I'm working in a company that's decade old but everyone has been in the company for about 4-5 months max. Only the HR has been there for 7-8 years. And honestly, with the s**t they are pulling off, I can see why people don't stay even to complete their probation period.

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-The CEO/boss/whatever drives a conspicuously expensive car. I can elaborate why this is a tell if anyone cares.

-If it's a private/family company, do a Google search for '[company name] defendant' and '[company name] plaintiff'. If the company has been sued, or is in the habit of suing others, that can be a red flag- although something there are legit reasons for either. But it's something worth paying attention to.

-If when you are asked to come in for an interview, you are not treated with total respect for your time- for example, if you find yourself waiting for extended periods for an interview because 'so and so is in a really important meeting'. Similarly, if you are not offered at least water and/or coffee if you're in for several interviews. I once interviewed at a place for seven straight hours with no break, no food, not even a glass of water. Fortunately I wasn't offered the job as it was at Michael Milken's firm... before he went to prison.

-If the company brings alcohol into the office for 'end of week' sessions on a regular basis. I know they can be fun but it's a stupendously bad idea for all kinds of reasons and if leadership hasn't figured that out then I'd think twice before joining.

-If when you're visiting the company for the first time and you pass someone in a hallway, do they smile and acknowledge your presence with a nod or maybe a hello, or do they ignore you? It's a small thing but very telling about the workplace culture. Similarly, do people seem 'healthy and energized' or 'grey-faced and tired'?

-ANY 'bait and switch' deviations from representations made during the recruiting process vs actual terms/conditions.

-If it's a job in a manufacturing or distribution facility, is it messy or tidy? Messy, cluttered facilities are indicative of poor management, plus they can be dangerous.

-As others have noted, any B.S. about 'oh people like to work late' or stuff like that used as pressure to get you to put in extra hours.

-Last, pay attention to your gut feel. If something feels 'off', it probably is.

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Googling any court cases the company’s been involved in may or may not yield results. That’s because so many have turned to mandatory, binding, and CONFIDENTIAL arbitration, the deceptive m***********s.

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Family owned businesses where several are working there.

You will never be well paid or promoted. There's going to be a few siblings there that do absolutely nothing, but are going to be well paid. There are content just turning people over forever underneath them, but dangling a carrot.

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When learning new things doesn’t equate to making more money leave

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And when they boast about opportunities to "act up" to a higher grade from time to time, ask why they need to do that. It generally means they are happy to exploit the lower grades instead of paying someone to take the higher grade.

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Any job ad that doesn't mention the name of the company should raise suspicions, doubly so if it's anything to do with sales. Got done by that trick once. Turned up to the interview and the 'job' was going door to door selling vacuums for Kirby vacuums.

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Anyone who lists a job and refuses to give any actual information in a publicly accessible form should just be avoided. Most of them are MLM scams and they know they're a scam so they don't want to publicize themselves.

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"Work hard, play hard" - you will work so hard, you and your colleagues will need to get totally f**ked up at happy hours to cope with the stress.

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Or else you'll be forced to go to company "picnics" or karaoke (or some other shitty event) just to prove you're part of the corporate "family."

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When you try to call in sick and your bosses immediately jump to asking ‘why?’ Or interrogating how you’re sick.

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Because f**k you, that's why.

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Having to buy your own uniform and/or equipment.

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See OSHA About That. (Edit) Especially PROTECTIVE GEAR

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Two years working for the company and I asked for a raise. Now suddenly I have the owners wife all over me digging into everything I have done and just making my life miserable

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Get a new job and give your notice. Or, if you can afford it, give your notice and find a new job after a suitable amount of time off.

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Trying to rush a decision out of you once the offer is made.

I once interviewed with a company where I would have been relocating across the country to work for them. There were 3 rounds of interviews and they left me completely in the dark for weeks on end between each round before inviting me to the next round within just a few days of when the interview would take place. After the final interview it was over a month of silence from them until they made an offer but told me I had less than 24 hours to let them know my decision. I would have been moving 2,000 miles away from home to a place I had never been or even seen before (interviews were completely virtual). They wanted me to start 6 days after the offer had been made. When I asked if there was any flexibility for me to have more time to think it over or have more time to move out there, they said no. They needed the decision the next day and if I accepted I would be starting in less than a week. I declined the offer.

