairs. I went to the kitchen, then returned to take my shower. I was in the tub about 2 minutes and hear this idiot at the bathroom door knocking. So I get out of the shower to answer the door. She says, "she forgot her code again, can I call the owners...." I'm amazed at the f-ing arrogance of making her problem my problem to the point of insisting I get out of the shower to get involved in this BS. I promised nothing and returned to my room. She wasn't even trying to guess the code. Just entitled AF. She came back to my door three times, knocking as if she refused to take the hint. Miraculously, she realized she needed to help herself and start guessing the code. After 30 minutes she stumbled onto it and left me the heck alone.

I'm still freaked out and irritated. Never in as million years would I elect to live with a lowlife like this. I'm pissed that these scumbag owners put me in this position. Normaly AirBNB style hosts want to screen their guests but not Padsplit.

I've been at my padsplit for 4 months and had a cordial relationship with one of the ladies...until today. We have one kitchen for five residents. This person operates as if the stove is her property and she cooks for a long time. So long that she goes into her room and leaves her food on the stove for an hour or two. She leaves her door cracked. If you come into the kitchen to cook your food during that time, she beelines out of her room to the stove to stir her food and will not stop until you leave the kitchen!

This weird scenario just happened and I waited for her to finish so I could put my food into the oven. She went to the sink and I reached up to turn the stove on. She yells, "I hate when people reach over my food!" She left the large pots without lids. She saw me enter the kitchen, prep my food and wait patiently and politely for her to finish her stirring. She could predict with absolute certainty that I was going to reach out to turn the oven on. So I looked at her as if she'd lost her mind. I said 'Well I could turn it on from the right side instead of the left.' She yells, 'Well that would be more logical.' Actually dummy, it would be logical to get an apartment of your own instead of moving into a shared space then playing Princess in a Padsplit.

So...I'm chatting with this guy online. He happens to ask if I have a social media account. I didn't think anything of it and was about to answer and then I remembered y'all saying some people online try to track you. Should I be concerned? Can we be tracked by ourt social media accounts?

All in all, even though he is handsome, I feel like he is not as into chatting as I am. Not a good sign since I'm a chatty cathy. He might not be a fit beyond the physical.

Next Monday I start my Senior year in college. But today, I just got hired at a FAANG company. At first, I wanted to cram my classes and my job into this semester. It's a remote position so it's possible! But then, I started to worry about the quality of my work or my studies falling off.

Sounds crazy, but in this economy, I'm thinking of working and perhaps taking my classes next year instead. I want to graduate with work experience because Junior roles are all but nonexistent. Companies want you to have 3 years experience to even give you the time of day.

WWYD?

I've been doing a lot of interviews this week. Today was the last, scheduled for 11:45 AM. I got to Zoom on time, notes ready, lipstick popping! Then crickets for 15 minutes. I sent a reminder alert email after 10 minutes to the interviewing committee but heard nothing back. So, I left after 15 minutes. Thirty minutes after the meeting start time, I get a call from the boss and he casually mentions another candidate ran over. He invited me to pop back on since the committee is all assembled to ask their questions. Truthfully, I'm kind of turned off by it. I'm also turned off that the pay range starts at 40k! I have an offer in hand for 57K and I think I will focus on that instead. AITA? Did I handle the notification ettiquette properly.

What is the hierarchy of EA positions where pay is concerned? I'm new to this. I stumbled into it this Summer. Now I want to be more strategic in which positions I go for.

I applied to a church position and their pay range is 35-45K. I applied to an aesthetics position that pays 60K. The Financial Management EA position is in the 50-60K range.

What EA industries are top dog?

There are some challenges that are extreme time sucks. It seems obvious to me that it's better to take the penalty and guarantee you will make it out than to sink hours in disbelief that it can go on forever?

I was supposed to be chatting in an interview right about now. But... my recruiter made a few deadly mistakes. First, she contacted me on LinkedIn. She asked if we could chat on the phone. We chatted on the phone and she pushed me to the next round. This was for a brand new AI/Robotics company.

