I just need to vent, my whole team has accepted there's nothing we can do about this, so we should just learn to work with her communication style.

We work in different cities so all our communication is solely online.

The type of things she's done:

* Send you a "hi", then five hours of silence later she will say she forgot what she wanted to talk about.

* Will send you a message saying "urgent. We need to talk" making you super anxious. She then either doesn't call back, or it's the most mundane shit ever that she could have typed as a teams message.

* randomly calls you until you pick up. If you try to do the same, she never picks up.

* If you send her a teams message asking if you should pick A or B, she replies with "yes". This has happened multiple times. When I clarified my question she just laugh reacted.

* Vague messages with zero prior context. I once got a message at 9am saying "how's it coming along". What's coming along?? I'm working on 5 things at once.

* Randomly dials you into meetings you aren't invited to and then leaves

* Never replies to emails. Will instead just call to reply.

* Asked if I should organise the meeting or let her forward her one. She just laugh reacted to it and never responded.

I don't always want to be randomly called when I'm in the middle of something! Sometimes I just want to ask a quick question via teams. I spend so much time meticulously writing my message for her so she has zero ambiguity and complete clear understanding of what I need, but she just comes back with a random vague response.

Why????

Edit: ok fine, I rescind the cold calling thing. I used the wrong term. Everything else still stands.

I used a recruiter who put my name forward for a job. She heard back from them 8 weeks later and set up an interview. In the interim, I could see that the company was placing ads on job sites directly, which I thought was a bit odd since I had been waiting for an interview for so long.

I had an initial phone interview with the manager and then a face to face interview with him and another. The interview went really well and they told me that I would fit right in. The recruiter calls me a couple of hours after the interview and tells me that I got the job and what the offer was and she needed to check my references. The recruiter did all of that and sent them the contract. A week had passed and I still didn’t receive my contract, so the recruiter follows them up. The manager told the recruiter that it was still with the Managing Director getting sign off.

A few days later she was told that my contract will not go ahead because the Managing Director had told the Manager that I applied for the same role over 12 months ago and he wasn’t impressed by my resume then and still isn’t impressed by my resume now. I never previously interviewed with this company until now, but I must have just applied last year using a job site and he still had a record of my resume.

The recruiter felt awful and said this has never happened to her before. I told her it was fine as I never resigned from my current role, so I still have a job.

I am a little shocked that this all happened. I mean I have been ghosted many time before, but I have never been told that I’ve gotten a role and then a week and a half later told that no I hadn’t. Has this happened to anyone before? I feel like I have dodged a bullet.

Hiya

Long time lurker first time poster. Roughly about three weeks ago whilst I was working from home (privileged to have one or two days a week) I got the call no one wants, my grandfather in tears informing me my grandmother (who I shared a very close bond with) suddenly passed.

TLDR at the end for those who don't wanna read a wall of text

This was obviously unexpected and I called my manager to inform him I wouldn't be working the rest of the day whilst I try to process this, make calls, travel plans etc.

The next day I went into work because being TL, sometimes you've just gotta push shit aside and get work done. Not even 10 minutes into getting started he pulled me into a room and informed me that the leave I took (a whole 3 hours) would need to be unpaid (I've got TONS of AL and some SL) pressured me not to take more than one day bereavement and the kicker, less than 24 hours of her passing, demanded I get a death certificate or confirmation of death same day before I left the office.

Safe to say I was pretty upset but just locked in and got what needed to be done and went home (also got the letter from the hospital before I left) After a few weeks of dwelling on this, I had a quick conversation with HR to understand the grievance policy given I was under the impression it came from them (his words) who were shocked to hear this. It didn't come from HR at all...

After a few days I was informed it would be changed to paid leave by my manager and HR just deflected and said the policy saids it MAY ask for proof of death.

My question is this, is it normal to have to submit proof of death so quickly in order to take leave? In my eight years of working I've only had one relative pass (different role) and I was given a week off without a bat of an eye. Is it normal to feel this upset by it all? Just the coldness and lack of empathy makes me think it's time to jump ship.

How would y'all handle this?

