Math Nerds Unite in Wholesome Quest to Help Redditor Win Day off From Work

Our corporate overlords are forever coming up with clever methods to demean us, pitting employees against each other for a crumb of preferential treatment. Nonetheless, when the boss slams a jar full of candy corn on the table and says «count the candy, peasants,» you know for a fact that we’re all going to play …
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Company Tries to Intimidate Ex-Employee Into Signing Non-Compete Agreement a Month After Firing Them

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if a former boss tries to scare you into signing something after you’ve already stopped working for them, DO. NOT. SIGN. ANYTHING. Don’t even sign a damn birthday card. You owe them nothing, and they probably don’t even have any leverage against you.  u/WhitePinoy recently posted …
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Boss Shows Up Unannounced to Employee’s House While He’s on Sick Leave Instead of Sending Email

In nearly any line of work, there’s always a million examples of things that could’ve been an email—pointless meetings usually taking the top spot. But u/BigJhed‘s supervisor really went above and beyond with this one. u/BigJhed got into a bad car accident in June, which put him out of work. Luckily, he was given three …
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Man Gets Tired of Client Ignoring 3-Hour Time Zone Difference, So He Does the Same

As a ‘digital nomad’ who works for a company that has employees all over the world, I try to respect the time zones of others. For instance, if I get online at 8am to start working, I don’t expect anyone who lives three thousand miles away to hop in a Zoom meeting until it suits …
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Company Enforces Same Punishment Regardless of Lateness, Employee Takes Their Sweet Time

Managers (especially new ones) usually come up with ridiculous rules without considering human behavior and basic cause and effect. If you enforce the same punishment for someone who shows up 5 minutes late to work as someone who arrives 3 hours late to work, do you really think this will prevent general lateness? No, more …
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Boss Fires Part-Time Worker for Refusing to Go Full-Time, Complains ‘No One Wants to Work’

Bosses hate it when their employees have more than one job because secretly (or sometimes not so secretly) they want to own all of your time. Redditor u/AZNM1912 already had a full-time job and didn’t really need their extra part-time gig, which gave them the upper hand. OP’s part-time boss knew this, and yet still …
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Boss Forces Worker to Sign Document Promising to Never ‘Talk Back,’ Malicious Compliance Ensues

When a boss reprimands their underlings in a theatrically degrading way, like making an employee sign an admission of guilt, the semantics embedded in such a document can usually be used against the boss in hilarious ways. Case in point: when u/Asleep_Bit_9712 got in trouble for simply sticking up for their coworker, the boss made …
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Workers Rant About the Offensive Nature of Workplace Pizza Parties

Let’s get one thing straight: no one here is hating on pizza. Who doesn’t love pizza (besides lactose intolerant people)? When workers groan and roll their eyes and send angry DMs to each other as soon as the ‘pizza party’ invite appears in their inboxes, the rage has nothing to do with the pizza itself. …
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People Discuss Jobs They Wouldn’t Do For $150K a Month

«Selling out» is a far less cogent cultural concept than it was during the 20th century. At least, that’s how it seems to someone who only knows about the discourse of the 20th century through films and TV. The 90s were stock full of movie characters who did not want to sell out their values …
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Secret Shopper Gets Hired to Rat Out Employees, Gives Only Positive Reviews Instead

I always thought you’d have to be a total sociopath to actually want to be a secret shopper, but this redditor proves that not all secret shoppers are former hall monitors who always dreamed of being professional snitches. u/JurassicPark-fan-190 got the job, not to narc on unassuming retail workers, but to stick it to the …
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