Not really bait and switched, but ghosted several times. You know, that thing HR people keep complaining about being done to them? Haha.

Once I joined a company with “unlimited paid time off” and turned out it was more like “no time off and maybe check some things on the weekends”. They also fired me day before my equity should have hit then had the audacity to ask me to organize macbook return - it’s still gathering dust on my shelf lol

Either way I still got paid a lot of money and it was a good learning though more in life lessons rather than professional experience.

“unlimited PTO”

*looks inside

”4 weeks of PTO unless you have VP approval except you’ll never get it”

Hired for deli. Deli is a different union and pays better than say, cashier.

Which is what they moved us to immediately.

Asked if they were going to pay our hired wage or not. They did. I think they thought we knew it was a bait and switch. Didn’t until later, but they were careful to not lower the wage cause then yeah. Go to the board.

Marketing. My responsibilities involve funneling online leads into sales through online campaigns.

The owner (not my boss) wanted me to walk around knocking on doors and giving fliers because “that’s how we always do it”.

I laughed and went back to my desk, doing what I’m good at.

Owner hated me in the first 6 months and then left me alone because I’m good at my job.

Moved to a new town, applied to work at a kitchen inside of a bar. Was called and asked to work 1 shift to see how i liked it, and was payed for that day in cash on the way out as they told me when i could work next.

The following work day as i was leaving my apartment the bar manager called and said they filled the position i had applied for and told me to not come in.

So i went back home 🤔😅

Oh boy. I had a crazy experience as a coop student (software engineering). Written on mobile, so may have some typos/styling quirks, sorry.

Term X: I worked for company Y, it went well, they wanted me back.

Term X+1: I get the automated message from the university job system saying I have an offer from company Y for the upcoming term, do I accept? I do. 3 months later, urgont email from university’s coop office. The offer was glitched in the system. Company Y got a rejection from me, hired someone else. I have about a week to land a job from the dregs that nobody else accepted.

There’s no CS related jobs left, but luckily I can speak french at about a B2ish level, so I look at a few french-english translator postings. Get a job doing translations for a mobile app. It’ll probably suck a bit, but at least its something.

Fast forward to first day on the job. They say “we saw on your resume that you can code, one project you made was an android app. Here’s our competitor’s suite of 7 android apps (SAP). We want you to ‘translate’ them and make us our own versions. Here’s a link to our API document.” So I guess I got a CS job anyways. I’m put in a cubicle with Mr Doe. My supervisor, Mr Smith says Mr Doe will show me the ropes.

Mr Doe tells me “its a pretty casual place, no real fixed hours, just try to get your work done, no big deal.” he then pulls out his lunch and starts eating at his desk saying “I’ll just be here if you need anything” I ask about the dev team. He says “we’re an HR consulting firm, we don’t have a dev team” So I guess I’m on my own. 7 apps in 4 months isn’t really feasible, but I’ll try to make at least a quality MVP for one or two of them that they can use as a starting point.

Fast forward again, 2.5 months into the 4 month term. Mr Smith barges into Mr Doe and my cubicle. He yells at Mr Doe saying we run a tight ship here, I told you before our hours are 8 to 4 and you keep coming in at 10. Plus our corporate policy is clear about taking your lunch at your desk. You are fired. Mr Doe protests a bit, but ultimately ends up being let go. Mr Smith says he noticed that I’ve been late and eating at my desk too and he’s going to send a letter to the university that I am violating company policy and am now on probation. I tell him this is the first I’ve heard of this, but he insists it was in the employee manual. I never got any manual. He insists that Mr Doe must have given me one, but relents and gives me a ‘new’ one.

Next he asks to see how the apps are coming along. I tell him one is almost ready to test as a minimum viable product and show him it, also show a second work in progress and demonstrate that it can make writes to the database (I started with the easiest app that only needed read access).