TLDR: grandmother died, was asked for Proof of death less than 24 hours after her passing and HR doesn't seem concerned in the slightest, only took one day of leave due to feeling pressured to do so and was almost forced to take unpaid leave the afternoon of her passing.

Cheers

Left for a competitor and they walked me out the door. I have 3 months fully paid free time. What would you do with it?

I had applied for a role in Westpac, was able to secure till F2F interview but they didn't offer the role.

Now, a week later, I applied for the role on recruiter's portal and they provided link for Westpac's video interview.

Do I let the recruiter know I had applied for the role and went in for F2F or should I just apply it?

The same people in Westpac will most likely take my F2F interview again.. if I go through the interview.

Hey Everyone,

So I have been worked as an implementation consultant when I started in AU corporate for 2 years and switched to a Business Analyst role afterwards. Its been 5 years in industry now and my current organisation is quite chill.

Its not like I dont have work to do. It has its days with too much or too slow but I am starting to feel bored in my current role.

Being an application BA I feel its the same type of work I am handling all the time and its not adding any new value to my skills.

Moreover, in my team I am the only BA for that application and rest of the team consists of 1 lead, dev, tester.

I dont see next role or step for me in future with my current org.

I wanted to pursue project manager role but if I apply outside junior roles pay less than what I am getting now. I cant compromise on that due to mortgage.

What should I do? With AI enablement is BA role will be good for future or should I change into something else?

I feel lost and question my job everyday😒

AI should not be a crutch but a tool. People MUST have the knowledge and SKILLs. Being able to tell AI to make something doesn’t mean you have that skill.

There’s been a few cases at my workplace where some guy has created a fancy looking dashboard on excel or some vibe coded web app.

It was working fine for us for 2 months … until we needed to have it changed.

Issue is, they don’t know how to modify the app or change the dashboard, then we had to have a contractor fix that for us. Rule now is that if you have vibe coded or AI made stuff, gotta know how to fix it or change it.

For future bosses wanting to use AI, you can’t just have less workers and then have AI building stuff for you. You still need to retain enough of those skills.

Has anyone ever been placed on a PIP, raised with the union, and had the PIP challenged or altered?

Edit: Thank you all for your input and advice. Apologies for the lack of detail, I am not in a position to provide any further info.

I recently missed out on a job offer that I was really keen about, and was told to apply again later as I justttt missed out.

In the meantime, I’ve secured a tech grad program with a company I found really nice (but not my dream role).

While I’ll be working on working towards my dream job, I find myself being scared that I’m going to be stuck in Sydney forever (but idk where else I want to move to).

I would love to work abroad, gain some new life experiences, and I feel like at 23 that my time is slipping away. I also feel like while I like tech, I am also interested in the international relations field (my minor in uni) and don’t want to completely shut myself off from that.

Apologies for the long post but essentially: Do you guys have any cool career paths or job experiences within tech that you thought was an amazing opportunity?

How do you navigate doing a full time job while also being active in other interests?

Is doing tech in an NGO space a viable option (I thought it blended my IT and IR backgrounds)?

Thank you, and let me know if I should post this elsewhere instead!

Deloitte has also recently been found to have used AI in a Canadian report but ultimately faced no repercussions

https://theindependent.ca/news/lji/watchdog-says-it-cant-investigate-deloitte-over-use-of-ai-in-1-6m-government-report/

Also currently another AI scandal in New Zealand from Deloitte double counting employee

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/s/JUtLZ7A2W4

I think it is time we seriously have some mechanisms in place for the Big 4 consultant firms actually having some mechanism of accountability.

It is one thing if this is a privately commissioned report for a small-medium company looking to expand (and I actually hear the Big 4 do an excellent job of those), but when these reports are Government commissioned and have drastic consequences for all involved, there absolutely must be some sort of integrity and conflict checking that happens.

It is now basically open assumption that these firms provide reports attuned to whatever is required for the engaging party and that just simply cannot be. What is the point then? Who is even reading these reports at this point and how can these be seen as anything more than a box-ticking exercise?

