Posted on 10/25/2024 12:39:15 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Last year, Alexis Byrd started a new job she was really excited for.
Byrd, who lives in Detroit, landed an HR job in the logistics space. Though the job was remote, she was asked to commute an hour into the office for her first week of onboarding.
No big deal, Byrd thought — she was greeted at the office with flowers and welcoming colleagues.
By her third day, however, her manager told her she would actually be expected to commute into the office three times a week. Not only that, Byrd was to drive to the company's two other worksites twice a week, which would add about two hours of driving to her daily commute.
"It was kind of crazy," Byrd, 29, tells CNBC Make It. "I was overwhelmed."
Byrd tried to bring up her remote-work agreement with her manager to get clarity. "She had said, 'Sometimes things change, and you need to be flexible'," Byrd recalls. "It was kind of a brush-off."
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Excuses are made for HR, but (assuming the story is accurate) it is a s****y practice IMHO.
Early on, the Glassdoor site was valuable to learn about this stuff, but over time it became apparent that site was being curated/co-opted.
I recall back in the day when potential employees were told that traveling for business was rarely done, only to find out later they needed to be away on business several times a year. This sounds similar, other than the fact we really didn’t have remote work days as a part of our employment.
I had a 1yearend $7k bonus on taking a job. Yearend no bonus. Ran home and got my Signed (by previous HR person) signon
Bonus letter! Next week all was well.
Get stuff in Writing!
I once took a job that HR said was one thing - technical writing, but the on-the-ground was a totally different thing - as close as I can describe was forensic accounting.
I went back to the HR folks and told then I was rescinding my acceptance of the job...
They seemed *confused*.
My reply was “Of I had accepted the job, I would say I quit.
Hence my recension of the acceptance. This owing to your dishonesty in the job description.”
Frustrating to say the least....as I had a bud from a former gig put in a good word for me.
That happened to me once in 2014. When I left after 5 monte I told them I would not be refunding my signing bonus because they didn’t live up to their end of the bargain. I forwarded them the email the contain the promises of the man that hired me. I never heard one complaint from them.
My favorite interview story from many decades ago.
On their nickel they fly me off to the corporate HQ for a final interview.
The hiring official had already told me “You are our most qualified candidate. We are going to have lunch with a couple of the senior people to make sure they are ok with your hire—and if you don’t spill food on your tie you should be good to go.”
Good news: Everybody was very friendly at lunch. I did not spill food on my tie. The body language was great and we all had a good time.
Bad news: A few days later the guy calls me and said “sorry we picked somebody else”.
Arghhhhh.
I’ve worked in far worse places, so I can gut it our two more years.
A truly depressing time for our kid, but sometimes bad stories have happy endings. Seems the person who was hired into the managing position has been awful. Even that person's friend can't mask their poor work performance.
In the meantime, a position in a special projects department opened up, and our kid was elevated to that position. It ended up being a much preferred position in the company.
In my case as well it turned out the best.
I totally bailed on that industry and started at the very bottom in another one.
Everything worked beautifully after that.
Go figure!
My friend had a big poster of a cowboy on his office wall. “There were a helluva lot of things they didn’t tell me when I hired on with this outfit”.
I had that poster... The cowboys expression was prefect for the job I was working at the time.
That’s why I’m 100% remote or no deal. They know right up front, I’m not coming into the office.
I would have been scared off by “flaming red fag.”
My Navy recruiter did the same thing to me.
Get a company car and charge for the drive time.
It is like one of my customers insists I clean up after myself when I use their machines on their projects. I’ll be happy to sweep the floors at my full billing rate. If they insist I drive out of town or travel, I am happy to sit on my butt at full billing rate.
It’s the only way to do it. We hire 100% remote and never ask anyone to come in. I lived 10 min from the office and they told me to stay home. They had discovered something amazing. When you work from home, you are always in the office.
I owned a CPA firm. Tax season is a burn out no matter how you look at it.
I would always have a big meal for everyone, including spouses on April 15th. I would thank the spouses for their patience as I was now returning their partner.
Tax seasons are hell. They were far worse before computers.
That was last year, this year we had to do the grunt work of reconciling 18 months of bank statements because the accountant did not keep track of intercompany transactions. On one trial balance, I started with 3 line items and ended with 10. There were so many errors I was unable to get a decent nights sleep for a month.
It put us so far behind, the 1040s for our officers were completed on 10/15. These returns were not normal: 5+ state returns with 25+ K-1s. When I started 2 years ago, the Tax Department had 3 members. Thankfully, we’re now up to 7.
That’s why I RETIRED..
🥴
Wish I could. No complaints. My granddaughter turns 3 tomorrow, was born 13 weeks premature. Lots of issues.
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