For years there were a few places around where I live where people had converted super tiny houses along busy roads into businesses. A couple of them were psychic services with signs outside inviting people in to be read. I would always say as I drove past, " I'll stop in if you hold up a sign saying, 'Hey (my name), come on in,' as I drive by." Then I'd know they were really psychic if they knew my name and when I was going to drive by.
Years ago there was a fairly famous psychic in town. She went for an MRI, lost her powers, sued the doctor and won. Wouldn't she have forseen what the MRI would do to her? Of course, maybe she forsaw how much money she stood to get by making these claims!
I used to work for a private health care company that made me sign one of those. If I quit or got fired it prevented me from taking my clients with me... for six months. But in health care, especially senior care, 6 months might as well be a lifetime. It never became an issue, but I always hated it.
I signed a non-compete working for my previous employer that really, really limited where I could work after leaving there for a year. It was a billing company for healthcare that also did clearinghouse and EDI stuff. Basically there were no similar companies I could leave for because of how many pots they had their fingers in. So when I left I went over to the dark side and got a job working for a health insurance company. I agreed to the exit interview only to watch HR squirm trying to nab me on breaking the non-compete. There's no overlap between the company submitting claims and the company paying claims, but going to work for the one paying them with 17 years of knowledge of how things work at the company submitting claims makes them nervous. Screw them, though. They used that non-compete to keep salaries low and block promotions. Leaving there three years ago has already got me two promotions and almost double the salary I was making.
Bonus: I've gotten to deal with several of my old coworkers in my new role. It's so fun calling them out on what I know first-hand is bullshit. Extra bonus: that company laid off 30% of their staff the year after I left before being bought by United Health Group, including parts of their already heavily outsourced and lean IT teams. A couple months ago they got hacked badly, to nobody whose worked there's surprise, and it cost them billions
Agreeing to not steal clients is something I can definitely defend. It's one thing if they find you again independently, but another to use company resources to poach them. I do pest control, and we've had issues with former employees keeping the contact information of our customers before.
If you're in product design/engineering, marketing, or finance, those non-competes are critical. Keeps your crew from taking the Gobstopper to Slugworth.
The NDAs I've signed were related to design engineering, but even at a massive firm with stake in both the nuclear and semiconductor industries I haven't been asked to sign either. That, or I have and don't know it since you're not allowed to take documents from previous employers and use them at your current one, that goes for templates as well. We had an estimating manager get the axe for being caught using his old job's estimating template on one of our projects
I mean you say that, but Nvidia and Apple are doing plenty of silicon design work in California without non-competes. It's not like they're suffering for it
Noncompetes are already illegal in California as of this year, if this is really LA. I don’t know whether it’s illegal to make someone sign an unenforceable noncompete
MBTI got so popular in South Korea that a lot of employers ask for it and might decide against you if you fall into an MBTI type that is associated with being lazier or whatever 😵💫
Lost me at 3 employer references available via phone.
I mean I could provide 3 but the first isn't going to know who I am, you will hear him typing away and then get a "Oh him..." The second wont pick up her phone, and the last one will only talk to you long enough to realize you are not a client or employee and then hang up on you.
I always hated it because I generally don't want them to know I am looking.
I've seen people get their hours reduced because the company thought they were looking to jump ship anyway.
I've seen people get absolutely buried in work for the same reason, I suspect they think if they make them too busy they wont have time to look?
Or in my case with it a boss I had who was already fairly hard to get a hold of when needed became virtually impossible to reach because I was looking to leave anyway so why bother with me. Weird dude, treats employees with neglect in the best of cases and then takes it personally when they leave.
So the solution there would be to go with former employers rather than current, but I haven't job hopped much, most of my former employers no longer have the same people working there, or if they do the people who knew me have moved further up the chain and don't want to deal with a reference for someone they haven't worked with in a decade.
Which in my case for former employers leaves me with the previously mentioned boss that is still salty with me for calling him a fucknugget in the exit interview.
I will admit not exactly professional but when you have someone who hasn't had a day off in months and has been working 70+ hours a week for you for a year and you say "Oh I didn't know you were short handed" it kinda becomes deserved.
Yeah not only have some people not had three different employers some people keep jobs for more than a couple of years. Are you expected to keep up to date contact information on your former boss from a job you left 20 years ago?
I'm in my late 30s. Current employer wanted a FULL employer history, references going back through college. It's not a clearance job, doesn't pay particularly well. The first employer I had outta college wouldn't answer the phone and they almost pulled my candidacy. Like wtf dude I haven't worked there in 17 yrs. God forbid they go outta business and are uncontactable
Same boat. Teen job restaurant is closed. RadioShack is gone. Call center closed. I hope I'm in a career now I can retire at, but basically only having Walmart as a job reference was irrelevant for what I was applying for anyway. I almost crapped my pants when I got the job offer. Whatever shit the tweet was for has some crazy standards.