He is furious. Saying I should have at least 3 full apps done, not 1 partially complete app and 1 completely broken one. I told him that without a dev team or even a senior dev that was unreasonable. He says “they’re just mobile apps its not like we’re asking you to make full programs or anything, just copy the ones SAP made” I tell him that a mobile app is still a full program, and they really should hire a full dev team for it, but he’s not having it.

Anyways, I finish the term the best I can. When I get back I of course get called in to the coop office and the dean of my program is there. They got a letter of complaint saying I couldn’t speak french, I was always late, I was a slob, etc. The university has a reputation to maintain, I was representing them and made them look bad…

Luckily when I told them the whole story, plus showed proof (which I was documenting extensibly ever since Mr Doe was fired), they took my side, unlisted that company, and gave me a free pass on my next coop term (so a 4 month vacation).

That HR consulting firm took 3 years to send me my tax forms btw… Yeah, they’re out of business now. Good riddance.

Absolutely. I applied for months out of college and FINALLY got a response. It was a sales marketing yadda yadda, this, that, and the other thing. Whatever. I needed anything. On my first day it became apparent that it was indeed door to door sales to businesses. So not private homes, thankfully. The people who were good at the job were some of the scummiest people I’ve ever met. The job basically taught you to prey on the elderly and foreign people who did not know what we were doing. It was for fixed rate electricity. It’s not necessarily a scam, but the way we did the job was scammy. Bonus was the managers, two of them, were a young husband and wife. Imagine crypto-bro jerkoffs but RIGHT before that nonsense took off. The single sale I ever made was to a very nice elderly Korean man whose daughter immediately canceled the sale. I lasted two weeks and one day. It was fucking miserable. OH, and it was 100% commission and you used your own car to drive around. I lost money working for them. And then covid hit. There’s no way they survived that.

Not as bad as people here, but I was hired as a data analyst, and resigned just today as they asked me to develop a spyware to continously screenshot anybody in the company 24/7 (which I’m convinced is illegal, but idk).

My favorite was for a job installing cable for some subcontractor for Comcast and there was a bunch of talk about how much money I could make I just had to “hustle” and “get my numbers up” and I could “make my own way as my own contractor”. Red flags all around but I was like 20 and just getting out on my own and before I got serious about doing real electrical work as a career.

Anyway after orientation that included the guy telling us “don’t have sex with any clients this isn’t like those pornos where she bangs the cable guy”, I go out in a van with a dude. He was basically like “listen man this job pays jack shit. If they don’t have enough work for you you’re gonna be sitting in the van making minimum wage. I would honestly plan for your pay to be around that for your first year”

I basically quit on the spot. Got to go up on a telephone pole though, that was cool I guess.

One place sold itself as a managed hell helpdesk. Customers would call in for help, you would do level 1 troubleshooting and escalate if you can’t fix it. Which it was for the first week.

What it turned into after the first week: cold call residents and sell desktop AV

I had it happen twice. First time I was applying for a front desk position. I get to the interview and it’s a group interview for selling insurance. The second time it happened it was aflac. I was applying for an office roll and when I got on the interview call it turned out to be a group call for positions selling their god damned insurance. Before they could get deep into the presentation, I typed in the group chat that this was clearly a bait and switch, and dropped out of the call.

Yeah, Ubisoft. I applied as a Sr Engineer. Did the interviews, including a “Sr programmer” HR interview.

I got the offer, Sr engineer, signed the papers. Started. Not even 3 days into starting they said they made a mistake I wasn’t supposed to be a Sr role, redacted the title, but didn’t touch my pay.

I still tell people I was a Sr there. I don’t care, lol. Apparently they did the same to my boss, he was supposed to be a VP. Dropped to a TD

The only time i experienced it was in the job advertisement. The posting was for an office assistant and it was a presentation on selling time shares.

I walked out in the middle of it.

I went to a paid seminar on how to earn extra income. They were hawking bubblegum machines made of wood that I could supposedly put in dentists and doctor offices on a route that I establish, and their gumballs were the only size that fit the machines. Everyone in that seminar was my competition. We ran out the door.