Post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/s/8sSA1DcX3B

As you may remember, I posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/auscorp/s/LUXgelqI91

About a month ago.

Well, after my boss going MIA on me for over 3 weeks and not responding to emails or WhatsApps sent by me, but responding to others, and having work taken away from me, I was terminated yesterday.

They waited for him to come back from holiday to be the bag man, so I got to sit around at the office for over 2 weeks like the grateful dead, trying to keep busy while work was actively being taken out of my hands.

He walked into the office very dejectedly and rather awkwardly told me to pack my shit and leave. I want to say I was professional, shook his hand and thanked him for the opportunity, but in reality I didn't.

I tore shreds off of him and had the satisfaction of watching him squirm. I talked to him more in that 8 min interaction than I did over my 5 months of employment. He tried to shake my hand at the end, I told him I'd rather not.

Silver lining. I'm home for Christmas with the kids, found out we are having another kid, and I've got some interviews lined up for this week.

There were redundancies at Green Dot today, with over 30 people affected on my team alone. We were informed that the layoffs were part of an organisational restructuring. I’m not sure how widespread the redundancies are across the rest of the company, but I wanted to share what happened on our team.

Every place that I've worked, if there was a good looking tea cup (not clearly owned by someone else), I adopted it and took it home once I left. I now have a cupboard full of fun random designs.

I'm also the person who has somewhere between 6 & 10 teaspoons at their desk before returning them to the kitchen.

Hi all,

I'd love some advice on navigating my career, particularly when it comes to networking and workplace politics.

I'm an immigrant Aussie, who got out of a pretty shit situation back in my home country. I'm an only child, raised by a single mum who stopped working when I was in primary school, and when I moved to Australia, I had no family, no friends, and certainly no professional network.

I'm envious of people who had someone to show them the ropes like parents or relatives who can offer career advice, explain workplace politics, or at least point them in the right direction because I've never really had that.

I just work really hard, to compensate as I'm very aware of the network and resource I lack. My KPIs are always near-perfect, I'm recognised for my work within my own team, and I genuinely put a lot of effort into what I do.

But I don't know how to translate that into actual career progression (e.g. how to self-advocate and promote my wins, etc). It doesn't help that, although I do have a solid group of friends, I'm naturally more of an introvert and a little awkward - for example, I struggle with pop culture talks at work because watching movies was a luxury growing up.

I understand that being good at your job doesn't automatically make you promotion material. There are other skills involved and a whole lot of networking required, and I'm willing to learn. I just don't really know where to start.

I'm putting a lot of work into improving myself but sometimes it feels like I keep hitting the same wall, and I can't quite work out what to do.

I'd genuinely love to hear from anyone who has something to share, regardless of where you are in your career or how you got there.

What have you learned about getting ahead in the corporate world? What actually makes a difference beyond being good at your job? What would you tell someone who's trying to figure it all out?

I'd appreciate any advice. Books to read, podcasts or TED Talks to listen to, YouTube channels to watch, people to approach for guidance, or actual strategies I can try.

Even things you wish someone had told you earlier in your career.

Thanks in advance!

(pls dont suggest a psychologist, Im already doing that too lmao)

Late 20s, been in my role for nearing 2 years. Been at the company since uni and worked my way out of an entry level role not related to my degree into a good one related to my degree.

I’ve taken my job and my boss for granted. For context I have always felt very underappreciated and borderline disrespected, not only by my immediate team but the team I work for. I work in an industry where my degree and work generally isn’t valued and this has really negatively impacted my work and level of stakeholder engagement. People don’t see value in my work, don’t take my word for anything and are quick to disregard what I say. It is very disheartening.

This has manifested itself into a regression of my behaviour and in turn, a lack of respect for my role, my boss and the broader business. I fucked up, no other way to go about it.

Had my PIP meeting, got what I need to do and I’m actively trying to turn this situation on its head but I am scared. I’m scared the damage is done and the PIP is a way to manage me out and that I am forever tarnished in the corporate world because of it. I know what I need to do (I think), I am doing it but I really do fear it’s too late.

