There’s no question that the 8-hour workweek was a revelation back in the 1920s. I can’t imagine having to work 12 hours a day every day without any weekends or breaks at all. It’s no wonder people died at an earlier age back then; the stress of being worked to your bones is so bad …
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Job posting demands 10 years experience using Generative AI, despite ChatGPT coming out less than 2 years ago: ‘Ideal candidate will have good time-travelling skills’
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that job applications often ask for more than they need. They want to appeal to smart, qualified candidates and do so by setting their expectations to the moon and hoping that someone who is realistically qualified still applies despite the requests for years and years of experience. I don’t like …
Seguir leyendo Job posting demands 10 years experience using Generative AI, despite ChatGPT coming out less than 2 years ago: ‘Ideal candidate will have good time-travelling skills’
Employee is rewarded with a granola bar and dollar store headphones for bringing in $85,000: ‘Genuinely ready quit!’
Gift-giving is a tough game. You don’t want to go too big, but you definitely don’t want to go too small. Especially if you’re someone’s employer. In this case, it probably would have been better to give nothing than to give this sorry array of junk. Hey, I love a granola bar as much as the next …
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‘The other staff are also in school’: Boss schedules 15-year-old worker during school hours, makes the teen find a cover
There’s nothing more dehumanizing than being a teenage worker at an exploitative business. It’s a pretty good rule of thumb that if an establishment is regularly hiring 15 and 16-year-olds, it’s probably not the most ethical business in the world. It’s so much easier for bosses to take advantage of teenagers who’ve never worked anywhere …
Seguir leyendo ‘The other staff are also in school’: Boss schedules 15-year-old worker during school hours, makes the teen find a cover
25 Hilarious LinkedIn Posts From Career Hustlers
LinkedIn is my nightmare social media. It’s full of all the people I knew from high school and college who work for investment banks and want me to congratulate them on their promotion. It feels so phony– like everyone is putting on their work face and pretending they aren’t fun. I get you have to …
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‘You owe them zip’: Employee sends biting reply to boss who withheld PTO payout
When you leave a job, you do the best you can to tie things in a nice bow for your employers, if it was a nice working relationship. But the reality is, you don’t really owe them anything other than 2 week’s notice and a little courtesy. Everything else is extra. It’s certainly not a …
Seguir leyendo ‘You owe them zip’: Employee sends biting reply to boss who withheld PTO payout
‘My vote is nurses’: People share professions that would keep them from dating someone
When you’re in your early twenties, it seems like everybody is dating everybody, no matter how incompatible their lifestyles are. I know couples with opposite work schedules but can still get together and go on at least one date per week. As you age, it gets much more challenging to plan your life around someone …
Seguir leyendo ‘My vote is nurses’: People share professions that would keep them from dating someone
Manager Secretly Records 1-On-1 With Employee, Accidently Sends It to Him
It’s no secret we’ve been living in more of a surveillance state than ever before. I often think about how nearly every college class I took during the 2020-2021 school year was recorded and put online for the students who didn’t attend Zoom class that day. Every word the professor spoke, every discussion we had, …
Seguir leyendo Manager Secretly Records 1-On-1 With Employee, Accidently Sends It to Him
Manager Secretly Records 1-On-1 With Employee, Accidentally Sends It to Him
It’s no secret we’ve been living in more of a surveillance state than ever before. I often think about how nearly every college class I took during the 2020-2021 school year was recorded and put online for the students who didn’t attend Zoom class that day. Every word the professor spoke, every discussion we had, …
Seguir leyendo Manager Secretly Records 1-On-1 With Employee, Accidentally Sends It to Him
‘Slander is illegal and can cost you lots and lots of money’: Aggressive CEO replies to negative Glassdoor review, proves the reviewer right
A particular class of business owners are convinced that aggressively responding to their negative online reviews will make them look good. I’m here to tell them that screaming and hollering at bad reviews makes said reviews look much more valid. I had a nefarious therapist as a teenager, and out of curiosity, I recently checked …
Seguir leyendo ‘Slander is illegal and can cost you lots and lots of money’: Aggressive CEO replies to negative Glassdoor review, proves the reviewer right