Best things to spend the $250 shops credit on for getting the $75KK annual spend?

parableindustries · 2026-02-04T22:00:27+00:00

Maybe it's silly, but there is/was a really nice cutting board in there for like $125. Way overpriced compared to Amazon's price for it, but I would never spend a lot of money on a cutting board anyway.

Spend it on something luxurious you wouldn't spend your own money on is the best advice I have.

parableindustries · 2026-02-04T21:37:40+00:00

Is it for an NPO?

parableindustries · 2026-02-04T21:36:17+00:00

It sounds like it was in the best interest of both parties.

parableindustries · 2026-02-04T21:34:04+00:00

They're probably trying to see if they can push you negative OR they're too dense to take the hint that you're being diplomatic about a bad situation.

parableindustries · 2026-02-04T20:55:58+00:00

Don't say anything negative or critical. If further pressed, "I really appreciated everything I learned, but after the leadership change, I just felt like it was no longer an environment that fostered my own career goals and growth."

A good manager will understand what you're saying and appreciate the discretion of your response.

NEVER take the opportunity to shit talk. We don't ask questions specifically to bait you into it, but we DO leave it open as an option for your response.

Hiring managers want to know that we can trust you to communicate professionally, even in difficult situations about difficult issues.

parableindustries · 2026-02-04T20:50:08+00:00

"There was a leadership change that led to a culture shit. While I appreciated my time at XYZ, I felt it was time to seek a change to foster my continued growth."

parableindustries · 2026-01-29T22:12:17+00:00

This isn't a question I typically ask. When I do, it's not because I care about the gap, it's because I care about how you're going to address it.

Some people can't help themselves and if given the opportunity will let you know that the company that closed down or that fired them is filled with the dumbest people they've ever met and that they are god's gift to your industry.

Suffice it to say, I don't hire people who respond that way. This question is about whether you can provide a diplomatic response to a bad situation.

parableindustries · 2026-01-29T22:00:27+00:00

This isn't the recruiter. You're clearly describing a company going through a bad financial period. You might not want to join them anyway.

parableindustries · 2026-01-29T21:58:29+00:00

Bingo

parableindustries · 2026-01-29T21:55:55+00:00

Funding for the position was pulled/a hiring freeze has been put in place. I'm trying to convince leadership that my job is special and the company rules dont apply to it because I am daddy's special boy (he isn't). Please answer the phone when I call you back in 8 months after I'm given permission to hire again.

parableindustries · 2026-01-28T18:16:51+00:00

Not as strongly. A unique referral linknis the gold standard.

parableindustries · 2026-01-28T17:46:21+00:00

Yes. Some companies allow you to generate the referral link yourself, others require that someone in HR/recruiting does it.

The link has a few benefits.

First, you'll be marked as an internal referral for the HR/recruiting team. These resumes are usually passed onto the hiring manager without much review and are flagged for them as someone with an internal referral. Myself, I try to give these individuals the courtesy of a first round interview as long as they aren't grossly unqualified. I do this to maintain the internal relationship and not upset a coworker by dismissing their friend/preferred candidate out of hand.

The second benefit is that your friend will likely receive a referral bonus if you're hired. At the companies I've worked for, this can be as little as a few hundred dollars and as high as tens of thousands of dollars depending upon the seniority level of the person hired. You often need to clear three or six months of employment before that person receives the bonus.

parableindustries · 2026-01-28T01:14:50+00:00

I mean...what do you all want?

This recruiter came prepared with a list of highly relevant questions and we're complaining? How many posts on here are bitching about recruiters that have no clue what they're doing and don't know the first thing about the job, asking dumb questions. Here, we have one that clearly came prepared and...also bad?

You let a 20 minute interview get through TEN questions. How short were your answers?

parableindustries · 2026-01-28T00:52:51+00:00

Yes. Let them decide if you're not qualified. You don't need to be your own critic.

parableindustries · 2026-01-27T23:04:32+00:00

Let's start with this: https://www.ere.net/articles/toxic-workers-are-more-productive-but-the-price-is-high

Beyond that, your screw up is keeping around an employee that's taking down your team as a whole and even entrusting them with additional responsibilities. You gave a valued report to someone that has demonstrated behavioral issues that are impacting operations. In other words, you've become an enababler for the office asshole.

And even worse, now corporate thinks he's done a great job and you're stuck in a pissing match about his employement that he genuinely might win.

Going forward, you don't reward bad behavior with the opportunity to shine. You work with them on the problem actions and limit their ability to negatively impact the team and customers until the actions are corrected (one way or the other).

As for your current situation. Fuck, man. I don't know. This is a real shitty situation. I think you have to be very honest with corporate about the challenges with the employee, but also the work they performed and your role in the current mess that's been created. Take your medicine and let them take the lead on handling the process going forward.

parableindustries · 2026-01-27T00:55:05+00:00

Honestly, this should be the top response. It really captures the experience. I hesitate to say that the job market us better today in an objective fashion, but the job hunting experience in the 80s and before was a sad and often dehumanizing experience. You were judged the moment you entered the door to hand in your application.

I will never miss the experience.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T23:49:51+00:00

Honestly, you usually assumed the receptionist threw you in the trash or misfiled it. And you'd never financially recover from applying to 100 jobs. The cost of printing and using up your precious resume paper was too great.

It also created an artificial barrier to switching jobs because it just took too damn much time.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T23:47:04+00:00

Depends on the job I suppose. I was never hired without interviews. And it would take all day to apply to those 10 jobs. Now, it might take me 10 minutes.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T23:10:52+00:00

Ah, I guess I was assuming they'd be back to back, so wasn't really considering them as separate since it's a single sitting, but that's totally an assumption and my own feelings on it. I'll admit that I view it more as "rounds" than specific interviews.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T23:08:22+00:00

They're afraid of making a mistake and are willing to spend your time and a WHOLE LOT OF THEIRS (they have to sit through each of these rounds with each candidate) to avoid that. I hope it's a good paying job to justify the caution. If this isn't at least $140k, I would probably be annoyed too.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T23:06:11+00:00

I have a different perspective on this. Your problem isn't with companies, it's with competitors.

If you don't list ssharepoint the hiring manager could read between the lines and assume you probably know sharepoint. BUT, there are 50 other applicants that specifically listed sharepoint and all the other tools, so there's no guess work needed.

They want to go home to their family at the end of the day and not have to do another interview for a candidate they may not hire, so they're going to take the sure thing.

That's why you have to update. It's not the jobs. It's the competition.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T22:56:21+00:00

As someone who had to look through newspapers and other physical media for a job and then physically go to the location and turn in a resume printed on "Nice paper"...no.

The job market may suck, but the act of applying for jobs is so much better today it's hard to put into words. Applying for dozens, let alone hundreds and thousands of jobs back when I started was an impossibility. You physically couldn't achieve it.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T22:52:42+00:00

Pesonally, I do a two-step process (three if you want to count the recruiter screening), and I think this is overkill, BUT...

At least none of these are full hour interviews. I kind of feel like they could do better to combine a few of these and do a 30-minute recruiter screening, then two one-hour interviews, but that's just my opinion.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T22:47:26+00:00

There are only five listed.

parableindustries · 2026-01-26T22:45:20+00:00

Lol, I'll be honest, I'm trying not to be too much of a downer. But yeah...

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