She locked in a specific day and time ( I had no choice) for an interview 24 hours later. The next day , I go about my day and figure she will send me a link on LinkedIn just like last time. Not quite. She sent two messages 3 hours early on LinkedIn. I was showering so I didn't see them. Then she calls my phone while I'm blow drying.

As the interview time approaches, I review her messages and loook for the Zoom link. I see she has contacted me on multiple apps but none of the messages have a link to the meeting. I send her messages on multiple apps but get no answer.

Is this typical or an odd one-off. I've never had someone neglect to send the link well in advance of the interview. Putting it on the calendar 3 hours in advance is cutting it way too close. And no link is total failure.

I'm looking at an interesting presentation online by a young woman who recommends, even if you are a new EA, that in places like NYC, you can request 100K on your first job. Is that real or pure fantasy. I only asked for 60K for mine and now I wonder if I was too timid.

I have made it to the second round for an Executive Assistant position. I would be working alongside an Office Manager/Marketer. She's having the second interview and suggested it would be great to chat in person and show me around. I am of two minds. I would like to meet her and the office to get a feel for them. On the other hand, I would like to wait until the final group interview to meet and greet to avoid getting emotionally involved too soon.

Is there some conventional wisdom on whether it is ideal to interview in person vs virtually?

touching himself! Who does that?! He had 7 normal pictures and then a bomb on the final pic. He took the selfie in his mirror. OMG I had to laugh at the desperation and degeneracy of it all. If there weren't rules, I'd post it but I'm sure you guys can imagine. Is this how 54 year old men are doing it on the apps these days?

Behold the questions for a $21 an hour job:

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Bachelor's Degree

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I just had a concerning interaction with a roommate. I went to the kitchen to make breakfast. My next door roommate and I are home at the same time about once a week. Often she will come down to chat or knock on my door to chat. Days ago she knocked on my door to chat and I didn't answer.

I'm doing a polite fade. One Reason: She ran into me in the kitchen weeks ago and dragged the conversation out. She followed me to my room and walked thee f into my room without being invited. I didn't like that & quickly ended the conversation so I could eat in peace and privacy. She left. I didn't care for her invasive sense of entitlement. Given the look on my face I felt she was playing stupid as if she was unaware I had a consistent boundary.

Today I was chatting with her and she asked me repeatedly about my job. It was more than politeness. It came off like intrusiveness and refusing to mind her business. I turned away to wash a dish and turned back and her glasses had a light shining out of them! This b*tch had Google glasses on in the house and was apparently trying to take a picture or video of me while asking intrusive questions.

Another roommate happened to walk into the room and I turned to her and asked how she feels about a roomie walking around the house with these glasses taking pictures, recording and researching other roommates. The GoogleGlassGirl started hemming and hawing and deflecting and minimizing. I am frightened at what this psycho plans to do with the footage she takes on the sneak. These days you can take people's image and voice and create porn, call their bank to defraud them. Or create a profile and set them up for criminal/mischief.... I can't believe I have to dealwith this lowlife situation.

I am applying for a new position after the debacle in the Executive Suite posted about here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExecutiveAssistants/comments/1v4y42h/

I am sending resumés on Greenhouse and after submitting 10 I noticed they don't explicitly ask for a Cover Letter but...there is a button to upload. Now I'm wondering, should I submit one or is it not really expected? All of the other questions, they ask directly but none seem to insist on it.

I'm in the midst of an epically long onboarding process. I'm in the home stretch of page 20. I just spoke with HR and they have an odd request I've never seen before. They want me to bring them my original degree. I just moved here from another state and all of my original Certs and Degree are in storage.

I find the request especially galling since I have gone through fingerprinting, a nationwide background check for education and criminal background as well as supplied a ton of other identification and paperwork. All of this is for a very important position that only pays $16 and hour. I am gobsmacked.

A transcript, I could understand but my original degree? So is this normal or oddly specific request on their part?

