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Read the community guidelinesThe colleagues are nice.
Applied for a graphic designer position. The 104 job posting required: uploading listings, product images, and EDMs.
Only spent the first four days actually creating graphics. The real job duties were: inventory counting, checking incoming goods, refurbishing returns, moving goods, packing goods, moving goods, packing goods, moving goods, packing goods.
Every day involved exhausting overtime, and it was all physical labor. Absurd.
There was a severe staff shortage, yet they still never hired more people. Every day, there were several thousand orders to ship.
I learned absolutely nothing and had no opportunity to use my strengths.
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Claims to follow the Labor Standards Act, but in practice often pretends not to know anything and uses terms such as “probationary period” that do not comply with regulations.
During the interview, they said they valued employees who are “eager to learn.” After joining, they dumped a pile of work on me that was completely different from what had initially been described, supposedly to give me “learning opportunities.”
At a small company, it is normal for one person to do the work of several people; overtime is commonplace, and since there is only one male employee in the company, moving heavy objects is also routine.