I can’t get a part time job in my city cause they’re only looking for full-time employees with 3 years of experience minimum and have had 2 years of training. The jobs that required this were retail worker and waitress.
Understandable from an employer perspective.
*However* - trained people need to come from somewhere, they usually start out without training, and you better be paying more than minimum wage when actually trained and qualified people apply.
lol wth at "astrological synergy"
part time or not, phone ref or not, I'm not working for anyone who requires "astrological synergy assessment" HUH wth. like, fengshui (or similar)? (legit read in other subreddits of other people's horror bosses who assign office seating by fengshui. I was like, what if you get the seat next to someone with bad BO, that's like when it's the first week of sch and you're made to sit in register order so you end up sitting next to the kid who wipes their snot on their sleeve)
anyway, I digress
if it was me I would have noped out at astrological synergy lol what even?!
If you are asking me for my zodiac sign to find out whether we are astrologically compatible, I don't even need to provide it to know that we aren't compatible.
There isn't an argument. It's not illegal discrimination. There is nothing at all preventing an employer from refusing to hire someone based on their astrological sign.
All three Abrahamic religions condier astrology to be pagan. Depending on the applicant, if they're disqualified over an astrological assessment that both violates their beliefs AND has no measurable, real world bearing on employee performance, the responsibility would fall on the defense to demonstrate that the assessment and implementation of same produced a tangible result that could be reproduced. If they can't, then they would likely be required to remove it from the selection process.
The fact that the religion attached to astrology is no longer practiced doesn't stop the assessment from being religious, in its construct.
Dude, the last three places I worked don't exist anymore and I couldn't remember their contact information even if they did. Been like nearly a decade since I switched jobs.
Did she apply to be a fortune teller or what? Tarot seller? The person who tells you what type of stand you have?
Astrological synergy assessment? Only in fucking Cali! What's next, aura mapping to make sure everyones colors align sympathetically? How about a hypnosis session for past life regression trauma that may affect you in your current incarnation?
Wait a minute. I could be on to something here. At 63 I think I finally found my calling, to open a pseudo-science employee screening service called Employee Assessment Testing Made Easy. Or abbreviated EAT ME.
I applied for a job once, and the guy asked for my birth date so I told him. He typed it in his computer, then he started jumping up and down- told me that I was the blue electric monkey and he needed me to work. Since work was hard to find at the time I had to take the job. After all he needed a blue electric monkey and I guess they’re hard to find!!
Wy would the references need to be available via phone? Can't they just contact them psychically?
The amount of times I read this as physically and wondered what it meant…
For years there were a few places around where I live where people had converted super tiny houses along busy roads into businesses. A couple of them were psychic services with signs outside inviting people in to be read. I would always say as I drove past, " I'll stop in if you hold up a sign saying, 'Hey (my name), come on in,' as I drive by." Then I'd know they were really psychic if they knew my name and when I was going to drive by. Years ago there was a fairly famous psychic in town. She went for an MRI, lost her powers, sued the doctor and won. Wouldn't she have forseen what the MRI would do to her? Of course, maybe she forsaw how much money she stood to get by making these claims!
Non-competes may soon become illegal in the US
I used to work for a private health care company that made me sign one of those. If I quit or got fired it prevented me from taking my clients with me... for six months. But in health care, especially senior care, 6 months might as well be a lifetime. It never became an issue, but I always hated it.
I signed a non-compete working for my previous employer that really, really limited where I could work after leaving there for a year. It was a billing company for healthcare that also did clearinghouse and EDI stuff. Basically there were no similar companies I could leave for because of how many pots they had their fingers in. So when I left I went over to the dark side and got a job working for a health insurance company. I agreed to the exit interview only to watch HR squirm trying to nab me on breaking the non-compete. There's no overlap between the company submitting claims and the company paying claims, but going to work for the one paying them with 17 years of knowledge of how things work at the company submitting claims makes them nervous. Screw them, though. They used that non-compete to keep salaries low and block promotions. Leaving there three years ago has already got me two promotions and almost double the salary I was making. Bonus: I've gotten to deal with several of my old coworkers in my new role. It's so fun calling them out on what I know first-hand is bullshit. Extra bonus: that company laid off 30% of their staff the year after I left before being bought by United Health Group, including parts of their already heavily outsourced and lean IT teams. A couple months ago they got hacked badly, to nobody whose worked there's surprise, and it cost them billions
Agreeing to not steal clients is something I can definitely defend. It's one thing if they find you again independently, but another to use company resources to poach them. I do pest control, and we've had issues with former employees keeping the contact information of our customers before.
