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Anyway, I was in an interview today and it was going very well, until the hiring manager suddenly asked me, "Tell me three reasons why we shouldn't hire you."

I got flustered on the spot and the question completely threw me off. I blurted out some stupid answers and I'm sure it cost me my chance at this job.

When it was my turn to ask questions, I decided to ask him, "Okay, if I were to receive multiple offers, what would be the main reason for me not to choose to work here?"

Man, his expression did a complete 180. It was obvious he got very annoyed and said something like, "Look, our company isn't for just anyone." Then he quickly wrapped things up and said, "That's a bit of an aggressive question. Anyway, thank you for your time, we'll be in touch."

This whole process is a joke. And I don't even want to work in a place that has such double standards. Just for context, this wasn't an entry-level position. I'm currently a lead and have over 11 years of experience.

Anyways, I started to email some companies that are looking for employees, and one of them replied today, saying the interview will be tomorrow morning in office. any tips about how to pas this time??

update: luckily, I came across this post about how to be calm and less stressful during the interview, will apply each tip and will update you.

Is no one else surprised like me that there's a massive amount of data confirming that working from home and compressed work schedules increase company productivity, yet these same institutions prefer to stick to old methods?

It's as if they're deliberately choosing to be less efficient just because... Perhaps for tradition's sake? It makes no sense when all the benefits are clear and obvious right before their eyes.

We always see job interviews as a two-way street - an opportunity for us to evaluate the company just as they evaluate us. Some of our closest friends see this as a bit naive, but it has led to many amusing situations.

Anyway, my partner had a job interview recently, and when the interviewer asked her the classic question, 'Can you multitask?', she literally gave them a look of astonishment. Then she replied directly, saying: 'I can certainly switch between different responsibilities quickly and effectively, but true multitasking? No. No one can do that. Can you, for example, write an email and simultaneously talk about a complex topic? That's simply not how our brains work.'

The interviewer was surprised and admitted he had never heard such a frank response before. A few days passed, and guess what happened? She received a job offer via email, with all the usual benefits. It was for a position at a large hospital group.

But here's the surprise: she rejected the offer. What was her justification? She told them it was genuinely about that an institution whose primary work is patient health would include such an outdated and scientifically unsupported question in its hiring process. Her exact words were something like: 'While I appreciate the offer, I have strong reservations.'

I thought perhaps this little story might appeal to some of you who are tired of all this corporate buzzword talk. I hope it brought a smile to your faces.

Many managers are worried about the idea of remote work becoming widespread in the future for an obvious reason. Working from home clearly shows who is working hard and who is just pretending to be busy. It pulls back the curtain on the illusion of productivity in the office and precisely reveals which managers have no real value.

Hi!

I (23M) work at a very small bank in a city in upstate NY. There are only 5 of us: our CEO (I'll call him B2), a manager, and 3 tellers, one full-time, one floating part-time, and me part-time. Recently I saw a post about how to get a job quickly and I started looking for another job through cold emails, and wow it got me a part time job in just 3 days!

I applied to a new job because my hours at the bank aren't enough to cover rent and normal bills.

Right now my schedule at the bank is Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, so I told the new job (an after-school program) that I can work Mondays and Wednesdays during the day. I let B2 know that I wouldn't be able to come in during those hours if someone was out, and he told me I'm not allowed to work another job at that time because I need to be available to cover, based on the hiring paperwork I signed. Apparently there have to be 3 people in the bank at all times, so if for any reason 3 out of 4 people end up being unavailable, I'm expected to come in no matter what.

I understand why he wants coverage, so I went back to the after-school program and told them I wouldn't be able to commit to the original availability I gave them. They told me that B2 can't need me to keep those days free for free, and that if I'm expected to be available like that, I probably should be getting on-call pay under NYS labor laws.

I'm going to ask B2 for a copy of my employment contract the next time I go in, and I'm also trying to reach NYS labor (their phone line is useless, of course 🙃). I wanted to ask here if anyone knows what the next step I should take is, whether on-call pay applies in this kind of situation, or if there's something specific I need to ask for in writing. Thanks!

I know someone who, as soon as he gets fed up with a job, just quits it before even looking at what jobs are available. I completely understand being exhausted and suffocated at work, but I don't think it's worth ruining yourself financially over it.

He usually stays unemployed for several months, and by the time he finally finds something else, he's gotten himself into heavy debt. Then he spends a while trying to get out of it, gets frustrated with the new job, and goes right back to repeating the same cycle from the beginning.

I want to help him think about the situation rationally, but I don't really feel like it's my place. And honestly, if he still hasn't noticed this pattern on his own by now, I'm not sure my trying to explain it to him would make much of a difference.

Hiring managers always say they're looking for someone kind, enthusiastic, reliable, good at communicating, and so on. But honestly, that talk feels like nonsense to me. I know a lot of people working at Fortune 100 companies, universities, regular office jobs, and their actual work is really not that great at all. Some of them are annoying, messy, impossible to work with, dishonest, fake, and can't explain anything, yet they're still working in good roles.

I'm in San Jose, and several tech offices, and a lot of people I've met follow the exact same pattern. It makes me wonder how they even got there in the first place when the job market is this harsh. If people like that are getting hired, then either it's mostly nepotism, or hiring managers are secretly filtering for traits they'd never admit out loud.

The whole society runs on connections. Rich people, attractive people, and people with good connections keep getting more opportunities than honest people who work hard. You see this all the time in entertainment and sports too.

Honestly, I think a lot of these positions are filled through referrals, family friends, inside connections, or random luck. Especially roles at big, well-known companies. It doesn't really seem like it's about skill or interviewing well most of the time.