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I once waited so long to hear back from a current employer about a promotion that I had applied for, that I just decided it wasn't worth it any more. I was actually on holiday, and was planning to resign when I came back from that two-week break. I just happened to have an excellent relationship with the number two in command, and she called me while I was on holiday to tell me I had got the job. She said she been planning to wait until I got back from holiday. I told her it's just as well she didn't, because it had been nearly eight weeks since I had interviewed and had heard nothing and I was making other plans. She was very concerned. I said nobody should have to wait two months to hear about the results of an interview. They did actually set waiting limits from then on in.

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Turned out they expected people to work 7 days a week and work until 11pm every day (though they said "we try to keep it light on the weekends"). The red flag was when they said that people do this by choice.

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Worked at a place where overtime was mandatory, but unpaid. Until a complaint was made to OSHA that is…

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"We work hard, but play hard around here"
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Socializing mandatory.

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I was 22 when I was asked in depth about my marriage (wore a ring to the interview) and then whether or not I wanted kids. I was taken aback and unfortunately answered truthfully that possibly in the future we would. No call back.

Ended up being a good thing - turns out the owner was nuts and prone to tantrums and weird freak outs. Shot himself in the head there at the office one day years prior to the interview - it was a failed attempt.

Bullet dodged - literally and metaphorically.

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I’m pretty sure it’s not legal to ask questions like that.

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When an employee quits or gets fired from the job and the company doesn't hire anyone new to replace them.

It can be hard to tell as a red flag at first, but the temporary workload they added to your own over that was left over after the person left, slowly becomes your new permanent workload, without any changes to your pay or benefits to compensate for the additional tasks. The further out it goes without the position being filled, the larger and more obvious the red flag becomes.

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The only reason I take on an extra job at work is so I'm guaranteed I can get my full 12 hour shift in without being sent home early like single machine operators. Plus I know I can get any overtime because they can depend on me to get it done right. But for the pay is the only reason.

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Having to take an online IQ test before even being considered for an interview.

Backstory: when I moved to Australia, I was looking for work as a language teacher. I went in Monster.com and found an advert saying that they were looking for teachers for gifted children, but that I needed to take an online IQ test to apply (needed an IQ above 125 to go for an interview). I took the test, sent in my CV and cover letter, and waited. An hour later I get an email asking to meet at a special cafe in downtown Melbourne the following day.

So, I go and notice that this building was a Free Mason building and that one needed a special pass to get in. There was a little older lady waiting for me in a tacky floral print shirt and a white fisherman's hat. Immediately, she pardoned herself for wearing that hat, explaining that it was lined with aluminum to protect her from the cell phone radiation. I think nothing of it and order a coffee.

Off the bat, the old lady tells me about how she has an IQ of 160 and the rarest blood type, similar to that of Tutankhamen... She goes on and on about this for a while and then begins explaining the job. She tells me that in the beginning, I wouldn't be teaching but administering tests in schools around Queensland to recruit children to special camps, where then I would be teaching.

The whole thing screamed red flags, but I politely listened and got her business card if ever I had further questions (I got a proposal on the spot). I looked at the card and it said "The wise ones". After looking it up, I noticed that it was a cult (similar to that of Universal Medicine)

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Blood like Tutankhamen? That extremely inbred Egyptian pharaoh? That explains a lot.

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To me it was a " we will start you low and will give you a ton of money later" they never do. Never happens

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Just like Daisey662 below and many more on this site, it's all a con.

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I once had a job that required a “working interview” as the final step in the interview process. I basically worked an entire day for free.

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Happened to me in TV/VCR repair shop. I did a interview and the called me back for hands on interview. First they gave me a simple TV repair, then a VCR to replace the head. I thought it was over but the gave me a CD player to clean and after a big old Philips TV that was falling to bits and not even worth repairing. I was there for over 5 hours, fixed every thing and never got a call back.

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Optional Overtime always offered - you'll always be pressured

Family environment - will use your sense of guilt against you.

Needing people who plan to stay - turnover is high, be prepared to leave in less than a year

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I've worked a lot of manufacturing/fabrication. Almost all the shops I worked in had unlimited overtime, and you could work as many hours as you wanted. It wasn't really pressured as they could usually find someone to do something that came up last minute. Time and half, or even double time, can be a HUGE incentive for people to voluntarily work overtime. Especially when your base bay is like $20+/hr.

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My contract was ending and my boss asked me if I would like to renew it because he was very happy with my work. I asked him for some feedback and he said that everything is going great. Then, I asked him for a raise, and suddenly my statistics (that were never mentioned to me or my coworkers before that conversation) were terrible, and I was the second worst employee in the company. Tomorrow is my last day and I'm already working in a different place.

EDIT: just an edit to add that a lot of people are confused about my boss's behaviour and it can all be explained as - he is a pseudo personal coach. He always tried to manipulate me in the dumbest possible ways, but I took it because I love(d) my job and I only had to talk with him once a month.

