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allison grayce ✶

4 years

to design at a startup you have to love the problem to design in-house you need to love the product to design at a consultancy you should love the process

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Me in my 20s: but that corner radius isn’t quite right Me in my 30s: Literally no one cares. Just get that shit out & see if anyone even uses it

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

6 years

Manager: “Oooh a design system! We need one!” Designer: “Right! I’ll need a team dedicated-“ Nope. “Ok one designer & a dev to build the-“ Nope. “Ok a couple days blocked off-“ Nope. “Ok I’ll try to do it when I can.” Excellent! *UI toolkit has only buttons, forever.*

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Standard interview for designer: 🆒 initial chat 🆒 officially apply 🆒 technical phone call 🆒 portfolio walk-thru 🆒 take home challenge 😑 🆒 panel review & critique 🆒 presentation 🆒 impromptu challenge 🆒 series of 2:1s 🆒 culture fit You’d think we were saving lives.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Me: I think I am a senior designer- I have my BFA & I’ve been coding & designing for 10 years but specifically in product for 6ish- maybe 8 if you count startup experience & launching my own product. Man right out of college: I am an Award Winning Principal Designer.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

just got a big ass bill to pay back negative PTO I had to use bc myself and my entire household got COVID. reminder to self, never work anywhere again that treats their people like shit.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

is it attachment or is it link

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

What do you think about the culture around design that expects us to be passionate about it? To live & breathe design? Is this not workaholism masquerading as “passion?”

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

A judo move you should regularly make as a designer: Quietly mock up or sketch on a whiteboard while everyone else is relying on words to hash it out. “So this is what I’m hearing-“ ✨

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

@maiab He overreacted for sure, but cancelling a date that’s supposed to happen right then for work stuff is also a red flag- I’d be pretty annoyed, too!

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

did it hurt? when u said you didn’t have time for research & created something no one wanted?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

my cd once described two diff designers: generator: turns nothing into something, inspires lots of ideas, iterates quickly, prefers the sprint executor: takes a concept and elevates it, detail oriented, obsessed with the craft, prefers the marathon they make an excellent team.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

The product I designed the initial wireframes, prototype, and mvp for at Starbucks launched nationwide in all stores today. 👏 👏👏 👏

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

being a product designer is essentially just improving onboarding, perpetually

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

2017 I quit my full time #ux job, 2 months pregnant, while living in the UK, to focus 💯 on my own product with 2 co-founders. A year later, we failed. 🙃 I'm totally over it, learned a lot, & onto the next. Been reflecting on it a lot lately, so AMA.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

people still debating ui vs. ux, ya'll need something to work on?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

feels like design tools have made it easier to design high fidelity but harder to stay low fidelity

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

me in my 20s: cool sounds fun, when can i start? i need money. me in my 30s: ok but first, how's the work life balance? what are the companies principles? is the work meaningful? will i make a difference and an impact in the world? is it worth my time?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

love love love working with engineers that come up with unexpected ux & design ideas ✨

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

every designer has had someone, at least once, assume you were a starving artist desperate for work and offer to connect you with their uncle who might need a website.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

twitter, meet Jett 💙 today’s his birthday! 🎂

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

me sneakin' in a lil feature into my designs like

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

them: don't spend more than 10 hours on this design challenge also them: be prepared to present research, sketches, wireframes, high fidelity designs, and bonus points for prototyping & animation. in a deck.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

why do men on twitter misinterpret almost every one of my tweets as me wanting their advice.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

Job interview q’s for companies: How did you handle hard times with your people during Covid? How did you support parents doing two jobs? How did you care for your working moms? How did you treat your working moms who felt no option other than to give up?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

To all my juniors and mid-level designers, fellow senior designers not getting responses or interview opportunities– there are roles I'm 100% qualified for that I applied for & did not even get an initial call back.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

low key announcement, decided to stop looking for a job that ticks all the boxes and create it instead. ✨

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

what's a #ux hill you regularly die on?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Prediction: designers who have the skill & restraint to stay low fidelity, longer will become increasingly valued as remote continues to gain traction & collaboration thru digital design tools becomes easier