My father is a C level and while he has been supportive, he has put a tremendous level of fear into me.

What do you guys think? It feels like it’s the end for me, and I am really worried.

Thanks.

The Finance Sector Union confirmed it had come to an in-principle agreement with Australia’s largest bank and its Bankwest subsidiary on Tuesday after securing a series of hard-won concessions, including a guaranteed 13 per cent pay rise over three years for its lowest-paid staff.

FSU acting national secretary Nicole McPherson said the 13 per cent raise for the bank's lowest-paid staff ranked as the highest pay bump in the sector.

‘‘CBA's previous below-inflation pay offers were insulting to workers and only motivated them to demand a fairer share of the profits they helped to create,'' McPherson said. ‘‘The FSU congratulates our members for standing up and exposing conditions at Australia's richest bank.''

Read more here: https://fsu.org.au/4ztHdRL

So as title states, recently I got made redundant in my job while only being 3 years into an IT career and not sure what to do now and what is best thing to do moving forward. I have been just fixing up my resume and applying for some jobs and not much else. Since I am only early on in my career I haven't built up much experience and the skills I have acquired might not be most sought after since more analytics with sql and dashboard making as well as observability. So yeah just need some advice in any way possible.

Need a recommendation for a good tax accountant who is familiar with ATO rules on redundancy payments.

Thanks 🙏🏻

Joined an organisation for just over a year but feel like I am slowly checking out more and more as the days go on and not enjoying my job. In my previous role, got top grade for performance review prior to leaving.

In the new organisation I just don't see eye to eye with my manager, try adjusting to his style but feel like he's always finding ways to blast/ tell me off on group teams chat or in DMs which he has done both sometimes it's not even my fault at least once a week, will include smiley face.

Recently found out from my colleague (accidental or not) that they were entitled to bonus, and I wasn't, was surprised as only I volunteer to do work and they do just what's assigned, I can't prove it but I believe they treat women different men based on my observations.

Partner thinks I should try and leave ASAP but job market obviously ain't the greatest, just trying to understand whether I am making a bigger deal out of it then it is and whether I should just cop it as long as I can?

Just over a month ago I started a new job on a fixed term contract. I know they were picking between two equally qualified candidates and they chose me.

Last Friday I ended up in the emergency dept and I had surgery on my neck. Obviously I needed Friday off work, and I took Monday as well. I went back to work (remotely) yesterday but today I’ve had to take two more days off because I’m not recovering as quickly as I want to. Sitting at a computer is straining my neck and causing more pain/nausea.

I am absolutely wracked with anxiety about having so much time off so early in my tenure. They had a choice of candidates and I don’t want them to think they got a dud and want to get rid of me.

I’m hoping this is just leftover feelings from my last toxic workplace full of c***s but I’m so stressed they’re going to regret hiring me. It’s why I went back sooner than I should have.

Anyone else ever feel like this? Anyone been a hiring manager and not been upset at unexpected leave early in the tenure? (To be fair to my boss, they’ve been great and said all the right things)

Mid 20s 4-5 years exp. I have switched around a bit but getting to the point where it is getting hard to explain my job changes. 2 of the ones have been because of “performance issues” but really it was because I join at a mid level and whenever I join the person (senior) above me tends to leave while I am on probation and then they start expecting me to do their role (without a proper handover) so I have never really had any time or mentor to guide me in my professional journey.

All the feedback that I have had says my my effort is always there and that I am not difficult to work with but saying they just want someone senior, but how can companies expect someone to hit the ground running

I know it’s not very common but I have seen people explain the resignation without delving into the reasons or saying that they got fired. Is it potentially a salary thing too? I negotiate well but sometimes they also get people who are much more experienced than me come at a lower or same salary as me.

Really unsure how to get out of this hole or what are the next steps to do so I can get some stability in my career.

My colleagues and I (different industries/BUs) have noticed a major uptick in the persistence of Sales People this year.

From repeated emails, phone calls, filling up message banks, LinkedIn, calling switch and pretending to be a known person, to reaching out via other personal socials!

What's happened with Sales this year for personal boundaries to just be completely ignored?!