20+ Humorous Memesources Memes Not Approved By the Human Resources Department

Memes that are so funny, now HR wants to see them! …Wait.

‘You’re an idiot…It’s no wonder you did not finish college’: Recruiter berates interviewee for not showing up to interview he scheduled incorrectly

There are all kinds of recruiters in the world. You might have a call with a recruiter that will lead to an incredibly meaningful professional relationship, even if you don’t get the job. There are many more recruiters that will be so unmemorable you won’t recall their names a week after talking to them for …
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Candidate takes a week to consider job offer, recruiter has a biting response: ‘Please do not assume you still have an offer from us’

Deciding to accept a job offer is one of the biggest decisions you have to make in this life. Your job takes up so much of your life that’s not eating or sleeping that we better be sure we have the right one. Sure, you can always leave a job, but that’s a whole process. …
Seguir leyendo Candidate takes a week to consider job offer, recruiter has a biting response: ‘Please do not assume you still have an offer from us’

Recruiter rejects candidate because they want to make at least £25K per year: ‘It’s not something I can guarantee at this stage’

Ever since I was in college, I’ve gotten wild recruiter requests in my LinkedIn DMs. For some reason, the people at Volunteer For America and other low-paying teaching companies think that telling you they pay $15 an hour is a swanky deal for early 20-somethings trying to get their careers started. I don’t have the …
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‘Multiple managers viewed my LinkedIn profile’: Worker sets LinkedIn status to ‘open to work’ after HR puts them on a performance improvement plan

LinkedIn is one social media site you must be careful while using. Casually applying to different jobs is all fun and games until you go from barely using it to being on it every night from 7-10. If you start doing that and you’re connected with all of your current employers, good luck, Charlie. The …
Seguir leyendo ‘Multiple managers viewed my LinkedIn profile’: Worker sets LinkedIn status to ‘open to work’ after HR puts them on a performance improvement plan

‘You’re manifesting my business’s failure’: Dispiteous boss accuses employee of «manifesting failure» of her business

Get your Tarot cards out and crystals ready cause we’re out here trying to manifest the failure of every terrible boss we’ve ever had. Like, can you imagine getting called into a meeting with HR just because your «vibes» were off? Like, heck, Erin, so what if I was in the water closet building a …
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‘HR isn’t your friend’: 30+ people share their best professional advice

There is no rulebook for how to be a working professional. Life gets much more complicated once you’re no longer working a low-stakes job at the Wolfgang Puck Express inside a regional airport, where you’re not particularly concerned with your professional development. When you’re working a big boy job with an annual salary and everything, …
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‘They said it wouldn’t be a problem’: Manager denies employees vacation request after it was approved during job interview

There’s something so scary about your vacation getting ripped out from under you. You spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to have a couple of nice days away from your troubles at work, and if your vacation time gets retroactively denied, there’s nothing you can do about it. Well, there are things you can …
Seguir leyendo ‘They said it wouldn’t be a problem’: Manager denies employees vacation request after it was approved during job interview

‘Guess my last day is Friday!’: Inconsiderate HR worker flagrantly denies time off request they previously approved

As some of us are learning this time of year, time off from work is incredibly important. You need something to look forward to– something to break up the months so you’re not just staring down the barrel of endless workweeks. The weekends only do so much. And most of us are pretty good at …
Seguir leyendo ‘Guess my last day is Friday!’: Inconsiderate HR worker flagrantly denies time off request they previously approved

‘Should I be concerned?’: Worker confronts HR representative after their manager bans employees from discussing pay

There are some things that coworkers shouldn’t ask each other about. It’s usually a good rule of thumb not to discuss politics, religion, or s*x too thoroughly with the people you have to spend 40 hours a week with. Heck, I don’t even want to know the in-depth political compass of someone I only spend …
Seguir leyendo ‘Should I be concerned?’: Worker confronts HR representative after their manager bans employees from discussing pay