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

@darylginn toggle through each one everytime until it looks like I want it to.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

I wonder if they had users try to navigate this ui while half asleep. I am always confused using it 😅 #ux

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

10 months

As I look back on myself as a full time designer, I wish I had been more collaborative with sales/support, more flexible on reqs and process, faster & scrappier to test & get it live, more focused on the business and delivering customer value. Hyper focus on solving problems

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

A big step in my career was when I stopped obsessing over the right way to do the thing & just doing the thing.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

idk who needs to hear this but even #ux researchers I've interviewed from Apple, Uber, Google, etc. say "I'm still figuring out what my method & process is."

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

We’re just building software. If it breaks, it’s fine. Fix it. Hiring managers are so determined to prove incompetence rather than giving people a chance/benefit of the doubt & letting them prove themselves. It’s exhausting.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

90% of the time my "placeholder" copy goes live. note to #ux folks, learn to write UI copy.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

I love you @figmadesign but I literally cannot ever find any of my files on the home page

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

while we’re here, remember HR is there to protect the business, not you, especially in situations like these.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

1 year

Welcome to the world Lincoln Brooks 💙 so in love with you. 🥹

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Most people are doing this with *multiple* companies at a time *while* employed. Not considering their personal circumstance, that’s an insane ask of people.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

Startups are indifferent to process, not loyal to a solution, if it solves the problem. In-house has a product that answers the problem, & avoid disruption by new problems & process. Consultancies have a deep understanding of process, not devoted to any product or problem.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Career confidence isn’t a consistently upwards, trending thing. So far I peaked at 23, again at 27, dipped at 29, and only now making my way back up at 31 after a lot of work. It’s a journey.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

2020: Designers who can focus & commit. Design as a tool for thinking & breaking down problems. Empathy for everyone who can benefit from design. So 2019: Designers designing for designers. Tool-centric. Design as a differentiator. Apathy for people who “don’t get design.”

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Maybe I should change my username to @30yodesignertype & just do me in my 20s vs me in my 30s tweets

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

While you’re here... 🙃 I just launched @uxframeworks last week 🎉✨- a resource to find methodologies & activities for design research, synthesis, & ideation. 👉

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

nobody: ux researchers: are you available for exactly 45 minutes?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Your “hi” via dm with no further context

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

Join @BAMarieFuller and I on Wednesday for another UXR Watercooler with @DougCollinsUX to talk about building a #ux practice from scratch. ✨ We’ll also talk about adult ADHD: what it’s revealed about his personality & how it’s affected his career. ❤️

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

sometimes the job is to design things that aren’t beautiful

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

I’m a professional designer but an amateur gardener and decent cook. I’d rather be tending to my plants and experimenting in the kitchen than spending 5 more hours a day behind the computer.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

the tool you design in doesn’t actually matter

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What’s a contrarian position you currently hold? (in any subject / field)

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Meanwhile, companies everywhere: “hiring designers is hard ☹️”

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

some #ux laws to casually drop at an interview during a design challenge or a client presentation.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Designers, don't wait for an invitation or permission to write content. Don't wait for the PM to do it. Just do it. Suggest words. How you facilitate a conversation with users *is* interaction design. Own it!

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

it all started with a sketch

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Hiring wrong is expensive but subjecting your team to perpetual interviews and losing out on people bc your process and standards are insane are also v expensive

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

Like, I really like design & I’m good at it. But I also have no problem shutting off after 10 hours and doing other things I’m not as good at but want or have to. Does that make me less “passionate?”