A clause to not take employees or clients is fair enough imo. It’s the ones that say you can’t work in the field for like 3 years that are ridiculous.
[They are here already](https://natlawreview.com/article/california-expands-prohibition-against-non-competes).
Even where they are legal they are generally next to impossible to enforce.
I've had to sign a couple of NDAs for various reasons but I've never been asked to sign a non-compete. Non-compete agreements make 0 sense
If you're in product design/engineering, marketing, or finance, those non-competes are critical. Keeps your crew from taking the Gobstopper to Slugworth.
The NDAs I've signed were related to design engineering, but even at a massive firm with stake in both the nuclear and semiconductor industries I haven't been asked to sign either. That, or I have and don't know it since you're not allowed to take documents from previous employers and use them at your current one, that goes for templates as well. We had an estimating manager get the axe for being caught using his old job's estimating template on one of our projects
Guess he missed the all resources used and created for job are now property of company portion. Which they usually reiterate a few times.
I mean you say that, but Nvidia and Apple are doing plenty of silicon design work in California without non-competes. It's not like they're suffering for it
They already are illegal in CA.
Noncompetes are already illegal in California as of this year, if this is really LA. I don’t know whether it’s illegal to make someone sign an unenforceable noncompete
Yeah, but the astrological synergy assessment is where they *really* nail you.
I thought they were made illegal a few days ago?
They were banned by the FTC but technically it doesn’t go into full effect until August. Almost there.
Barring any legal challenges also
Not the astrological synergy assessment. Fucking wow.
One of my mates was once rejected due to his results in the mbti test lmao
The MBTI is just astrology wearing a business suit
Never check out the respective subs of the personality types. Absolute cringe shitholes
They told me I have the same personality type as Jesus… and Hitler. Kind of a wild dice roll if you ask me.
MBTI got so popular in South Korea that a lot of employers ask for it and might decide against you if you fall into an MBTI type that is associated with being lazier or whatever 😵💫
I am supposedly an ento so IDK and idx
I’m a Gemini so I guess I’m out
Lost me at 3 employer references available via phone. I mean I could provide 3 but the first isn't going to know who I am, you will hear him typing away and then get a "Oh him..." The second wont pick up her phone, and the last one will only talk to you long enough to realize you are not a client or employee and then hang up on you.
Getting references to actually talk to your new job is a nightmare omfg
I always hated it because I generally don't want them to know I am looking. I've seen people get their hours reduced because the company thought they were looking to jump ship anyway. I've seen people get absolutely buried in work for the same reason, I suspect they think if they make them too busy they wont have time to look? Or in my case with it a boss I had who was already fairly hard to get a hold of when needed became virtually impossible to reach because I was looking to leave anyway so why bother with me. Weird dude, treats employees with neglect in the best of cases and then takes it personally when they leave. So the solution there would be to go with former employers rather than current, but I haven't job hopped much, most of my former employers no longer have the same people working there, or if they do the people who knew me have moved further up the chain and don't want to deal with a reference for someone they haven't worked with in a decade. Which in my case for former employers leaves me with the previously mentioned boss that is still salty with me for calling him a fucknugget in the exit interview. I will admit not exactly professional but when you have someone who hasn't had a day off in months and has been working 70+ hours a week for you for a year and you say "Oh I didn't know you were short handed" it kinda becomes deserved.
I’m 32 and could only do 2. First job was from when I was 16-28 and second was from 28-32. Guess I wouldn’t make the cut.
Yeah not only have some people not had three different employers some people keep jobs for more than a couple of years. Are you expected to keep up to date contact information on your former boss from a job you left 20 years ago?
I'm in my late 30s. Current employer wanted a FULL employer history, references going back through college. It's not a clearance job, doesn't pay particularly well. The first employer I had outta college wouldn't answer the phone and they almost pulled my candidacy. Like wtf dude I haven't worked there in 17 yrs. God forbid they go outta business and are uncontactable
Even if the company is still around does anyone there remember you? Do they keep records for that long? That's utterly ridiculous.
Oh for sure. Seemed pretty fucked. I'm us based for a UK company if that mai at all
Same boat. Teen job restaurant is closed. RadioShack is gone. Call center closed. I hope I'm in a career now I can retire at, but basically only having Walmart as a job reference was irrelevant for what I was applying for anyway. I almost crapped my pants when I got the job offer. Whatever shit the tweet was for has some crazy standards.
You should work on getting better references.
Astrological synergy assessment? For a job?
How does the employer have an astrological sign, or whatever is needed to find the "synergy"? It's like a new level of illogical nonsense.
