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posted July 07, 2023 05:32 PM            

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One thing I've always noticed (probably because of Saturn conjunct Sun) is that employers in the United States have extremely unrealistic expectations for their employees' performance. At every job I've had I have felt a lot of pressure to be perfect from day one. There's no room for error. Boom! If you can't master complicated processes within a day or two you are gone. That got slightly better during Covid but things have gone back to the status quo in that regard from what I've seen. I have experienced things like being yelled at and written up when I was the only one doing a job that should have had 3 other people helping me. What especially brought this topic to mind is my current employer expecting me to master the training for something completely new to me that is really difficult in less than a day. They told me if I can't pass the training test on Monday without making any mistakes that I'll be let go. No pressure, huh? And this company is desperate for people but they dont want to give people time to learn. Make it make sense!! I honestly think that's why there are so many empty jobs in the States right now. People realize that employers see them as things to be cast aside. A lot of people are lucky enough to have family systems and situations that make it easier for them to get out of the rat race. I envy those people. My karma has led me to a life of dealing with the BS and somehow making a way for myself for whatever reason.

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posted July 11, 2023 03:51 PM            

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posted July 13, 2023 08:16 PM            

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Things turned out ok, but I still think things were way more stressful than they had to be.

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posted September 03, 2023 10:22 AM            

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Glad it worked out.

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posted May 16, 2024 11:35 AM            

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Hi there, I've been experiencing something similar for quite a few years now. I'm based in EU, but so far worked only for American multinational companies. The last healthcare and life sciences one was by far the most disgusting and terrible one for me where the management expected a few of us to work in 2 positions on a daily basis and when we opened up about our ongoing health issues and burnout we didn't get any empathy, nor support, but were threatened with a potential firing... Within 1 month I handed my resignation in and never want to see that company again... I heard that within a few months at least half of the department did the exact same. Glad they did.

The 1st company I worked for was a similar life sciences one, and for 2 years things were going fairly fine, but then the same thing happened, complete 2x workload within a regular work day, but "it is a great learning opportunity, on the other hand, we cannot give any promotion and off-cycle compensation for it, sorry". Well, sorry, not sorry, no thanks...

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