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Lilac Wine
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Randomly came across this on Twitter. 
kendallandkylie
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Who called it that the millionaire would be gifted a new Dyson? So tacky.
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The “what we can offer” list in that job advert is pretty funny.
“Fun, startup working culture” - companies that willingly say they have a ‘startup culture’ is an immediate red flag. Translation = your annoying as fuck boss is going to be sending you WhatsApp messages outside of work hours.
“Mon-Thurs at our London office, majority of Fridays remote” - translation = 5 days a week on the office, but I’ll maybe let you work from home the odd Friday if I’m on one of my monthly holidays and won’t need to micromanage you.
I always knew their WFH policy was shocking, but it’s definitely got worse, I think it used to be 3 days?. Requiring essentially 5 days a week in the office shouldn’t be listed as a benefit - that’s an embarrassingly inflexible policy and there’s no need for it.
“Fun, startup working culture” - companies that willingly say they have a ‘startup culture’ is an immediate red flag. Translation = your annoying as fuck boss is going to be sending you WhatsApp messages outside of work hours.
“Mon-Thurs at our London office, majority of Fridays remote” - translation = 5 days a week on the office, but I’ll maybe let you work from home the odd Friday if I’m on one of my monthly holidays and won’t need to micromanage you.
I always knew their WFH policy was shocking, but it’s definitely got worse, I think it used to be 3 days?. Requiring essentially 5 days a week in the office shouldn’t be listed as a benefit - that’s an embarrassingly inflexible policy and there’s no need for it.
thisisntreal
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You see, the problem with putting everything about your life on the internet is that it’s v e r y easy to catch you out…
That’s the wall she’s taken the picture of them on - that’s the plant, moulding and you can see the edge of the sliding door. There’s no plumbing, there’s not even a socket to plug them into. Great shilling greg.
Can't quite believe she is back on YouTube chatting shite about her Oxford degree again.
- Claims she was writing 10,000 words a week - this one's a classic.
- Claims you would be "asked to leave" if you didn't do well in the exams at the start each term that don't count towards your degree. This is categorically not true. Nobody gets kicked out for doing badly in those start of term exams (they're called collections, and are surprisingly relaxed - I've known people allowed to do them open book).
- Astoundingly, she calls Oxford's rule against part-time jobs during term time 'classist'. It's not a rule, it's just strongly advised, but whatever. She says the logic behind this "rule" is that Oxford assumes people can earn the money they need outside of term time - but this isn't the logic of it at all. The logic of it is that a) the workload is too high to be able to work alongside the degree, and b) if you're someone who would normally need to work to afford the degree, there's lots of bursaries and other support mechanisms that are literally intended to allow these people to study without having to work. What would Grace like to have seen instead? Low income kids pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and working during term time so that she can sell leggings? Calling this classist is fucking moronic, she wouldn't know classism if it slapped her in the face.
- She claims she was terrified she would be kicked out for having a job - somehow find this hard believe considering this isn't even a rule, and there's undergrads at Oxford doing all sorts of stuff on the side.
And that's just the first 10 minutes on 2x speed. There's other sections which are her tips for writing essays and a dissertation, which is hilarious coming from someone who hasn't had written either for 4 years. An hour long video on study tips from someone who isn't remotely involved in academia anymore, just to sell her student planners - the grift is real.
- Claims she was writing 10,000 words a week - this one's a classic.
- Claims you would be "asked to leave" if you didn't do well in the exams at the start each term that don't count towards your degree. This is categorically not true. Nobody gets kicked out for doing badly in those start of term exams (they're called collections, and are surprisingly relaxed - I've known people allowed to do them open book).
- Astoundingly, she calls Oxford's rule against part-time jobs during term time 'classist'. It's not a rule, it's just strongly advised, but whatever. She says the logic behind this "rule" is that Oxford assumes people can earn the money they need outside of term time - but this isn't the logic of it at all. The logic of it is that a) the workload is too high to be able to work alongside the degree, and b) if you're someone who would normally need to work to afford the degree, there's lots of bursaries and other support mechanisms that are literally intended to allow these people to study without having to work. What would Grace like to have seen instead? Low income kids pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and working during term time so that she can sell leggings? Calling this classist is fucking moronic, she wouldn't know classism if it slapped her in the face.
- She claims she was terrified she would be kicked out for having a job - somehow find this hard believe considering this isn't even a rule, and there's undergrads at Oxford doing all sorts of stuff on the side.
And that's just the first 10 minutes on 2x speed. There's other sections which are her tips for writing essays and a dissertation, which is hilarious coming from someone who hasn't had written either for 4 years. An hour long video on study tips from someone who isn't remotely involved in academia anymore, just to sell her student planners - the grift is real.
Medicalstudent101
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We already knew they used sly hiring tactics but here’s the proof
kendallandkylie
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Bit of an ick to tell people they should starting work an hour early (aka an hour unpaid) so they aren't a "victim".
I wouldn't be caught DEAD telling anyone this! Especially people I manage oh my gosh.
I've been told by people that I'm very organised and on a few occasions, a colleague or friend has asked me for tips. I do actually agree that a good to-do list is great for getting everything flying round your brain onto paper so you don't use bandwidth on trying to remember it BUT I also tell people it's good to spend the first 20-30 minutes of their PAID DAY doing this. Stop giving free time and labour to companies ffs.
I wouldn't be caught DEAD telling anyone this! Especially people I manage oh my gosh.
I've been told by people that I'm very organised and on a few occasions, a colleague or friend has asked me for tips. I do actually agree that a good to-do list is great for getting everything flying round your brain onto paper so you don't use bandwidth on trying to remember it BUT I also tell people it's good to spend the first 20-30 minutes of their PAID DAY doing this. Stop giving free time and labour to companies ffs.
Yikes. Let me reiterate - they’ve been together for 1 YEAR. (They were dating, but not official last September)
I was giving the benefit of the doubt for a bit but everything about this gives me the ick. He’s 37 - he’s fitting the stereotype nicely of men his age proposing quickly to lock down their 20-something girlfriend before she moves on.
Crazy that last year she was saying how she had grown up too fast and wants to enjoy being a single girl in her 20s. It’s kind of sad really.
I was giving the benefit of the doubt for a bit but everything about this gives me the ick. He’s 37 - he’s fitting the stereotype nicely of men his age proposing quickly to lock down their 20-something girlfriend before she moves on.
Crazy that last year she was saying how she had grown up too fast and wants to enjoy being a single girl in her 20s. It’s kind of sad really.
alwaystiredasheck
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No guys this is the worst one ever
influencersmakemewannadie
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“My current life affords less flexibility rather than more” compared to what? How does she think the rest of us live? Asking our bosses to leave 5 times a week for beauty appointments rather than 4 and taking 30 holidays instead of her meagre 29? She’s ridiculous. She hasn’t got the faintest clue of how real people’s lives work
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This has to be a joke. Her outfit looks awful. But his suit WHAT THE HELL it looks like one of those before and after things where someone tries on a suit after they have lost loads of weight
What’s so hard to understand? She’s leveraging her core competencies and using her current bandwidth to prioritise these urgent high-impact tasks in order to be a disruptor in the startup space. By urgently prioritising her workflow she’s making quick wins.
Kiwi657
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I was thinking this too. When she put on her story that her "imposter syndrome was wildin" I was like no shit haha. I'd feel like an imposter too if I was a fitness brand owner who had never expressed any interest in film on the red carpet at cannes. Not sure if imposter syndrome is the right word when you actually are an imposter though