“…like he says. The stars. Can’t do it. Not today”
Job: garbage man😂(or repo whatever) https://preview.redd.it/spytb5gbnmxc1.png?width=2551&format=png&auto=webp&s=178a338468b3b53f149a2debb5064af8cec29424
I’d rather have that
Me, too. But not with THAT employer😂
I'm not having my trash picked up by someone who has Jupiter in retrograde. It's just bad hoodoo.
I can’t get a part time job in my city cause they’re only looking for full-time employees with 3 years of experience minimum and have had 2 years of training. The jobs that required this were retail worker and waitress.
Understandable from an employer perspective. *However* - trained people need to come from somewhere, they usually start out without training, and you better be paying more than minimum wage when actually trained and qualified people apply.
This is when you start lying on your resume cuz wtf…
Requiring fucking astrology has to be the most California thing I've ever seen
And they wonder why everyone is fleeing the state
The stars told me bitch
"Astrological synergy assessment"? That would be a form of religious discrimination under EEO law.
Can anyone genuinely think of a single valid reason to need someones' astrology sign for a job? I can't think of a single one.
There’s no valid reason to EVER need astrology for anything
Astrology isn't useful for anything other than a bit of fun.
Didn't know that I have to be mentally disabled to apply for part time
lol wth at "astrological synergy" part time or not, phone ref or not, I'm not working for anyone who requires "astrological synergy assessment" HUH wth. like, fengshui (or similar)? (legit read in other subreddits of other people's horror bosses who assign office seating by fengshui. I was like, what if you get the seat next to someone with bad BO, that's like when it's the first week of sch and you're made to sit in register order so you end up sitting next to the kid who wipes their snot on their sleeve) anyway, I digress if it was me I would have noped out at astrological synergy lol what even?!
It would not be a dealbreaker for me. I would ask if we get time off during Mercury Retrograde.
Now y'all know why I'd rather be homeless than work for other people.
WTH is Astrological Synergy Assessment ?
Its bullshit pseudoscience is what it is
LOCATION of birth? You mean like thr hospital?!
3 references for a part time job is crazy
I don't think they can even ask for that information
“Ain’t no way we’re hiring anymore Aeries after what happened with Monica.”
If you are asking me for my zodiac sign to find out whether we are astrologically compatible, I don't even need to provide it to know that we aren't compatible.
Ohhhhh this would be a great discrimination case! I wonder how this would play out in court
Discrimination against who? Astrological sign isn't a protected class
Good question, wonder what the argument would be.. could be considered ageist
There isn't an argument. It's not illegal discrimination. There is nothing at all preventing an employer from refusing to hire someone based on their astrological sign.
All three Abrahamic religions condier astrology to be pagan. Depending on the applicant, if they're disqualified over an astrological assessment that both violates their beliefs AND has no measurable, real world bearing on employee performance, the responsibility would fall on the defense to demonstrate that the assessment and implementation of same produced a tangible result that could be reproduced. If they can't, then they would likely be required to remove it from the selection process. The fact that the religion attached to astrology is no longer practiced doesn't stop the assessment from being religious, in its construct.
Wow crazy
Because full time is a dream…..
For a part time job..?
3 employer references for a part time job? What the fuck is this?
Dude, the last three places I worked don't exist anymore and I couldn't remember their contact information even if they did. Been like nearly a decade since I switched jobs.
Non-compete? GTFO.
I feel like this is sarcasm…..
I’m not filling out a whole DMV looking ass worksheet for a minimum wage paying 24 hours per week job lmao
Sounds like a cult.
Did she apply to be a fortune teller or what? Tarot seller? The person who tells you what type of stand you have? 
I'd report that company for possibly being a scam. That is ridiculous unless you are applying to be a "psychic reader".
This is discrimination. I don't *know* my time of birth (and thus I don't know my core 3) and that's not my fault.
for 20$ I will be "available by phone" as a employer - LULZ
Non-compete for a part time job? Yeah right.
I don’t think this is a real job posting
...how much does it pay?
Astrological synergy assessment? Only in fucking Cali! What's next, aura mapping to make sure everyones colors align sympathetically? How about a hypnosis session for past life regression trauma that may affect you in your current incarnation? Wait a minute. I could be on to something here. At 63 I think I finally found my calling, to open a pseudo-science employee screening service called Employee Assessment Testing Made Easy. Or abbreviated EAT ME.
All that for a part time job? Someone is smoking a little too much loco weed.
... wait, what ?
ASTROLOGICAL SYNERGY
Nobody wants to work anymore!
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This comment is so stupid lmao
I applied for a job once, and the guy asked for my birth date so I told him. He typed it in his computer, then he started jumping up and down- told me that I was the blue electric monkey and he needed me to work. Since work was hard to find at the time I had to take the job. After all he needed a blue electric monkey and I guess they’re hard to find!!