r/ProtectHire

EVERY interview helper says stealth is included. but cluely just told me the undetectable tier is a separate add-on, way more than the base plan, on top of what i already paid. half hour of digging through their pricing page and i still can't tell what the base tier actually hides.

am i overreacting or is this how all of these are now?

caught it before i hit confirm, thank god. but the bit that really got me wasn't the upsell. it was the breach. a friend sent me the business insider piece from last year - eighty three thousand users had data exposed. resumes, account info, the kind of thing you absolutely cannot have leaked when you're quietly using a helper for interviews. same article a reviewer ran a test and clocked the suggestion delay at like five to ten seconds. the question is over by then.

then i found a thread where someone said cluely pulled in work experience that wasn't on his resume. invented a job for him on a live call. i don't know if that's a one off or how often it happens.

stealth costs extra. output is slow. data has leaked once already. sometimes makes up a job. for ninety five bucks a month total if i want the version that hides itself. not sure if i'm being a coward but every time i go to click pay, my hand stops.

friend keeps saying "every tool has had a breach, just buy it". is that true? or is the friend the problem and not cluely.

I'm probably just venting, because I'm already sending applications to anywhere that looks decent, even if it's only so-so.

I've been working at my current company for 7 years as a data analyst. When I started, they offered me less than the salary that was listed in the ad because I didn't have much experience at the time, and I accepted because I really needed a job. Recently we brought in a new analyst, and I was the person helping him get used to the work, explaining our datasets, the reporting processes, and the software we use every day. We got along and started talking outside of work too. Eventually the topic of salaries came up, and it turned out he's making about £12,000 more than me per year. We were both shocked, so we compared job titles, duties, our place on the team, everything. Same role.

I brought it up with my manager and she honestly seemed surprised. She agreed that it didn't look right, so we escalated it to the department head. His first reaction was to brush it off with the usual talk about different experience, more qualifications, market rates, etc. I told him I have 7 years here, certifications in the tools we use, and I'm literally training him on how to do the job. After that he stopped arguing as strongly and said he would look into adjusting my salary. It took them about five weeks to get back to me.

I wasn't expecting them to give me a £12k raise overnight. I'm not that naïve. But I thought they would offer something, even a token raise just to close the issue. Instead, the answer was simply: "No, it's not in the budget." My manager tried to suggest alternatives like a shorter work week, a few extra vacation days, or some kind of gradual increase, and all of that was rejected too. In the conversation afterward, she genuinely seemed embarrassed. She didn't directly tell me to leave, but the only thing she could offer was to put me on a project that might look good on my CV.

This honestly crushes me. I don't think I've ever felt this unappreciated at work before. I stayed late plenty of times, filled gaps when people left, got strong reviews from my manager and the department head, and apparently none of that matters when it comes time to pay me fairly.

My motivation has basically disappeared. I'm doing the bare minimum because I can't make myself care the way I used to. I feel like I wasted years being loyal to a place that was happy keeping me cheap as long as I didn't notice. I'm applying for new roles now and hoping I find something soon, preferably before I get into trouble because mentally I've checked out. But honestly, good luck to them trying to find someone else to do this job for the salary they're paying me.

Hi everyone! I've been at my current job for about 4 years as an assistant. The company is trying to grow a bit and wants to start working more on social media, outreach, and marketing to bring in more clients. My manager pulled me aside and said there's no budget for them to hire someone full-time for this role, so supposedly me and three other assistants are going to help with it. But then he made it pretty clear that I'll be handling most of the work. I don't have any real education or experience in marketing, advertising, or sales. His logic was basically that I'm "good with people on the phone," so apparently that means I can run marketing now lol.

The awkward part is that he has no idea that since April I've been in the hiring process for another job somewhere else. I'm just waiting for the background check to finish before they send me an official offer. It's with a large organization, so the checks are taking longer than I expected, but they'll probably get back to me within a few weeks or maybe at the beginning of the following month. Now I feel like the situation is weird because I've been given some random title I didn't ask for and don't even want, and maybe I should have said something before he started building his plans around me. At first he said it would only be temporary and that they'd hire someone for it after a few months, but now he's started saying it might be more like 5-6 months with me staying in that role. I honestly don't know what to do. Should I wait until I have the official offer in writing and then give notice, or tell my manager now that there's a chance I might be leaving soon?

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm absolutely fuming and need some serious input on a truly messed-up situation. So, a few weeks ago, around mid-March, I received a job offer from a doctor's clinic. They sent me the offer and onboarding paperwork. Their hiring manager initially stated that I should start the following week, around March 27th. I immediately emailed them back, explaining that I needed three weeks to properly resign from my current job, and asked if I could start around April 10th instead.

The recruiter didn't answer until the next morning. She mentioned that another new employee was supposed to start in three weeks on the same day I requested, and that she would follow up. This whole situation was confusing from the start, considering I needed to resign. Anyway, I went ahead and submitted my resignation that Wednesday, March 22nd. My current manager made it clear that he needed a full two weeks, meaning my last day would be April 12th - which was just yesterday.

I immediately informed the new company that I had resigned and that the earliest I could start would be April 13th, or the following Monday, due to my company's policy. Frankly, they should have told me then if it wasn't going to work out, but they didn't. Instead, the HR responded about a week later, around March 29th, confirming that starting on April 13th - the day after my last day at work - was fine. She promised me an updated offer letter and other paperwork. I replied the same day, confirming my acceptance.

The following days passed with no news. I followed up again on April 5th, forwarding the paperwork they had sent and asking a few preparatory questions. Still no response from her. Then came the next week, and I was supposed to start the following Friday. Yesterday was Tuesday, and it was also the last day of my notice period at my old job. I started calling the prospective company multiple times to get details about my start date for the following day, but I kept getting voicemail. I sent her another email that same day requesting information. She finally responded about ninety minutes later (which made me even angrier, as it was clear she wasn't too busy if she could reply that quickly) and hit me with the shocking news: the position had been offered to someone else.

Naturally, I am furious. I explicitly informed them early on about my current job situation, and they deliberately waited until the very last moment of my notice period to tell me this. They could have informed me earlier, giving me a chance to retract my resignation from my old job. And what's worse, I felt compelled to contact these people that day, otherwise, I would have been completely blindsided. If I hadn't done so, I would have shown up the next day, looking incredibly foolish, only for them to tell me to my face. I absolutely refuse to let them get away with this. I feel I *must* explore legal avenues because this level of irresponsibility and unprofessionalism is completely unacceptable, and it's not just about me. So, Reddit, what's my next step? Where do I even begin? Is this a situation where I might have legal recourse?