ETA: Today I submitted my TB test and asked if the HR person preferred my diploma be sent directly to her or if I had to forward it. She gets tight, cuts me off, then fires down a list if 5 things that haven't been done and declares she's calling the Manager to see if she 'wants' to proceed. She says 'Wait for an email!"

They rescinded the offer. Whew! Bullet dodged. I just dropped 1 resumés with companies that pay a living wage! Huzzah!

Hey y'all, I'm in an unusual situation. I normally date older guys but out of the blue I met this unicorn, younger guy. We work together and he asked me to lunch. I thought it was a colleague kinda thing. I usually pack my lunch so I just suggested we hang out in the office kitchen and chop it up (talk). We did that a number of times and hit it off.

Two months later I get that he wants to switch up and go in a different dating direction out in the wild. That's cool, I don't want coworkers scrutinizing our evry move but I'm wondering if/when I should come out to him as NOT a Millennial. I look like I'm in his age range (mid 30s) but I'm actually a Gen Xer. Is there an ettiquette for this kind of thing?

For the first time I feel like it might be a good idea to wait and see before brining it up because people have all kinds of negative, hateful attitudes about age. I'm fit, feminine, and friendly not creaky, cranky, and brolic! People in the office have made ageist jokes and I laugh because a good joke is a good joke but it also reveals prejudices and apparently they think people over 40 are living the same dreadful life they fantsize. Awkward! What say you, GenXers?

Hey y'all, I'm in an unusual situation. I normally date older guys but out of the blue I met this unicorn, younger guy. We work together and he asked me to lunch. I thought it was a colleague kinda thing. I usually pack my lunch so I just suggested we hang out in the office kitchen and chop it up (talk). We did that a number of times and hit it off.

Two months later I get that he wants to switch up and go in a different dating direction out in the wild. That's cool, I don't want coworkers scrutinizing our evry move but I'm wondering if/when I should come out to him as NOT a Millennial. I look like I'm in his age range (mid 30s) but I'm actually a Gen Xer. Is there an ettiquette for this kind of thing?

For the first time I feel like it might be a good idea to wait and see before brining it up because people have all kinds of negative, hateful attitudes about age. I'm fit, feminine, and friendly not creaky, cranky, and brolic! People in the office have made ageist jokes and I laugh because a good joke is a good joke but it also reveals prejudices and apparently they think people over 40 are living the same dreadful life they fantsize. Awkward! What say you, GenXers?

I just came home from a day that went very well until it hit a wall and crashed. I work at a firm that is understaffed. I had 3 days of training and was told to just ask my boss to show me whatever I needed. This sounded fine in theory but the reality is that she's deeply resentful of being interrupted for questions/feedback. She's vindictive and does not let things go. There is a trail of EAs before me who've been railroaded out by her.

Today I had a challenging situation. There was a multihour meeting in the conference room. We've had issues with the plumbing and a serviceman had been busy then booked twice to fix things. A rebooking meant weeks of delay. A repairman strolls in saying he was present to fix the sink in the conference room. The guy who normally runs point on repairs was not in. And once I pointed out that the meeting was in progress, the repairman was threatening to leave rather than stay potentially for hours.

I knew my supervisor moved mountains to get him there and had countless delays. So I decided to try to smooth things over by popping my head in to quietly alert him and get guidance on whether to let the guy leave or what. Instead my supe hit the wall, got angry with me for sticking my head in to alert him, then immediately took me out of contention for a promotion.

Is this a normal response to a brief interruption of a meeting or was the Supervisor just jumping on an excuse to take me out? How would you suggest I smooth out a situation like that?

I just realized that I have an issue with my Team Lead. I loved her laughter and sunny irreverence the first few weeks. But now I'm asking for guidance and being met with a stormy face and kicking the can down the road. I'm not thrilled about not getting my work done properly. I'm even less thrilled with being blamed if deadlines are not met.

I've tried approaching with a smile, with a gentle tone, with seriousness. Nothing has really shifted the dynamic. Does anyone have suggestions on how to smoolth things over with a Lead who has structured herself as the go-to person, then gets irritated when I repeatedly go to her throughout the day?