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The kindest thing an HR person has ever done for me was be truthful in an interview when I asked what the typical work week looked like. It was a new manufacturing facility and they were getting off the ground and they said typically 60-70 hours weeks were expected. Made my decision much easier between that and another job.

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I once turned down a temp job because of an honest interviewer like that. I would say things like "Just tell me what to do and I'll get it done!", and the interviewer told me not to expect clear direction, apparently the person I'd have been reporting to expected people to anticipate his needs and would throw tantrums when they didn't. (I got a different temp job for that summer, one I still remember with great fondness.)

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I went on an interview. They had me wait in the lobby.

In the 5 minutes I was sitting there, three employees walked past me. The first just looked at me and laughed. The second said “Leave. Leave while you can.” The third made the sign of the cross at me.

Later, during the interview, the hiring manager showed me the “zen room”, which was a quiet room you got to go to for 10 minutes when you got too stressed out.

I was offered the job. I declined

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2. You had to ask permission to use the zen room

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Why would they even need a zen room? Why is working there so stressful?

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I interviewed once at a very huge organization that had a site in the town I was living in, and these guys were so proud of the new top of the line facilities. When they took me on a tour they pointed out the lovely zen garden area that was made for employees to go “unwind and clear their heads”. The problem with it was this area was positioned directly across from all the higher ups offices. Yeah… no.

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Hmmm.

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Poor communication during the hiring process.

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I find that a lot of companies have no idea what they are doing during the hiring process. They may ask odd ball questions that have no point like "What is your biggest weakness?" or " Tell me about how you handled a difficult customer".

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"Unlimited time off" means that you will never be taking time off, ever. Management will judge the hell out of you for attempting to take a mental health day or a vacation. The people who take the least time off will wear it like a badge of honor.

The last place I worked like this, the owner would lecture us every year about how he's never taken Thanksgiving or Christmas off, and look how well the company is doing! Then he'd give you the stink eye when you wanted to take off to be with your family for those holidays.

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He must be divorced and alone then... And maybe his children hate him for because they refuse to be him.

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Managers and leaders that are incompetent or clueless. A good company does not let a person of this quality into their management team.

The hiring manager is the face of the company to potential candidates. If this person does not impress you, neither will the rest of the company’s managers.

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I was asked in an interview how I felt about someone swearing in my face, yelling, or slamming a door also in my face. I took the job because it was a significant raise. While nobody did those things to me, they treated a colleague so badly she left on stress disability. They never reprimanded or fired the toxic people. I left the job after 3 months to relocate or it probably would have happen to me too.

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The “sink or swim” technique. It was my first day as a cashier, I got a couple of hours of training, then I was by myself and we were dead. All of a sudden this rush came in and I was asking for help. The manager goes “sink or swim, we’re busy back here, figure it out.”

Lol I did but let me tell you customers were not happy because I still didn’t know how to properly enter in orders, especially modifications.

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I would have done the same thing. Oh I'll "try" to figure it out, but if I mess up, YOU'RE the one that is gonna get yelled at by the customers.

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Open interviews. It tells me that people leave faster than you can bring them in, and with good reason.

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If you get a tour and everything is old but they say “they’re in the process of updating” yeah no they don’t update s**t. Your going to be working with broken out dates equipment. 9/10 your going to get in trouble when it breaks on you.

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My job upgraded our computers from Windows 7 to Windows 10, but the hardware remained the same, so everything is slow AF.

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At my job interview I got asked "how do you deal with drama in the workplace?" Looking back, I was so stupid to accept that job.

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They ask the employees to do stuff that's not at all their job. For instance, I am in digital team but they want me to perform the tasks that a sales person would do. And they don't even provide the training for it.

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I get this too. Every few months at my bank, management is supposed to call a list of customers to remind them to renew their CD accounts. 99% of the time, they pass this task off to us tellers, which we can't do if we suddenly get a line of customers at the window.

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I was interviewing at Wayfair, in the corporate office. I was in their normal waiting room, everything was fine and dandy. Then I was sent to sit outside an office near the back of the place where my interviews were going to be held. I sat there three minutes, looked around at people, had a sense of dread, and left. I walked out and told the receptionist "I can't do this here. It's not what I want" and left.

I got called three times after that asking if I wanted to reschedule. They seemed way desperate.

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"Instead of making the hourly wage, I'd like to offer you our 'spliff' compensation instead. You could make 85K a year!" (it was a $15 an hour job).

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"Spliff" compensation? They offered free marijuana?

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