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

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This company exists somewhere, and I want to work for them. 🚀 Product is live & has users 💰 Company is profitable 🔮 Decisive & focused vision 👩‍💻 Diverse & experienced leadership 🌿 ~50-300 people 🎨 Design process in place & improving ✨ Design permeates culture 🏝 Remote

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Me: An interaction designer Also me: What direction does the arrow go in an accordion again? 🤔

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

just had to send a polite yet firm reply to say that I won’t complete a design crit & challenge for free, esp when it’s usable work on their product.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

Actual footage of middle aged white men swooping into my thread to mansplain why design matters

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

filling out a research survey via @figma that looks like a journey map and hoping she will let me share a screenshot bc it is sooo clever & creative! 🙌✨ #ux

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

I’ll never work somewhere that doesn’t value research and also give the space & time to properly synthesize it. None of this lean, “just enough research” crap. I’m shocked thinking back on how little research was done by designers at previous companies I worked at.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

Painted my office half black yesterday ⚫️ need more plants 🌱

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

sometimes I think about a company I used to work for as a user experience designer & wasn’t allowed to talk to users so I had to go rogue & find people to talk to outside of work

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

"i design digital experiences for humans" -boring -overdone -doesn't actually make sense bc implied "i design digital experiences for extraterrestrials" -fresh -also doesn't make sense but idc -sets your ethos statement apart from every other design portfolio

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

@sarahdoody obsess less over process & tools & more over people & outcomes

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

can anyone recommend an illustrator looking for freelance work in the next month or so? 🙏 it involves drawing kids learning remotely. 🙃

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

I've noticed this trend professionally lately, where everyone wants to jump to a video call right away without any email or written correspondence whatsoever. slowww it down.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

Looking to expand my network of #uxresearch folks with 0-3 years experience. especially if they are transitioning to #ux research from a related field but not necessary. where ya at 👀

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

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@Shpigford This is disappointing to read. It assumes so much about the person and takes no consideration of the circumstance or company. Esp startups that can launch, pivot, and die inside a year. Maybe you could have been the one they stick it out with?

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3 years

are you even a #ux person if you don’t silently observe your partner struggle through an experience just to expose its flaws?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

6 years

The best design process is no design process. Research and talk to people first, obviously. But after that it's a jumbled mess of building and creating until things start to look decent or become useful.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

i know i've done my job making someone feel comfortable in a user interview when they start freely cussing

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

*don’t say it* *don’t say it* *don’t say it* *don’t say it* *don’t say it* *don’t say it* white dude in tech privilege

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Random fact: I have never gotten a job I have submitted an application for. 🤷‍♂️

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

designers: we want seat at table also designers: head of design is bullshit title

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

5 years

is this UI or UX will a man please explain

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

everything is a business transaction. they don’t give AF about you once they can no longer profit off your time and skills.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

Some personal news I can finally share… I'm moving to Charlotte, NC in a few weeks. It'll be our second cross-country move (in addition to 2 int'l moves) and 4th state in 6 years. 😅😅

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

time to purge any dudes just posting normal tech/startup tweets 🥴 read the room bro

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

who comes to mind when you think of a leader in UX that is creating a more welcoming & inclusive industry for juniors?

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

You don’t really appreciate how much we ask of user experience designers until you articulate all of it to someone outside of or new to design.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

there’s always time for research. the more time you spend on research, the less time you’ll need for design.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

2 years

@chasebratton def the guy who walks in and interrupts to ask what the meeting is for and why he’s there

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

Psst. After a couple months of private beta, we’re excited to use #saastrannual to officially launch @notablyai public beta. 🎉✨ #uxresearch #Saastr2021 #ai #ux

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

who needs childcare when you have a large box 📦

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

I always lose followers whenever I say anything remotely political or talk about anything else besides design, but guess what I'm human.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

@redteamwrangler recovering from pushing a watermelon sized human out of my body

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

4 years

so quarantine is a whole lot easier, enjoyable even, with a newborn baby to snuggle up & admire all day long. yay oxytocin. 💙

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

it’s *interesting* how some people get a celebratory sendoff when they quit to move on & up and others just get kinda, quickly silenced & cut out when the narrative doesn’t look as good.

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allison grayce ✶

@allisongrayce

3 years

I’m literally in shock a company during a pandemic would not support their employees with sick leave (this co has 0), and make people use PTO, then encourage them go into the negative until the employee has no choice but to leave... and then asks them to pay it BACK?

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allison grayce ✶

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Your app idea might be a better website idea. Websites are still 🆒!

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